Chosen for Death

A dynamic businesswoman, Thea Kozak is a young widow who has thrown herself into a career to overcome grief at her husband's sudden, senseless death. It's a lonely life, but slowly Thea is coming to terms with her loss and starting to rebuild her world. When Thea's younger sister Carrie is brutally murdered, Thea must once again come to grips with loss... and with a deadly puzzle. Carrie was always the baby of the family: a beautiful, blond waif living among dark giants. An adopted child, Carrie was surrounded by a loving family - but never felt truly at home. Her dearest friend was big sister Thea, who was always there to "fix things" whenever Carrie's life fell apart. But Thea's love couldn't ease Carrie's loneliness. In her twenties, Carrie became convinced that only by finding her birth parents would she find true peace. Her search for answers brought only death...and Carrie's murder has left Thea with more questions than answers. The police have no leads and everyone - especially Thea's family - seems willing to accept the murder as one of life's tragedies. But Thea can't let Carrie go unavenged. As she retraces her sister's last months, Thea confronts ugly facts that suggest she didn't know Carrie as well as she thought.

Literature & Fiction

Flora, Kate Clark

United States

Forge

Thea Kozak is smart, funny, and a very '90s kind of woman - someone who is carving out a lucrative career for herself while juggling all the stresses of modern life. On top of that, she's trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with Andre, the devilishly handsome Maine state trooper she met while trying to solve her sister's murder. She's got a pretty full life. And it's about to get a whole lot more complicated. Thea's mother introduces her to Julie Bass, a sweet young widow whose husband died in a horrific accident at an auto racetrack. Despite her mother's urging to "help the girl through her problems," Thea swears that this time she's not going to get involved. But when the accident turns out to be murder and Julie is arrested as the prime suspect, Thea is sucked into the search to find the killer. The portrait of the deceased isn't a pretty one: a grasping yuppie who was a liar, adulterer, and possible thief. As Thea goes from crooked rednecks to suspicious bank frauds, meddling relatives to psychotic ex-lovers, she faces some hard facts...and harder options.

Death at the Wheel

Thea Kozak is a savvy young businesswoman whose keen insights - and hard-won wisdom - help her penetrate the darkest secrets of the human heart. Thea Kozak is no stranger to death, having solved the murder of her own sister, but she thinks her days as an amateur detective are over. Or are they? Helene Streeter seems to have it all - as a perfect wife and mother and consummate business professional. But when she is brutally slaughtered outside her suburban home, friends and family are left with more questions than answers. Helene's daughter pleads with her old friend Thea Kozak to try to find the killer. Thea agrees to help, if only to comfort her friend, but soon finds herself caught up in a web of deceit and madness as she unravels the lies that seem to surround the victim. Just who was Helene Streeter?

Death in a Funhouse Mirror: A Thea Kozak Mystery

Businesswoman Thea Kozak who investigates the death by drowning of a girl at a private school in New England

An Educated Death

When the conference chairwoman turns up dead at a Hawaiian convention for educators, Thea Kozak must put off her well-deserved rest in order to keep the seminar from disintegrating and to uncover a murderer.

Death in Paradise

A dedicated policeman and a former assistant attorney general unveil a woman's murder-and the investigation that changed one Maine city forever.

Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine

History

Loughlin, Joseph K.

Americas

BERKLEY

Playing God: A Joe Burgess Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Thorndike Pr

Pursuing an obsession to find her biological parents, Carrie, an adoptee, follows a trail that leads to her death, and Carrie's big sister Thea is prompted to begin a search in which she discovers an ugly truth about her adopted sister. Reprint.

Helene Streeter seemed to have it all, but when this paragon of virtue is brutally murdered, her family are left with more questions than answers. Thea Kozak agrees to help find Helene's killer, but she is soon drawn into a web of deceit and madness.

Death in a Funhouse Mirror

Tor Books

When the hunters become the hunted, life for law enforcement officials and their families in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, turns upside-down. It takes a months-long investigation by police, search and rescue dogs and their handlers to catch a suspected serial killer. Death Dealer is a gripping true crime story of committed investigators from two countries and their cooperation in the relentless pursuit of a brutal murderer. It’s intriguing from the moment David Tanasichuk reports his wife, Maria, missing. Explaining the ten-day delay in notifying authorities, David claims that he and Maria were having marital troubles and she had decided to take a break by leaving town. Suspense builds as lie after lie unravels. David’s reputation for violence and drug abuse makes investigators take his veiled threats against them seriously. Local police, frustrated by a fruitless wintertime search through miles of frozen wilderness, finally enlist the aid of Maine game wardens along with cadaver dogs and their dedicated volunteer handlers. This Law and Order meets CSI drama culminates in a riveting courtroom drama.

Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

New Horizon Press

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Chosen for Death

Death at the Wheel

Death in a Funhouse Mirror: A Thea Kozak Mystery

An Educated Death

Death in Paradise

Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine

Playing God: A Joe Burgess Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print)

Chosen for Death

Death in a Funhouse Mirror

Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice