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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1910, Effie joins forces with an English newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place"--
2) Westport
Author
Language
English
Description
"When she becomes the lead suspect in her coworker's murder, Nora Carleton calls in her old colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and lawyer Carmen Garcia, and as they hunt for the true killer's motive, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who framed her."--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Klarke Ascher has a singular goal: to become an Ascenditure, a member of the kingdom's elite climbing team who scale the treacherous peaks of Miter's Backbone in search of an elusive medicine to treat the lung sickness that ails the populace. However, in a kingdom governed by centuries of tradition, where women are legally bound to home and hearth, owned by the men they are forced to marry, the Ascenditures have always been male. As the strongest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a reproduction of a famous painting is stolen from a traveling show of impressionist art, librarian Lucy is painted into a corner when a murder occurs, while Louise Jane is captivated by handsome art dealer, who might be the killer-and the person threatening to break her heart."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, "Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard," which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs-someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident-or something...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A woman who has been seeing spirits since childhood offers her assistance to the local police after a series of grisly child murders and becomes a suspect herself after uncovering an impossible piece of information from her ghost informants.
7) Shadowheart
Author
Series
Unsub novel ; 4
Language
English
Description
Two serial killers are locked in a twisted rivalry. To stop the brutal slayings, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix will risk everything to end their warped competition and bring an unstoppable killer to justice.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Oreon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the desolate Yorkshire moors, a book may hold the key to a brutal murder. When a renowned American book collector is found dead at the foot of Harlesden Scar, it appears to be a tragic accident. But his nephew and Captain Mannering are convinced it's a mysterious and sinister homicide, potentially linked to a long-neglected tome in the doctor's possession. Determined to uncover the truth, the pair embark on a perilous chase, desperate to catch...
Author
Series
Dorset crime ; 3
Publisher
Ackroyd Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An isolated community, a web of secrets, a mysterious death. When a body washes up on the shores of Brownsea Island, DCI Lesley Clarke initially suspects suicide. But as she gets closer to the island's close-knit community, she starts to suspect foul play. Why did the victim argue with her closest friend days before her death? What secrets is the victim's manager keeping? And can Lesley get to the bottom of the mystery before someone else dies?
Author
Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead"--
12) When cicadas cry
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young white woman has been bludgeoned to death in a rural church on Cicada Road, just outside the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina—a state that has been roiling with racial tenson since the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer. Sam Jenkins, who is Black, was found covered in blood and kneeling over her. Zach Stander, a down-and-out lawyer, is convinced to take Sam’s case by his detective girlfriend, Addie, while...
13) The body counter
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it's a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide. At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims--until they're approached...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police department. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from their land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. Young bull leaper Martis finds Duzi, the newest member of the bull leaping team, dead in the bull pen early one morning. Made to look like he met his end on the horns of the bull, it's clear to Martis that this was no accident . . . Martis once again finds herself thrown into a dangerous game of hunting down a murderer as the deaths start to mount. An old friend of Martis' sister, and possible lover to Duzi, is the next person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a murderous Bonnie and Clyde stirring up a hornet's nest to a drug war and the rise of heroin overdoses, Detectives Michael Acosta and Chris Emerson are tasked with investigating the rash of robberies and brutal murders happening in the borough. Queens is bubbling with heated violence, as rival kingpins vie for power"--
18) La camarera
Author
Series
Publisher
Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.
Author
Publisher
MACMILLAN
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world's most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in His Majesty's government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England. When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene - but one crucial detail doesn't fit. The man's body was discovered...
20) Keeping the dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror she realises that it's not as ancient as they thought...A very modern bullet is showing up on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second - and then a third - mummified body. Who is this killer and why does he preserve his victims...
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