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Author
Series
Sheriff Elven Hallie mystery volume 6
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from the news dropped on his desk days earlier, Sheriff Elven Hallie is left questioning everyone and everything in his life. But when a former deputy is burned to death, Elven must push aside the turmoil in his personal life to catch the killer. As if that wasn't enough, new faces from the Starcher clan enter his county with vengeance in their eyes for Corbin's death. Paranoid, angry, and directionless, Elven must lean on those closest...
Author
Publisher
British Library Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
New edition /
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the edge of the woods by the river stands the tower. Once part of a chateau since burnt down, only the tower remains. The inside is but a shell with a stone staircase climbing spirally up the wall to a flat stone roof with a parapet. One that parapet the body of Howard Brooke lay bleeding. The murderer, when Brooke's back was turned, must have drawn the sword-cane from it sheath and run him through the body. And this must have occurred between...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After initially believing a stray bullet from a nearby hunting area killed a local pickleball player, Sheriff Ferris realizes someone is intentionally targeting players in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, in the third novel of the series following Hidden in the Pines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Omnibus edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 684 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collected in one volumethe first three books in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series American readers were first introduced to Sicilys inimitable Inspector Salvo Montalbano more than ten years ago. Since then, the detectiveand his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good foodhas won the affection of crime fiction aficionados and Italophiles alike. With Andrea Camilleris last two mysteries appearing on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To save an innocent man's life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane. Kat Holloway is distressed to learn that Samuel Millburn, husband of the woman who looks after her daughter, has been accused of embezzling funds from the bank where he works as a clerk. The accusation is absurd,...
Author
Series
Lost in Paris mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash,...
7) The vaquita
Author
Series
Wildes volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers--while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins. Now they're in Baja, Mexico--the Sea of Cortez to be exact--searching for the endangered...
8) Bad like us
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her friends had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since that thing they don't talk about happened with Miles, so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won't admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper's constant live streams to her thousands of "besties." At first, it's all about...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) : 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Murder Most Puzzling is a gorgeous and witty book that invites readers to play detective and solve a series of absorbing, murder-mystery-themed puzzles. Readers are cast as the faithful sidekick to amateur sleuth Medea Thorne in order to solve 20 puzzling cases. Meet a cast of colorful characters'from ghost hunter extraordinaire Augustin Artaud, to Leonard Fanshawe, a competitor in the Annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival. A witty riff on the classic...
11) The hollow tree
Author
Series
Shona Sandison investigation volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Intrepid investigative journalist Shona Sandison, gone freelance following the tragic events of The Goldenacre, is attending the wedding of her closest friend and former colleague, Vivienne. But the night before the wedding, Vivienne's reclusive old school friend, Dan, throws himself off a roof. Shona is the only witness to the suicide--and so the only person who saw the occult tattoos covering Dan's body, and heard the unsettling, mystical phrases...
13) Torn asunder
Author
Series
Maine clambake mystery volume 12
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Julia's best friend and business partner, Zoey, is about to marry her policeman boyfriend. Of course, a gorgeous white wedding dress shouldn't be within fifty yards of a plate of buttery lobster--so that treat is reserved for the rehearsal dinner. Julia is a little worried about the timing, though, as she works around a predicted storm. When a guest falls to the floor dead, it turns out that no one seems to know who he is, despite the fact that he's...
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
22 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pedro and his dad are walking Katie home on a foggy night when they are seemingly pursued by something very smelly, and Katie and Pedro try and solve the mystery of the big smell.
15) Point zero
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto, the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. First published in Japanese in 1959, the novel abandoned the template of closed-room mysteries so popular in pre-war Japan to embrace social criticism. In a radical departure from tradition, the novel has a female protagonist, a housewife...
Author
Series
Murder she wrote mystery volume 58
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher's British cousin, Emma MacGill, will be traveling to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to perform with internationally famous star of stage, screen, and television Derek Braverman in an old-fashioned musical review. Emma would love for Jessica to join her there and suggests she bring along some friends. Having just finished her latest book, Jessica is ready for a vacation and is delighted to agree. Dr. Seth Hazlitt and Sheriff Mort Metzger...
Author
Series
Dr Nell Ward mystery volume 4
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Dr Nell Ward stumbles across a woman's body amongst the purple heather of Furze Heath, she was on the lookout for nests of poisonous adders. A cold-blooded killer is on the loose and this is not his first victim. As DI James Clark begins to investigate, a pattern emerges pointing towards this being the work of a serial killer. Every victim shares the same physical characteristics, all of which are a match to Dr Nell Ward herself. As Nell is...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fatal turn of events plagues the town, librarian witch Josie Way asks the spellbound books for help, seeking the aid of Sherlock Holmes, but when strange things continue to happen, she wonders if she is dealing with her own Moriarty as she tries to solve this mystery.
19) Watershed
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawkes, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationships between Native American activist and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-year-old Black woman Camille Fitzsimons is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper? So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic small-town Robbinsville, North Carolina and hunt for a missing...
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