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Updated August 1, 2023
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City of the lost
Armstrong, Kelley
Paper Book
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When...
Zero day : a novel
Baldacci, David.
Paper Book
Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. John...
The neon rain
Burke, James Lee
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes his definitive, must-read first title in his famous Dectective David Robicheaux series. New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers,...
Heartsick
Cain, Chelsea.
Paper Book
Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go...
The burning
Casey, Jane
Paper Book
A determined young police constable goes it alone against an enigmatic killer and her bosses in a series debut for fans of Sophie Hannah and Tana French The Burning Man. It’s the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women...
Killing floor a Jack Reacher novel
Child, Lee
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Jack knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't...
The black echo
Connelly, Michael
Paper Book
For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch...
All shall be well
Crombie, Deborah.
Paper Book
Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor,...
The bone collector
Deaver, Jeffery.
Paper Book
In his most gripping thriller yet, Jeffery Deaver takes readers on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds...that of a physically challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. The detective was the former head of forensics at the NYPD, but is now a quadriplegic who can...
My sister's grave
Dugoni, Robert
Paper Book
The first book in the series that has garnered millions of readers across the globe, from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah's disappearance and the murder trial that...
The Night Bird
Freeman, Brian
Paper Book
What if you had to relive your most terrifying memory...over and over? A detective and a psychiatrist investigate in Thriller Award-winning author Brian Freeman's gripping psychological novel. Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths...
Penance
Housewright, David
Ebook
Edgar Award Winner: A PI in St. Paul, Minnesota, must clear his own name when the drunk driver who killed his wife is shot dead. Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years, the cold dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and...
IQ
Ide, Joe
Paper Book
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the...
The quiet game
Iles, Greg.
Paper Book
INTRODUCING PENN CAGE... From the author of Cemetery Road comes the first intelligent, gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Penn Cage series.  Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins....
A bad day for Sunshine
Jones, Darynda
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the first novel in the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series--A Bad Day for Sunshine! "Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun."--New York...
The ritual bath : the first Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel
Kellerman, Faye.
Paper Book
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual...
When the bough breaks
Kellerman, Jonathan
Paper Book
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr.  Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry.  Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and  sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when  he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific  ...
Iron Lake : a Cork O'Connor mystery
Krueger, William Kent.
Paper Book
Part Irish, part Native American, Corcoran Cork O'Connor puts aside his grudge against the small Minnesota town that rejected him as a sheriff to investigate a sinister conspiracy responsible for the murder of the local judge.
Deception Cove
Laukkanen, Owen
Paper Book
A rescue dog, an ex-Marine, and an ex-convict are caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless gang in remote Washington state in this "first-rate thriller" (Associated Press) for "fans of CJ Box and Michael Koryta" (Booklist). Former US...
Two girls down : a novel
Luna, Louisa
Paper Book
"I'm always looking for a good thriller, and this just was perfect."--Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition "Opening this book is like arming a bomb--the suspense is relentless and the payoff is spectacular.  Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more...
Along came a spider : a novel
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.  Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads," and watch the Cross series coming soon to Amazon! ...
The ultimatum
Robards, Karen
Paper Book
"Enthralling... Readers won't want this adrenaline-rich story to end. "--Booklist (starred review) Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will--Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business.  Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was...
Fractured
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her terrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter's attacker with her bare hands...
One rough man
Taylor, Brad
Paper Book
Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, move over: introducing a pulse-pounding new international thriller series by a former Delta Force commander. They call it the Taskforce. Their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government....
Monkeewrench
Tracy, P. J.
Paper Book
People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game. But Grace McBride and her eccentric...

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