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Author
Series
Verity Kent volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her beloved Great-Aunt Ilse arrives on her doorstep, leaving war-ravaged Germany behind, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent soon discovers that danger has followed Ilse when ant-Germen sentiment is taken to murderous lengths.
82) Down the hatch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Down the Hatch. Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green-with the body of an old man...
83) Secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Every antique tells a story. Cullen and Luna Bodman learned that through their parents' furniture business. Now, with their restoration shop and cafe, they often find themselves at the center of those stories, unraveling mysteries for their clients"--Book jacket flap.
84) The spare man
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world,is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named...
Author
Series
A Caribbean Kitchen mystery volume 2
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before.
Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club annual gala. But this year, it's not canapes and waltzes. Miriam and her girlfriends-squad...
Author
Series
The Hooke and Hunt mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part Wolf Hall, part The Name of the Rose, a riveting new literary thriller set in Restoration London, with a cast of real historic figures, set against the actual historic events and intrigues of the returned king and his court ... The City of London, 1678. New Year's Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest. My mother vanished ten years ago. So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash. Thief. Bitch. Criminal. Now, she's back. Her bones clothed in scarlet silk. When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novel--about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a dangerous game. 1980: Beth Soames is fourteen years old when a kind couple finds her playing the violin at her orphanage's yearly fund-raiser. The Averills take her home with them to Raven Hall, a rambling manor on the Norfolk coast. There she runs wild...
89) Seed on the wind
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-161
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Hardcase Crime edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide...a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters nevertheless resort to kidnapping, blackmail and possibly even murder"--
Author
Series
A department Q novel volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems...
91) Quantum
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print.
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences. As it turns out, the danger is worse than she thought. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security badge, a suspicious...
92) Paris Agent, The
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hours and 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Read by Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney. For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer's dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst. Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor’s gruesome secrets. An aspiring novelist, Hazel believes that writing a book could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape, but her life isn’t exactly brimming with inspiration. Until her neighbor confesses to hiding the corpse of an overdose victim.
With an insider’s...
94) Greenwich Park
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way (after years of trying)—begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class and meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be. Rachel doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest, Helen’s a bit...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Theo Snyder is at the end of his rope. One minute he was on top of the world, his documentary film The Basement a massive critical and commercial hit, the next crestfallen when his latest film was canceled after an embarrassingly public misstep. As his desperation grows, he makes a bold decision: to pursue the story of the notorious "Halo Killer," Jasper Ross-Johnson. But delving into the life and mind of a serial killer could prove more deadly than...
Author
Series
Granny Reid Mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
G.A. McKevett returns with the third installment in her spin-off series set in the 1980s--thirty years before her popular Savannah Reid series in the small Georgia town that Savannah grew up in, with her beloved--and much younger--Granny Reid as the sleuth! Stella "Granny" Reid's youth wasn't the only thing changed by time in tiny, nondescript McGill, Georgia. Except even in the Reagan era, the Southern town still had a way of attracting downright...
97) A safe house
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 61
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside...
98) Dead space
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke--until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this race-to-the-finish thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist threatens to incite a full-fledged war between China and the United States. When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang D�ay�ou, is targeted as...