Las Animas - Bent County Library District

This is the remarkable debut mystery from the award-winning author of the 2003 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Prize for Best First Private Eye Novel.

Investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in an upscale Cleveland suburb, and his wife and six-year-old daughter are missing. Weston's father insists that private investigators Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard take the case to exonerate his son

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A trilogy of novellas--Last Night, Final Hours, and Troubled Times--about a clairvoyant, Makani Hisoka-O'Brien, that lead into Koontz's bestselling novel Ashley Bell. Last Light. Makani is a young woman with a good heart and the gift of touch--a troubling gift, and sometime curse, that separates her from others, from her family, friends and lovers--a gift that makes her wary of casual contact. For when Makani touches others, their darkest thoughts...

Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find...

NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.

"In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder. Now it's 2016, and the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that Jonas might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric...

When Dr. James Kegan, a leading authority in the field of germ warfare with possession of knowledge of an apocalyptic virus, vanishes, NSA operative Charlie Dean and Delta Force trooper Lia Francesca are called in to investigate.

In recent years, five teenage boys have disappeared from the coastal village of Innertown, where an abandoned chemical plant deep in the forest is slowly poisoning its rapidly declining population. The official line is that the missing boys are seeking a better life away from the town whose "sole business is slow decay." A 15-year-old lad, who's found solace in books and foreign films that he can barely understand, is determined to find out what happened...

“Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense,” raved the Washington Post. “A new synonym for terror,” crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched grasp of forensic science...