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Author
Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Nonie Blake is back home from a mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people in Jarrett Creek are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered. Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself. Clues are scarce...
4362) Halifax: transgression
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on Australia's hugely popular Halifax f.p. television series, Roger Simpson brings Dr. Jane Halifax to life once again in this tense and twisted thriller that has her racing to catch one of the most dangerous serial killers she's ever encountered. Jane, an experienced and talented criminal profiler, is approached by former colleague--and former lover--Inspector Eric Ringer to help solve a brutally violent murder. The victim, a billionaire mogul...
4363) Hide
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Foster thriller volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she's still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team--and building trust with her new partner isn't coming easily. After another victim...
4364) Dead center
Author
Series
Truth Seekers volume 5
Publisher
Edge of Your Seat Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When forensic photographer Ainsley Duncan's brother is arrested for murder, she works hard to exonerate him through her contacts, but nothing clears his name until she happens upon a long-buried secret involving Grady Houston--the Veritas Center's ballistics, firearms, and explosives expert. Grady's worked hard to keep this secret buried for years and doesn't want it coming out, so he balks at her request to help find the real killer and free her...
4365) A different dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than two thousand miles away. In the process, they'll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale...
4366) The sign of the devil
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. The very same sign is daubed in blood on the walls of Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, on the night that one of the patients is murdered. The mark in question? The mark of the devil. The prime suspect: Amy McGray, the asylum's most infamous inmate, a young woman who has grown up behind bars after she killed her parents many years ago. Her brother, Detective 'Nine-Nails'...
4367) Blood crime
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns...
4368) The boat man
Author
Series
Reed and Billie novel volume 1
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Reed Mattox, just three months removed from the death of his partner, has turned invisibility into an art form. Switching to the K-9, taking over the graveyard shift, moving to a farmhouse miles outside of Columbus, his every move has become predicated on putting as much distance between himself and the outside world as possible. That distance is shattered though when bodies begin turning up in The Bottoms, the poverty-stricken section...
4369) Death of an avid reader
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The search for a daughter. Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia. A haunted library. It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, yet the stories have begun again. Kate does not believe in ghosts but obligingly takes part in a ceremony to expel the restless spirit. Shockingly, there is a body...
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017, ©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A puzzling new case has just hit Sheriff Joanna Brady's department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal--as well as help from neighboring law enforcement agencies and the Feds. The bodies of two women have been found at the base of a nearby peak, known to Bisbee locals as Geronimo. Is this a terrible accident, a case of murder/suicide, or a double homicide? The investigation takes a bewildering turn when Joanna discovers that one victim...
4371) Death in Dalvik
Author
Series
Magnus Iceland mystery volume 6
Publisher
Yarmer Head
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Dísa is given five bitcoin by her divorced father she is unimpressed: she hasn't heard of the cryptocurrency, and five of anything can't be worth very much. But a year later, when her grandparents are about to lose the farm near the Icelandic village of Dalvík in the north of Iceland, where their family has lived for centuries, quiet, unassuming Dísa is able to rescue it with the profits from her astute trading of her father's...
4372) Steeplejack
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside each other. The white Feldish command the nation's higher echelons of society. The native Mahweni are divided between city life and the savannah. And then there's Ang, part of the Lani community who immigrated over generations ago as servants and now mostly live in poverty on Bar-Selehm's...
4373) Vinyl resting place
Author
Series
Record shop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but no one was expecting to find a body deader than disco in the supply closet. Family is everything to the Jessups, so when their uncle is arrested by Juni's heartbreaking ex on suspicion of murder, the sisters don't skip a beat putting...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind--and his body--for action, and his current role as an English professor gives him a sharp understanding of human nature. But beyond that, he was born with a "strange habit of mind"--the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a...
4375) Bad country: a novel
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives alone, save for his old dog, in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many illegal immigrants...
4376) Black wolf
Author
Series
The Antonia Scott trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But she is unwilling to move past the last case, convinced it's related to a personal tragedy, until a series of deadly events pulls her back in. In southern...
4377) Blue light Yokohama
Author
Series
Inspector Iwata novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer. At the crime scene, they find...
4378) Bone on bone: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines -- but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip. How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The prime suspect in a murder investigation after the body of a rival bar owner is found on her doorstep, Hattie Hayes, to clear her name, must distill the evidence herself and serve the killer a swift shot of justice.
The Hayes family has made moonshine in Chattanooga since the days of Prohibition, and Hattie is happy to continue the tradition, serving up fun, fruity flavors in mason jars for locals and tourists alike. All signs indicate her new...
Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems...
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