Laura Griffin
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"Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up in rural Texas, where her father raised search-and-rescue dogs, and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she carefully photographs it all the same. All Grant Wycoff...
2) Flight
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Texas murder files volume 2
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"When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she's decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning, she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep -- they've been murdered. Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers -- not only...
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2014.
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Police detective Andrea Finch is a rising star in her department until a split-second decision derails her career. Disgraced and disillusioned, shes on leave from her job when she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. Shed prefer to ignore his latest plea for cash, but this time instinct tells her something is very wrong. Andreas search for answers takes her to a dusty Texas border town where danger lurks in plain sight and nothing is quite...
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2018.
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"With the grit, sex, and suspense of Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin's Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced thriller that examines intricate relationship dynamics in the wake of a killer's symbolic revenge spree. Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way....
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Texas murder files volume 3
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2022.
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"After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. She's ready to focus on her first passion, documentary filmmaking, and has a new job working for the island's tourism board, shooting footage of the idyllic beachside community. Her plans for a relaxing rebound are dashed when she realizes the cottage, she's renting belonged to the woman whose body was just found in the sand...
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Wolfe security volume 2
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A young private investigator finds out the price of keeping deadly secrets when a vicious killer sets his sights on her in this pulse-pounding thriller from the USA TODAY and New York Times bestselling author of the Tracers series.
7) Deep tide
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Texas murder files volume 4
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2024.
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"With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she's deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen. Sean Moran is on an undercover mission: The seaside community of Lost...
8) Touch of red
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Tracers volume 12
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2017.
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When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the carnage is the evidence that someone escaped the scene. But where is this witness now? A thorough search of the area yields more questions than answers, and before Brooke even packs up her evidence kit, she's made it her goal to find the witness and get them out of harm's way.
9) Hidden
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Texas murder files volume 1
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2020.
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"When a woman is found brutally murdered on Austin's lakeside hike-and-bike trail, investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads turns up on the scene demanding access and answers. She tries to pry information out of the lead detective, Jacob Merritt. But this case is unlike any he's ever seen, and nothing adds up. With the pressure building, Jacob knows the last thing he needs is a romantic entanglement, but he can't convince himself to stay away from Bailey....
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2024.
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"Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she's shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents. Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals -- with the notable exception of the West Campus Rapist,...
11) Stone cold heart
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Tracers volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
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"A leading forensic anthropologist uncovers eerie clues in a high-stakes case that threatens to deliver her to the doorstep of a cold-blooded murderer"--
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Texas murder files volume 1
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2021.
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"When a woman is found brutally murdered on Austin's lakeside hike-and-bike trail, investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads turns up on the scene demanding access and answers. She tries to pry information out of the lead detective, Jacob Merritt. But this case is unlike any he's ever seen, and nothing adds up. With the pressure building, Jacob knows the last thing he needs is a romantic entanglement, but he can't convince himself to stay away from Bailey....
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Texas murder files volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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"After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. She's ready to focus on her first passion - documentary filmmaking - and has a new job working for the island's tourism board, shooting footage of the idyllic beachside community. Her plans for a relaxing rebound are dashed when she realizes the cottage she's renting belonged to the woman whose body was just found in the sand...
15) Twisted
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Tracers volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
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Motive, opportunity, and no alibi-- rookie detective Allison Doyle knows it's as close to a slam dunk as most investigations get. But even though her small-town Texas police department has identified a prime suspect in a young woman's vicious murder.
16) At close range
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Tracers volume 11
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2017.
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Police detective Daniele Harper turns to the Delphi Center crime lab for help in investigating a high-profile double murder, but regrets it when her attraction to their chief firearms examiner threatens her focus on the case.--
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Wolfe security volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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"With the grit, sex, and suspense of Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin's Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced thriller that examines intricate relationship dynamics in the wake of a killer's symbolic revenge spree. Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way....
18) Snapped
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[2011]
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After surviving a sniper attack on the local college campus, crime lab technician Sophie Barrett comes to believe that it was not a random, senseless act and works to make homicide detective Jonah Macon believe her.
19) Love is murder
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Thriller volume 3
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A collection of heart-pounding suspense stories by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing suspense today, including Allison Brennan, Roxanne St. Claire, William Bernhardt, Heather Graham, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Carla Neggers, Brenda Novak, Debra Webb, and Lee Child.