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8101) Eggsecutive orders
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"With the White House's big Easter celebration--along with a visit from her family--right around the corner, Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket. Add the death of a government official and she's starting to feel more like a basket case ... What's worse than a guest not liking your food? A guest dropping dead from it. When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Ollie's staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now,...
8102) The girl next door
Author
Series
Emma Griffin FBI mystery volume 4
Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Complete silence filled the room until an unexpected sound brought Emma out of her slumber...Emma's world starts to spin, and she begins to wonder...Is someone taunting her? Or has she truly gone crazy?"--back cover
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A mystery novel set in the Siskiyou Mountains, revolving around the secret location of the breeding ground of one of the world's rarest salamanders (the turquoise dragon), a murdered biologist, a former marijuana grower, and a beautiful female herpetologist.
8104) 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...
8105) Cleopatra's dagger
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest shadows. When more bodies...
8106) Tahoe hit
Author
Series
Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 18
Publisher
Thriller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Carston Kraytower's San Francisco hedge fund is hugely profitable. But Kraytower has a secret past he'll do anything to conceal. Two of his colleagues know what he's hiding. All seems okay until they start dying in inexplicable ways up at Lake Tahoe.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert. At a time...
8108) The black queen
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
Nova Albright was murdered the night of her coronation as the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High. Her body was found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Examines the case of Jo Ann Parks, the sole survivor and eyewitness of a Los Angeles apartment fire in which her three young children perished. Parks was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole based on forensic fire science that is now being challenged by the California Innocence Project, which contends tunnel vision and outright bias not only led to life in prison for an innocent mother, but convicted her of a crime that never actually...
Author
Series
High risk novels volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Caitlin Cavanaugh likes being in charge. Maybe that's why she's an FBI Special Agent. Her latest assignment: Stop a violent madman in Somersett, South Carolina. But even more challenging is working with former Navy SEAL Quinn McKade, who -- though Cait would never admit it -- makes her feel deliciously out of control" Publisher description
8111) The door of no return
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A string of grisly murders is traced back to the sinister, sensuous Countess, an infamous resident of the stylish Hotel Cortez in downtown Los Angeles. It is a visually stunning, visceral feast. Come explore the hidden corridors of this fiendishly entertaining show with accommodating extras.
8114) Musseled out
Author
Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the "Mussel King" of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles. . .
When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger...
8115) Manhattan murder mystery
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998, p1993
Language
English
Description
A bored Manhattan housewife becomes convinced her next-door neighbor has committed a murder.
Author
Series
Hugh Corbett mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Investigating the February 1304 murder of the king's disgraced Chief Justice, Sir Hugh Corbett sifts through clues to determine if the culprit is a vengeance-seeking adversary of the victim or a copycat killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland. AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel burns to the ground. There is one fatality: Bishop Brodulf of Luxovium, a distinguished visitor and cousin to the King of Franks. Sister Fidelma is asked by Abbot Cun to investigate the unfortunate incident and soon finds that the bishop had been stabbed to death before the fire had even started. Thrown into a world of treachery and jealousy, where religious...
8120) The missing ones
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same distinctive tattoo clumsily inscribed on their legs. The trail leads Lottie to St. Angela's, a former children's home, with a dark connection to her own family history. Suddenly, the case just got personal. As Lottie begins to link the current...
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