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1) Clete
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop the ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug. Clete Purcel--private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots--is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete...
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"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
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Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don't think it's a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the island...
Author
Publisher
[Don Hilton]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Homicide, suicide, accident, manslaughter, or murder? That's the question Miss Jocelyn Kuper must answer when an old friend finds a body floating in the river. Since the Deveton police aren't all that interested, and the recently elected coroner doesn't know what he's doing, it's up to Miss Kuper to stir up the clues and discover exactly what happened, and how."--Amazon.com.
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A Maisie Dobbs novel volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
Author
Publisher
Don Hilton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thought they knew A.E. Leehman, right up until she disappeared in July of 1953. Follow County Detective Bert Williamson, who's keeping secrets of his own, as he call upon the talents of old Army buddie to help him wend his way through a case well beyond his ability. Working with one cok-sure reporter while barely tolerating another, bucking the district attorney, and forced to surrender the matter to State Police, Williamson discovers there's...
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Series
A rip through time novel volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Minotaur Books edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she's not housemaid Catriona Mitchell-even though Mallory is in Catriona's body-and Mallory is now officially an undertaker's assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows......
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
t’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among...
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Series
Rip Through Time novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
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Series
Agatha Raisin volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect.
13) Busy body
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A constant worrier, Franklin Endicott earns a fresh cause for alarm when he accompanies Eugenia Lincoln to her favorite thrift shop and leaves with a mystery to solve.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boarded-up homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The town's new chief of police, Ethan Brand, receiving threats on his first day on the job, is faced with the first homicide case Blaine, Washington, has seen in years and with no one to trust, must find the killers and bring them to justice before anyone else winds up dead.
17) What we buried
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Series
Detective Greene volume 07
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It’s been years since Daniel Kennicott’s brother, Michael, was shot and killed the night before he was about to depart for Gubbio, Italy. The case, never solved, has haunted Daniel ever since. Long suspecting the killing was tied to Michael’s planned trip but overwhelmed with grief, Daniel has put off going there—until now, the tenth anniversary of the murder. As he’s about to leave, Daniel learns that his two mentors, detectives Ari Greene...
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Series
The Nightingale mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found,...