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Author
Series
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388, 16 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Cross and his partner John Sampson are hot on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer, who is targeting commercial pilots, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Deadly Cross.
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.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if?
What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened by secrets and just drifting through the small Wisconsin town?
Instead, Sean enlists Dan’s help with a construction job in the basement of a local—the elderly, reclusive Marion...
Author
Series
Detective Duck volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
67 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Willow Feathers McBeaver, aka Detective Duck, is a crime-solving duck who can crack any case--not matter how hard-boiled! Even though she's still just a little duck, there's no problem too big or too fowl for her to figure out.
So when a strange object comes crashing into her pond home, she knows egg-xactly what she has to do: start sleuthing! What is this object, and how can she get it out of her pool?
Armed with her ever-present satchel for collecting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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.
7) 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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Tea shop mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
11) 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.
12) Blood betrayal
Author
Series
Blackwater Falls volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: believing one of them has a gun, Harry opens fire and Duante Reed, a young Black man, is killed. The "gun" in his hands was a bottle of spray paint. Meanwhile, in nearby Denver, a drug raid goes south and a Latino teen, Mateo Ruiz, is also killed. Detective Inaya Rahman is all too familiar with the name of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388, 16 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission ... An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane...
14) Calico
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When chef Owen Slader vanishes driving through the Mojave desert, the case is assigned to disgraced former LAPD detective Beth McDade. Beth might be searching for a way out, but all roads lead to local ruins known as Calico Ghost Town . . . and to a conclusion that will shake not just her entire existence, but will unbalance the world"--
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Raisin is tying the knot with James Lacey before he can have second thoughts. After all, her first husband must be long dead of alcohol poisoning. But Jimmy Raisin hears the news in his cardboard residence in London and reaches the village of Carsely just in time to stop Agatha from committing bigamy. Promptly jilted by her groom, Agatha pushes Jimmy in a ditch--where he is later found strangled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 331 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Only Murders in Gotham, the smash hit streaming show, is famous for filming in authentic New York City locations and using real New Yorkers as extras. For their latest episode, they've chosen to spotlight the century-old Village Blend and its quirky crew of baristas. But when the film crew's week of shooting delivers an actual shooting, Clare Cosi and her staff find themselves at the scene of a true crime"--
17) One on one
Author
Series
Buddy Steel mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When legendary sheriff Burton Steel summons his son Buddy home from LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agrees. Burton is debilitated by ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance to connect with his proud, overbearing parent. What Buddy doesn't expect is to encounter crime in Freedom, a privileged coastal community a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, as vicious and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
You search for evidence. You follow the clues. You experience the danger. Do you have what it takes to solve three of Sherlock Holmes' most puzzling cases? Or will the villainous plots lead to your doom? Step into this adventure, and choose your path. But choose wisely, or else ...
20) Private Rome
Author
Series
Private novels volume 18
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
396, 17 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secrets, lies and murder in the heart of the Vatican. The thrilling new instalment in the Private series. A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one suspect. Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of the new local Private office, when the party takes a deadly turn. Private agent Matteo Ricci is found at the party standing over the body of a dead priest with a gun in hand, swearing he did not kill the man. As Jack tries to prove...