LibGuides: Anthony Awards: 2010s

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2010

The Brutal Telling / Louise Penny

The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Gamache #5) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.5 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312377038

Publication Date: 2009-09-22

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies -- exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness.

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The Last Child / John Hart
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death / Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played With Fire / Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
The Shanghai Moon / S. J. Rozan

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator)
Call Number: Fiction L335g v.2 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307269980

Publication Date: 2009-07-28

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The Girl Who Played with Fire [CD] by Stieg Larsson; Simon Vance (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction LA G2 (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780739384176

Publication Date: 2009-07-28
The Girl Who Played with Fire [E-Book] : Millennium Trilogy, Book 2 by Stieg Larsson
Call Number: Fiction L335g v.2 (OverDrive E-Books)

ISBN: 9780307272300

Publication Date: 2009

A Bad Day for Sorry / Sophie Littlefield

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / Alan Bradley
Starvation Lake / Bryan Gruley
The Twelve / The Ghosts of Belfast / Stuart Neville
In the Shadow of Gotham / Stafanie Pintoff

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie [Kindle] by Alan Bradley
Call Number: Kindle-0191 (Request at CIrculation Desk)

ISBN: 9780385342308

Publication Date: 2009-04-28

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie [E-Book] : Flavia de Luce mystery series, Book 1 by Alan Bradley
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

ISBN: 9780440338468

Publication Date: 2009

Starvation Lake / Bryan Gruley

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Bury Me Deep / Megan Abbott
Tower / Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
Quarry in the Middle / Max Allan Collins
Death and the Lit Chick / G. M. Malliet
Air Time / Hank Phillippi Ryan

Air Time [E-Book] (Charlotte McNally #3) by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

Publication Date: 2009

When savvy TV reporter Charlotte McNally enters the glamorous world of high fashion, she soon discovers that when the purses are fake--the danger is real. And no one can be trusted!Now Charlotte can't tell the real from the fake as she goes undercover to bring the couture counterfeiters to justice--and in her struggle to answer an all-important, life-changing question from a certain handsome professor.... The one thing Charlotte knows for sure is that the wrong choice could be the last decision she ever makes!

Talking About Detective Fiction / P. D. James

Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
Call Number: 823.8 J28t (Adtul Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780307592828

Publication Date: 2009-12-01

P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.

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The Line Up : the World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives / Otto Penzler, ed.
Haunted Heart : the Life and Times of Stephen Kin / Lisa Rogak
Dame Agatha's Shorts : an Agatha Christie Short Story Companion / Elena Santagelo
The Talented Mrs. Highsmith : the Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith / Joan Schenkar

2011

Bury Your Dead / Louise Penny

Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Gamache #6) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.6 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312377045

Publication Date: 2010-09-28

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society— where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. "It doesn't make sense," Olivier's partner writes every day. "He didn't do it, you know." As past and present collide in this astonishing novel, Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter / Tom Franklin
Faithful Place / Tana French
The Lock Artist / Steve Hamilton
I'd Know You Anywhere / Laura Lippman

Faithful Place by Tana French
Call Number: Fiction F876d v.3 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780670021871

Publication Date: 2010-07-13

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi 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 dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
Call Number: Fiction H2218L (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312380427

Publication Date: 2010-01-05

Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all.

I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
Call Number: Fiction L766i (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780061706554

Publication Date: 2010-08-17

A gripping and richly textured tale of a young woman whose life dangerously entwines once again with a man on Death Row who had kidnapped her when she was a teenager.

Damage Done / Hilary Davidson

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Rogue Island / Bruce DeSilva
Poacher's Son / Paul Doiron
The Sherlockian / Graham Moore
Snow Angels / James Thompson

The Poacher's Son [CD] by Paul Doiron; John Bedford Lloyd (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction DO (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9781427208965

Publication Date: 2010-05-11

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before--and his father is their prime suspect.

The Sherlockian [Kindle] by Graham Moore
Call Number: Kindle-0798 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9781607887232

Publication Date: 2010

Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but "elementary."

