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8601) The French girl
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2018.
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating psychological suspense debut that will propel readers into the darkest edges of friendship, for fans of Fiona Barton, Clare Mackintosh, and Ruth Ware. They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway ... until they met Severine, the girl next door. For Kate Channing, Severine was an unwelcome...
8602) The hourglass factory
Author
Language
English
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Description
London, 1912. The suffragette movement is reaching a fever pitch, and Inspector Frederick Primrose is hunting a murderer on his beat. Across town, Fleet Street reporter Frances zFrankiey George is chasing an interview with trapeze artist Ebony Diamond. Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly-laced acrobat and follows her to a Bond Street corset shop that seems to be hiding secrets of its own. When Ebony Diamond mysteriously disappears in the...
8603) Dreams of the dead
Author
Series
Nina Reilly novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
At her law office in South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly sees a client who wants to locate the remains of his son, missing nine years and presumed dead. Although she suspects that her former investigator and lover, Paul van Wagoner, may have had something to do with the son's disappearance, Nina accepts Peter Brinkman's case. Soon, caught between two body snatchers and desperate to protect Paul, Nina is forced to step outside the legal system.
8604) Cold
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"This is the story of a boy who died--and a girl who wants to know why. Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body, which has just been found in the town park, naked and frozen in the snow. As detectives investigate Todd's homicide, talking to the very people who are responsible for how he died, Todd replays the events that lead him to his end in the park. Georgia didn't know Todd. But she can't stop thinking about him....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carré of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order,...
8606) Five Decembers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-150
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals and struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town.
8608) The spooky story
Author
Series
Paige proves it volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her imaginative friend Penn believes Evergreen Music School is haunted, Paige sets out to prove he is wrong, one fact at a time"--
8609) Dead as a doornail
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when her brother Jason becomes the prime suspect in the deadly attacks.
8610) Furnished for murder
Author
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Meg Jeacock ignores the sinister characteristics of her new tenant despite her husband's misgivings, until the tenant turns his eyes to a recently occupied house and a double murder occurs.
8611) Tragic toppings
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart sees customers come and go all day long. But when one of them up-and-disappears, the police start asking questions. It seems Suzanne is the last person to have seen Emily Hargraves. She has to admit that Emily's last request was a little odd - a blueberry donut with chocolate icing, sprinkles, stars, and a sour gummy worm coiled on top. Odder still: Suzanne's ex-husband also appears to be missing. But what really takes...
Author
Series
Magical cats mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
When Kathleen Paulson leaves Boston and moves to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she has no idea that two stray cats, Owen and Hercules, will nuzzle their way into her life. When murder interrupts Mayville's Wild Rose Summer Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. Then she's stunned to realize that her four-legged friends are truly special - perhaps even magical. With a little legwork from them, Kathleen may be able to solve this murder......
8613) Shattered
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Gerard Logan, a talented glassblower, is the target of a band of criminals who think he knows where to find a valuable videotape that is somehow connected to his late friend, jockey Martin Stukely.
8614) The vanished
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful Fiancee. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then he disappeared.
8615) Fatally frosted
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
April Springs, North Carolina, is hosting a grand tour of extraordinary kitchens, and local donut shop owner Suzanne Hart is dying to cook up something fabulous for the event. Unfortunately, dying turns out to be the key word. A local busy body drops dead after eating one of Suzanne's famous treats, and a forensic team is soon swarming through her kitchen. But with the help of police inspector Jake Bishop and her ex-husband Max, Suzanne hopes to clear...
Author
Series
Gray Whale Inn mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ruthless developers, annoying guests, a new ghost, and an old fiance are stirring things up on Cranberry Island, and Natalie Barnes has her hands full as she tries to save the island and keep her best friend out of prison.
8617) Evil éclairs
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart admits her sweet treats don't exactly qualify as health food. But does she really deserve to be labeled a "killer" by local radio jockey Lester Moorefield? The annoying host is urging citizens to boycott Suzanne's "deadly dough" factory - until he's found dead himself, stuffed with one of Suzanné's éclairs. Everyone in April Springs knows about the feud between Lester and Suzanne, which makes her the number-one suspect....
8618) The hard detective
Author
Series
Harriet Martens mysteries volume 1
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has had to make it in a man's world. After all, it was this toughness that inspired her successful Stop the Rot campaign, that has so provoked local criminals. But now two of her officers have died within hours of each other and Harriet believes both have been murdered.
Author
Series
Pie Shop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
No one can die from a pie ... or can they? Hanna Denton has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over the pie shop her Grannie Louise owned for thirty years. Grannie has moved to the ritzy retirement community and Hanna is working her hardest to live up to Grannie's reputation for baking the best pies in the state. Until she's faced with a bigger challenge: convincing the police that Grannie couldn't possibly have committed murder.
8620) An artless demise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest installment in this mystery series. November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds...
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