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Boxcar children volume 128
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
While staying at the Winding River Lodge, the Alden siblings investigate tales of a zombie haunting a lake in the woods.
Author
Series
DCI Evan Warlow crime thriller volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Nothing bad ever happens in the countryside... right? When a farmer and his son go missing whilst chasing rustlers, DCI Evan Warlow and his team are called in to investigate. Everything points to a botched raid by heartless thieves, but with no bodies, and little or no clues, the team quickly start chasing their tails. The close-knit community reels from the shock, but not everyone the team comes across is being entirely honest, and it quickly transpires...
Author
Series
DCI Evan Warlow volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"While beach combing on MOD property, two young boys stumble across a reeking mound of tangled kelp. But it isn't the seaweed that stinks. It's the decomposing corpse beneath it. Called in to investigate, DCI Evan Warlow's team are faced with finding out how and why the body of a struck-off doctor ended up on a lonely beach within sight of Laugharne's famous Boathouse. But this is no innocent victim. This is a man with more enemies than friends. A...
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Series
Missing in Alaska volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Trevor West is determined to find the sister who went missing in Alaska over a year ago. Bush pilot Carrie James is determined to track down the person who murdered her closest friend. When the two join forces and skill sets to solve these mysteries, they'll discover they are connected in ways they never imagined"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Three Christmas themed novellas feature Hayley Powell, Mia Malone, and Cece Barton all trying to solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances.
Three Christmas themed novellas featuring solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances. A church's annual Christmas bazaar is a success until a valuable diamond ring is stolen-- and the search turns up a woman's body with a homemade mitten stuffed in her mouth. Then, a party at a lodge is disrupted...
7) Hypothermia
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Unofficially investigating a suspicious suicide, Inspector Erlendur becomes increasingly unsettled by the unsolved cases of two young people who went missing decades earlier under circumstances tied to his own past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family's business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high school principal Emily Smith. The tyrant used to be her mother's boss and they did not get along. Six guests arrive for the celebration, but only five survive. Emily starts convulsing--right after eating the curry chicken--and dies soon after. It's not long before the police...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Plants, borders, and various horticultural paraphernalia make surprisingly frequent appearances in mystery plots. In this wide-ranging survey of classic and contemporary murder fiction, Marta looks at the detectives, motives, methods, opportunities, and writers that have used the garden as their point of departure. The result is a diverting and eye-opening study that deepens our appreciation of the great crime fiction writers while illuminating the...
Author
Series
DCI Evan Warlow volume 5
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In broad daylight, on a quiet rural road, six year old Osian Howells disappears from his own front garden. In the blink of an eye he's a missing person, taken, in the words of a headline hungry press, for nefarious purposes. DCI Evan Warlow knows that the first hours after an abduction are crucial. Decisions have to be made quickly. Evidence can get lost or compromised, persons of interest need to be interrogated. And one or two have the team's antennae...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Evan Warlow is back in the saddle as a DCI, though he isn't yet sure he deserves to be, and there are others who share his doubts. When a brutal attack on two mountain bikers in the vast solitude of the Brechfa forest leaves one dead and the other badly injured, the hunt is on for the killer. And though the evidence points firmly in one direction, an open and shut case soon becomes murky and unclear. It's not the first time bad things have happened...
Author
Series
DCI Evan Warlow volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Evan Warlow is a man with enemies. When two of his most vicious critics turn up dead in a macabre tableau, difficult questions need to be asked. The uncomfortable answers lead Evan and the team back to his roots and an old case that has haunted him for years. But the killer has more victims in mind. And guess who's next on the list?"--Publisher.
16) Knowing you
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Series
Pictures of the heart volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart,...
17) In a dry season
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservoir have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom--ruins that house the unidentified bones of a murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a sadistic killer who has escaped detection for half a century. For the dark secrets of Hobb's End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman, even though...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 71
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
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Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont tracks a killer whose determination is fueled by a decades-old murder.
Author
Series
Lady Petra Inquires volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...
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