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1) The knight
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"A unique clue is left for FBI criminologist Patrick Bowers at the scene of a ritual murder: a tape recording predicting Bowers' own next move. At a subsequent murder, Bowers uncovers something else: an ancient manuscript being used as a template for the crimes. And the more he deciphers the codes of the text, the more he fears how it will end. Because Bowers isn't closing in on the killer at all. The killer is closing in on him..."--
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 9
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Who is the Piper? . . . Special Agent Patrick Bowers returns in an electrifying prequel to the Bowers Chess series from critically acclaimed, national bestselling novelist Steven James. A mysterious suicide and a series of abductions draw Patrick into a web of intrigue involving an international conspiracy where no one is who they appear to be and the stakes have never been higher. Soon, Patrick discovers that the secret to stopping the...
3) The rook
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 2
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"An arsonist has struck a top-secret research facility at a key US naval base. But it's not just a random terrorist attack. These people were after something specific. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, he is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue and deception. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the world's most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop an...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she's suspected murder all along. Now the unveiling of the Amenmose exhibit is triggering a series of unexplained attacks, and she has only one man to trust. FBI special gent Micah Fox is used to charging into dangerous territory to solve a case. Working with a civilian is new ground, especially when she's as irresistible as Harley. He can't say...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year...
Author
Series
Bowers files volume Prequel
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation{u2019}s...
7) The pawn
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After visiting the mountain vistas where the murderer posed his dead victims, FBI Special Agent Bowers receives a taunting call from the "Illusionist." Although Bowers gets close, his insidious foe continues to elude him.
Author
Series
Viennese mysteries (J. Sydney Jones) volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggest that someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. His mistress ask Karl Werhem to help stop the attacks.
Author
Series
Simon Ziele mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Having relocated to Westchester County after losing his fiancée, detective Simon Ziele investigates a young woman's brutal murder, follows leads to a local criminologist's violent subject, and wonders if someone is imitating the lead suspect.
10) Professor T
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jasper Tempest is a Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order, but his genius for solving crimes means he is constantly having to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases. Every aspect of Professor Jasper Tempest's life is precisely calibrated and rigidly structured. Impeccably dressed and meticulously punctual, he lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...
Series
Publisher
Merchant Ivory Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police pursues his most perplexing case: a savage attack has been perpetuated on a rich industrialist's private secretary. With the help of a visiting Swedish criminologist, Ghote edges closer to the truth and soon discovers he may not be dealing with murder at all, but something far more complex and profitable.
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