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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the crisp, early hours of an autumn morning, the police are called to investigate two deaths. The first is a suspected murder at a farm on the outskirts of a small village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, her cottage drenched with blood. The second is a reported suicide at a nearby quarry. A car with a woman's body inside was found at the bottom of the pit. As DI Louisa Smith and her team gather evidence, they discover a shocking link...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Puzzle Lady couldn't be happier. Matt Greystone, the rookie sensation who just signed a huge contract with the Yankees after coming to the team as the player to be named later in a trade with the Diamondbacks, winning 17 games as a starting pitcher, was coming to town to rehab from an arm injury. A diehard Yankee fan, Cora was delighted when Matt invited her to a weekend pool party. On the plus side, she got to meet Derek Jeter. On the minus...
Author
Series
A death by chocolate mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
Author
Series
A Puzzle Lady mystery volume 20
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
When her ex's sensational tell-all about their lives is optioned for a movie, Puzzle Lady Cora Felton reluctantly accepts a producer role's in the much-despised production before a body is found on set, staged with a crossword puzzle clue.
65) Close to home
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy and the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust"--
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 22
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Meg Langslow mystery volume Book 22
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Meg Langslow mystery volume Book 22
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When her husband organizes a full-scale production of A Christmas Carol with a famous veteran actor in the starring role, Meg Langslow finds herself navigating unexpected challenges in the star's baggage and enemies." --
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ellery Hathaway, a police officer who hides her identity as a serial killer's only surviving victim, fears that someone has discovered her secret when three people from her quiet town disappear, and reaches out to the FBI agent who saved her years earlier for help.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a lawyer friend in Texas, China Bayles investigates a cold case involving a valuable piece of Mexican art after suspecting that it may be connected to the death of another friend.
"When China's and Ruby's friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend's death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the fifteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if?
What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened by secrets and just drifting through the small Wisconsin town?
Instead, Sean enlists Dan’s help with a construction job in the basement of a local—the elderly, reclusive Marion...
71) Dead level
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
72) In big trouble
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
1st William Morrow hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tess receives a clipping featuring her musician ex-boyfriend, prompting her to investigate his disappearance and that of the woman who was with him, as well as the victims of a killer who dances to his own deadly tune.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old case makes Detective Inspector Louisa Smith some new enemies in this spellbinding second installment of New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes's Briarstone crime series that combines literary suspense and page-turning thrills.
74) 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...
75) The wrong victim
Author
Series
Quinn and Costa thriller volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime--the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands. Accused of putting profits before people after leaking fuel that caused a massive fish kill, the West End Charter company may itself have been the target....
Author
Series
Meg Langslow volume 11
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Meg Langlsow volunteers to help her parents when the Caerphilly Garden Club sponsors its first annual rose show. But after a few hours of dealing with her parents' competitors, Meg is worried--someone is attempting to kill the wealthy woman on whose estate the competition is being held. Could it be one of the eccentric rose growers after the coveted Black Swan trophy? Or one of the animal welfare activists--which includes Meg's zoologist grandfather--resorting...
Author
Series
A Kiki Button mystery volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helping Picasso search for a stolen portrait in Jazz Age Paris, Kiki Button is ordered by her spymaster to identify a double agent or face imprisonment, a dual mission that challenges her knowledge of the city.
79) What she found
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 9
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress twenty-five years ago at the behest of Lisa's daughter, Detective Tracy Crosswhite reopens the potentially explosive investigations Lisa was following, which pushes her loyalties to the limit when she makes a shocking discovery.