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3121) The seagull
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Description
A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper--and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall...
3122) The cockroaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Canada
Language
English
Description
Sequel to "The Bat" and part of the Harry Holes series. Never-before translated into English.
3123) Fall
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Foster volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Description
Chicago detective Harriet Foster investigates when two city aldermen are found dead, each with 30 dimes left on their bodies, indicating a betrayer's payment.
3124) The nightmare
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Description
After spellbinding audiences in "The Hypnotist," Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back. At its core, the most frightening aspect of "The Nightmare" isn't its gruesome crimes - it's the dark psychology of its characters - who show us how blind we are to our own motives.
3126) The alchemist's pursuit
Author
Series
Alfeo Zeno novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Author
Series
Leningrad confidential volume 2
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Language
English
Description
"'A superb read, with some unexpected turns right at the end."--Crime Book of the Month, The Critic On the eve of Soviet purges, Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman--the second installment in the ultimate noir detective series Perfect for fans of thrilling historical crime fiction, Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept "Fascinating reading This series has legs!"--Publishers Weekly...
3128) The jade frog
Author
Series
Chilcotin trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Granville Island Publishing
Language
English
Description
An artist-shaman, an English teacher, and a judge find their lives transformed by the beauty and spiritual influence of the Cariboo- Chilcotin. Spanning decades and vast territory, this novel brings together disparate worlds as the law and shamanism vie to find the murderer in their midst, with the only clues the book that prompted Johanna Kent to reveal her darkest secret and her talisman, a jade frog pendant whose origin shes hidden from...
3129) False mermaid
Author
Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Language
English
3130) Hid from our eyes
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades. 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s....
3131) Murder in Rose Hill
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
3133) Pay dirt
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her protegee's roommate, Sabrina, disappears V.I. agrees to find her. Then V.I. finds Sabrina close to death in a drug house, and finds herself in the FBI's crosshairs--and the young men running the county's opioid distribution are not happy. When V.I. discovers a local troublemaker's dead body in the drug house a few days later, she is pitched headlong into a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War. V.I.'s survival depends...
3134) Murder on the hoof
Author
Series
Colleen McCabe novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Language
English
Description
"In North Carolina's Outer Banks, Fire Chief Colleen McCabe and Sheriff Bill Dorman work together to uncover who is murdering members of a community theatre group and why"-- Provided by publisher.
3136) Ash dark as night
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
3138) Heart of the Nile
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them. In...
Author
Series
Rip through time volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
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