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Series
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.
2) The lost man
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam,...
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English
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"Four years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge. Ben, now sixteen, is committed to finding the monster who abducted and strangled Ellen. Police...
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English
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From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals and guilt, their loyalty to each other their last salvation.
Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk,...
Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk,...
5) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
Author
Series
Flavia de Luce volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
A Forge Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist. Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene's recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret--but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who...
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English
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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English
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"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
10) A winter grave
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
11) Evan only knows
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting his mother in Swansea, Evan Evans encounters a young thug who was once imprisoned for murdering Evan's father and who has been accused of another killing, but Evan is surprised by the man's believable claims of innocence.
12) Give unto others
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...
13) Her deadly game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed...
15) In plain sight
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Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 23
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the sad loss of the Classen sisters' dear friend, Bertha Shetler, Mary finds herself drawn to comfort Katura Stolfuz, a shy young woman who had been taken in by Bertha for the past few months. Mary knows the pain of losing a mother, and she hopes she can comfort Katura during this difficult time. But when Dan Bontrager suddenly returns to Bird-in-Hand after turning his back on the Amish life years before, Mary finds it strange that he seems...
16) A missing memory
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 24
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Martha accepts an invitation to teach a cooking class at the Lancaster Senior Center, she meets the eccentric and enthusiastic Lucy Hill, who used to fly top-secret missions during the Cold War. Somewhere between boiling pasta and making cheesecake, Lucy confides in Martha that there's one mission that has haunted her for years. The problem is, the only memory she has from the mission is waking up in a hospital bed, and the words, “the gray...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 2
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering a map that may have been used by the Lewis and Clark expedition in her Aunt Edie's private collection, Anne Gibson tries to determine how her aunt came to possess a map stolen from the Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago and worries about her nine-year-old son's increasingly strange behavior.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Life will never be the same for Meg after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series. Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg's picture--she's a dead ringer for Cordelia--and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive...
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Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 27
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened "Fairy Glen."