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3582) The drowning girls
Author
Series
Detective Josie Quinn volume 13
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the thin glow of moonlight, a mess of auburn curls gleams against the rocks. Hands bound, the girl's fragile body is limp and still. Seconds later, a wall of raging white water crashes down, swallowing her whole... A knock on the door late in the evening can only mean trouble for Detective Josie Quinn, but fear chokes her at the news that one of her own team is missing. No one has seen Denton PD's Press Liaison Amber for days. Sweet-natured and...
3583) Bake, borrow, and steal
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at Southern Oregon University. The unveiling of the Bard's lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, will be celebrated with silky chocolate showpieces, lardy cakes, frangipane tarts, and jellies with chestnut cream. But on the big evening,...
3584) Adverse possession
Author
Series
The Anna Albertini files volume 3
Publisher
Raz Ink
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The plural form of nemesis is nemeses. Anna Albertini never thought she'd have to look up the plural form of nemesis. In fact, she never thought she'd have one, much less three. But as she and her new partner try to make a go of their fledgling law firm, enemies come from every direction. First, there's a newspaper reporter trying to make a name for herself by dogging Anna's every move. Second, there's a lawyer on the opposite side of every case who...
3585) The prized girl: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Days after a young pageant queen named Jenny is found murdered, her small town grieves the loss alongside her picture-perfect parents. At first glance, Jenny's tragic death appears clear-cut for investigators. The most obvious suspect is one of her fans, an older man who may have gotten too close for comfort. But Jenny's half-sister, Virginia--the sarcastic black sheep of the family--isn't so sure of his guilt and takes matters into her own hands...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With the Mississippi sun beating down, An'gel and Dickce are taking a break to cool off and pet sit their friend Charlie Harris's cat, Diesel, when their former sorority sister, Rosabelle Sultan, shows up at their door unexpectedly, with her ne'er-do-well adult children not far behind. Rosabelle's selfish offspring are desperate to discover what's in her will, and it soon becomes clear that one of them would kill to get their hands on the inheritance....
3587) The dancing girls
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the truth, another woman is found strangled in a hotel, arms...
3588) The death of pie
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a bestselling novelist falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder's prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia's 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects in the subsequent murder investigation. A former guest at Magdalena's PennDutch Inn, the author had made many enemies on publication of her subsequent tell-all book, exposing the faults and foibles of members of the local Amish/Mennonite community, and mocking...
Author
Series
Emma Griffin FBI mystery volume 12
Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
How much of the past do you carry with you? It's a question FBI Agent Emma Griffin has dealt with throughout her career. This time is different. Months after a case brought her face to face with her own past and an unresolved disappearance that haunted her, she finds herself delving into the past of one of those closest to her. She learns about the turning moment of Dean's life and the torment that still follows him as they try to find closure for...
3590) Chili con carnage
Author
Series
Chili cook-off mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Romance is supposed to be the spice of life. But Maxie Pierce is so done with bad relationships--well, almost. She just has to get rid of the latest loser, Roberto. Besides, she has more important things to worry about. Her daddy, Texas Jack Pierce, king of the chili cook-off circuit, has been missing for nearly six weeks now. In his place, she must team up with her irritating half sister, Sylvia, to promote the family business at the Taos Chili Showdown,...
3591) El caso Hartung
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
"El primer martes de Octubre, Rosa Hartung vuelve a su trabajo como ministra de asuntos sociales después de un año de ausencia, al haber vivido una situación dramática: la desaparición de su hija de 12 años. Linus Berger, un joven que sufre de una enfermedad mental, confesó haber matado a la chica, pero es incapaz de recordar donde quemó las varias partes del cadáver, que fue desmembrado. Hay una correlación entre el caso de la hija de la...
3592) Secrets typed in blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines with gruesome tales of revenge. Now someone is bringing...
Author
Series
Samantha Bell thriller volume 3
Publisher
[Jeremy Waldron]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a desperate mother comes asking for help in finding her missing daughter, investigative reporter, Samantha Bell, can't say no. But the timing couldn't be worse. The Colorado Times is failing and the district attorney's office knows it. Court cases are being suppressed, leaving Samantha completely in the dark, and when Detective Alex King is called to work an apparent murder-suicide of a wealthy couple in Congress Park, Samantha is the first to...
3594) The verifiers
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed...
3595) The shadow murders
Author
Series
Department Q volume 9
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems...
3596) Reap what you sew
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Tori Sinclair has found a sense of home with the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle. During their get-togethers, she can relax with her sewing and listen in on Sweet Briar's latest gossip. Bet when the town is chosen to be the setting of Warren Shoemaker's movie, the sewing circle gets cought up in bigger drama. With dreams of stardom, everyone is hoping to be cast as an extra - which lucky Tori is. But fame has its price, as they learn when...
3597) Something wicked
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional...
3598) Frozen heat
Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting in a freezer truck. A startling enough death, but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat's own mother. Killed gruesomely, the Jane Doe on ice launches Heat...
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