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Author
Series
Laetitia Rodd mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return....
6882) Devil's ride west
Author
Series
Jake Paynter volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. Watch as Miss Marple puts her perceptive powers to good use and gets to the bottom of even the most complex crimes in this beloved series.
6884) Good neighbors: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains in 1880, The Grant Conspiracy takes you to a Colorado mining town being torn apart by an evil law firm out for revenge for Black Friday. Frost and Hancock are ex-Confederates who, with the help of their henchmen, are plotting the assassination of former president Ulysses S. Grant. But they're not angry over the war; rather, their hatred comes from pure greed. They lost their fortunes when Grant dumped...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the indomitable Lucy Moon learns of her mama's murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It is a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps who could have shot Belle out of the saddle. Determined to get revenge by whatever means necessary, Lucy never counted on being seduced by the mysterious half-breed Red Dog -- who is just as likely...
6887) Face of betrayal
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and the FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. The three unique women are life-long friends who call themselves The Triple Threat -- a nickname derived from their favorite dessert and their uncanny ability to crack...
6888) Rough seas
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Join debutante-gone-detective Molly DeWitt as she finds herself in hot water in these two timeless mysteries from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods. Hot Money: The Save the Environment gala has Molly DeWitt and dashing detective Michael O'Hara swimming with society sharks when Molly hooks the most endangered species of all: the late chairwoman of the affair. Tessa was no saint, and the rich shed crocodile tears for the departed philanthropist....
6889) The trail's end
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After years as a professional gambler-and a deadly shootout on a riverboat casino-Tom Calvert and his young protege, Asher Smith, have survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field, Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the quiet life. Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk start whispering about the...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A Wyoming sheriff called to Chicago when his elderly mother goes missing pairs with a savvy cop in a race against the clock.
A young fisherman nets the body of an open-water swimming competitor.
The story of a woman once implicated in a robbery gone wrong. Her memory of that night has always been unreliable. Can she remember enough to find her way to safety when the true culprit comes after her?
6891) One if by land
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"President Chester Arthur calls semi-retired Murphy back to duty when, with a meeting of world leaders in New York City approaching, prostitutes are being murdered and dismembered in the streets. Murphy is to take command of the investigation. Given the meeting's importance, Arthur also enlists the Pinkerton Detective Agency, saddling Murphy with diminutive Detective Melvin Knoop. From Scotland, he's rarely left the office but has a keen sense for...
6892) Dead still
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of postmortem portraiture, this darkly comic series blends murder mystery with delightfully macabre humor.
Author
Series
Ivy Beasley mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Cantankerous spinster Ivy Beasley has quickly learned that spending her golden years in the quaint village of Barrington won't be as quiet as she thought. Ivy hasn't been in assisted living at Springfields for long, but she's already found new friends, formed a detective agency, and solved a murder. And as autumn falls, Ivy and her team are asked to investigate a mysterious death in the village of Measby--in between card games.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They Do It with Mirrors: Miss Marple must solve a crime in a rambling country mansion being used for the rehabilitation of young criminals.
A Pocketful of Rye: An old nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder. Only Miss Marple sees the connection and that the next victim will be an old acquaintance-- unless she can uncover the murderer in time.
4.50 from Paddington: A deadly family intrigue as a murder is witnessed from a passing train.
The...
6895) Freelancers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss wants to see if he has what it takes to be rogue. When the truth about his father's death is revealed, he won't stop until justice has been served.
6896) Murder on the cliffs
Author
Series
Daphne Du Maurier mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall on a dark and stormy day just after the Great War has finally come to an end, Daphne stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Millie's decidedly not-Amish best friend, Lois Henry, is outspoken, colorful, and so hopelessly romantic, she's had four husbands. Millie doesn't judge, and she also doesn't expect to run into Lois's most recent ex, gambler Gerome Moorhead, in small-town Harvest, Ohio. With him is the very young, new Mrs. Moorhead, aka "Honeybee." Lois is outraged, but Millie is completely shocked to learn the next day that Gerome is already a widower . . . When...
6898) Queen of bones
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume Bk. 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santeria priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognises one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. It will cost Padrino more than he expects to untangle everyone's lies and track down the killer"--
6900) Firewatching
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When financier Gerald Cartwright disappeared from his home six years ago, it was assumed he'd gone on the run from his creditors. But then a skeleton is found bricked up in the cellar of Cartwright's burned-out mansion, and it becomes clear Gerald never left alive. As the sole representative of South Yorkshire's Cold Case Review Unit, Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is not expected to get results, but he knows this is the case that might finally kick...
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