Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Harry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992.

Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to reexamine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriffs department on a few of its most troubling missing-persons cases, a deputy, his wife and eleven-year old sons disappearance,...

An old acquaintance of Meredith's hires Magnolia Investigations to look into financial discrepancies at her company. Meredith and Julia call on Julia's forensic accountant nephew Wyatt and together they learn someone has been stealing money from the company. Meanwhile, the friends learn the proper and straight laced Laodicea Oglethorpe was a codebreaker during World War II when she asks them to investigate a threat that could have led to the deaths...

Decades after the murder of nineteen-year-old college student Karlie Richards, her former roommate, now middle-aged and divorced, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth amidst online conspiracy theories, speculation and the lingering shadows of the past. Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic twenty-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, those who knew Karlie, and those who...

"A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for fifty years, Paula's story had been largely forgotten when Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been held responsible? How could a community give up and move...

"December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl...

Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone. But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search...

"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found...

"Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss's son at twenty, and was only twenty-five when her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident. Determined to continue the business, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which rocks her confidence. Then, Hattie...