Catalog Search Results
61) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum witnesses a gang-executed robbery and police officer shooting and finds herself targeted by a California-based killer looking to claim the price that is subsequently placed on her head.
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 10
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Serial killer James Michael Barrett leads a grim parade of police officers, FBI agents, and forensics into the woods of Pine Valley, forty-five miles east of San Diego. At the end of the second week of his high-profile murder trial, he has struck a plea deal with the prosecution: he'll reveal the location of his last victim's body in exchange for the D.A. taking the death penalty off the table. As they reach the site, a light rain begins to fall,...
63) Naughty on ice
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The next in Maia Chance's dazzlingly fun Prohibition-era caper series featuring society matron Lola Woodby and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta. The Discreet Retrieval Agency is doing a brisk holiday business of retrieving lost parcels, grandmas, and stolen wreaths. But with their main squeezes Ralph and Jimmy once more on the back burner, both Lola and Berta pine for a holiday out of New York City. So when they receive a mysterious Christmas card...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunny's...
65) Smarty bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names only to discover another body in the professor's hotel room.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With a new grandbaby to care for at home, Stella has little time to spare...Gallivanting around with her best pal Sheriff Manny Goldford simply isn't an option--until a freshly murdered body is discovered…Holding a criminal record unlike anyone's, Dexter Corbin was a man who wouldn't be missed...But he never deserved to meet his end so soon...When a gravedigger finds Dexter sprawled across the steps of a crypt, Stella and Manny launch into...
Author
Series
Granny Reid Mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
G.A. McKevett returns with the third installment in her spin-off series set in the 1980s--thirty years before her popular Savannah Reid series in the small Georgia town that Savannah grew up in, with her beloved--and much younger--Granny Reid as the sleuth! Stella "Granny" Reid's youth wasn't the only thing changed by time in tiny, nondescript McGill, Georgia. Except even in the Reagan era, the Southern town still had a way of attracting downright...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 28
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine at The Cookie Jar, Hannah gets asked for her help in baking pastries at the local inn for a flashy fishing competition with big prizes and even bigger names. But the fun stops when she spots a runaway boat on the water and, on board, the lifeless body of the event's renowned celebrity spokesperson ... Famed TV show host Sonny Bowman wasn't humble about his ability to reel in winning catches, and no...
69) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamor hide a dark and violent past as an extractor-a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses over...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura Lippman won the Nero Wolfe Award for this powerful mystery. Former journalist turned P.I. Tess Monaghan thought she knew Baltimore like the back of her hand-but what she doesn't know just might kill her in this grim yet irresistible novel.
71) Rock-a-bye bones
Author
Series
A Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Mississippi, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things with her fiancé. One bitterly cold night at her family's ancestral home in Zinnia, Sarah Booth hears what sounds like a kitten as she passes the front door. She opens the door to find a newborn baby in a basket on her front porch - with bloody footsteps...
72) Credible threat
Author
Series
Ali Reynolds volume 15
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...
73) Bone to be wild
Author
Series
A Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiance Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange Halloween ball her best friends are throwing in New Orleans. Sarah Booth plans to dance the night away to the swinging tunes of her old flame Scott Hampton's blues band. But just as the party gets going, Scott receives a...
Author
Series
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 24
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This latest installment of the beloved No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series finds Botswana's premier detective agency as busy as ever, with no shortage of sensitive situations requiring Mma Ramotswe's keen eye and discerning input. Through it all, Mma Ramotswe will demonstrate that there are solutions to all manner of difficulties, there to be discovered as long as one is led by kindness, grace, and logic, and can rely on the wise counsel of close...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the fourth in her critically acclaimed Victorian mysteries where the case of a mutilated "Sleeping Beauty" washes ashore in London.
London, June 1890.
Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. On a foggy summer night, they're...
76) Devil's delight
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In tranquil Branscombe, New Hampshire, for the holidays, private investigator Regan Reilly and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan investigate shenanigans involving the local mega lottery in the midst of preparations for a local festival.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intrepid photographer Sarah Bain and her motley crew of friends are back to hunt criminals in the dark, seedy underbelly of Victorian London, but little do they know, the darkness may lurk closer than they first divined.** Photographer Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and sometime street urchin Mick O'Reilly are private detectives with a new gig-photographing crime scenes for London's Daily World newspaper. The Daily World is the latest...
Author
Series
Guinever Jones collection volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Berkley trade paperback omnibus edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Guinevere Jones. Previously published in 1986, these stories introduce a woman with a talent for love and trouble. With Zac Justic, her sexy and dangerous partner in crime, Guinevere finds that struggling to keep her temp agency afloat can lead to suspense, danger, and love.