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Adult Fiction - Crime & Procedurals
Updated April 11, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
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Mistress of the art of death
Franklin, Ariana.
Paper Book
A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews...
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Deeper than the dead
Hoag, Tami.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author joins the Dutton list with the thriller her millions of fans have been awaiting for two years. Tami Hoag is in a class by herself, beloved by readers and critic s alike, with more than 22 million copies of her books in print. With...
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Every man a menace
Hoffman, Patrick
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Patrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van, a bank heist thriller set in the back streets of San Francisco and a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Now he returns with his second novel, Every Man a Menace, the inside story of a ruthless...
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Dark river rising
Johns, Roger
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"A finely crafted ensemble and a balanced grace makes this debut novel as hard to resist as blue ribbon gumbo."--Craig Johnson,New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the Netflix hit drama Longmire Dark River Rising<...
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The dead do not improve : a novel
Kang, Jay Caspian
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Hailed as The Awl's 2012's novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run. On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA...
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Crime scene : a novel
Kellerman, Jonathan
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Natural causes or foul play?...
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The hypnotist
Kepler, Lars.
Paper Book
A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011 One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011 Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a...
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Easy money
Lapidus, Jens
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From one of Sweden's most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system. JW is a student having trouble keeping up appearances in the...
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World gone by
Lehane, Dennis
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Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night--now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck--delivers a psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must...
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Earthly remains
Leon, Donna
Paper Book
Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of...
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The devil's muse
Loehfelm, Bill
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A Southern Indie Bookseller Alliance 2017 Summer OKRA pick! One ofKirkus Review's "11 Thrillers That Will Keep You Awake This Summer" Watch the trailer forThe Devil's Muse here: https://vimeo.com/224000865 In the thrilling fifth book in...
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Take out
Maron, Margaret
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Margaret Maron--winner of the Edgar Award, Agatha Award, Anthony Award, and Macavity Award for her classic mystery The Bootlegger's Daughter--comes a stunning mystery featuring NYPD Detective Sigrid Harald. ...
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The Blackhouse : a novel
May, Peter
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From acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy--a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition rules and people adhere to ancient ways of life. <...
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Sins of the flesh
McCullough, Colleen
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In the next installment in the "compelling, passionate, and gritty" (Daily Mail, UK) suspense series, police Captain Carmine Delmonico is on the trail of not one but two killers. "Some men and women, she reflected, fell into their proper profession, the only one they...
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Gun street girl : a Detective Sean Duffy novel
McKinty, Adrian.
Paper Book
Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide...
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Exploded view
McPheeters, Sam
Paper Book
It's 2050, and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw with her first assignment of the new decade. Someone has executed one of the city's countless immigrants, and no one (besides the usual besieged advocacy groups) seems to much care. Even Terri herself is already looking ahead to...
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Darktown : a novel
Mullen, Thomas
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"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural...written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." --The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an...
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Phantom
Nesbø, Jo
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Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to...
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Ratlines
Neville, Stuart
Paper Book
Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few...
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Children of the street : a novel
Quartey, Kwei J.
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In the slums of Accra, Ghana's fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders--in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature--is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a...
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Exit music
Rankin, Ian.
Paper Book
It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that...
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Golden in death
Robb, J. D.
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In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive--and a terrifying weapon. Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a...
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Canary
Swierczynski, Duane
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It's dangerous enough when an ordinary college girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she's smarter than the killer, kingpins, and cops who think they control her. Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her boyfriend....
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Death and the olive grove : an Inspector Bordelli mystery
Vichi, Marco
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April 1964, and the cruelest month is breeding bad weather and worse news. And plenty of disturbing news is coming to Florence detective Inspector Bordelli.Bordelli's friend, Casimiro, insists he's discovered the body of a man in a field above Fiesole. Bordelli races to the scene, but doesn't find...
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