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Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Painters Mill Police Chief Kate Burkholder investigates the violent, cross-bow shooting death of a hardworking, engaged young Amish man as her own wedding date draws near.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller sets out to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, putting Mickey in the crosshairs of a killer who doesn’t want the case reopened—or the truth coming to light.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a brutal murder, Deputy Chief Inspector Lu Fei—as someone attacks illegal cyber-sex operations, disposing of the operators and quietly freeing sex trafficked teens from North Korea—must connect these different events, with pressure from all sides that threatens to ruin his career and endanger his very life.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why."--
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Series
Imposters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dire straits force Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother to become private investigators in London. When Sir Merrick Livingstone hires them to look into the father of Marigold's best friend for suspected international espionage, she is determined to discover the truth, and even more determined to keep her heart from getting involved.
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Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An ex-NYPD beat cop, unrelenting PI and undefeated defense attorney, terminally ill Jane Smith, while knee-deep in the murder of trial of the century, is targeted by a killer who’s determined to end her life before her expiration date.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large"--...
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Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Language
English
Description
A grifter skilled at interacting with difficult men, Elizabeth Bates teams up with the suffragist movement in an attempt to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. But she would never have expected the lengths to which some would go to keep the vote out of women's hands. She'll need to devise the perfect con or the suffragists' life's work could all be for nothing.
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Series
Jimmy Dreghorn volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case-despite sharing a troubled history with the victim's widow. From the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow's criminal underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid must...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem, compelled to poke into her wealthy clients' closely guarded lives. It's a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can't unsee in the home of her brand-new clients. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple--who might kill to keep their secret--dangerous to Kit. When homicide cop Mallory Van Alst is called to a scene at a luxury waterfront home, she's confronted with evidence...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite evidence that he's a killer, and worse, Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes...
15) Cutting teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ten preschoolers develop an unsettling medical condition that leaves them craving blood and are implicated, along with their mothers, in the murder of their young teacher.
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a dead body is placed directly in the path of an early season hunt, “Sister” Jane Arnold, with the Jefferson Hunt Club busier than ever, must decipher cryptic clues left for her and her friends before any of them wind up dead.
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Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naïve and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who doesn’t want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles in the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine and Tommy Fortuna have a lot of resolutions for the new year—whether it’s continuing to build up their detective agency or planning their wedding, the two are looking forward to the future. On their way to Times Square to celebrate, the two witness a brutal stabbing.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of the Duke of Bainbridge, Lady Emily, when the duke’s gamekeeper is murdered, investigates, discovering a link between his brutal death and that of a harrowing witchcraft trial hundreds of years ago that reveals the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village.
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