Expiration Date / Duane Swierczynski

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Long Time Coming / Robert Goddard
The Hanging Tree / Bryan Gruley
Drive Time / Hank Phillipp Ryan
Vienna Secrets / Frank Tallis

The Chill / Jason Starr

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Scalped Volume 6 : The Gnawing / Jason Aaron
Richard Stark's Parker, Volume 2 : the Outfit / Darwyn Cooke
Tumor / Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuzaon
Sickness in the Family / Denise Mina
Beasts of Burden / Jill Thompson, Evan Dorkin

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks / John Curran

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The Wire : Truth Be Told / Rafael Alvarez
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies / Steven Doyle, David A. Crowder
Charlie Chan : the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History / Yunte Huang
Thrillers : 100 Must Reads / David Morrell

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2012

A Trick of the Light / Louise Penny

A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Gamache #7) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.7 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312655457

Publication Date: 2011-08-30

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.

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The End of Everything / Megan Abbott
Hurt Machine / Reed Farrel Coleman
The Drop / Michael Connelly
One Was a Soldier / Julia Spencer-Fleming

Learning to Swim / Sara J. Henry

Learning to Swim [E-Book] by Sara J. Henry
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780307718402

Publication Date: 2011-02-22

A mysterious and suspenseful story that will move and disturb you to the very end. When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only French; and no one is looking for him.Her determination to protect Paul pulls Troy from her quiet life as a writer in a small Adirondack town into an unfamiliar world of wealth and privilege in Canada and then in Vermont. Her attachment to him; and the danger she faces when she tries to unravel the mystery of his abandonment—force her to evaluate everything she thought true about herself. The first book featuring the unforgettable Troy Chance, Sara J. Henry's riveting, award-winning debut will keep you engrossed right up to its shattering conclusion.

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Nazareth Child / Darrell James
All Cry Chaos / Leonard Rose
Who Do, Voodoo? / Rochell Staab
The Informationist / Taylor Stevens
Purgatory Chasm / Steve Ulfelder
Before I Go to Sleep / S. J. Watson

Buffalo West Wing / Julie Hyzy

Buffalo West Wing [E-Book] by Julie Hyzy
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

ISBN: 9781101476703

Publication Date: 2011

With a new First Family, White House executive chef Olivia Paras can't afford to make any mistakes. But when a box of take-out chicken mysteriously shows up for the First Kids, she soon finds herself in a "no-wing" situation. After Olivia refuses to serve the chicken, the First Lady gives her the cold shoulder. But when it turns out to be poisoned poultry, Olivia realizes the kids are true targets.

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The Company Man / Robert Jackson Bennett
Choke Hold / Christa Faust
Death of the Mantis / Michael Stanley
Fun & Games / Duane Swierczynski
Vienna Twilight / Frank Tallis

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion Charlaine Harris, ed.

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Editor)
Call Number: Fiction H312c (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780441019717

Publication Date: 2011-08-30

Fans of Charlaine Harris' number-one New York Times best-selling Sookie Stackhouse novels will find much to enjoy in this companion to the immensely popular series. Included are a never-before-published novella and an exclusive interview with Alan Ball, creator of HBO's True Blood. Sookie herself guides listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of Bon Temps, gives them a peek at the werewolf and werepanther communities, provides a glimpse through the racks of her best friend Tara's dress shop, and offers a look at Merlotte's - the bar where Sookie earns her living.

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Books, Crooks and Counselors : How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure / Leslie Budewitz
Agatha Christie : Murder in the Making : More Stories and Secrets From Her Notebooks / John Curran
On Conan Doyle : or, the Whole Art of Storytelling / Michael Dirda
Detecting Women : Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film / Philippa Gates

2013

The Beautiful Mystery / Louise Penny

The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Gamache #8) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.8

ISBN: 9780312655464

Publication Date: 2012-08-28

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as "the beautiful mystery." But when the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery's massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. There they discover disquiet beneath the silence, discord in the apparent harmony. One of the brothers, in this life of prayer and contemplation, has been contemplating murder. As the peace of the monastery crumbles, Gamache is forced to confront some of his own demons, as well as those roaming the remote corridors. Before finding the killer, before restoring peace, the Chief must first consider the divine, the human, and the cracks in between.
The Beautiful Mystery [CD] (Chief Inspector Gamache #8) by Louise Penny; Ralph Cosham (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction PE (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9781427226099

Publication Date: 2012-08-28

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Dare Me / Megan Abbott
The Trinity Game / Sean Chercover
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
The Other Woman / Hank Phillipp Ryan

The Expats / Chris Pavone

The Expats by Chris Pavone
Call Number: Fiction P339e (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307956354

Publication Date: 2012-03-06

An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems.
The Expats [E-Book] by Chris Pavone
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780307956378

Publication Date: 2012

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Don't Ever Get Old / Daniel Friedman
The Professionals / Owen Laukkanen
The 500 / Matthew Quirk
Black Fridays / Michael Sears

Big Maria / Johnny Shaw

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Whiplash River / Lou Berney
Murder for Choir / Joelle Charbonneau
And She Was / Alison Gaylin
Blessed are the Dead / Malia Nunn

Books to Die For : the World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels / John Connolly and Declan Burke, eds.

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Blood Relations : the Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 / Joseph Goodrich, ed.
More Forensics and Fiction : Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Asnwered / D. P. Lyle
The Grand Tour : Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie / Mathew Prichard, ed.
In Pursuit of Spenser : Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero / Otto Penzler, ed.

2014

Ordinary Grace / William Kent Krueger

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Call Number: Fiction K94o (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781451645828

Publication Date: 2013-03-26

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

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Suspect / Robert Crais
A Cold and Lonely Place / Sara J. Henry
The Wrong Girl / Hank Phillipp Ryan
Through the Evil Days / Julia Spencer-Fleming

Yesterday's Echo / Matt Coyle

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Ghostman / Roger Hobbs
Rage Against the Dying / Becky Masterman
Reconstructing Amelia / Kimberly McCreight
The Hard Bounce / Todd Robinson

As She Left It / Catriona McPherson

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The Big Reap / Chris F. Holm
Purgatory Key / Darrell James
Joyland / Stephen King
The Wicked Girls / Alex Marwood

The Hour of Peril : the Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War / Daniel Stashower

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Mastermind : How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes / Maria Konnikova
The Secret Rescue :an Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines / Cate Lineberry
All the Wild Children / Josh Stallings
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives : Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense / Sarah Weinman, ed.

The Testing / Joelle Charbonneau

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Call Number: J-Fiction CH (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 9780547959108

Publication Date: 2013-06-04

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
The Testing [E-Book] by Joelle Charbonneau
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780544035690

Publication Date: 2013-06-04

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Escape Theory / Margaux Froley
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library / Chris Grabenstein
Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy / Elizabeth Kiem
The Code Buster's Club : Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure / Penny Warner

The Cuckoo's Calling / Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling [Streaming Audio] by Robert Galbraith
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks

ISBN: 9781478980841

Publication Date: 2013

Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is now living in his office.Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

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Hour of the Rat / Lisa Brackman ; Tracy Sallows, narrator
Man in the Empty Suit / Sean Ferrll ; Mauro Hantman, narrator
Crescendo / Deborah J. Ledford ; Christina Cox, narratory
Death and the Lit Chick / G. M. Malliet ; Davina Porter, narrator

2015

After I'm Gone / Laura Lippman

After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman
Call Number: Fiction L766af (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062083395

Publication Date: 2014-02-11

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she’s left to join her old lover—until her remains are eventually found. Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto “Sandy” Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.

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Lamentation / Joe Clifford
The Secret Place / Tana French
Te Long Way Home / Louise Penny
Truth Be Told / Hank Phillippi Ryan

The Black Hour / Lori Rader-Day

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Blessed Are the Dead / Kristi Belcamino
Ice Shear / M. P. Cooley
Invisible City / Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury / Allen Eskens

The Day She Died / Catriona McPherson

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Stay With Me / Alison Gaylin
The Killer Next Door / Alex Marwood
World of Trouble / Ben H. Winters
No Stone Unturned / James W. Ziskin

Writes of Passage : Adventures on the Writer's Journey / Hank Phillippi Ryan, ed.

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The Figure of the Detective : a Literary HIstory and Analysis / Charles Brownson
Death Dealer : How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice / Kate Clark Flora
Dru's Book Musings / Dru Ann Lov
Poe-Land : the Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe / J. W. Ocker

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes : Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon / Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger, eds.

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2016

The Killing Kind / Chris Holm

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Night Tremors / Matt Coyle
The Child Garden / Catriona McPherson
The Nature of the Beast / Louise Penny
What You See / Hank Phillipp Ryan

Past Crimes / Glen Erik Hamilton

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The Long and Faraway Gone / Lou Berney

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Forensics : What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime / Val McDermid

Forensics : what bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime by Val McDermid
Call Number: 363.25 M472f (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780802123916

Publication Date: 2015-07-07

The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on crime novelist McDermid's own interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.

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Murder Under the Oaks : Bouchercon Anthology 2015 / Art Taylor, ed.

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Need / Joelle Charbonneau

Need by Joelle Charbonneau
Call Number: J-Ficton CH (Juvenile Ficiton)

ISBN: 9780544416697

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

In this exploration of the dark side of social media, and government control and manipulation, the teenagers in a small town are drawn deeper and deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need--regardless of the consequences.

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The Nature of the Beast / Louise Penny ; Robert Bathurst, narrator

2017

A Great Reckoning / Louise Penny

A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Gamache #12) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.12 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781250022134

Publication Date: 2016-08-30

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the SuÌ‚reteÌ du QueÌbec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the SuÌ‚reteÌ academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A proteÌgeÌe of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.
A Great Reckoning [Streaming Audio] (Chief Inspector Gamache #12) by Louise Penny
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks

ISBN: 9781427274397

Publication Date: 2016

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IQ / Joe Ide

IQ [E-Book] by Joe Ide
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316269803

Publication Date: 2016

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 neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes.

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Heart of Stone / James W. Ziskin

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Blood on the Bayou : Bouchercon Anthology 2016 / Greg Herren, ed.

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The Girl I Used to Be / April Henry

The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
Call Number: J-Paperback "X" (Juvenile Paperbacks)

ISBN: 9781627793322

Publication Date: 2016-05-03

Olivia's parents were killed fourteen years ago. Now, new evidence reopens the case ... and she finds herself involved.

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Shirley Jackson : a Rather Haunted Life / Ruth Franklin

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2018

Bluebird, Bluebird / Attica Locke

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Call Number: Fiction L814b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316363297

Publication Date: 2017-09-12

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America.

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Hollywood Homicide / Kellye Garrett

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The Day I Died / Lori Rader-Day

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Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) / Sue Grafton

Y Is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
Call Number: Fiction G737y (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780399163852

Publication Date: 2017-08-22

The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents--until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That's when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he's not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find.
Y Is for Yesterday [E-Book] by Sue Grafton
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101614358

Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Y is for Yesterday [Streaming Audio] by Sue Grafton
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks

ISBN: 9780385394024

Publication Date: 2017

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The Obama Inheritance : Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir / Gary Phillips, ed.

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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI / David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
Call Number: 976.6 G748k (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780385534246

Publication Date: 2017-04-18

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Killers of the Flower Moon [Streaming audiobook] : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9780307747471

Publication Date: 2017

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November Road / Lou Berney

November Road by Lou Berney
Call Number: Fiction B526n (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062663849

Publication Date: 2018-10-09

Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out. A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But now it's his turn--he knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead, and Guidry suspects he's next: he was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. With few good options, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate--a dangerous man who hates Marcello enough to help Guidry vanish. Guidry knows that the first rule of running is "don't stop," but when he sees a beautiful housewife on the side of the road with a broken-down car, two little daughters and a dog in the back seat, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks from the hit men on his tail. Posing as an insurance man, Guidry offers to help Charlotte reach her destination, California. If she accompanies him to Vegas, he can help her get a new car. For her, it's more than a car-- it's an escape. She's on the run too, from a stifling existence in small-town Oklahoma and a kindly husband who's a hopeless drunk. It's an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a dream, a hope--and find each other on the way.

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Give Me Your Hand / Megan Abbott
Jar of Hearts / Jennifer Hillier
Sunburn / Laura Lippman
Blackout / Alex Segura

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Call Number: Fiction A134g (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316547185

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet: taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them.

