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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people...
67) Blind run
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
When his young son is murdered, Ethan Decker, a former "Hunter" who tracked down international fugitives for the U.S. government, goes into exile, until a former member of his team enlists his aid to protect two children caught in a deadly conspiracy.
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Series
Eve Duncan volume 19
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Eve Duncan is a sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. A California sheriff contacts her to reconstruct the skull of a young girl. Eve agrees, but when the ghost of the girl begins communicating with her, Eve finds herself wrapped up in the case more intensely than she could have ever imagined.
70) Judas child
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Policeman Rouge Kindall investigates the disappearance of two young girls three days before Christmas, a case disturbingly similar to the murder of his twin sister many years earlier.
71) In her tracks
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Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
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"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
72) Shadow play
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
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Pub. Date
c1998
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Terry Naughton, head of Orange County's Crimes Against Youth Unit, is pitted against a brilliantly insane sex offender called Horridus, who kidnaps children from their beds, dresses them as angels, and releases them the next day with a piece of snakeskin tucked into the folds of their gowns. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the madman's crimes escalate, Naughton races to find him while struggling to confront his own dark and violent past....
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
We've heard it said that there is no justice in this world. But what if there really was? What if the souls of murdered children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous killers who stole their lives? Such is the unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde, fresh out of rehab and finally able to find a job running a Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. When the two rookie cops assigned...
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
The murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 inspired sensational headlines throughout the nation--and plunged idyllic Boulder, Colorado's justice system into an ongoing nightmare. In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, bestselling author Lawrence Schiller explores both the child's mysterious death and the exhaustive, yet often mishandled, investigation that has, in the two years since the crime, failed to produce either a plausible...