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1) The fury
Author
Language
English
Description
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it’s determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts.
FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 39
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Frank Culhane, the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas's most prestigious families, is murdered, Detective Sam Rafferty, a city outsider, is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries and forbidden attractions as Frank's second wife and his scorned first wife hold the future of his ranching dynasty in their hands.
7) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374, 16 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.
Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people.
When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Framed for the murder of an FBI agent after testifying against David Chen and his illegal businesses, Kara Quinn goes on the run, determined to clear her name without putting her partner, Matt Costa, in danger"--
9) 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.
10) The last word
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.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful young woman named Brigid, part of a ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside, is brutally murdered after bringing an injured hare to her veterinary practice, Dimpna Wilde helps Detective Sergeant Cormac O'Brien investigate, finding ominous signs everywhere they look.
13) Death of a spy
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large"--...
14) It had to be you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Working for his mother, the sheriff of an idyllic Midwestern resort town, Eli North, when the body of a teenage boy is found in the lake, is drawn into an investigation related to America's opioid epidemic that becomes much more than just a hunt for a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tabitha Knight investigates the sudden death of a chef at a cooking school who poured himself a glass of wine from a rare vintage bottle.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
18) A twisted skein
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the Seaside Knitters who also is also an avid birdwatcher enlists the help of her crafting crew when a fellow birder is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her “honorary grandson” Jack. It’s a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they’ve become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she’s been given the listing for the town’s storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.