Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry." These are big, attention-grabbing numbers, frequently...
4) Body Count
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I killed a priest." So begins Father Robert Koesler's fourteenth compelling involvement in a murder mystery. Echoing the moral dilemma of William X. Kienzle's classic mystery The Rosary Murders, Father Koesler is bound by the storied seal of the confessional. But is he? By odd coincidence, a new priest-in-residence, Father Nick Dunn, overhears the confession and Dunn, a product of the modern church, contests Father...
5) Body Count
Author
Language
English
Description
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict, a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. A horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness in this slasher by Italian horror maestro, Ruggero Deodato.
6) Body Count
Author
Language
English
Description
Abducted and hidden away deep in the Rocky Mountains, Susan Bell is frantic to escape her murderous captor.
Freshman Special Agent Burke Cameron is straight laced, traditionally minded, and comes with a hefty set of old-fashioned values. Burke doesn't know what to do with the free spirited, progressive woman he's falling for. He and Susan don't want any of the same things and he knows he should move on, but he can't seem to resist her.
Burke and...
7) Body Count
Author
Language
English
Description
Widowed sounded better than divorced.
Or at least it did the first time.
Despite having survived the trials and tribulations of The Diseased - Paige finds herself in a situation that seems even more impossible.
The President is dying.
Those four words set Paige's life on a course she could never have predicted.
The President is dying. Paige can save him.
Those eight words are the only ones keeping her friends Georgia and Violet alive.
The President...
8) Body Count
Author
Language
English
Description
He seemed so normal. Robert Lee Yates, Jr. was a respected father of five who piloted helicopters and served in Desert Storm and the National Guard. No one suspected him of having a deadly hidden life. By night, he prowled streets in search of prostitutes. He gained their trust then shot them in the head. The bodies of two young women were discovered in Spokane, Washington on August 26, 1997. Four more women were discovered in the following few months....
Author
Language
English
Description
An old man juggles his final wishes including romance, revenge and a reversal of fortune for people whose lives he has all but destroyed. At the same time, a group of ex-cops juggle retirement with a dogged sense of justice. And bridging the two is Acey Tapp, a private investigator. When paths cross and clues surface with a regularity that is anything but chance, the match is on. Playing the roles of King, Bishop and Pawn are a rusty gun, an orphan...
Author
Language
English
Description
Introduction About three and a half months after my nineteenth birthday, I decided that the day had come when I would kill a man. A boning knife was my weapon of choice on that fateful day. I knocked out my victim, and then I tied him to a beam in a barn. I slowly cut off his manhood and then I stabbed him exactly sixty times. I had just killed the man whom I hated most. He was dead at last. He was my father.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution.
Fetching a cat out of a tree should've been a quick, easy fifty bucks in Kanika's pocket. Instead, following one stray thought, the devil pays her a visit and leaves her with a debt to repay. Owing the devil a favor is bad enough, but her life is turned upside down when it's time to pay the piper. First, she doesn't want...
14) Body count
Author
Series
Sophie Anderson thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
15) Body count
Author
Publisher
Pryde Multimedia, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a deteriorating war in 1967 a senior CIA operative seeking to rearm the Mekong Delta's anti-communist Buddhists in the hopes of transforming a failing military strategy is killed under mysterious circumstances. This changes everything for Navy Commander Michael Teague who was about to work with the Buddhists who'd been disarmed over a decade ago by Saigon. Within hours of the death of the CIA operative, Teague is recruited to lead...
16) A simple murder
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, while William Rees was still recovering from his stint as a Revolutionary War soldier, his beloved wife died. Devastated, Rees left his son, David, in his sister's care, fled his Maine farm, and struck out for a tough but emotionally empty life as a traveling weaver. Now, upon returning unexpectedly to his farm, Rees discovers that David has been treated like a serf for years and finally ran away to join a secluded religious sect--the...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die....
18) The steel kiss
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not be an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks....
19) The goodbye man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult...