Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&N=3+7456+7498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738944 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738979 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713049 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713071 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683293 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738954 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653957 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713066 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713014 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738965 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683306 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694342 Theodora Teddy Bentley, zookeeper at the Gunn Zoo, takes the zoos llama, Alejandro, to a Renaissance fair in the Monterey Bay area. That is where Teddy discovers the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel, dressed in his costume as Henry the Eighth. At first it appears that Alejandro stomped the man to death, but a closer look shows a crossbow dart in the mans back. Teddys investigation reveals that Reverend Victor wasnt really a reverend at all but an escaped convict, and Teddys mother, Caro, a spoiled ex-beauty queen, becomes the chief murder suspect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675975 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675984 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715319 When a murdered body is discovered in the sacred Temple in 29 C.E. Jerusalem, ranking rabbi Gamaliel teams up with the physician Loukas to solve the crime and restore peace, a situation that is further complicated by additional killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683283 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738953 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683302 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683255 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696156 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696138 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738971 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738914 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738927 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738968 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712098 LAPD cop Max Kent is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Allie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged. Shunned and shunted to the side, Max and his new partner Maggie set out to investigate the one case that no one wants them to touch. Whether they will make it out again, no one can say. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696145 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694336 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538039 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715256 While providing security for a mummified madame and saving his favorite watering hole from drying up, zombie detective Dan Shamble goes up against a local senator and his goons who picketed a production of Shakespeare in the Dark. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694421 Nikki Harper, the daughter of a screen goddess, was raised in a completely dysfunctional home populated by a cast of crazies--but she did not follow in her mothers footsteps. Instead, Nikki became a real estate agent who wants a quiet, comfortable life with a little love and happiness thrown in. Nikki is a little distrustful of law enforcement but enamored of her famous mother, the actress Victoria Bordeaux. So when the son of an iconic Hollywood producer turns up dead in the dumpster behind her mothers home with a pair of pruning shears stuck in his chest, reluctant sleuth Nikki steps up to the plate to solve the crime. Victorias gardener, Jorge Delgado, is the prime suspect. One man deserved to die, and the other to live--but the DAs office got it backwards, and Nikki must find a way to prove that her childhood friend is innocent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694341 The case against young Travis Morgan is simple: he walked into his fathers house and shot the man at his desk in front of two witnesses. The fact that the murdered man was not his father is immaterial: he still killed a man in cold blood. Although he admits to a passionate hatred and fear of his father, Travis swears he is innocent. This is the case attorney Barbara Holloway is presented with. The trouble is she believes Travis, even though the eyewitness accounts appear irrefutable. As Barbara digs deeper, the case explodes into a dangerous conspiracy, causing Frank, Barbaras father and part-time associate, to hire a bodyguard to protect her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629248 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677615 In the midst of a brutal Scandinavian winter, a member of the Nobel Prize committee is gunned down in the city of Stockholm. Reporter Annika Bengtzon, who made eye contact with the killer just seconds before the shots were fired, is the key witness. Because of the sensitivity of the crime, police issue a gag order on her immediately - and she is forced to figure out on her own why an American assassin known only as the Kitten ordered the hit. With her marriage falling to pieces and her job on the line, Annika quickly finds herself in the middle of a violent story of terror and death, the roots of which date back centuries. The research all leads her to the same man: a rich and famous industrialist responsible for one of the worlds most coveted gifts, who died a tragic and mysterious death. If Annika wants to learn the truth, she risks uncovering secrets that some will do anything to protect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682409 When an affluent young accountant receives a threatening letter, a mandate to come and play an ultraviolent video game called Snuff Tag 9, he hires rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt to find answers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533742 FBI Agent Andy Fisher has little respect for authority and even less love for paperwork. While his supervisors object to his unorthodox methods, they cannot argue with his results: he has just saved New York City from a terrorist attack. Fisher is in the Big Apple when he learns that an old girlfriend, Kathy Feder, has been shot dead. Kathys the only woman Fisher ever truly loved, and hes not about to just watch the NYPD conduct the official investigation. Armed with a pack of Camels and enough caffeine to kill an elephant, Fisher is determined to find out who killed Kathy and why. Kathy was a key employee of Icarus Sun Works, and her death threatens to delay the launch of a satellite that will harvest solar energy and beam it to earth as electricity. When perfected, the technology will power entire cities for literally pennies. And the energy will be clean: no more BP disasters, no more Fukushima catastrophes. The launch proceeds, but the rocket carrying the satellite into space mysteriously explodes. Fisher learns that it was sabotaged as part of an intricate Chinese campaign to destroy the project and steal the technology. As he delves deeper into the conspiracy, against his better judgment, Fisher starts to fall for the woman who designed the rocket. The irascible, overcaffeinated FBI agent must save his new love from assassination, and protect the satellite system from a deadly plot that will stop at nothing to destroy it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667669 Jonathan Bovaro, a member of a crime family, finds his loyalty shaken by a beautiful, but damaged young woman whose parents joined the Witness Protection Program after observing a legendary violent streak carried out by his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682391 Max Maguire, a twenty-nine-year-old female detective with the New York Police Department, flies to France to attend the wedding of her friend, Chloe Marceau, at a grand estate east of Paris in the Champagne region. There Max meets an older man, the urbane Olivier Chaumont, and experiences a fairy-tale evening. But when Chloes widowed aunt, the beautiful and successful Lea de Saint-Pern, is found murdered, Max and Olivier are snapped back into their professional roles. To Maxs chagrin, she is banned from an official investigative role, while Olivier, a magistrate, is put in charge of the investigation. She insinuates herself into the victims family until their long-held secrets begin to surface like bubbles in a glass of champagne. After another family member is found dead on the day of Leas funeral however, Max puts her career and her tentative relationship with Olivier in jeopardy as her determination to find the murderer--and prove herself in the process--takes over. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667695 A triple homicide launches a page turning ride to a twisting conclusion, peopled with wonderfully nuanced characters that reveal so much about human nature and what motivates us all, and along the way Keller illuminates the social realities faced by such communities, as Bell uncovers a bigger, more violent crime ring than anyone could have imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667880 The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel. Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement. As things grow more bizarre, he finds himself reexamining the case of The Good Shepherd. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694448 In a quiet college town in New Jersey, five million dollars in cashiers checks lies hidden in a dead mans house, and whoever finds the checks gets to keep it all. Four family members have four weeks before the house and its contents become the property of a small college. Soon two deaths by drowning from the past and another clear case of murder in the present complicate matters. It takes the combined skills of a superbly trained homicide detective, Charlie, and an equally well trained psychologist, Constance, to unravel the mystery of the Bainbridge curse--and expose a killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703872 Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts the challenge of a new job in the world of thoroughbred horse racingthat of jockeys agent. His client is a seventeen-year-old riding phenom from Ireland named Mickey Sheehan, who has decided to try her luck in the States. They prove to be an effective team until someone begins secretly administering dangerously illegal medications to horses, affecting race results -- Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705088 When the pregnant teenage daughter of a wealthy newcomer to Llanelen is found dead in the nearby woods, spa owner Penny Brannigan investigates the familys suspicious financial dealings while her paramour, Detective Inspector Davies, tracks down the killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715306 Inheriting their late grandmothers sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrews gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend, and Graces discovery of a long-lost manuscript. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694431 Phineas Throckmorton, town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year. But the lender seems increasingly determined to evict him, and may succeed after one of its executives is found shot, apparently from inside the basement. Meg and her fellow townspeople suspect that someone hopes to end the siege by framing Mr. Throckmorton. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694347 Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in his life and is lucky to be employed, having managed to drink and smart-talk his way out of a nice, cushy job covering--and partying with--the politicians down at the capitol. Now hes back on the night cops beat, right where he started when he came to work for the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. When a coed at the local university where Willies daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body found along the South Anna River, the hapless alleged killer is arrested within days. Everyone seems to think the case is closed. But Willie, against the orders and advice of his bosses at the paper, the police, and just about everyone else, doesnt think the case is solved at all and embarks on a one-man crusade to do what hes always done: get the story. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667666 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674774 A high-end prostitute is found brutally murdered on the London docks, and Monks quest to discover the truth behind her death leads him down a shocking path, littered with secrets that have been buried since the infamous Opium Wars. Monk must unravel the victims link to the widow of a dead doctor, and the doctors vanished report on the misuse of opium, before the killer strikes again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674350 In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a bay left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers--a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect--but Edies instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694462 At thirty-six, private detective Jared McKean is coming to terms with his unjust dismissal from the Nashville Murder Squad and an unwanted divorce from a woman he still loves. Jareds teenage nephew, Josh, has fallen under the influence of a dangerous fringe of the goth subculture. When the fringe groups leader--a mind-manipulating sociopath who considers himself a vampire--is found butchered and posed across a pentagram, Josh is the number one suspect. Jared will need all his skills as a private investigator and former homicide detective to match wits with the most terrifying killer he has ever seen. When he learns that Josh is next on the killers list, Jared will risk his reputation, his family, and his life in a desperate attempt to save the boy he loves like a son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664094 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537980 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715274 On Manhattans Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesnt seem the type to be on anyones hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Martas murder was the work of a killer whos trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence. But