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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1989, twenty-two-year-old Gordie Hatch takes a job as an obituary writer for the St. Louis Independent, but an encounter with young widow Alice Whiting leads him on an obsessive quest in search of the truth behind the Whiting family.
Author
Publisher
Blind Rabbit Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"History and fiction merge seamlessly in this thrilling historical novel based on one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. Lewis and Clark's last journey is a classic story of honor, vengeance, and redemption."--P. [4] of cover.
64) There you are
Author
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Octavian Munroe is haunted by the life and death of his older brother in one of the most racially segregated cities in the country. Mina Rose has never quite fit in and wishes she was anything but white. Once lovers, now estranged, they both left St. Louis for fresh starts in the wake of grief and heartbreak. Octavian and Mina travel homeward in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death and the awakening of the Black Lives Matter movement. In search...
65) The assailant
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Co-ed slain. That's the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi river, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he's stuck without any leads until a second body--also strangled--turns up across town and he knows he's chasing a monster.--From publisher's description.
67) East of the arch
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When a deranged serial killer begins targeting pregnant women, Detective Joe Keogh is forced to make a decision that could change his personal and professional life forever, while hunting down the twisted individual responsible for these horrible crimes.
68) Brain storm
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A white man shoots his wife's lover and because the lover is black the state charges him with a hate crime. Homicide or murder, perhaps, but a hate crime? Lawyer Joe Watson will try to prove it was not. By the author of White Man's Grave.
69) Believe no one
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms is in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD. She is working with a 'method swap' team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore also happens to be in the States on a book tour and is engineering his trip to get down to St Louis--the last thing Simms wants . . . But a call for help from a sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma distracts the professor: a mother dead, her...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Dahlia Moss, the reigning queen of unfortunate decision-making in the Saint Louis area. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own she's offered a job. A job that she's woefully under-qualified for. A job that will lead her to a murder, an MMORPG, and possibly a fella (or two?). Turns out unfortunate decisions abound,...
72) Kiss the dead
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them.."--...
73) Little boy lost
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body--and the bodies of twelve other African...
Author
Series
Triple threat ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Detective Cate Reilly and former colleague Zeke Sloan-the man who once stole her heart-are reunited when she goes undercover at an exclusive girls' school and discovers that no one is who they seem to be . . . and danger waits at every turn"--
"When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school, police detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. She soon realizes that things are...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished twenty years ago--during Ian and Andi's senior...
76) The aviatrix
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Saint Louis, 1923. The golden age of flight has just begun, and pilot Mattie McAdams refuses to cede the skies to cocky flyboys. She longs to perform daring stunts in her family's flying circus, but the men in her life stand in her way--including the show's star performer, Leo Ward. They can wring their hands all they want; Mattie won't stay grounded for long. In the Great War, Leo Ward watched his best friend and Mattie's twin brother, Alfred, perish...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable first novel, White Palace, Glenn Savan brought to life two inimitable characters whose oddball union captured America's heart. With the incisive wit and dramatic flair that made that book a popular and critical success, in Goldman's Anatomy Savan now explores the lives of three friends whose interwoven needs, strengths, and vulnerabilities draw them into a delirious and all-encompassing triangle of love and obsession. Arnie Goldman...