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
Call Number: Fiction H654j (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781250154217

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

This is story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong--one of the most popular girls in school--disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school. But fourteen years later, Angela Wong's remains are discovered in the woods near Geo's childhood home. And Kaiser--now a detective with Seattle PD--finally learns the truth: Angela was a victim of Calvin James. The same Calvin James who murdered at least three other women. To the authorities, Calvin is a serial killer. But to Geo, he's something else entirely. Back in high school, Calvin was Geo's first love. Turbulent and often volatile, their relationship bordered on obsession from the moment they met right up until the night Angela was killed. For fourteen years, Geo knew what happened to Angela and told no one. For fourteen years, she carried the secret of Angela's death until Geo was arrested and sent to prison. While everyone thinks they finally know the truth, there are dark secrets buried deep. And what happened that fateful night is more complex and more chilling than anyone really knows
Jar of Hearts [CD] by Jennifer Hillier; January LaVoy (Read by); Matie Argiropoulos (Produced by)
Call Number: CD Fiction HI (Adult Audio CD)

ISBN: 9781427296207

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Call Number: Fiction L766s (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062389923

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

When they meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware, Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet they stay-- and over a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other-- dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Then someone dies. Accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away-- even if they want to. Will the truth ultimately destroy them?

Blackout by Alex Segura
Call Number: Fiction S465f v.4 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781947993044

Publication Date: 2018-05-08

Startling new evidence in a cold case that's haunted Pete Fernandez drags the exiled PI back to his hometown of Miami. But as Pete and his partner Kathy Bentley delve deeper into the unsolved murder, they become entangled in Miami's obsession with a charismatic and dangerous cult leader and his even more menacing followers. At the same time, the detectives find themselves at odds with a Florida politician's fixation on wealth, fame and power. It all converges in the heart of the Magic City and Pete is left scrambling to pick up the pieces -- or die trying.

My Sister, the Serial Killer / Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Call Number: Fiction B8147m (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385544238

Publication Date: 2018-11-20

atire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realize they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening.
My Sister, the Serial Killer [Streaming Audio] by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks

ISBN: 9780525643296

Publication Date: 2018

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Broken Places / Tracy Clark
Dodging and Burning / John Copenhaver
What Doesn't Kill You / Aimee Hix
Bearskin / James A. McLaughlin

Broken Places by Tracy Clark
Call Number: Fiction C5946c v.1

ISBN: 9781496714893

Publication Date: 2018

Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose.
Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver
Call Number: Fiction C7826d (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781643131559

Publication Date: 2019-08-13

In the summer of 1945, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy, mourning the loss of her brother, Robbie, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story "A Date with Death" and spending time with his best friend, Jay Greenwood, in Royal Oak, VA.
What Doesn't Kill You by Aimee Hix
Call Number: Fiction H6769p v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780738754437

Publication Date: 2018-01-08

Ex-cop Willa Pennington is asked to help a friend's daughter move out from her abusive boyfriend's apartment. This simple favor soon is complicated by a dead body (the boyfriend) and a missing person (the friend's daughter). Now Willa is drawn into a battle of wits with an old friend who has dangerous secrets. Secrets that lead into a labyrinth of lies and deception in the shadows of Washington, D.C.
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Call Number: Fiction M47898b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062742810

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitaryb7sperfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he's so desperately sought is suddenly at risk.More bears are killed on the preserve and Rice's obsession with catching the poachers escalates, leading to hostile altercations with the locals and attention from both the law and Rice's employers. Partnering with his predecessor, a scientist who hopes to continue her research on the preserve, Rice puts into motion a plan that could expose the poachers but risks revealing his own whereabouts to the dangerous people he was running from in the first place.

