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Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At S.U.I.T. headquarters, Cilantro the Chameleon finally gets what she's been waiting for: a field assignment. Only...it's literally out in the middle of a field, and her orders are so vague, she can hardly tell what she's supposed to be investigating. But as she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker's rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy--not to mention a spooky haunting at the abandoned S.U.I.T. field outpost--Cilantro steps into her own...
2) First frost
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it’s soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from...
3) Hunted
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A breakout thriller from an "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) and award-winning author: Can two parents find their lost children before disaster strikes? It's a week until the US presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter. In Florida, a mother makes a connection between her son and the bomber, fearing he has...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Opinion is divided in a village in the English Cotswolds to a company's request to bottle water from the village spring. One side sees economic benefits, the other a degraded environment. When the council chairman who was to make a decision is murdered, sleuth Agatha Raisin goes to work.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Depressed after being humiliated and abandoned by the two men in her life, Agatha Raisin finds a new prospect in curate Tristan Delon, whose untimely death prompts Agatha to investigate strange mysteries surrounding the victim.
Author
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in Tell Me No Lies, part of the critically acclaimed Lady Dunbridge Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Rise and shine, Countess, you're about to have a visitor. Lady Dunbridge was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. The social events of the...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect.
8) 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
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
Magnolia Steele mystery volume 2
Publisher
DGS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia may have escaped arrest for murder, but her troubles are far from behind her. She's still haunted by two things from her pas--her father's disappearance when she was a teen, and the other...well, her memories of a serial killer have returned, but it's best left where it belong--in the past. Needing closure, Magnolia decides to look into her father's cold case..." -- back cover.
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.
12) The deadly dance
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by a series of small jobs after opening her own detective agency, Agatha Raisin places the fledgling agency's reputation on the line by alienating her friends and flirting with a chief suspect.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once thirteen-year-old Keisha Turner and Frankie Dixon were best friends, so when Frankie shows Keisha a threatening note she received, Keisha decides to go undercover on the Spirit Squad without Carlos and the other members of Snoops, Inc. to find out who is trying to harm her former friend--and why.
14) Tracking Champ
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Fleischman Middle School's mascot, Principal Snider's dog Champ, disappears from his kennel before the big basketball game, most of the students think that the door was left unlatched, but Carlos, one of the four friends of Snoops, Inc., is convinced that someone took him--and it is up to the junior detectives to solve the mystery.
15) The cursed stage
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Fleischman Middle School drama club is supposed to be putting on a play in the school auditorium, but strange noises have convinced many of the actors that the stage is haunted--so it is up to the four friends of Snoops, Inc. to discover the cause of the disturbances and whether or not someone has it in for "Wagons West."
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother’s paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
161 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While bumbling PI Percival Smidgely tries to find missing pig Mercy Watson, a trio of clever neighborhood sleuths follow a trail of hoof prints - and a delicious aroma - to recover their porcine wonder, in this uproariously funny, extra-special series finale.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Agatha Raisin, rendered half-bald by a revengeful hairdresser, travels to a British seaside town to recuperate. But her holiday is spoiled by the murder of two local witches.
19) Return to blood
Author
Series
A Hana Westerman thriller volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local...
20) Curtain call
Author
Series
Magnolia Steele mystery volume 4
Publisher
DGS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourth and final book in the USA Today bestselling Magnolia Steele Mystery series. Magnolia's in a game of cat and mouse with a serial killer who's intent on winning ... over her dead body.