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1101) Twisted tea Christmas
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A haunted house with a real-life corpse land tea maven Theodosia Browning in hot water in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception...
1102) Village in the dark
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Cara Kennedy thought she'd lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder-and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof. On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
354 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution. Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two...
1104) It had to be you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to...
1105) Betrayal
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only...
Author
Series
Irish village mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Taking a holiday by the sea to eat enough fish and chips to support the struggling business of the aptly named Mrs. Chipper, newlyweds Siobhan and Macdara Flannery instead find the proprietor murdered and place their long-delayed honeymoon on hold to catch a slippery killer"--
1107) The hanging girl
Author
Series
A Department Q novel volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
1108) The golden gate
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
1109) Granite harbor
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on?quiet and serene?for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s sole detective. This is his first murder case and, as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to catch...
1110) One on one
Author
Series
Buddy Steel mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When legendary sheriff Burton Steel summons his son Buddy home from LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agrees. Burton is debilitated by ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance to connect with his proud, overbearing parent. What Buddy doesn't expect is to encounter crime in Freedom, a privileged coastal community a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, as vicious and...
Author
Series
Victorian mystery volume Book 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence. Teamed with a motley crew of friends--including a street urchin, a gay...
1112) 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...
1113) Locked in pursuit
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn't seen Major Ramsey--her handsome but aloof handler in the British government--since their tumultuous mission together three months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U. S. edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery ... Miss Marple...
1115) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 4
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxi, 244 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
1116) One last kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer nearly 30 years after his first kill, Detective Tracy Crosswhite forms an uneasy alliance with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco, and as they revisit old leads and pursue new evidence, they unearth high-level corruption and cover-ups as dangerous as the elusive killer himself.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the first Tuesday in October, Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as minister for social affairs following a year's leave of absence--granted after the dramatic disappearance of her twelve-year-old daughter. Linus Bekker, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but is unable to remember where he buried the various parts of her dismembered corpse, leaving Rosa with no choice but to try to move on without closure. The same day Rosa...
1118) The hunter's daughter
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer who must, against all the rules, insert herself into a new investigation when ritually killed bodies start appearing in her father's old territory. Anna Koray has shut the door on her past. The records of her childhood--and the troubling memories--are sealed away thanks to a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's a police lieutenant...
1119) A grave robbery
Author
Series
A Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn't just the City of Light; it's the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another expat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and her Oncle Rafe.
Between...