18 books like At Risk

What to read after At Risk — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Death's Shadow Jon Wells · 2013 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice.“Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic …” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow. Wells take readers up close… Shares: Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

Black and Blue Ian Rankin · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate John Biblia aterrorizó a Glasgow en los años 60 y 70, cuando asesinó a tres mujeres. asesinatos por los cuales nunca pudieron detenerlo. Ahora, Johnny Biblia, como lo han bautizado los medios de comunicación, parece matar para apropiarse de la gloria del legendario asesino. Son cuatro los casos que el inspector, John Rebus, relaciona y que aparentemente conducen al depravado asesino. Al mismo… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción, Investigation, Murder

The D.A. Draws a Circle Erle Stanley Gardner · 1939 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A California D.A. investigates a corpse without clothes and bloody clothes without a body in this classic mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series."The bestselling author of the century . . . a master storyteller." —The New York TimesAlphonse Baker Carr is the smooth-talking defense lawyer murderers and gangsters turn to when they want to win in court. To escape the hustle… Shares: Public prosecutors, Investigation, Murder, Mystery

Black house Stephen King · 2001 · ★ 4.3 · 645p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Preceded by: [The Talisman][1] Black House is a horror novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. Published in 2001, it is the sequel to [The Talisman][1]. This is one of King's numerous novels that tie in with the Dark Tower series. Black House was nominated to the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in Straub's homeland of Wisconsin, rather than in King's… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción, Investigation, Murder

Time of departure Douglas Schofield · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Florida state prosecutor Claire Talbot is as tough as they come, and not everyone loves her for it. Newly promoted Felony Division Chief, Claire has about as many jealous detractors as she does supporters. Some colleagues are openly skeptical about her youth, her abilities, and even her gender. When a highway project construction crew unearths two skeletons in a common grave, Claire reopens an… Shares: Cold cases, Public prosecutors, Investigation, Murder

The Burning Room Michael Connelly · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a… Shares: Cold cases, Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

Joyland Stephen King · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Verano de 1973. Carolina del Norte. El joven universitario Devin Jones consigue trabajo en un pequeño parque de atracciones llamado Joyland. Allí se encarga de las tareas de mantenimiento, se disfraza de la mascota del parque o entretiene a los niños. Y allí descubre también la historia de un cruento crimen que tuvo lugar en la Casa Embrujada y que nunca fue resuelto. Pero Devin no es el único… Shares: Cold cases, Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

A Descent Into Hell Kathryn Casey · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared… Shares: Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

The Bitter Season Tami Hoag · 2016 · ★ 4.5 Kovac and Liska take on multiple twisted cases as #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag explores a murder from the past, a murder from the present, and a life that was never meant to be. As the bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless, already bored with her new assignment to the cold case squad. She misses the rush of pulling… Shares: Cold cases, Investigation, Murder

Running with wild blood Gerrie Ferris Finger · 2015 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Richard Lake of the Atlanta Police Department gets a cold case when a witness suddenly gets his memory back. Lake recruits Moriah Dru to look into the murder of Juliet Trapp' sixteen when she died' and a student at Winters Farm Academy. Juliet Trapp had told her mother she was going to Bike Week with Wild Blood' an outlaw motorcycle gang' over the Christmas break. The police were unable to solve… Shares: Cold cases, Investigation, Murder

Q Is for Quarry Sue Grafton · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción, Murder, Mystery

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción, Mystery

Catching heat Janice Cantore · 2016 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Twenty-seven years after the deaths of Detective Abby Hart's parents, she's desperate to find the proof that will put the mastermind-the governor's wife-behind bars. When she joins a newly formed task force and teams up with PI Luke Murphy, Abby is sent to San Luis Obispo to work the cold case of a murdered college student. Realizing their investigation will bring them near the town where Alyssa… Shares: Cold cases, Investigation, Murder

Die, My Love Kathryn Casey · 2007 · ★ 3.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, well-liked college professor Fred Jablin. That morning, a neighbor discovered his body lying in a pool of blood in the driveway of Jablin's Virginia home. Police immediately turned their attentions to the victim's ex-wife, Piper, a petite, pretty Texas lawyer who had lost a bitter custody battle and would do anything to get… Shares: Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

Inheritor's Powder Sandra Hempel · 2013 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name: the Inheritor's Powder. Yet if poisoning was easy, it was a notoriously difficult crime to… Shares: Forensic sciences, Criminal investigation, Murder

Final Analysis Catherine Crier · 2007 · ★ 3.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In October 2002, Susan Polk, a housewife and mother of three, was arrested for the murder of her husband, Felix. The arrest in her sleepy northern California town kicked off what would become one of the most captivating murder trials in recent memory, as police, local attorneys, and the national media sought to unravel the complex web of events that sent this seemingly devoted housewife over the… Shares: Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

A Burial at Sea Charles Finch · 2011 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In March 1873 aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox undertakes a delicate espionage mission to Egypt, where five British agents have been killed, apparently by the French. But soon after Charles's ship sets sail, the captain calls on him to dust off his deductive skills when a crew member is murdered and left eviscerated on the deck. Shares: Investigation, Murder

Forensic detective Mann, Robert W. · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Death. It's not only inevitable and frightening, it's intriguing and fascinating--especially today, when science continues to make ever more stunning advances in the investigation of the oldest and darkest of mysteries. To discover the how and why of death, unearth its roots, and expose the mechanics of its grim handiwork is, at least in some sense, to master it. And in the process, if a criminal… Shares: Forensic sciences, Criminal investigation

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