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Series
Quilts volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiance Andrew embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and untimely death.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
An Auction Block mystery volume 4
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
When a Viking reenactor nearly dies after seeing the ghost of his lost daughter, auctioneer Wren Morgan digs into the missing persons case while her fiance, Death Bogart, investigates the thefts of historical items.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Private detective William Monk is hired by a mysterious client who wants him to discover whether or not her fiance, a railway firm executive, engages in fraudulent practices, a case that brings Monk face to face with his past.
5) Power play
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Series
Language
English
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Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiance, George McCallum, Viscount Lockenby, has died in a car accident, and mysterious rumors begin that she's responsible begin to surface: she broke off the engagement and, heartbroken, he killed himself. Then someone tries to force her off the M-2 outside London. Again, rumors claim it was a sympathy ploy. When she returns to the United...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village--or were, until their home is broken into one night, and Millicent is murdered. But who's the killer? Is it one of their co-workers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster edition.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a hated job and a fiancé she does not love, Ellen visits her aunt's cottage on the wild Irish coast of Connemara and becomes engrossed in a local tragedy involving a young mother's death in a lighthouse fire.
Author
Series
Friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fianc�e's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of this daring Kinsey Millhone mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.
Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store's lingerie section, but she's entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and...
Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store's lingerie section, but she's entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and...
Author
Series
Deathnote volume 2
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced graphic novel ed.
Physical Desc
196 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Light plans to end his troubles with the FBI by killing off the agents working his case. However, one of the agents leaves behind a fiance who is also a former FBI agent. Before he died, her fiance gave her information that could lead the authorities straight to Light. To make matters worse, detective L has been assigned to work on the task force with Light's father.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 24
Language
English
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Description
"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, Olivia Stewart, a member of a prestigous family, suspects her sister's fiance, Harrison Bennett, of being involved, but when she goes to California to investigate under an assumed name, she finds herself drawn to him as she tries to keep her identity a secret.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester,...
15) One station away
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose fiance is desperate to untangle her untimely death. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. ...Magnus, a New York neurologist--son to one, lover to another, and doctor to a third--is the thread that binds these women's stories together as he navigates relationships defined by compromise and misunderstanding, guilt...
16) The sanatorium
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's early summer, and while Richard Muir and his dance partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard's wife, Amy, is gathering the dance's source materials. Based on folktales and the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the production is set to premiere at an old cinema that has been converted to a theater. But when dancer Meredith Fox Richard's former fiance is found dead backstage, Amy is once again propelled into a murder...
Author
Series
A Roxanne Weary mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Minotaur books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it. Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane's client for Marin's death, so she starts to dig deeper into Marin's life--discovering that the elegant woman she's been following has a past and a half, including two...
20) An evil heart
Author
Series
A Kate Burkholder novel volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...