Under a Dark Sky / Lori Rader-Day

Under a Dark Sky : a novel by Lori Rader-Day
Call Number: Fiction R1275u (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062846143

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

Only in the dark can she find the truth. Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. She doesn't work, has given up on her love of photography, and is so plagued by night terrors that she can't sleep without the lights on. Everyone, including her family, has grown weary of her grief. So when she finds paperwork in her husband's effects indicating that he reserved a week at a dark sky park, she goes. She's ready to shed her fear and return to the living, even if it means facing her paralyzing phobia of the dark. But when she arrives at the park, the guest suite she thought was a private retreat is teeming with a group of twenty-somethings, all stuck in the orbit of their old college friendships. Horrified that her get-away has been taken over, Eden decides to head home the next day. But then a scream wakes the house in the middle of the night. One of the friends has been murdered. Now everyone--including Eden--is a suspect.

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Hollywood Ending / Kellye Garrett
If I Die Tonight / Alison Gaylin
Hiroshima Boy / Naomi Hirahara
A Stone's Throw / James W. Ziskin

Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett
Call Number: Fictoin G239d v.2 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780738752976

Publication Date: 2018-08-08

When publicist Lyla Davis is killed in what appears to be botched ATM robbery, actress-turned-private-investigator Dayna Anderson infiltrates Hollywood celebrity circles to ferret out the truth.
If I Die Tonight : a novel by Alison Gaylin
Call Number: Fiction G287i (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780062641106

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station--and lives are changed forever. Aimee En, once a darling of the '80s pop music scene, claims that a teenage boy stole her car, then ran over another young man who'd rushed to help. As Liam Miller's life hangs in the balance, the events of that fateful night begin to come into focus. But is everything as it seems? The case quickly consumes social media, transforming Liam, a local high school football star, into a folk hero, and the suspect, a high school outcast named Wade Reed, into a depraved would-be killer. But is Wade really guilty? And if he isn't, why won't he talk?
Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara
Call Number: Fiction H668a v.7 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781945551086

Publication Date: 2018-03-13

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend's ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy's death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.
A Stone's Throw by James W. Ziskin
Call Number: Fiction Z81s (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781633884199

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Ellie Stone, a young newspaper reporter in 1960s' upstate New York, investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous Saratoga Springs. August 1962. A suspicious fire claims a tumbledown foaling barn on the grounds of the once-proud Tempesta Stud Farm, halfway between New Holland and Saratoga Springs, NY. The blaze, one of several in recent years at the abandoned farm, barely prompts a shrug from the local sheriff. That is until "girl reporter" Ellie Stone, first on the scene, uncovers a singed length of racing silk in the rubble of the barn. And it's wrapped around the neck of one of two charred bodies buried in the ashes. A bullet between the eyes of one of the victims confirms it's murder, and the police suspect gamblers. Ellie digs deeper. The double murder, committed on a ghostly stud farm in the dead of night, leads Ellie down a haunted path, just a stone's throw from the glamour of Saratoga Springs, to a place where dangerous men don't like to lose. Unraveling secrets from the past--crushing failure and heartless betrayal--she's learning that arson can be cold revenge.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark : One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer / Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
Call Number: 364.15 M481i (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780062319784

Publication Date: 2018-02-27

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic, capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim -- he favored suburban couples -- he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark [Streaming Audio] by Michelle McNamara; Gabra Zackman (Read by)
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9780062798695

Publication Date: 2018-02-27

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Dead Girls : Essays on Surviving an American Obsession / Alice Bolin
Mastering Plot Twists : How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivate Your Readers / Jane K. Cleland
Pulp According to David Goodis / Jay A. Gertzman
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s / Leslie S. Klinger
The Real Lolita : the Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World / Sarah Weinman

Dead Girls : essays on surviving an American obsession by Alice Bolin
Call Number: 305.4097 B689d (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780062657145

Publication Date: 2018-06-26

A collection of sharp, poignant essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women.
Mastering Plot Twists : how to use suspense, targeted storytelling strategies, and structure to captivate your readers. by Jane K. Cleland; Donald Maass (Foreword by)
Call Number: 808.3 C6245m (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9781440352331

Publication Date: 2018-06-26

CONTENTS: Part one: Pre-plotting. Hone in on a conflict ; Align your people with your conflicts ; The power of perception ; Generate compelling narrative questions -- Part two: Plotting. Plot your course ; Use TRDs to control pace ; Find fire in ice ; Choose two subplots ; End with a wallop.
Pulp According to David Goodis by Jay A. Gertzman
Call Number: 813.52 G652g (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9781948235365

