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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted novelist, a shocking story of voyeurism, betrayal, and the gray areas between truth and fiction that reflects our era of tabloid media and fake news. In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and the tabloids are aflame, accusing Mr. Wolphram, the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious, friendless, and eccentric. Charged with investigating this...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan. Feeling a need for roots, she buys...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Erik and his friend Edmund spend their summer vacation in 1962 by a Swedish lake, daydreaming about Ewa, a young teacher who looks like actress Kim Novak. When Ewa's fiance is found dead, Erik's brother is initially the prime suspect. Twenty-five years later, when Erik happens to come across an article about unsolved crimes, he is overwhelmed by memories of that summer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Selected by NPR's Maureen Corrigan and The Wall Street Journal's Tom Nolan as one of the best mysteries of the year, Gazan's The Dinosaur Feather—which the Financial Times called "outrageously entertaining"—is a classic of modern Scandinavian noir.
With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller revolves around the controversial and fascinating connections between dinosaur and
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Series
Publisher
Autumn Doerr
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the first book of the Lexi Fagan Mystery series, Baker's Dozen, Lexi is newly arrived in San Francisco and lands a job working at McCracken's Bakery. When her lover, firefighter Jerry Stevens, turns up dead in a devastating hotel fire, Lexi has no time to mourn. Homicide detective Robert Reiger discovers Jerry's death was no accident. Caught up in the investigation, Lexi uncovers a shocking secret that just might get her killed.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A debate is raging over the use of public lands, and to cover the story for Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg joins a congressman and several others on a subterranean adventuredespite her intense claustrophobia. The thoughts of cave-ins and cougars are unnerving, but at least its a distraction from her other anxieties, like her best friends departure for Italy, her bosss plan to sell the company, and the ongoing questions about her fathers suspicious...
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life. In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes history. Two hundred years later, Hugo Marston is safeguarding...
9) Blood tide
Author
Series
Paula Maguire novels volume 5
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Called to investigate the disappearance of a young couple during a violent storm, forensic psychologist Paula Maguire has mixed feelings about going back to Bone Island. Her last family holiday as a child was spent on its beautiful, remote beaches and returning brings back haunting memories of her long-lost mother. It soon becomes clear that outsiders aren't welcome on the island. With no choice but to investigate the local community, Paula soon realises...
Author
Series
DI Rowan Jackman and DS Maria Evans volume 4
Publisher
Joffe Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jackman's sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons. DI Jackman and DI Evans dig into Sarah's life. And Jackman realises he knew almost nothing about his sister-in-law's past. Then, they discover a woman in a neighbouring village died in similar circumstances. What is the connection to a convicted murderer whose family are...
13) Last orders
Author
Series
Publisher
McFori Ink
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As a wise man once said, just because you're done with the past, doesn't mean the past is done with you. Paul can't let an incident from his past go. When he finds out a rival detective agency played a key role in it, he drags MCM Investigations into a blood feud that they can't hope to win. Soon they're faced with the prospect of the company going out of business and Brigit going out of her damn mind. When long-buried bodies are discovered in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Chouteau Forest's wealthy are being targeted by the Ghost Burglars, who've carried out twelve burglaries over two weeks. So far, there's been no bloodshed . . . until Tom Lockridge is brutally slain inside his marble mansion during the latest raid. Angela Richman, death investigator for Chouteau County, is called to assess the scene and the body by Detective Jace Budewitz. As they investigate, Jace becomes obsessed with proving the Ghost Burglars...
15) Maids
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin's increasingly unhinged...
Author
Series
The Havard and Lambert mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Charming film writer and director Geraint Denbigh is found lifeless in the garden of his Welsh home. It looks like he fell from a window, but eagle-eyed Detective Chief Inspector Matt Lambert soon finds irregularities in the crime scene. Before long he determines it was murder. Recently retired, the victim was writing about his eventful life and many of his former colleagues and associates could have had reason to stop him before he spilled the beans...
17) House of Gucci
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grousable Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1862 London, the body of a famous surgeon is found, sitting upright, in an old operating theatre. His dead eyes stare at the table at the center of the room, where patients had screamed and cried as medical students looked on. The bookish Inspector Slaughter must discover the killer with the help of his American sergeant Mark Honeycutt and clues from Nightingale nurses, surgeon's dressers, devious apothecaries, and even stage actors. Victorian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces. Among the locals vying for the grand prize...
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