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TITLE: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
AUTHOR: Jon Krakauer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 289.3 Kra SUMMARY: Presents an in-depth study of American Mormon fundamentalism with special attention to the double murder of a mother and her baby daughter by Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insisted they were ordered by God to commit the killings. |
TITLE: Winter Counts
AUTHOR: David Heska Wanbli Weiden WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wei - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions. |
TITLE: Run, Hide, Fight Back
AUTHOR: April Henry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hen - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Told from multiple viewpoints, holiday shoppers struggle to survive as three masked shooters open fire in a crowded mall and five teens form a plan to stop them. |
TITLE: Pride and Premeditation
AUTHOR: Tirzah Price WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Pri - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it. |
TITLE: None Shall Sleep
AUTHOR: Ellie Marney WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mar - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer. |
TITLE: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
AUTHOR: Holly Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. |
TITLE: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
AUTHOR: Becky Cooper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.152 Coo SUMMARY: Documents the unsolved 1969 murder of Harvard student Jane Britton, sharing insights into how the case was clouded by false rumors and the realities of gender inequality and institutional silence in period academic circles. |
TITLE: Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
AUTHOR: Sierra Crane Murdoch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.152 Mur - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: Tells the true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it. |
TITLE: Truly Devious
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Joh - MYSTERY SUMMARY: New at Ellingham Academy, Stevie Bell tries to both solve a murder at campus and the cold case of a double kidnapping. |
TITLE: The Survivors
AUTHOR: Jane Harper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Har - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Haunted by guilt for a reckless and consequential mistake in his youth, Kieran returns to his coastal hometown and his struggling fishing-industry parents, before the discovery of a body on the beach reveals long-held secrets. |
TITLE: Harlem Shuffle
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops and local gangsters after his cousin involves him in a failed heist. |
TITLE: Admission
AUTHOR: Julie Buxbaum WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bux - NOVELS SUMMARY: An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal. |
TITLE: Patron Saints of Nothing
AUTHOR: Randy Ribay WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Rib - NOVELS SUMMARY: Setting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth, and the part he may have played in it. |
TITLE: The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives
AUTHOR: Dashka Slater WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 Sla SUMMARY: This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. |
TITLE: The Dime Museum Murders
AUTHOR: Daniel Stashower WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sta - MYSTERY SUMMARY: New York City in 1897 and young escapologist Harry Houdini is struggling to get the recognition he craves from the ruthless entertainment industry. When toy tycoon Branford Wintour is found murdered in his Fifth Avenue mansion, detectives call upon Houdini to help solve this mysterious crime. When Harry and his brother Dash reach the scene of the murder, they discover that Wintour was killed seemingly by a magic trick... |
TITLE: The Round House
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Erd - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: After Geraldine Coutts is attacked on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil, a tribal judge, tries to find justice for his wife, and their teenage son Joe tries to help his mother heal. |
TITLE: Razorhurst
AUTHOR: Justine Larbalestier WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lar - FANTASY SUMMARY: In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses. |
TITLE: Bluebird, Bluebird
AUTHOR: Attica Locke WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Loc - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double-murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman. |
TITLE: Magpie Murders
AUTHOR: Anthony Horowitz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hor - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Editor Susan Ryland thinks nothing when Alan Conway, the bestselling crime writer of the Atticus P̈nd mysteries, sends her his latest manuscript, but the more Susan reads, the more she realizes that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript, one of ambition, jealousy, and greed which will soon lead to murder. |
TITLE: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
AUTHOR: James Forman Jr. WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.9 For SUMMARY: Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans--as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters--played in escalating the war on crime. |
TITLE: You Will Know Me
AUTHOR: Megan Abbott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Abb - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When a violent death rocks her close-knit gymnastics community weeks before an important competition, the mother of an Olympics hopeful works frantically to hold her family together in spite of being irresistibly drawn to the crime. |
TITLE: The Silent Patient
AUTHOR: Alex Michaelides WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mic - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to violently murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. |
TITLE: Into the Water
AUTHOR: Paula Hawkins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Haw - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from--a place to which she vowed she'd never return. |
TITLE: Two Can Keep a Secret
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: While true crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next. |
TITLE: In Cold Blood
AUTHOR: Truman Capote WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 Cap SUMMARY: An account of the murders of the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 by two drifters who fled to Mexico and were later arrested and executed for their crimes. |
TITLE: Sadie
AUTHOR: Courtney Summers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sum - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true-crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. |
TITLE: Before She Knew Him
AUTHOR: Peter Swanson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Swa - MYSTERY SUMMARY: The hair-raising tale of a young suburban wife who believes a killer is living right next door and fears only the next murder, maybe her own, will make everyone believe her. |
TITLE: The Witch Elm
AUTHOR: Tana French WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Fre - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life--he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden--and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. |
TITLE: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
AUTHOR: Michelle McNamara WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.15 McN SUMMARY: True crime author Michelle McNamara describes the crimes of serial rapist and murderer the Golden State Killer and her work to try to uncover his identity. |
TITLE: Disappeared
AUTHOR: Francisco X. Stork WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sto - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border. |
TITLE: IQ
AUTHOR: Joe Ide WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ide - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods, who solves cases the LAPD ignores, investigates threats against a rap mogul, a case that becomes more far-reaching and dangerous as he encounters a vengeful ex-wife and a hit man regarded as a lunatic by his peers. |
TITLE: If I Run
AUTHOR: Terri Blackstock WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bla - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Although Casey Cox didn't kill her friend Brent, her blood is everywhere and she flees, but Dylan Roberts, hired to catch her, begins to suspect from her profile that she is innocent and that there are others who have a stake in identifying her as the killer. |
TITLE: The Walls Around Us
AUTHOR: Nova Ren Suma WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sum - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together. |
TITLE: Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
AUTHOR: Dan Slater WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.106 Sla SUMMARY: Journalist Dan Slater takes readers through the heart of the Mexican drug trade, and the two teens that were turned into pawns for the cartels. |
TITLE: The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
AUTHOR: Anand Giridharadas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.152 Gir SUMMARY: Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty. |
TITLE: My Story
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Smart WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sma SUMMARY: Elizabeth Smart who was kidnapped and held captive for nine months describes her ordeal, escape, and becoming an advocate in preventing crimes against children. |
TITLE: Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
AUTHOR: Mark Schultz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.812 Sch SUMMARY: The true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty. On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times by du Pont family heir John E. du Pont at the famed Foxcatcher Farms estate in Pennsylvania. Following the murder there was a tense standoff when du Pont barricaded himself in his home for two days before he was finally captured. |
TITLE: Gone Girl
AUTHOR: Gillian Flynn WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Fly - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Golden boy Nick Dunne, brings his wife, Amy, back to his hometown on the Mississippi River where she is miserable and on their fifth wedding anniversary she disappears, and soon Nick finds himself lying, being deceitful, and acting inappropriately but continues to claim his innocence with his twin sister at his side. |
TITLE: Breaking Blue
AUTHOR: Timothy Egan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.1 Ega - LOCAL SUMMARY: Tells the true story of how Tony Bamonte, sheriff of Pend Oreille County, Washington, solved a murder after fifty years of police cover-ups. |
TITLE: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
AUTHOR: John Grisham WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.1 Gri SUMMARY: Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown. |
TITLE: The Lovely Bones
AUTHOR: Alice Sebold WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Seb - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice. |