when someone steals the files out of Martas office, Eve must immerse herself in her billionaire husband Roarkes world of big business to figure out whos cruel and callous enough to hire a hit on an innocent woman. And as the killers violent streak begins to escalate, Eve knows she has to draw him out, even if it means using herself as bait -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538022 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682412 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668608 Witnessing the apparent suicide of a man who fell from the London Bridge, Crispin Guest investigates suspicions that the victim was actually murdered and discovers links to a powerful religious artifact before his efforts are complicated by the arrival of his friend, Geoffrey Chaucer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615537 It has been years since Casey Maldonado visited her hometown, and the only reason shes returning now is to get her brother Ricky out of jail, where he sits after being arrested for the brutal murder of Alicia McManus, his girlfriend of several months. Casey believes in her brothers innocence, but proving that to the cops is a different matter altogether. As Casey investigates Alicias murder, it becomes clear that Alicia was not who she claimed to be, from her name to her nonexistent past. Casey must sort the truth from the elaborate fiction of Alicias life in order to clear Rickys name, but as she reveals the womans secrets, Casey begins to see just how alike their lives appear. Is Casey destined to an existence as empty and dark as Alicias, or can she overcome the tragedy of her past and move forward into a life worth living? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679172 Shes a cop turned defense lawyer; her husband a research scientist. Yet on this night, Andrea Wilson--a woman who seemingly has everything--awakens to a living nightmare. Her husband Paul is dead, shes covered in his blood, and the police are banging on her door. Andrea doesnt remember what happened, but she knows how it looks. With just a split second to make a choice, Andrea decides to run, and in doing so risks everything in an attempt to clear her name. Enter Detective Mike Coletti. He and Andrea shared a relationship once; now all they share is the chase. As Andrea races to prove her innocence and Coletti struggles to track her down, each uncovers clues about the mystery of Pauls death, and along the way, Andrea finds the answer to the biggest question of all: is her husband actually still alive? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715261 Visiting his uncles estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667898 Death-camp survivor Buck is 87, abrasive, and has trouble remembering. But his cops watchfulness is intact, and he keeps his .375 Magnum close by. When he learns that the sadistic guard who brutalized him is likely still alive and the possessor of much stolen Nazi gold, Buck and his chatterbox grandson go on a quest. But who are these people who suddenly come out of the woodwork-- a loan shark, a scholar, a pretty Israeli soldier? And why does everyone start dying? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668878 Ike Schwartz, sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiance, Ruth Dennis, president of a local university, seek some peace and quiet on Scone Island, a rocky piece of land four miles off the coast of Maine without electricity or phone service. The fact that there has been a suspicious accident resulting in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley doesnt concern them--until Ikes past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the areas famous twelve-foot tides. Two more murders involving former colleagues elsewhere in the country have Ikes old friend from the agency, Charlie Garland, searching the files for a connection. However, stonewalling by the CIA, as well as conspiracies, real and imagined, mean that Ike and Ruth are alone on the island and facing an unknown number of determined assassins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668883 When Rachel and Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger take teens on an outing in Mason County, they find the body of a missing girl. As Tom begins a murder investigation, Rachel becomes the object of a stalker, who soon makes his move. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668888 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705091 Retired attorney Matt Royal joins the hunt for a serial killer who appears to have returned to murdering after a twelve-year hiatus and who may have Royals love interest in his sights. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693070 Max Tudor investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But his growing attraction to Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at Chedrow Castle of a raucous group of long-lost, greedy relatives, any one of whom has a motive for murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679144 A skeptical homicide lieutenant has commissioned Max to investigate the cold case murder she suspects he committed. With traumatic amnesia from a recent attempt on his life, the once infallible Max is more sitting duck than predator. It will take an alliance of frenemies to solve the serial deaths before one of them joins the fatality list. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538017 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674755 With her divorce final, Jane must clear out her antique collection and sell her house. Now homeless, Jane heads to her hometown in Illinois to find it, too, has been turned upside-down. Lucky Miller, a little-known comedian, is staging a comeback. Suspicious, Janes mother Nellie hires Jane to investigate. Still, Nellie may be the least of Luckys problems when a driver on his crew turns up dead hours after claiming that Lucky tried to kill him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715268 When a favor for a friend leads to the murder of a mafia contact, Nathan Heller, a 1960s private investigator with contacts in the government and mob, uncovers a dire conspiracy to assassinate JFK. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667895 Hannah Manning, a former war correspondent still affected by a traumatic brain injury, moves into her sisters Ontario home to recover, but a ghostly image and a threat to her ten-year-old niece eat at her last remaining grip on sanity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682399 The summer of 1276 at Tyndal Priory is peaceful--until Alwynes corpse is found floating in the millpond. When Brother Thomas concludes that the murder occurred on priory grounds, Prioress Eleanor and Crowner Ralf swiftly agree to help each other solve the crime. The murder victim, a newcomer, was disliked in Tyndal village, and no one there wants one of their own hanged for the deed. Fingers quickly point to a Jewish family, refugees under the relocation provisions of King Edwards Statute of the Jewry. As riots loom and threats mount against the family, Eleanor and Ralf have little time before popular opinion rules the murder solved. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538032