Frank Carlson Library

Sometimes you win, and sometimes you die. On the verge of finding the person who ordered their fathers' deaths, Special Agents Stella Knox and Hagen Yates are diverted by another murder. A kickboxer whose body is discovered with two bullet holes in his head. Stranger still is a pattern of dead boxers around the state. Are the murders linked to organized crime? A serial killer? A grudge? Or something more disturbing? Getting information about...

"It's been an eventful twenty-four hours for FBI Special Agent Stella Knox. She's saved her colleague from a murderer, rescued the same murderer, and watched the man who killed her father plummet to his death. Now, she's not only tormented with questions about her father's murder, but new worries about her colleague and friend, Special Agent Hagen Yates, are plaguing her too. What should she do? A new case is a welcome distraction, so when two bodies...

If looks can kill, a smile can be deadly. Special Agent Stella Knox became an FBI agent to find the dirty cops responsible for her father's murder and make them pay. But fresh out of Quantico, her first case has her seeking justice for a different victim--three of them, in fact. The bodies of three teenage boys have turned up in a sleepy town outside of Nashville, TN. There're no fingerprints, no DNA, and very little to connect the murders,...

"In order to restore the heart of the Shining Star Hermit, Shiki and his friends have visited the virtual planet of Digitalis. The once thriving digital landscape is now at the mercy of the mass murderer Jamilov, and death in this fictional space leads to death in the real world. To make matters worse, there may be a spy among our heroes' ranks. Can Shiki and his crew defeat Jamilov and get Hermit safely back to the EDENS ZERO?"--Provided by publisher....

Detective Mike Fletcher, a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher's obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.

After her boyfriend's twin brother and an unidentified woman are found dead in Hollywood, Nora Kemp and Hugh Iverson fight for their reputations and to uncover the real killer, not satisfied with the initial findings of a murder-suicide. Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives Nora security and respectability. The other is Hugh’s twin brother, Trent, a Hollywood bad boy who brings out Nora’s...

"A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for...

In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed....

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of not one, but three newborn babies hidden in a bin in her wardrobe. She had buried a fourth baby in newspaper and rags in St Helens Cemetery. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal and her fight for justice for the siblings she never knew. Growing up in chaotic circumstances...

"FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiler Scarlett Bell knows her job will require her to enter the minds of murderers. But when she joins forces with fugitive Logan Wolf to track a deranged serial killer in Georgia, she learns the true meaning of fear. In the dead of night, a couple out for a moonlight walk discovers a woman's severed head on a well-traveled bridge. She isn't the first victim, and she won't be the last. While Scarlett follows the evidence...