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81) Snow
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
82) Bound for murder
Author
Series
A Blue Ridge library mystery volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune.
Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face...
Author
Series
In death novel volume 49
Language
English
Description
"She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company's human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims--but they don't know that his crimes go...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 35
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an interfering resident goes missing, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth uncovers lies, intrigue, and scandal during his investigation and quickly finds himself on the trail of a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb, what looked like a lover’s quarrel turned fatal has larger―and more terrifying―motives behind it… The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman...
88) Genesis
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where...
Author
Series
A gilded age mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia...
Death Brings A Shadow
In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York Harbor on a private yacht bound for Bradford Island, where her friend Eleanor Dickson is to be wed. The Sea Islands along the Georgia coast serve as a winter playground...
90) Naughty in Nice
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In Nice to recover the Queen's stolen snuff box, Lady Georgiana Rannoch participates in a Coco Chanel fashion show where a necklace also belonging to the Queen goes missing, forcing her to search for both priceless items and solve a murder.
91) The dirty South
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker."--
Author
Series
The Women's murder club volume 23
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past--with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the...
93) Desert Star
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's white whale --a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renee Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild...
94) Written in bone
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
95) Sacred evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an aspiring starlet is discovered between two of Manhattan's oldest graveyards, Detective Jude Crosby goes up against a supernatural killer who is recreating Jack the Ripper's gruesome work and turns to paranormal investigator Whitney Trement for help in solving this sinister case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Description
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her "Martini Club" of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
97) A hard death
Author
Series
Edward Jenner mystery volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A real player in the game of forensic sleuthing." -Kathy Reichs, author of Spider Bones
"Forensic pathologist Jonathan Hayes brings his authentic voice-and a fascinating protagonist-to the crime novel." -Linda Fairstein, author of Silent Mercy
Forensic pathologist Edward Jenner returns in this explosive sequel to Precious Blood-an edgy, electrifying thriller set in a small-town coastal community where nothing is as it seems. Fans of Sam Bourne,...
98) Deadly touch
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume Bk. 31
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Raina Hamish tries on a dress in a Miami boutique, she has a terrifyingly accurate vision of a murdered corpse in the murky shadows of the Everglades. She wants to help, but who would believe her when she can hardly believe herself? Special Agent Axel Tiger has returned to Florida to help hunt a serial killer, but the investigation doesn't have much to go on. Raina's vision is their best chance to uncover more. Axel's experience with the FBI's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
100) Better off read
Author
Series
A bookmobile mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won't be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town's storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, Georgia. However, Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all available books on getting away with murder. He's no Georgia peach,...