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Author
Series
Bosch volume 6
Language
English
Description
When an African American lawyer, infamous for his lawsuits alleging racism by LAPD police officers, is murdered on the eve of a sensational trial, Harry Bosch, facing a suspect list that includes half the department, is assigned the case.
2) Deal breaker
Author
Language
English
Description
Softhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar must unravel a complex mystery involving blackmail and family tragedy when his client, celebrated rookie quarterback Christian Steele, receives a phone call from a supposedly-dead ex-girlfriend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The arrow-riddled corpse of Lamar Gardiner, district supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest, and the bodies of seven illegally shot elk start Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett on a pursuit that endangers the life of his beloved foster daughter April.
Author
Series
Gaslight mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and finds that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl's room and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York-and the sister of an old friend. The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. But with Malloy's help, Sarah begins a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon . . . and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes-but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries's polished detection skills are up to the task . . . proving that behind every great man there's a woman-and that a crimesolver's work is never done.
Inspector Witherspoon is perplexed. No one seems to know the identity...
8) Devil's claw
Author
Language
English
Description
The death of her beloved neighbor finds Sheriff Joanna Brady investigating a possible murder right over the picket fence.
Author
Series
Language
English
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A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series.
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder....
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder....
10) Dancing Aztecs
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
Specialist in the scam, the con, and the rip-off, Jerry Manelli is running around New York hot on the trail of a priest a thousand-year-old, two-foot-tall, ugly, misshapen, dancing Aztec priest made of solid gold, with eyes of pure emeralds, worth a million dollars. Somebody stole it from its museum home in South America and smuggled it through U. S. Customs in a shipment of plastic imitations. But the wrong one got delivered, and the million dollar...
11) Highgate rise
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
The Victorian mystery series starring Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt reaches new heights. When Dr. Stephen Shaw's fancy Highgate Rise home is burned to the ground with his wife inside, the Inspector and his wife must solve a baffling mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
197p. 18cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy Bell is a Texan with a flair for small-town mysteries. This popular series features Biggie Weatherford, an amateur sleuth and the richest woman in Job's Crossing. When the town mayor drops dead-face first into his angel food cake-Biggie leads a diverse group in solving this murder despite her personal distaste for the man himself. "A debut novel, Texas-set, that pulls out all the stops in the down-home, good ol' boys, southern-fried chicken...
13) Bluegate fields
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? The boy's parents refuse to answer police queries. What are these proper, prosperous people hiding? With the help of his wife and helpmate, Charlotte, Inspector Pitt intends to find out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where...