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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawn back to Baltimore where she is known as "Prom Mom"--the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her--Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa, until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know--everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This...
3) Wicked deeds
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume Book 23
Language
English
Description
Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar Allan Poe-themed restaurant. Because of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the corpse, the FBI's Krewe of Hunters paranormal team is invited to investigate. As...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately - from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent - including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton.
In a city where someone is murdered almost everyday, attorney Michael...
5) Clock dance
Author
Language
English
Description
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has...
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
310p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
A Mystery Guild selection, In a Strange City stars PI Tess Monaghan in a chilling thriller. When a murder occurs during the annual visit of a cloaked individual to Edgar Allan Poe's grave, Tess is drawn into unearthing a killer.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several years ago, several people witnessed a brutal rape and did nothing to stop it. Now those witnesses are being murdered one by one. Baltimore Homicide Detective J.D. Fitzpatrick believes the killer is closely linked to the rape victim and that forensic pathologist Dr. Lucy Trask is withholding information. Trask is impressed with J.D.'s passion, but she can't compromise herself by revealing her link to the killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
1st William Morrow hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tess receives a clipping featuring her musician ex-boyfriend, prompting her to investigate his disappearance and that of the woman who was with him, as well as the victims of a killer who dances to his own deadly tune.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Anna experiences a series of episodes, some that are funny, others sad, involving friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.
11) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
13) Blind spot
Author
Series
Chesapeake valor volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Declan Grey's investigation of a terrorist cell leads him to an insular immigrant community, he turns to crisis counselor Tanner Shaw for help in stopping a deadly plot.
14) Blue smoke
Author
Language
English
Description
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.
15) Fade to black
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing the murder of a co-star at the hands of killer who seems to vanish into thin air, cult TV star Marnie Davante partners with private investigator Bryan McFadden to keep her safe.
Author
Series
Tess Monaghan volume 11
Publisher
Avon A
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
158 pages; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan probes the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she'd been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman's abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell and unravels a complex scam.