Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Ruskin, disillusioned with life and love, takes a position as governess to ten-year-old Poppy Ackroyd at a large country home. Despite the Ackroyd family's contempt for her, she soon begins to develop a rapport with Gavin, their effortlessly superior eldest son. Then disaster strikes when Emma and Poppy are snatched and imprisoned by kidnappers. Emma knows they'll be killed if the ransom money isn't forthcoming, unless Gavin can get to them first....
2) Death watch
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne Symons is content living with her widowed father in a sleepy Dorset town. She has a good job in a solicitor's office and a kind, reliable and good-looking boyfriend, Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad appears on the scene, she suddenly feels something is missing from her life. Should she risk a safe future with loyal, adoring Joe for the dangerous allure and excitement of this fascinating stranger?"--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched. DCI Bill Slider and his team know that when a woman goes missing, you have to move fast if there's to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat, his head smashed by one of his own dumbbells. His heartlessly-dumped girlfriend, blood on her clothes and hands, is the prime suspect. She had means, opportunity, and motive. But is the case as clear-cut as it seems? Handsome Erik Lingoss had clients in high places; and he seemed to engender powerful emotions. If it was a crime of passion, there was plenty of that to go round: love...
6) Headlong
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated...
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 3
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 511 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her... The Earl's younger sisters, Rachel and Alice, are both...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request