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1) Photo finish
Author
Series
Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 31
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
The soprano Isabella Sommita was widely loathed, so much so that the problem with solving her murder is less a lack of plausible suspects than an embarrassment of options. On a lavish island estate, cut off from the mainland by a sudden storm, Roderick Alleyn is among the guests, and fortunately can take charge in the coppers' absence, in this delightful detective novel by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A gripping thriller set in the atmospheric Peak District. DI Meg Dalton isn't prepared for her latest case. A ten year old girl is found running through the woods, barefoot and wearing only a blood-soaked nightdress. She has no memory of what happened to her, but her father is found stabbed to death in their nearby house. At first, Meg blames an intruder - but why had the girl's murdered father been so obsessed with the creepy statues in the woods,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Mavis Ironmonger is nobody's idea of a good diplomatic wife. She drinks too much, she's awfully friendly with the staff at the Washington embassy, and her music-hall roots have a way of bursting out at the most inappropriate moments. Indeed, it's at an embassy reception that Mavis manages to insult a visiting ambassador and get herself hauled off to sober up. With the party winding down, Mavis is due downstairs, to say the official goodbyes, but in...
4) You who know
Author
Series
Henri Castang mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious/Warner
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
"An acknowledged master . . . writes with heart and unfailing intelligence" in this meditative Inspector Castang mystery about sexual obsession and love (Publishers Weekly).
When Inspector Henri Castang is asked to investigate the death of a colleague and friend, an Irishman whose erratic behavior raises questions about his involvement in the I.R.A., Castang travels through Europe in search of answers. What the detective discovers is a very different...
Author
Series
Nightshade Forensic Files volume 3
Publisher
Griffyn Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eleri wanted a different kind of case. She should have been careful what she wished for. When an odd human skeleton in Michigan's Manistee-Huron National Forest triggers a NightShade investigation, Eleri and Donovan arrive to find it missing. But two other skeletons are a little too easily uncovered--each displays different anomalies that raise alarming questions. The bones aren't from the area or probably even the continent. A decades-old abandoned...
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