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41) Hello, darkness
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A caller tells Paris Gibson that her on-air advice caused the girl he loves to jilt him, and he plans to kill the girl and then come after Paris.
Author
Series
Rory Yates volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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"Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer. When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case. Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police. The investigation leads to the edges of Texas's most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals."-- Back cover.
43) Eartheater
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Language
English
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"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
44) Animal instinct
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The K Team is back in the second installment in this spinoff series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt's beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries. Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel, are recently retired police officers turned private investigators. Along with fellow former cop Laurie Collins and her investigating partner, Marcus, they call themselves the K Team, in honor of Simon. The K Team's latest case - a...
46) Watch it burn
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Language
English
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"Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery. It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old Beverly Hoffman is discovered in the Guadalupe River--drowned in only two inches of water. After elementary school teacher Nichole Miller...
47) Insidious intent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate--but...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Invited to spend a seaside vacation with her ex-husband, James Lacey, at a rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea, Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman staying at the same hotel and is forced to step in to find the real culprit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven...
Author
Series
Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Long out of print, this mystery featuring Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia finds him having to piece together the events of a tragic night 20 years earlier in order to solve a present-day murder.
52) Not yet dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers, and the culprit, among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape....
53) The 9th girl
Author
Series
Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska novels volume 4
Publisher
Dutton, Published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer whose latest victim is a bullied adolescent who desperately sought a normal life.
55) Blood moon
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A locked room murder mystery. Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news--the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the high-profile law firm whose secrets she still keeps; the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young woman in Dublin is raped and murdered by a limousine driver. The killer obtains a good lawyer and when the mother, a psychiatrist specializing in the criminally insane, realizes justice will not be done, she takes the law in her hands. A first novel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
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Description
Emily Westhill runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby Deputy Donut. But after murder claims a favorite customer, Emily can't rely on a sidekick to solve the crime--or stay alive.
Author
Series
Charles du Luc mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ex-soldier and Jesuit Charles du Luc investigates the 1686 murder of a woman who was trying to prove she was the heir to the Mynette fortune and claim money that was otherwise intended for Louis le Grand School in Paris.
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