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1) Lion & Lamb
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution: Veena Lion, a sleuth so bright she's got to wear shades....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law...and justice. Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Leighann Dobbs]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A creepy haunted mansion that has been abandoned for decades, a cat that appears out of nowhere and a murder in a locked room are just par for the course for bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of amateur sleuth grandmas. Lexy takes a working vacation to help her grandmother's friend launch her new bed and breakfast and she ends up in the middle of a mysterious murder investigation. Her homicide detective husband, Jack, finds himself playing amateur...
Author
Series
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 7
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband. Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry...
Author
Series
Lexy Baker cozy mystery volume 8
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great. Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business! Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies. When her own bakery is broken into she knows who did it, but what she can't figure out is...
Author
Series
Lexy Baker cozy mystery volume 5
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye. Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder. But she doesn't count on sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky relatives, and following thugs around town....
Author
Series
Publisher
Leighann Dobbs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why would someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide the body? When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves. Armed with nothing but their gigantic...
Author
Series
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Lexy's wedding to long-time friend, neighbor, and partner Jack Perillo, two bodies are discovered and Lexy is linked to one of them. Jack is pulled from the case and Lexy soon becomes a prime suspect. Will she get to the church on time or is it jail time for her?
10) Ice cream murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Leighann Dobbs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday. . Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens...
11) The edge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
12) Notorious
Author
Series
Max Revere volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Maxine Revere was a high school senior, her best friend was murdered and their mutual friend, Kevin O'Neal, was accused of the crime. Kevin's guilt wasn't proven, but Max and Kevin's friendship never recovered and Max moved across the country shortly afterward. She never looked back. Thirteen years later, Max, now a successful investigative reporter, returns home to attend Kevin's funeral. The police say it was suicide, but Kevin's little sister...
13) The locked door
Author
Language
English
Description
"While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female...
Author
Series
Glass and steele volume 3
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a newspaper report of a medical miracle catches Matt's eye, he and India go in search of Dr. Hale in the hope he is more magical doctor than miracle worker and can lead them to Chronos. But Hale turns out to be an apothecary magician keen to educate the public about magic. Their disappointment at not finding Chronos is soon forgotten when Hale is murdered, and Matt becomes a suspect. With Matt's nemesis Sheriff Payne influencing the investigating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Leighann Dobbs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie recipe for the Brook Ridge Falls Desserts Contest.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Hudson, an autistic 17-year-old, is determined to leave Sawyer, PA as soon as she graduates high school -- in the meantime, she works as many hours as she can at a sandwich shop called The Triple S to save money for college. But when shop owner Clay Cooper -- a man who is both respected and feared by many in this economically depressed community -- is found dead, each member of his staff becomes a suspect in the perplexing case. Charlie must...
18) The quiet boy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up, and--more than a decade later--the trial of the teenager's father for murder.
Author
Series
An orchard mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Orchard owner Meg Corey must clear her name of murder after the discovery of a pesticide-poisoned body in her springhouse. Includes recipes.
Author
Series
Mystic Notch cozy mystery volume 6
Publisher
[Leighann Dobbs Publishing]
Pub. Date
[�2018]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When retired postmaster Albert Schumer is found dead on the steps of the post office, the whole town of Mystic Notch is disappointed he won't be able to play in the annual checkers tournament. But when his ghost informs middle-aged bookstore owner Willa Chance that he died trying to deliver an old letter, which has mysteriously gone missing, Willa realizes Albert didn't just slip and fall. Someone killed him. Even worse, it turns out the letter contains...