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21) Storm prey
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English
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Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport, unwittingly witnesses the robbery of the hospital pharmacy where she works. With the death of a pharmacy worker on their hands, the three thieves set out to find out who Weather is, and eliminate the only possible witness ....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
23) El odio que das
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceano expraes
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
Author
Series
Sheldon Horowitz novels volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a murder in Olso, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz, flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
25) The client
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English
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Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A novel on the witness protection program. The heroine is Lacey Farrell of New York, a real estate agent who witnesses a murder. The police relocate her to Minneapolis, but she is lonely, makes phone calls to her mother and the killer finds out.
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English
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In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, after taking on a foreclosure case, defense attorney Mickey Haller fights to prove his client's innocence—but first he must follow a trail of black market evidence to its sinister end Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home....
28) Ten big ones
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 10
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English
Formats
Description
Janet Evanovich is the hottest author in America, and her Stephanie Plum novels have taken the nation by storm!
#1 New York Times
#1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly
She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced
Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of...
30) The Nuremberg interviews: an American psychiatrist's conversations with the defendants and witnesses
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
32) The witness
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The name "Kitty Genovese" became synonymous with urban apathy after The New York Times printed an article stating that she was stabbed to death during an attack that lasted more than half an hour, while 38 witnesses did nothing. Fifty years later, her brother uncovers a lie that transformed his life, condemned a city, and defined an era.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor...
35) So undercover
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Molly, a tough-as-nails, street-smart private investigator, is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority and protect the daughter of a key witness in a mob case.
36) The hate u give
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A girl from a poor black neighborhood attending a rich mostly white prep school witnesses her childhood friend being killed by a police officer and faces a difficult dilemma.
37) Witness to death
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lorna Doria hadn't committed a murder. She'd seen one. Yet somehow she'd become the prisoner, while the killer was out on bail. As state's witness, she'd thought the shelter of her quiet New England life would be enough to keep her safe. Law enforcement disagreed--and it was New York City undercover cop Andrew Trudeau's job to protect her. But their strong attraction had already made it too late for that . . . Now, with Andrew as her bodyguard, Lorna...
38) Saving faith
Author
Language
English
Description
Lee Adams, a Washington private investigator, is on the run, trying to help Faith Lockhart, a young woman who knows too much and who is feared by some of the most powerful men in the world.
40) The hate u give
Author
Series
The hate u give volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Die 16-jährige Starr Carter bewegt sich zwischen zwei Welten: dem Armenviertel, in dem sie lebt, und der schicken Vorstadt-Vorschule, die sie besucht. Das unsichere Gleichgewicht zwischen diesen Welten wird erschüttert, als Starr Zeuge der tödlichen Erschießung ihres besten Freundes aus Kindertagen, Khalil, durch einen Polizisten wird."
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy...
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