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Series
Southern bastards volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pull back the curtain on the dark and seedy history of Craw County and its most famous and feared resident, the high school football coach turned backwoods crime lord Euless Boss" --
Author
Language
English
Description
After a series of brutal murders in a rural Mississippi town, investigators arrive and discover a large number of similar cases that all have roots in the past.
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a...
4) Slow horses
Author
Series
Slough House volume 1
Language
English
Description
Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The conclusion to Eldo Yoshimizu's stunning manga story. The final book which explores the shocking life of Ryuko, a tough woman of the Yakuza. Volume One saw Ryuko's past being explored, the shocking involvement of her family, and revelations about her mother. Now Ryuko sets about putting things right, searching for lost members of her family, and attempting to save allies who are in dire situations. But the involvement of a Chinese criminal organisation...
Author
Series
Southern bastards volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Craw County Runnin' Rebs are gearing up for the most important—and bloody—game of the year. Everyone in town has a stake in it. Six stories. Six bastards. One southern-fried crime series. Collects SOUTHERN BASTARDS #9-14
Series
I am a hero volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One quick bite could change everything for Hideo and his new ward, young Hiromi, as they head out of the forest they've been hiding in and return to civilization. they soon realize that populated areas - even shrines - are just as dangerous as the zombie-infested woods they've left!"-- provided by publisher.
Series
I am a hero volume 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The zombie apocalypse has never been more surreal! A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he's certain of only two things: he's destined to be the city's hero, and he possesses something very rare in Japan--an actual firearm! Kengo Hanazawa's award-winning series comes to Dark Horse, and this realistically-drawn international bestseller takes us from initial small battles for survival to a huge,...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped--cocooned--in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It's a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila's...
10) Seeing red
Author
Language
English
Description
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! As Sakamoto and his friends hunt for the database at the JCC,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jessica Miller plans to triumphantly return to Duquette University for her ten year reunion festivities. She's the most successful out of her entire group of friends, and she's ready to flaunt her achievements...even though her "friend group," known on campus as the East House Seven, doesn't really exist anymore. Ten years ago, Heather, one of their own, was murdered, fracturing the once close knit group. And then another friend was accused of committing...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In William Kent Krueger's "finest work" (Michael Connelly), detective Cork O'Connor unravels a mystery for his old friend Henry Meloux, only to get caught in the blistering crossfire of jealousy and revenge. The promise, as I remember it, happened this way. Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound...
15) False witness
Author
Language
English
Description
"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
Series
For the kid I saw in my dreams volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Through Kazuto's eyes, Senri sees more clearly why his brother has begun stepping away from the murderous path laid out for him by the rat. Risking a meeting with Mask Man's associates, who have their own reasons for wanting to find Kazuto, Senri discloses his suspicions of a Three-Eyes copycat in hopes of uncovering new information that will lead to his twin. What he learns will confirm his theory, but it will also place the threat much closer to...
Series
Family tree volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When an eight-year-old girl literally begins to transform into a tree, her single Mom, troubled brother and possibly insane Grandfather embark on a bizarre, and heart-wrenching odyssey across the back roads of America desperately searching for a way to cure her horrifying transformation before it's too late."-- cover page 4.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?!In the third stage of the JCC transfer test, the participants are divided into multiple teams for a deadly game...
20) Bad girls
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this heart-pounding, starkly colored, and visually stunning graphic novel, three women have twelve hours to get out of Cuba with six-million dollars on the night of New Year's Eve 1958. Gangster s moll Carole, jazz singer Taffy, and mambo queen Ana all have their reasons for needing to escape the El Eden Casino in Havana. And on the tumultuous night of New Year s Eve, when Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees the country and the nation falls...
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