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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted novelist, a shocking story of voyeurism, betrayal, and the gray areas between truth and fiction that reflects our era of tabloid media and fake news. In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and the tabloids are aflame, accusing Mr. Wolphram, the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious, friendless, and eccentric. Charged with investigating this...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A debate is raging over the use of public lands, and to cover the story for Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg joins a congressman and several others on a subterranean adventuredespite her intense claustrophobia. The thoughts of cave-ins and cougars are unnerving, but at least its a distraction from her other anxieties, like her best friends departure for Italy, her bosss plan to sell the company, and the ongoing questions about her fathers suspicious...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume prequel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jennie McGrady loves to read mysteries, drive her mom's Mustang, and think about Ryan Johnson. Her summer seems perfect-until her grandmother Helen disappears with a million dollars in stolen diamonds.
Helen McGrady's job as a freelance writer for travel magazines takes her all over the world, but it's her secret connections with the FBI that interest Jennie.
Ryan Johnson is the good-looking boy next door-unfortunately it's next door to Gram, 150...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 40
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 14
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy and her friends establish headquarters in a seaside yacht club to investigate strange happenings in a book store and the disappearance of a marble statue
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide. In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don't...
11) What she left
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 1
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs. So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels to the one place she swore never to go: back home. As the pressure mounts and the temptation of booze calls like a siren,...
12) Legs Benedict
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A week of "mayhem-as-usual" at Hillside Manor kicks off with the arrival of a mysterious "Mr. Smith" and his floozie "Mrs." from New York City-and it accelerates into chaos when Mr. Smith himself kicks off, a victim of the foulest of plays. Hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is shocked to learn that her now-defunct roomer was actually "Legs" Benedict-hit man for the notorious Ronzini Family-and that virtually every other guests at her B&B had good reason...
13) Devious
Author
Series
On the run volume 5
Publisher
CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Free-spirited Zoe Andrews has settled into married life and feels she has found her ideal niche working for a company that discreetly recovers lost items for elite clients, but her first assignment, which takes her to Edinburgh to recover a stolen painting, turns out to be more complicated than she expected. Instead of simply getting in touch with contacts in the art world, Zoe finds herself tangled in a web of contradictions. Why would someone steal...
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Harding moves into the former mansion of the Barbary family, he discovers, behind a secret panel, the skeletal remains of an ancient murder and investigates the Barbary's involvement in the killing.
Author
Series
The Havard and Lambert mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Charming film writer and director Geraint Denbigh is found lifeless in the garden of his Welsh home. It looks like he fell from a window, but eagle-eyed Detective Chief Inspector Matt Lambert soon finds irregularities in the crime scene. Before long he determines it was murder. Recently retired, the victim was writing about his eventful life and many of his former colleagues and associates could have had reason to stop him before he spilled the beans...
16) Chasing darkness
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous place to hide is the dark.
17) Pilgrim soul
Author
Series
Publisher
Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets, and Douglas Brodie's past is engulfing him. It starts small. The Jewish community in Glasgow asks Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman turned journalist, to solve a series of burglaries. The police don't care and Brodie needs the cash. Brodie solves the crime but the thief is found dead, butchered by the owner of the house he was robbing. When the householder in...
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Andi Wyndham has communicated with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl’s face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can’t resist buying it and a sister piece. When she discovers the girls are missing runaways and the pendants are made of human bone, Andi is drawn into a mystery that will force her to confront her gifts, her guilt, and the ghosts haunting her. Pendant Girls Mariah and Bennie...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Fall has fallen upon Judith McMonigle Flynn, leaving her Hillside Manor nearly devoid of guests. And what better cure for the off-season blahs than a brief bout of B&B sifting for a friend amid the quiet rustic splendor of secluded Chavez Island? Judith and cousin Renie both are more than ready for some relaxation. But their peace goes to pieces when Renie conks an odious interloping blowhard on the noggin with a heavy china dish-and, moments later,...
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