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1) Dream town
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
LASD detective Eve Ronin struggles to investigate the murder of a reality star that brings her into a music industry war and puts her into conflict with a vicious Chilean gang.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It's...
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback Manor, Theodosia's character will read tea leaves and give...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker.
9) Gaudy Night
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey volume 10
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First Bourbon Street Books Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 528 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Vane's Oxford reunion is shadowed by a rash of bizarre pranks and malicious mischief that include beautifully worded death threats, burnt effigies and vicious poison-pen letters, and Harriet finds herself and Lord Peter Wimsey challenged by an elusive set of clues.
10) Dream town
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
LASD detective Eve Ronin struggles to investigate the murder of a reality star that brings her into a music industry war and puts her into conflict with a vicious Chilean gang.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While holidaying in Cyprus with her fiance, sleuth Agatha Raisin witnesses the murder of a woman tourist who is stabbed to death in a discotheque. As Agatha opens a probe, someone tries to kill her.
12) Feline fatale
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Raisin goes to the English village of Fryfam in search of her true love and finds herself among rumors of fairies and in the middle of a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novel volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly before Christmas, four people are found shot dead at the home of the Stahlbergs, a wealthy family of shipping merchants notorious for their miserliness and infighting. Three of the victims are members of the family, and the fourth is an outsider, seemingly out of place. Cake had been set out in the living room and a bottle of champagne had been opened but not yet poured. Yes, family gatherings during the holidays can be difficult, but why...
15) Return to blood
Author
Series
A Hana Westerman thriller volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local...