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Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xx, 251 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, featuring four new stories The Honourable Phryne Fisher-she of the Lulu bob, cupid's bow lips, diamante garters, and pearl-handled pistol-is the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. Miss Phryne Fisher is up to her stunning green eyes in intriguing crime in each of these entertaining, fun, and compulsively readable stories. Whether sniffing out the whereabouts of a priceless...
7902) A bat in the belfry
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
7903) Time of death
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects three of J.D. Robb's "In death" novels as Lieutenant Eve Dallas searches for a killer promising immortality, a ritualistic murderer, and a woman missing from aboard a New York City ferry.
7904) I, Alex Cross: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
374, 11 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.
7905) Bitter Creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of Gabriel Du Pré's girlfriend, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Du Pré and Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon. They locate him soon enough, disheveled and stinking of stale booze, but a sobering visit to a medicine man's sweat lodge reveals a much greater...
7906) The bone orchard
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Questioning his decision to change careers when his mentor is murderously targeted in the wake of a "suicide by cop" incident, former Maine Warden Service member Mike Bowditch joins the hunt for a sniper while investigating his friend's secret past.
7907) Say no more
Author
Series
Sacramento novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
629 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised. But even though she escaped the abuse and terror, they continue to haunt her. When her brother Gideon...
7908) Agony Hill: a mystery
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring...
7909) A relative murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Medlar Three unexpectedly reenter sleuthing when Kate discovers a dead body with a connection to a charming, new real estate client with a mysterious past in the fourth novel of the series following A Forgotten Murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At Castle Kinloch in the Scottish Highlands, literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley is found dead under strange circumstances, leading Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh to investigate three American novelists—each with their own motives and secrets—as he uncovers connections between Presley’s murder and the castle’s dark history.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers on a trip to Ian Rutledge's past, with the story of the last case the Scotland Yard detective tackles before he goes off to fight in World War I"--
7913) Dead level
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
7914) Busy body
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Friends Ook and Gluk are always getting into trouble with their village chief until they pass through a portal into a future run by the chief's descendant, where they learn kung fu so they can return to the past and free their people.
7916) A borrowing of bones
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first in a gripping new mystery series by literary agent Paula Munier, about a retired MP and bomb-sniffing dog who become embroiled in an investigation in the beautiful Vermont wilderness It may be the Fourth of July weekend, but for retired soldier Mercy Carr and Belgian Malinois Elvis, it's just another walk in the remote Lye Brook Wilderness--until the former bomb-sniffing dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned...
Author
Series
Charles Lenox volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
7918) Off the beaten path
Author
Series
Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cheryl Cooper and Levi Miller have painstakingly planned a special "Live like the Amish" weekend for a group of senior citizens. The Miller family farm will serve as the perfect backdrop for the event and they plan to give their guests an inside look at all things Amish from buggies to fry pies and everything in between. It promises to be a relaxing time for all until a pop star in disguise shows up and one of the grannies turns out to be a fugitive....
7919) Murder in Rose Hill
Author
Series
A gaslight mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
Author
Series
A Spenser novel volume 45
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser's card. A self-proclaimed military...