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Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.
2) Pagan babies
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday.
Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand-it's...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elmore Leonard is the undisputed master, the 'King Daddy of crime writers' (Seattle Times), in the august company of the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction genre: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al. The creator of such unforgettable classics as Stick, Out of Sight, and Get Shorty-not to mention the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV's hit series Justified-Leonard is in fine form with Mr. Paradise....
6) Middlesex
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
viii, 529 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of...
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detroit 2030. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins...
8) Them
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxiv, 546 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Amos Walker volume 23
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
11) The Jones men
Author
Publisher
Rosarium
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (201 pages)
Language
English
Description
Tensions rise in 1970s Detroit after a young Vietnam veteran decides to rip off heroin kingpin Willis McDaniel. The bodies begin to pile up as addicts, dealers, the cops, and an assassin soon go head-to-head.
Author
Series
Amos Walker volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Deus X
Author
Series
August Snow volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling--especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Sullivan is a talented lyricist and a decent guitarist, but since he was kicked out of his band (and his apartment), he's not sure he'll ever get a record deal. Living with his loser uncle in a beat-up trailer and working a dead-end job, Michael has little reason to hope for a better future. Until the invitation for a swanky New Year's Eve party shows up in the mailbox. It's for his uncle, with whom he shares his name, but his uncle is going...
15) Duplicity: #2
Author
Series
Julia Gooden volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Detroit crime reporter Julia Gooden struggles to overcome past demons and support a high-profile case against a drug trafficker who has orchestrated a bombing that has left Julia's assistant district attorney husband critically injured.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and imperiling Allied forces around the world.
Newly minted Detective Pete Caudill is charged with covering up the crime in the interests of civic peace and finding some kind of justice for the dead girl....
17) Dead of winter
Author
Series
August Snow volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
18) The operator: #2
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
Author
Series
Amos Walker volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Michael Ballista - "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies - knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, and he's in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker's first problem? The intended victim was Barry Stackpole, his only true friend.