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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1911 New York City, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, becomes obsessed with solving the crime when his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The young man's corpse lies tangled in the roots of a fallen tree, two silver coins nailed through his eyes. Who would torture their victim in such a brutal way - and why? DS McAvoy makes the victim a promise: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice comes at a cost, and this time it may be McAvoy's own family who pay the price.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When he unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world’s oldest bank and the CIA, one that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust and a legendary treasure worth billions, retired Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world’s financial systems.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own reasons for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After an avalanche causes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected invite to his estranged mother's birthday party at a fancy hotel gives DI Aector McAvoy and his wife Roisin a chance for a well-deserved holiday. Off-duty, and still recovering from injuries, McAvoy is determined to take advantage of the all-expenses-paid break, despite the tension between himself and his step-family. However, what should have been a relaxing, if awkward, getaway weekend turns out to be a full-on nightmare, when McAvoy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Victorian era New York, when Louisa, a reporter researching the dangers of patent medicines, is found strangled in New Century Magazine’s lobby after interviewing her, midwife Sarah Malloy and her PI husband, with the police hinting Louisa got what she deserved, take it upon themselves to catch a cold-blood killer.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one could’ve ever expected.
Author
Series
Winter Black volume 1
Publisher
Mary Stone
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A killer is watching...Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find her parents brutally murdered and her little brother gone--taken by a serial killer called The Preacher. Now a rookie FBI agent assigned to her first murder case, Winter has returned to the small Virginia town where she grew up. But when bones found by a hunter lead to the discovery of a secret burial ground containing the remains of children, the investigation...
Author
Language
English
Description
After shifting her focus from tracing the family trees of violent criminals to helping adoptees find their biological parents, forensic genealogist Rowan Healy agrees to help Austin detective Jack Bruner find justice for the victims of the West Campus Rapist through her DNA research, which leads them down a dark path.
11) Midnight dunes
Author
Series
Texas murder files volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the woman whose cottage she is renting is found dead in the sand dunes, documentary filmmaker Macy Burns, who has come to Lost Beach, Texas, to start over, helps Detective Owen Breda with the ensuing investigation, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.
13) Stalker: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two sadistic murders by a killer who would play games with the police prompt Swedish detective Joona Linna and trauma hypnotherapist Erik Maria Bark to take the case, which has disturbing ties to a years-old conviction.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1852, young widow Margaret Lennox, taking a position as governess to an only child at an isolated country house in the West of England, starts to feel that something isn’t quite right and, as her past threatens to catch up with her, she learns the truth behind the secrets of Hartwood Hall.
15) The hunter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Moving to rural Ireland, Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid, but when Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme, Trey wants revenge.
17) Under suspicion
Author
Series
Friday Barnes volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Getting arrested was the last thing Friday expected after solving a mystery at her boarding school. But she has been arrested, and she'd better clear her name fast! She's got new cases to investigate, like a scandalous quiche bake-off, a decades old mystery buried in her school's backyard, and why the new boy, Christopher, is being so nice to her.
18) Officer involved
Author
Series
Kingman and Reed volume 1
Publisher
712 Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
If local newspaper reporter Tom Kingman hadn't dropped by a domestic disturbance police call in the middle of a June swelter, people might still think of Sioux City only as a quiet town at the junction of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. Tom's witnessing of an officer-involved shooting leads to an epiphany: not everyone in Iowa is friendly and polite, especially Tom's fellow Iowans who are involved in a multi-state meth ring. He even discovers that...
19) Girl detective
Author
Series
Friday Barnes volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Friday Barnes discovers that her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime and soon she is investigating the disappearance of homework, stolen desserts, and a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp.
20) No rules
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After Friday Barnes is deported to Switzerland, Highcrest Academy descends into chaos as all their teachers are fired as an epic prank, but Friday tries to find the prankster, prove the innocence of her nemesis Ian Wainscott, and save the school.
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