Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...
2) Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 12
Description
Alex Cross' life is finally getting back to normal following the shooting death of his wife several years earlier. He's set up a practice as a psychologist once again and even has a chance at a new love. Then Cross' former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He's tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown that bears a similarity to a case the two worked on years earlier and reveals a connection to Alex's wife's death. Cross is about to go for the...
3) One shot
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 9
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, the man accused of a lethal sniper attack on a heartland city that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events behind the scenes. Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You...
5) Tucker peak
Author
Series
Description
Detective Joe Gunther is called in to investigate a series of burglaries in the small Vermont resort area of Tucker Peak, and Joe soon suspects that the break-ins are related to the resort's latest expansion.
Author
Description
Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that the death of her parents in a car crash six months earlier was an accident. And her suspicions are confirmed when she stumbles upon the dead and beaten body of her doctor-father's longtime nurse. There are secrets being kept in Lowfield. And the town where Catherine grew up may be the same place where she is sent to her grave.
7) 2nd chance
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 2
Description
The Women's Murder Club reconvenes - four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) to use their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve baffling murders. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Fransisco's homicide squad. But there's an...
Author
Series
Appears on these lists
Description
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is more delighted than scared when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's decaying mansion with a postage stamp pinned to its beak, and a short time later she comes across a man in the cucumber patch just as he is taking his dying breath.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 10
Lexile measure
660L
Description
A puzzling message attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon involves Nancy in a dangerous mission.
10) Junkyard dogs
Author
Series
Description
Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire has much to contend with when the owners of a multi-million-dollar development decide to remove the junkyard next door, but the Stewart clan, the owners of the junkyard, are not easily moved.
12) Endless night
Author
Description
Gypsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gypsy's...
13) Chat
Author
Series
Description
"When a wintertime car accident leaves his mother and brother seriously injured, Joe Gunther takes a leave of absence to attend to them and investigate the cause of the crash"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Description
Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father's mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn's father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them, Gunther sets out to protect Lyn from the same fate.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
Description
Wendell Jaffe has been dead these past five years--or so it seemed, until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. When the insurance company that paid up on Jaffe's life insurance policy hires Kinsey Millhone to sort things out, Kinsey's investigation of the con man's past triggers a surprising inquiry into her own family history.
16) The dark horse
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
Believing that confessed murderer Mary Barsad is not guilty of shooting her husband in the head after he set fire to their barn and killed her horses, Sheriff Walt Longmire goes undercover as an insurance investigator and discovers an unfriendly town thathas something to hide.
17) 15th affair
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 15
Description
"As she settles into motherhood and a happy marriage, Lindsay Boxer thinks she has found domestic bliss. But when a beautiful, alluring blonde woman with links to the CIA disappears from the scene of a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, Lindsay's life begins to unravel. Before she can track down the woman for questioning, a plane crash plunges San Francisco into chaos and Lindsay's husband Joe vanishes. The deeper she digs, the more Lindsay...
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 13
Description
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of her ex-husband, and along with her boyfriend, police officer Joe Morelli, she tries to clear her name; discovering her ex had been involved with a shady group of criminals who believe she is in possession of a lot of their money.
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
Author
Series
Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 15
[Vintage Pocket books volume 50452
Miss Marple mystery
a Miss Marple mystery volume Book 10
[Vintage Pocket books volume 50452
Miss Marple mystery
a Miss Marple mystery volume Book 10
Description
CLASSIC CRIME. An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out ... When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the...
In Inter-Library Loan System
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other Inter-Library Loan System libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request