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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur investigates the seemingly unsuspicious death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition who had a very extensive collection of crime novels, each one dedicated to her and each containing a mysterious post-script.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
After more than three decades eluding justice, the man who murdered Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's mother is finally about to stand trial--until he vanishes into thin air. Jake has a terrible foreboding of where Ozzie Campbell will turn up next. And while the local police chief is sure she's overreacting, the truth is far worse than even Jake's worst fears.
563) The edge of dreams
Author
Series
[Molly Murphy mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after each murder. And when Daniel receives a note immediately after Molly and her young son Liam are in a terrible train crash, Daniel and Molly both begin to fear that maybe Molly herself was the target. Molly's detective instincts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Description
London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
Author
Series
Inspector Lynley volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
692 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
567) The book of secrets
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Self-reliant Max Starling, a twelve-year-old detective and problem solver, struggles to keep his identity a secret as he investigates a case of arson, while cryptic messages from his still missing parents indicate that they need rescuing.
568) Cross her heart
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin's husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip." --
569) Rutland Place
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Crest Press
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Things are not what they seem in fashionable Rutland Place, where secrets that are never discussed at tea include murder  When her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with a compromising picture, neither Charlotte Pitt, nor her mother, has any idea that the locket may be at the center of a bizarre chain of events leading to murder. Arriving at her mother's home at Rutland Place, Charlotte discovers that other residents of the exclusive...
570) The dark lake
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As much as Rosalind's life was a mystery to Gemma when they...
571) A steep price
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 06
Language
English
Formats
Description
Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy's suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school, but someone cut her dreams short.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical production, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, agree to refurbish Eastport's most disreputable old dwelling, Harlequin House, pulling up the floorboards reveals something far more sinister than dry rot. A hidden trapdoor unearths the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper with a fresh corpse sitting neatly beside her. With a good old-fashioned Maine murder on their hands, Jake and Ellie are hot on the trail of the murderer-but this time more...
574) The trapped girl
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD's Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from? After evidence surfaces...
575) Iron Lake : A Novel
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Part Irish, part Native American, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor puts aside his grudge against the small Minnesota town that rejected him as a sheriff to investigate a sinister conspiracy responsible for the murder of the local judge.
576) An echo of murder
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques--lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through...
577) Steal
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later and still no one has seen him. The one person convinced he's still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. Dylan now...
578) Heat Storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources-and ruthlessness-to stop them.
579) The New Iberia blues
Author
Series
A Dave Robicheaux novel volume 22
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...
580) The family way
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...