Worth More Dead
A collection of true stories recounting murder cases in which the victims were killed for money, including the case of former Marine sergeant Roland Pitre Jr.
364.1
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: 364.1
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], homicide [X], criminal investigation [X]
At Risk
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], medical jurisprudence, homicide [X], mystery fiction, public prosecutors, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], forensic sciences, criminal investigation [X], audiobooks, compact discs
Cold Cases
Explains that old unsolved crimes called cold cases are kept on file, but when new evidence or new crime-science techniques become available these cold cases are reopened, and describes techniques that can be used including bloodstain analysis, ballistics, forensic document analysis, DNA analysis, and more.
363.25
year: 2014
copies: 3
call number/section: 363.25
lexile:
subjects: cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], murder [X], dna, crime scenes, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X]
Truly Devious
Ellingham Academy in Vermont is full of riddles, twisting pathways, and winding gardens.
FIC
year:
copies: 82
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: murder [X], private schools, homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], detective and mystery fiction, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], school stories, mystery fiction, kidnapping, vermont, mystery fiction
The Last Stone
A true crime story about the disappearance of two sisters in 1975, and the effort--forty years later-- to bring their kidnapper, Lloyd Lee Welch, to justice.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: lyon, katherine, lyon, sheila, murder [X], cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], case studies, true crime stories
A Good Girl's Guide To Murder
"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"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 115
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], murder [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, mystery fiction, detective fiction
Walking The Bones
"The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: police, murder [X], cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], psychological fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 94
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], murder [X], podcasting, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, teenagers, podcasts, missing persons, friendship, city and town life, young adult fiction, high school students, mystery fiction, suspense fiction
We Keep The Dead Close
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: britton, jane sanders, harvard university, murder [X], cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], murder victims, women graduate students, women in higher education, sex discrimination in higher education, college students, homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], victims of crimes, sex discrimination, discrimination in higher education
The Box In The Woods
"Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 60
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boarding school students, camps, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], mystery fiction, serial murders, criminal investigation [X], murder [X], mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], vermont, detective and mystery fiction
Nine Liars
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], foreign study, friendship, interpersonal relations, boarding school students, mystery fiction, cambridge (england), england, london (england), detective and mystery fiction, school fiction, novels, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], murder [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories
A Long Stretch Of Bad Days
To earn the last credit she needs to graduate, Lydia Chass teams up with foul-mouthed Bristal Jamison to transform her listener-friendly local history podcast into a hard-hitting, truth-telling expos? as they investigate an unsolved murder from their small town's past.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: high school students, podcasts, homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, murder [X], cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, thrillers (fiction)
Homecoming
"Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women journalists, grandmothers, murder [X], family secrets, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], sydney (n.s.w.), thrillers (fiction)
The House In The Pines
"Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with all summer.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], best friends, memory, cold cases (criminal investigation) [X], psychic trauma, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], friendship, criminal investigation [X], mystery fiction, massachusetts, thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction, psychological fiction