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TITLE: Blood Will Tell
AUTHOR: April Henry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hen - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Teen Portland Search and Rescue team member Nick Walker becomes a prime suspect in a murder. |
TITLE: Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA
AUTHOR: Bridget Heos WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Har - MYSTERY SUMMARY: An engaging introduction to the world of forensic science illuminates its role in the criminal justice system in myriad cultures throughout history, demonstrating the cutting-edge technologies of the modern world and how they help solve crimes. |
TITLE: The Dry
AUTHOR: Jane Harper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Har - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a twenty-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century. |
TITLE: Truly Devious
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - MYSTERY SUMMARY: New at Ellingham Academy, Stevie Bell tries to both solve a murder at campus and the cold case of a double kidnapping. |
TITLE: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
AUTHOR: Holly Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. |
TITLE: Good Girl, Bad Girl
AUTHOR: Michael Robotham WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rob - THRILLER SUMMARY: A dangerous young woman with a unique ability to detect lies sues for her emancipation from a secure children's home, while the psychologist on her case finds herself in a battle of wits for survival. |
TITLE: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
AUTHOR: Michelle McNamara WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 McN SUMMARY: True crime author Michelle McNamara describes the crimes of serial rapist and murderer the Golden State Killer and her work to try to uncover his identity. |
TITLE: You Will Know Me
AUTHOR: Megan Abbott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Abb - THRILLER SUMMARY: When a violent death rocks her close-knit gymnastics community weeks before an important competition, the mother of an Olympics hopeful works frantically to hold her family together in spite of being irresistibly drawn to the crime. |
TITLE: Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
AUTHOR: Claire Harman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.152 Har SUMMARY: Traces the story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, revealing how the killer organized his defense by blaming his behavior on a popular crime novel. |
TITLE: Two Can Keep a Secret
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next. |
TITLE: Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
AUTHOR: Michael Cannell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 363.3 Can SUMMARY: Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-20th-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement. |
TITLE: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
AUTHOR: Nick Bilton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.16 Bil SUMMARY: Describes how a former boy scout launched Silk Road on the Dark Web, where people could buy anything anonymously including drugs, spying software, forged passports, counterfeit cash and rocket launchers and the Federal agents who spent two years trying to find him. |
TITLE: Sadie
AUTHOR: Courtney Summers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sum - THRILLER SUMMARY: Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. |
TITLE: The Good Daughter
AUTHOR: Karin Slaughter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sla - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Decades after a shattering confrontation that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her Atlanta hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting. |
TITLE: The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
AUTHOR: Dashka Slater WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 Sla SUMMARY: Tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, a crime that focuses on the concepts of race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. |
TITLE: Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
AUTHOR: Jerry McGill WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 306.8 McG SUMMARY: The author, who was shot at the age of thirteen, writes a letter to his unknown assailant, whom he names Marcus, detailing the repercussions of that fateful day. |
TITLE: The Lock Artist
AUTHOR: Steve Hamilton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ham - THRILLER SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-old Michael, who has not spoken since a tragic occurrence ten years before, realizes he has a talent for picking locks, but his skills lead him into a life of crime that he will have to escape in order to confront the secret to his silence and find love. |
TITLE: The Other Wes Moore
AUTHOR: Wes Moore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Moo SUMMARY: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths. |
TITLE: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
AUTHOR: David Grann WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 976.6 Gra SUMMARY: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. |
TITLE: Overturned
AUTHOR: Lamar Giles WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gil - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth. |
TITLE: All Involved
AUTHOR: Ryan Gattis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gat - NOVELS SUMMARY: A tale set against the backdrop of the 1992 race riots triggered by the Rodney King trial acquittal details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members who would use the chaos to settle old scores. |
TITLE: Jackaby
AUTHOR: William Ritter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rit - FANTASY SUMMARY: Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature. |
TITLE: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
AUTHOR: Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.1 Bug SUMMARY: Recounts the story of the murder of seven people in Los Angeles in 1969 and the trial and conviction of the Manson "family" for the murders. |
TITLE: Breaking Blue
AUTHOR: Timothy Egan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.1 Ega SUMMARY: Tells the true story of how Tony Bamonte, sheriff of Pend Oreille County, Washington, solved a murder after fifty years of police cover-ups. |
TITLE: The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
AUTHOR: Neal Bascomb WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 Bas SUMMARY: Presents the history of the group of spies, Holocaust survivors, and lawyers who persued Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, for fifteen years in order to bring him to justice for his leadership role in the killing of thousands of Jews during World War II. |
TITLE: The Witch Elm
AUTHOR: Tana French WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fre - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. |
TITLE: Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
AUTHOR: Karen Blumenthal WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 363.4 Blu SUMMARY: Chronicles the history of Prohibition in the United States, a period from 1920 to 1933 during which it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, discussing how what began as a movement to heal social ills, became a burden to ordinary citizens and a boon to criminals. |