Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When her colleague and close friend is murdered, high-school English teacher Clare chronicles her suspicions about the case in her diary until one day she discovers a sinister message in it and fears that a dark story has come to terrifying life.
Author
Series
An Elena Standish novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover's final, urgent message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of the Great War. Touring with her camera in hand, Elena has...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama--especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery--let alone the town's most recent murder. . . Hannah is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. She's eager to clear her name once and for all, but...
Author
Series
Death by Chocolate mystery volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This summer, Eastport's favorite lovebirds, kindergarten teacher Sharon Sweetwater and Coast Guard Captain Andy Devine, are getting married. The gala reception is sure to be the f�ete of the season, especially with a wedding-cake-sized whoopie pie courtesy of The Chocolate Moose. For Jake and Ellie, the custom-ordered confection will finally reel in some much-needed profits. But the celebratory air, and sweet smell of success, are ruined by foul...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Life will never be the same for Meg after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series. Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg's picture--she's a dead ringer for Cordelia--and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself - the...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gastronomical dream team Bernie and Libby Simmons wade into a Celtic knot of malice and mayhem when a St. Patrick's celebration goes terribly wrong. . .
To most of the people of little Longely, New York, St. Paddy's Day means good food, great music, and plenty of Guinness. But when the lifeless body of Mike Sweeney floats to the top of a vat of green beer, it looks like the luck o' the Irish has just run out.
Unfortunately for the Simmons sisters,
...29) Captive
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in this gripping suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Persuasion. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller about a bored Long Island housewife turned amateur detective: “Clever, deft . . . and very funny” (The Washington Post).
Though she can’t admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored. Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner. Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their Long Island split-level is a ho-hum...
Though she can’t admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored. Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner. Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their Long Island split-level is a ho-hum...
Author
Series
A Corie Geller novel volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was never able to solve. When April was five years old, she'd...
32) Grave secrets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing the most heartbreaking case of her career, Temperance Brennan investigates shallow graves where fading clues begin to emerge. Two decades ago something savage happened in this village -- soldiers massacred its women and children.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Jeffries is back in the New York Times bestselling Victorian Mytery series, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. Thomas Mundy checks in to London's Wrexley Hotel, but he never checks out. The maid finds him on the floor of his room, bludgeoned to death by his own walking stick. Inspector Witherspoon is soon on the case and learns Mundy had a reputation for being polite, charming, and diligent--an unlikely victim for such a violent crime. But...
35) Orchid Beach
Author
Series
Holly Barker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Forced into early retirement by scandal, ex-Army major Holly Barker takes a job as deputy chief of police in rural Orchid Beach, Florida, where she and her canine partner, Daisy, become caught up in a sinister--and deadly--game of cat-and-mouse
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title is part of the hoopla BONUS BORROWS COLLECTION! Through the month of November, you can borrow this title without using any of your monthly hoopla Instant Borrows!
Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces one of her most winning heroines, Julie Hayes, a former actress turned fortune-teller who abruptly learns there is murder in her future Twenty-five-year-old Julie Hayes is feeling overshadowed by her globe-trotting...
37) Shattered
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her--they think they have the right...
38) Body Movers
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiancé dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women--a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner who call themselves the Women's Murder Club--develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marketing maven Dana Lewis returns home to discover that healthy living can be murder in the first Blossom Valley Mystery—"100% organic fun!" (Laura Levine).
Welcome to Blossom Valley, California, home of the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa, complete with its new marketing maven, Dana Lewis, former Blossom Valley resident, unapologetic junk food connoisseur—and soon-to-be sleuth . . .
As Dana readjusts...
Welcome to Blossom Valley, California, home of the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa, complete with its new marketing maven, Dana Lewis, former Blossom Valley resident, unapologetic junk food connoisseur—and soon-to-be sleuth . . .
As Dana readjusts...