LS2 Kids  |  My Account  |  Help  
Edgar Awards
2017
The Ex
Click to search this book in our catalog   Alafair Burke

Publishers Weekly Near the start of bestseller Burke's gripping standalone, New York City DA Olivia Randa...More

2017
Under the Harrow
Click to search this book in our catalog   Flynn Berry

Book list Nora arrives at her sister Rachel's village farmhouse in the English countryside for a weekend ...More

2017
Rain Dogs
Click to search this book in our catalog   Adrian McKinty

Kirkus During the Irish Troubles, a discouraged detective tackles a murder oddly similar to a past crime. The...More

 
2017
The Wicked Boy
 Kate Summerscale

Publishers Weekly Summerscale (The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher) bolsters her reputation as a superior historica...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
 Ruth Franklin

Publishers Weekly Literary critic Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses) renders a gripping and graceful portrait o...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2017
In Sunlight or in Shadow
 Lawrence Block

Library Journal In this well-curated collection, 17 authors submit stories inspired by paintings from America...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2017
OCDaniel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Wesley King

Book list *Starred Review* As the backup kicker on his football team, 13-year-old Daniel spends his time watc...More

2017
Girl in the Blue Coat
Click to search this book in our catalog   Monica Hesse

Library Journal Hesse's debut is set in 1943 Amsterdam. Hanneke, a Christian teenager whose boyfriend was...More

2016
Let Me Die in His Footsteps: A Novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Lori Roy

Publishers Weekly The scents of Lavender and regret are heavy in this suspenseful coming-of-age novel centeri...More

 
2016
The Sympathizer: A Novel
 Viet Thanh Nguyen

Kirkus A closely written novel of after-the-war Vietnam, when all that was solid melted into air.As Graham Gr...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2016
The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel
 Lou Berney

Book list *Starred Review* Affable Las Vegas PI Wyatt is happy doing background checks for casinos on potenti...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2016
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
 Allen Kurzweil

Publishers Weekly Childhood trauma fuels an adult obsession and an exploration of a flamboyant criminal caper...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2016
The Golden Age of Murder
Click to search this book in our catalog   Martin Edwards

Publishers Weekly Crime novelist Edwards (Frozen Shroud), the archivist for the legendary Detection Club of c...More

2016
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
Click to search this book in our catalog   Stephen King

Library Journal This collection begins with an introduction by King on why he writes short stories. To the re...More

2016
Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
Click to search this book in our catalog   Susan Vaught

Publishers Weekly Nine days after a neighbor is shot on his farm and the man's two grandchildren disappea...More

 
2016
A Madness So Discreet
 Mindy McGinnis

School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-This compelling historical thriller opens with Grace Mae impregnated by her ow...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2015
Mr. Mercedes : a novel
 by Stephen King

Publishers Weekly In this suspenseful crime thriller from megaseller King (Doctor Sleep), ex-detective Bill ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2015
Dry bones in the valley : a novel
 by Tom Bouman

Publishers Weekly Although set in northeastern Pennsylvania, Bouman's outstanding debut has the feel of ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2015
The secret history of Las Vegas : a novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Chris Abani

Publishers Weekly Lambent prose lifts this offbeat crime novel from PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Abani (The Vi...More

2015
Tinseltown Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Birth of Hollywood.
Click to search this book in our catalog   by William J. Mann

Publishers Weekly Many readers will come away from this stellar and gripping true-crime narrative utterly con...More

2015
Poe-land : the hallowed haunts of edgar allan poe.
Click to search this book in our catalog   by J. W. Ocker
 
2015
Greenglass House
 by Kate Milford ; with illustrations by Jaime Zollars

Publishers Weekly Twelve-year-old Milo's Christmas looks ruined when five eccentric guests arrive at his...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2015
The art of secrets
 by James Klise

School Library Journal Gr 6-10-A suspicious fire, possibly a hate crime, destroys Saba Khan and her family&#...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2015
The stranger you know
 Jane Casey

