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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
I wonder if you could come in for a moment?" says Mrs Kay to Violet Besserman. Violet comes in, but she is not prepared for what she will find when the doors of the decaying house close behind her. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
R. Barri Flowers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder During the Chicago World's Fair, Murder at the Pencil Factory, and Murder of the Banker's Daughter, comes the riveting historical true crime short, Murder of the Doctor's Wife: The 1867 Crimes of Bridget Durgan.On the evening of Monday, February 25, 1867, Mary Ellen Coriell was brutally murdered at her home in Newmarket, New Jersey. The cold-blooded nature of the murder...
83) After Dark
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A prolific author of the Victorian era, Wilkie Collins (182489) specialized in tales of suspense. The forerunners of today's detective and suspense fiction, his best-known works include The Moonstone and The Woman in White. The six short stories of After Dark - tales of murder, mystery, and family drama - originally appeared in the periodical Household Words, which was published by Collins's friend and fellow storyteller Charles Dickens. The opening...
Author
Publisher
Al Rennie
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
CHIPs is hired to investigate the deaths of Tontine members; Mia is excited about a Joe idea; The FBI approach Doc with a scheme he wants to ignore; Ken Jackson arrives from Canada with a confession; Bob Morse has a problem; Billy Ray asks to be the good cop; there is a murder at the shelter; June Franklin has a theory about her foster family; Doc might be in more trouble; another romp in Paradise. --Provided by publisher.
85) Hanged Man
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet home in the Fort Lauderdale suburbs, a woman psychically witnesses a murder. In a posh estate, a few miles away, a man lies dead. The only clues are a collection of Tarot cards sent to the victim's home and a nuisance call from a Fort Lauderdale woman who claims to have had a vision of the killing. For Detective Wayne Sheppard, the killing of famous criminologist Andrew Steele and the disappearance of his beautiful wife is about to test...
86) Farewell Cowboy
Author
Publisher
Istros Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Farewell Cowboy is a taut but poetic novel by one of Croatia's best-known writers. Rich in local color and sentiment, this is the story of Dada, who returns to her home town on the Adriatic coast in order to unravel the mystery of her brother Daniel's death. Daniel, although young, smart, and popular, threw himself under a train in mysterious circumstances. In search for clues, Dada meets an array of eccentric characters and passionately falls in...
Author
Publisher
CD Moulton
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Clint is visiting a friend near Mali when a young woman comes through gathering flowers for her mother's grave. She is found strangled in a shallow grave with some of those flowers on it. Clint investigates to find she was a nymphomaniac and knew it. She had her life exactly the way she wanted it..So who killed her? Why? The society is very tolerant of such things here. She was actually popular. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Blue Dragon Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Bathed in the beauty of Germany on a storybook assignment, Major Jackie Austin is revered across Spangdahlem Air Base as an officer and leader. The Air Force is looking to promote her ahead of the pack. From the outside, she’s got it all, to include a fighter pilot husband, the handsome and popular Stan “Mace” Mason. In truth, things are fraying behind the scenes, as the compromises of a two-career military marriage take their toll. All of it...
Author
Publisher
Adolfo Sagastume
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Narco Novela. Lacho es el Secretario del Chapo Guzman, el narcotraficante mas famoso y buscado del mundo. El Secretario tiene muchas tareas que hacer y las hace todas a punta de pistola. Tiene sangre frIa, don de mando y lo que es mas importante mucho... motivos para hacerlo.En Mexico hay un poder oculto que mueve los hilos de la polItica, la educacion, la policIa y las fuerzas armadas. Ese poder surge poderoso en esta entrega, que mas que una novela...
Author
Publisher
LearningIsland.com
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Join Jamie and Kendall Broderick in this exciting adventure as they search a house for clues to find out if it was used as a station on the underground railroad. The discovery of a secret passageway which locks Jamie inside is just the start of their adventure.This is the first book in the exciting new Kendall and Jamie Broderick Mystery Series. Books are written on several different reading levels, allowing you to grow with Kendall and Jamie over...
91) Dead End
Author
Publisher
Red Palm Press LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Kit Wilder is all washed up at the ripe old age of twenty-three. Blackballed by the producers of her hit TV show, she returns home to the affluent town of Westdale, chock full of Mayflower descendants, to enroll in college and lead a quiet life...until she discovers a skeleton in her house.Kit quickly finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation led by the handsome detective, Romeo Moretti. With the help of her new neighbors, Kit channels her...
Author
Publisher
Gemma
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From five USA TODAY bestselling authors comes the next set of intriguing cozy mystery novels in the Danger Cove Mysteries series! This boxed set includes three, full-length novels, including:Heroes and Hurricanesa Danger Cove Cocktail MysteryWhen Lilly Waters moved to her ancestral small-town home of Danger Cove, Washington, she hoped for a walk down memory lane and a chance to connect with the family she never knew. What she gets instead is a bartending...
94) Sorrow's Crown
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Kendrick's grandmother lives in the upstate New York village of Felicity Grove. And whenever something of a criminal nature occurs, Grandma Anna is right in the thick of it. This time, the senior sleuth needs Jonathan's help to clear an innocent man's name. Zebediah Crummler, the cemetery caretaker, has been arrested ..."--
95) Prosecco Fortune
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Emma Chandler has a comfortable life as junior partner of a firm of chartered accountants in London. When she is sent to Venice to investigate the disappearance of their client Signor Marco dell'Orto's fortune, her safe lifestyle is capsized. Emma is thrown into a disorientating and fast-paced world of deceit and crime. She begins to fall for the enigmatic Italian millionaire Marco while staying in his palazzo, and her arrival does not remain unnoticed...
96) Bits & Pieces
Author
Publisher
Gestalt Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter with a stranger traps Tessa within the mind of a madman. Tessa was born with a gift. Through a simple touch she picks up pieces of others. A “flash” of color devours her, the only indication that she’s gained something new from another person. Red equals pain; purple, a talent; yellow, a premonition; orange, a painful memory; and blue, a pleasant one. Each flash blurs the lines between her inherent traits and those she’s...
Author
Publisher
Carpe Luna Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Faith kept her plain. Science made her complicated. