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Author
Series
Publisher
C.J. Archer
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.
December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest
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Series
A Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 19
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. According to her neighbors, she's prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past. Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling is Shelley House's longest resident, and if you believe the other tenants, she's as cantankerous and vindictive as they come. Except there's a good reason Dorothy spends...
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English
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"Murphy is living a quiet life of semi-retirement with his wife, Kai, and their newly adopted baby in their home outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. Kai, part Navajo, teaches on the reservation in the Indian Nation in the Ozarks. Murphy is called back into service when William Burke, special advisor to President Arthur, shows up in Fort Smith with an assignment. New York Governor Grover Cleveland is running for president and Arthur wants Murphy to head...
6) Toxic prey
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Series
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Lucas Davenport takes on another challenging case in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth's death spiral; population levels are out of control...
7) Pay dirt
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Series
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Angela, one her prot�eg�ees in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Series
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.
It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in...
9) Lost birds
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town-and people-she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
11) The last word
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Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.
12) Cheater
Author
Series
The San Diego case files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting high-stakes thriller. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick...
Author
Series
Spy x Family volume Vol. 7
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As Donovan Desmond is about to share a rare family moment with his son Damian, Twilight cuts in to meet his target face-to-face for the first time. Can Twilight find some way to endear himself to the inscrutable Donovan?"--
Author
Series
Spy x Family volume Vol. 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twilight and Nightfall enter an underground tennis tournament, hoping for an opportunity to obtain an intelligence document that threatens to bring the world to the brink of war! But will their mission be compromised by Nightfall’s secret crush on Twilight?!"--
15) It had to be you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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...
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Series
A gaslight mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.
The...
18) The Thingamajig
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have you seen it? Where has it gone? No one can seem to find their... well... what's it called again?
Little elephant's parent has lost something--though they can't quite remember its name. But when little elephant goes on the hunt for the misplaced, thing-a-ma-jig, it turns out that other animals are missing things as well. Snail's hoo-pull-deepwep for sheltering from the sun has disappeared. So has squirrel's shis-moo for carrying acorns. And all...
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Series
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books / Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (322 pages) : digital ; 21 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbors behind every apartment door—has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen … until her neighbors start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself.
To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...