Book list *Starred Review* A serial killer is targeting single women in London, and Detective Constable Maeve...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2014
Ordinary Grace
Click to search this book in our catalog   by William Kent Krueger

Library Journal Krueger, primarily known for his Cork O'Connor mystery series (Trickster's Point), v...More

2014
One Came Home
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Amy Timberlake

Book list To find out what really happened to her purportedly dead sister, sharpshooting 13-year-old Georgie ...More

2014
Ketchup Clouds
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Annabel Pitcher

School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-Sitting alone in her shed, "Zoe" writes letters to a Death Row inma...More

 
2014
America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
 by Erik Dussere

Choice In this study of noir in film and fiction, Dussere (American Univ.) argues that hard-boiled detective ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2014
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
 by Daniel Stashower

Book list *Starred Review* Some of President Lincoln's associates and some historians have questioned if ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2014
The Wicked Girls
 by Alex Marwood
  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2014
Red Sparrow: A Novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Red Sparrow: A Novel

Book list *Starred Review* Many spy novelists, including Ian Fleming and John le Carre, actually worked as in...More

2013
Code Name Verity
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Elizabeth Wein

Book list *Starred Review* If you pick up this book, it will be some time before you put your dog-eared, tear...More

2013
Live by Night: (Coughlin, Book 2)
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Dennis Lehane

Library Journal Lehane (Mystic River; Shutter Island) is known for gritty, occasionally gruesome mystery nov...More

 
2013
The Expats: A Novel
 by Chris Pavone

Library Journal Former CIA agent Kate is enjoying the expat life in Luxembourg until she gets suspicious of ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2013
The Last Policeman: A Novel (The Last Policeman Trilogy)
 by Ben Winters

Library Journal If an asteroid were hurtling toward Earth, guaranteed to destroy everyone on the planet in a ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2013
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
 by Paul French

Book list Edward Werner was a noted sinologist and a former British consul living in Peking. His status as a ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2014
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
Click to search this book in our catalog   by James O'Brien

Publishers Weekly O'Brien, emeritus distinguished professor of chemistry at Missouri State University, d...More

2013
The Quick Fix (Big Splash)
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Jack Ferraiolo

School Library Journal Gr 6-8-Seventh-grader Matt Stevens is in demand as a private eye. Melissa Scott, a re...More

2012
The Silence of Murder
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Dandi Daley Mackall

School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-After her autistic brother is accused of murdering the town's beloved bas...More

 
2012
Gone
 by Mo Hayder

Publishers Weekly A carjacking goes from bad to horrifying in Hayder's gripping fifth thriller featuring...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2012
Bent Road
 by Lori Roy

Library Journal After the Chicago riots of 1967, Arthur and Celia Scott move their family back to Arthur'...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2012
The Company Man
 by Robert Jackson Bennett

Book list *Starred Review* Bennett does the seemingly impossible here. He's written an alternate-history ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
 
2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Candice Millard

Library Journal Millard (The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey) presents a dual biogr...More

2012
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Writers on Writers)
Click to search this book in our catalog   by Michael Dirda

Publishers Weekly Though most people could pick Sherlock Holmes out of a crowd, not many could craft such a ...More

2011
Rogue Island (Liam Mulligan)
Click to search this book in our catalog   Rogue Island (Liam Mulligan)

Library Journal In DeSilva's impressive first novel, Liam Mulligan, an investigative reporter for a Prov...More

 
2011
The Lock Artist: A Novel
 by Steve Hamilton

Publishers Weekly At the start of this offbeat thriller from Edgar-winner Hamilton (A Stolen Season and six ...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog
2011
Long Time Coming
 by Robert Goddard

Publishers Weekly In this irresistible thriller full of deceit, duplicity, and vengeance, British author God...More

  Click to search this book in our catalog

Back

102 North State Street  |  P. O. Box 183  |  Joice, IA 50446-0183  |  Phone: 641-588-3330
Powered by: YouSeeMore © The Library Corporation (TLC)