Crowley County Combined Library

"At first, it looks like suicide. A successful man in his San Francisco Bay-area home, lying in his blood-soaked bed, dead by a gunshot in the mouth. But investigators combing the scene know this case has far-reaching implications, and the press is already waiting to pounce on it. For the deceased is no ordinary corpse. The Honorable Thomas Jefferson Boyd was director of the FBI."--BOOK JACKET. "Three thousand miles away, on the first morning of this...

Famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems murder follows her around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly endless number of friends, nieces, and nephews or right in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. She has become a respected amateur criminologist, helping the police solve crime. Jessica is sometimes assisted by her friends, relatives or other sleuths.

"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's...

A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....

Celebrated author GK Chesterton's beloved character, Father Brown, is brilliantly brought to life in this charming ten-part BBC series starring Mark Williams (Harry Potter, Doctor Who). With the warmth of The Vicar of Dibley, the intellect of Miss Marple, the humour of Father Ted and the intrigue of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown is a fresh new take on a classic genre. Set in the 1950s in the heart of the English countryside, Father Brown is a kindly...

"Advertising executive Nick Beam has completely bottomed out. His career is a mess, his marriage is on the rocks and a fast-talking, would-be carjacker has just jumped into his car! So what does he do? Nick throws common sense out the window and turns the tables on his captor! Soon this mismatched pair speeds off on a comical crime spree that includes holdups, high-speed chases, and revenge!"--Container.

"The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant...

Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy--just a bit on the cautious side, that's all. And he bears a very strong resemblance to Western TV hero Bret Maverick. Rockford is sometimes aided (and sometimes deterred) in his cases by friends Dennis Becker (a police detective), Angel (his cowardly former cell mate)...

Nobody's better at lies-for-hire than retired grifter Ray Elliott. His alibi service for cheating spouses is doing a bang-up business. But when a new client accidentally kills his mistress during a weekend tryst, the desperate Ray has to enlist his fast-thinking assistant, Lola to help the mastermind with one final con. They have to outwit the cops, blackmailers and hit men who are out to bury him.

A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.