Publication Date: 2018-10-01

Pulp According to David Goodis starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish they were the protagonist, and yet feel relief that they were not. His thrillers are set in motion by suppressed guilt, sexual frustrations, explosions of violence, and the inaccessible nature of intimacy. Extremely valuable is a gangster-infested urban setting. Uniquely, Goodis saw a still-vibrant community solidarity down there. Another contribution was sympathy for the gang boss, doomed by his very success. He dramatizes all this in the stark language of the Philadelphia’s “streets of no return.”
Classic American Crime Fiction of The 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger; Otto Penzler (Introduction by)
Call Number: 813.9872 C6145k (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9781681778617

Publication Date: 2018-10-02

A riveting collection of five of the most famous crime novels of the 1920s, presenting anew some of the most admired authors of the era... Each of the five novels included is presented in its original published form, with extensive historical and cultural annotations and illustrations...
The Real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world by Sarah Weinman
Call Number: 362.88 W424r (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780062661920

Publication Date: 2018-09-11

In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing.

Anthony Awards

2010

The Brutal Telling / Louise Penny

Nominees

The Last Child / John Hart

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death / Charlie Huston

The Girl Who Played With Fire / Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland

The Shanghai Moon / S. J. Rozan

A Bad Day for Sorry / Sophie Littlefield

Nominees

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / Alan Bradley

Starvation Lake / Bryan Gruley

The Twelve / The Ghosts of Belfast / Stuart Neville

In the Shadow of Gotham / Stafanie Pintoff

Starvation Lake / Bryan Gruley

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Bury Me Deep / Megan Abbott

Tower / Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman

Quarry in the Middle / Max Allan Collins

Death and the Lit Chick / G. M. Malliet

Air Time / Hank Phillippi Ryan

Talking About Detective Fiction / P. D. James

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The Line Up : the World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives / Otto Penzler, ed.

Haunted Heart : the Life and Times of Stephen Kin / Lisa Rogak

Dame Agatha's Shorts : an Agatha Christie Short Story Companion / Elena Santagelo

The Talented Mrs. Highsmith : the Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith / Joan Schenkar

2011

Bury Your Dead / Louise Penny

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter / Tom Franklin

Faithful Place / Tana French

The Lock Artist / Steve Hamilton

I'd Know You Anywhere / Laura Lippman

Damage Done / Hilary Davidson

Nominees

Rogue Island / Bruce DeSilva

Poacher's Son / Paul Doiron

The Sherlockian / Graham Moore

Snow Angels / James Thompson

Expiration Date / Duane Swierczynski

Nominees

Long Time Coming / Robert Goddard

The Hanging Tree / Bryan Gruley

Drive Time / Hank Phillipp Ryan

Vienna Secrets / Frank Tallis

The Chill / Jason Starr

Nominees

Scalped Volume 6 : The Gnawing / Jason Aaron

Richard Stark's Parker, Volume 2 : the Outfit / Darwyn Cooke

Tumor / Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuzaon

Sickness in the Family / Denise Mina

Beasts of Burden / Jill Thompson, Evan Dorkin

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks / John Curran

Nominees

The Wire : Truth Be Told / Rafael Alvarez

Sherlock Holmes for Dummies / Steven Doyle, David A. Crowder

Charlie Chan : the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History / Yunte Huang

Thrillers : 100 Must Reads / David Morrell

Sara Paretsky

2012

A Trick of the Light / Louise Penny

Nominees

The End of Everything / Megan Abbott

Hurt Machine / Reed Farrel Coleman

The Drop / Michael Connelly

One Was a Soldier / Julia Spencer-Fleming

Learning to Swim / Sara J. Henry

Nominees

Nazareth Child / Darrell James

All Cry Chaos / Leonard Rose

Who Do, Voodoo? / Rochell Staab

The Informationist / Taylor Stevens

Purgatory Chasm / Steve Ulfelder

Before I Go to Sleep / S. J. Watson

Buffalo West Wing / Julie Hyzy

Nominees

The Company Man / Robert Jackson Bennett

Choke Hold / Christa Faust

Death of the Mantis / Michael Stanley