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Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
339 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The police said it was an accident, the dead woman's sister said it was murder... and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn't certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias's life, the more inclined he is to accept the likelihood of murder-especially as the players still alive become more and more distasteful. Combine that with the situation Jake Runyon, one of the agency's partners, is facing as he searches for a young man who is either a murderer...
43) Double take
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Violently attacked by a stranger six months after the brutal killing of her beloved husband, Julia Ransom is narrowly rescued by special agent Cheney Stone, who reopens the case of Julia's husband's death when he suspects a connection.
44) Parked
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--Provided by the publisher.
45) Treasure hunt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Released from desk work when a high-profile San Francisco activist is murdered, Hunt Club private investigator Mickey Dade discovers that the victim was involved in suspicious deals that also implicate the beautiful Alicia Thorpe.
46) Villa incognito
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
48) Always a thief
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
49) Ripper: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Amanda Jackson, fascinated by the dark side of human nature, must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Overcoming respective pasts to audition for showgirl roles at an exclusive San Francisco nightclub, three Asian-American girls rely on each other for survival until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor causes one of them to be betrayed and sent to an internment camp.
51) The final twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company's sadistic enforcers,...
52) Damage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
53) The hearing
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When a homicide detective's daughter is killed, the aggrieved father pushes the main suspect for answers, D.A. Sharron Pratt sets out to revive her career by declaring war on the accused, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy struggles to ensure a fair trial.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
417 p.
Language
English
Description
Although other writers have tried, no one has matched King's ability to capture the allure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. En route to San Francisco to settle her family's estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams-and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived...
56) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
58) Golden Gate
Author
Series
City spies volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
Author
Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Maddy Donaldo, a homeless woman who has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended"--