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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
2) In the woods
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
3) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the sister of the judge presiding over a sensational murder case is found dead, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the reluctant star witness in the trial, investigates and recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, pitting her against a powerful force that returns her to the past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widow Rain Wilmot, while preparing to reopen her mother’s informal library, discovers the body of a real estate buyer on the premises and, under the suspicious eyes of the community, pieces together the clues to solve this mystery before she meets the same fate.
Author
Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The voices of the dead become inescapable clues for lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly in this “winning series” (Booklist) of murder—and beyond—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris…
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling...
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling...
Author
Series
Two rivers volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While looking into the murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo, who was investigating the suicide of a young man who was a member of chilling online group, Detective Matthew Venn, as the body count rises, must wade through the lies at the heart of his community.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To clear Betty Wentworth’s name in the murder of a dog-food sponsor, Vivian and Scarlett must enter the Pets and Wellness Society’s annual dog show in Betty’s place and dig up the dirt on the competition in order to collar the real killer.
Author
Series
Samuel Craddock mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When someone tries to kill his friend, neighbor and wine-drinking partner Jenny, who, after being forced to confront her past, is drinking heavily, Samuel Craddock must do everything he can to save her from herself as well as from the person who is out to hurt her.
Author
Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago, all as a winter storm rages.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a body is discovered in a hidden staircase at Barton Mansion during renovations, Kate Hamilton hunts to identify this man who was murdered in 1880, and learns that digging up the past can be deadly when a second body is found.
Author
Series
Samuel Craddock mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He discovers that a lot of people had it in for Dora Lee. Will Craddock have what it takes to find the killer?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Museum mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Nell Pratt solicits donations-and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime.
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Series
Language
English
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When library director Lindsey Norris arrives at the Dorchester family’s estate to collect books left to the library, she instead finds a skeleton linked to a missing person’s case from 1989, and sets out to solve this mystery and throw the book at a killer who thought they got away with murder.
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Early one November, portraits of the Chief Executives of three major midwestern meat-producing corporations and the governor of Iowa go missing. These incidents seem relatively minor―until the dead bodies of the three CEOs are discovered in the hog lots and chicken factories that they own. The governor remains alive but terrified. He immediately orders the state department of criminal investigation to drop all other duties to protect him. The job...
18) Bad Luck
Author
Series
Zack Walker volume 3
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a mutilated corpse turns up at his father's lakeside fishing camp, supposedly the victim of a vicious bear attack, journalist and family man Zack Walker begins to suspect something far more sinister and finds himself taking on a deadly predator with a host of terrifying weapons with a fanatical thirst for mayhem.
19) Hollywood ending
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When publicist Lyla Davis is killed in what appears to be botched ATM robbery, actress-turned-private-investigator Dayna Anderson infiltrates Hollywood celebrity circles to ferret out the truth.
Author
Series
Skirmish Cove Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scrivenings Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Murder strikes Skirmish Cove during the coastal town's winter carnival. Jillian Tunney, part owner of the nearby Novel Inn, discovers the body of a clerk at her favorite bookstore. With her sister Kate and brother, Officer Rick Gage, she tries to find out who killed him. Meanwhile, Jillian is immersed in redecorating one of the themed rooms, but Kate is annoyed when a mysterious guest at the inn doesn't want to leave his room. The innkeepers find...
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