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4401) Murder at Mabel's Motel
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"As quirky as McGill's residents can be, they usually welcome society's oddballs and outcasts into the community with open arms. But the three members of the Lone White Wolf Pack are a different story. Townsfolk aren't feeling the least bit neighborly toward the ignorant gang widely believed to have orchestrated several hate crimes in the area... When the small group's irredeemable leader, Billy Ray Sonner, is found dead in an abandoned motel, most...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.
"In 1917, on the day before Valentine's Day, eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. When the police gave up, a mysterious woman in black vowed to find her. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York...
4403) Birthday girl
Author
Publisher
Hodder Studio
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York, the 1990s: Impoverished writer Jonathan Dainty takes his wife Maddie out to the beach for her birthday. Hours later, he finds himself at the local police precinct trying to explain how he let his wife get into a stranger's car and allowed it to drive her away. More than twenty years later, Maddie is presumed dead and Jonathan has channelled his grief into a best-selling series of crime novels. As far as he can, he is living the perfect life....
4404) House reckoning
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 9
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didn't understand that Gino had been a hit man until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Gino's former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something off his chest before retiring to his grave: the truth about Gino's killer"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square-if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter. Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect her while she herself is confronted by a romantic...
4406) Sweet thing: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares at the bullet-pocked body of Chris Doyle. As he roots around for evidence, he finds an old Polaroid: the decedent, arm in arm with Arthur Holland, Blum's informant from years ago when he worked at the Narcotics branch. But Arthur has been missing for days. Blum's only source: Arthur's girl, Celeste--beautiful, seductive, and tragic--whom he can't get out of his head."--...
4407) The illusion of murder
Author
Series
Nellie Bly mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012, ©2011
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Physical Desc
x, 483 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenged by Jules Verne to beat his fictional character's around-the-world record, it will take every ounce of reporter Nellie Bly's charm and boundless determination to circumnavigate the globe. When she witnesses a tragic murder along the route, Nellie is drawn into a mystifying web of international intrigue. Pursued by the killer, her journey becomes a race to identify the murderer--and stay alive.
4408) Killer thriller
Author
Series
Ian Ludlow thriller volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everybody loves Ian Ludlow's action novels - especially the CIA - because the spies know something the public doesn't: his fictional plots have a frightening tendency to come true. Ian is in Hong Kong with his resourceful assistant Margo French to research his wildest story yet - a deadly global conspiracy by Chinese intelligence to topple the United States. What Ian doesn't know is that his horrifying scenario is happening and that the Chinese mistakenly...
4409) From a dark horizon
Author
Series
Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 4
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 516 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor Reinhardt's company is the culprit. But since that man killed himself, the General is looking for someone else to share the blame. Reinhardt must prove his trooper innocent if he hopes to avoid...
4410) A distant shore: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
4411) The evil men do
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hard-nosed real estate baron is dead, and detectives P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan learn there's a long list of suspects. Mason Falls, Georgia, may be a small town, but Ennis Fultz had filled it with professional rivals, angry neighbors, and a wronged ex-wife. And when Marsh realizes that this potential murder might be the least of his troubles, he begins to see what happens when ordinary people become capable of evil. As Marsh and Morgan dig into...
4412) Daughter of ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues--not even her partner, Inspector Marini--know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial...
4413) Bookmarked for murder
Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy City, mystery bookshop owner and historical whodunit novelist Sam Washington is returning home to North Harbor, Michigan, on a chartered bus. With Nana Jo and her gal pals Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae from Shady Acres Retirement Village along for the ride, it's a lively trip. But one passenger is not so lively - a gentleman Irma befriended is found dead in his seat after an unscheduled stop. The...
4414) A glimpse of hell
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When 47 sailors die because of a ship explosion during training excercises, the ship's Captian and a skeptical Lieutenant come head to head when trying to determine the true cause of the explosion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his friend Nicholas Thorpe, he hurries to the railway station. But he doesn't reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway....
4416) A smoking bun
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While baking up spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour, pastry chef turned amateur sleuth Jules Capshaw takes Ramiro's family to the annual Downhill Dummy competition in which murder comes in first and must catch a stone-cold killer before they strike again.
4417) Jesse Stone: Sea change
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime. But it's not just the victim's and killer's pasts that...
4418) Lady of perdition
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on Benjamin for help. To do so, he must abandon the safe...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 443 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judge John Deed is on a mission for justice and he's prepared to break the rules to deliver it. In his red robes and wig, Deed might look like every other High Court judge, but his passionate belief in justice sets him apart from his peers. To the police force, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Lord Chancellor's Department and even many of his colleagues, Deed is a man more concerned with justice than the letter of the law.
4420) Indigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood's...
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