NCW Libraries

A Killer Engagement: When a woman is murdered, and her fianceé is the prime suspect, successful matchmaker Angie works to prove her client's innocence, much to the dismay of Kyle, the detective working the case. A Fatal Romance: When a romance writer is murdered, matchmaker Angie Dove gets entangled in another case and with Detective Kyle Carter. Can they read between the lines to find the murderer? The Art of the Kill: Angie Dove gets Det. Carter's...

"A wine country wedding is interrupted by the sheriff who comes out to warn the guests about a nearby fire, but ends up staying to solve an unexpected murder that turns all the guests into suspects."--Amazon.com.

Jon Baker and Frank Ponch Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten-up former pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million-dollar heist that may be an inside job-inside the CHP.

Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in the investigation of a brutal murder.

Nash Bridges is a charming, street-smart inspector for San Francisco's elite Special Investigations Unit. Nash often goes undercover to track down the city's most vile criminals, from drug dealers and smugglers to the Russian mob. Nash's loyal partner, Joe Dominguez is a retired cop who's as obsessed with solving crimes as he is with getting rich quick, a weakness that always seems to get the two into hot water.

The seventh season finds Pride and the team fighting for justice in their beloved city as New Orleans grapples with the effects of COVID-19. Pride, seeing how the pandemic has overwhelmed the system, finds creative ways to help his neighbors with the assistance of Rita Devereaux, and is asked by the Mayor to be a part of a special task force assigned to help make actual change in their city. Also, Wade is overwhelmed by the high volume in the morgue...

At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire...

"A psychological suspense novel about two young women who have recently moved to New York City: Alice, who is brutally murdered, and Ruby, who finds Alice and investigates her death"-- When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe. She may be dead but that doesn't mean her story is over....

"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have successfully flipped houses, but this is the first time they've attempted to renovate a house of worship...The owner of the horse farm next door has asserted a legal claim to the church property...If that's not bad enough, while rehabbing the church, Whitneys cat Sawdust discovers a bombshell in the bell tower--the body of the man who'd delivered their beautiful new replacement windows"--

Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...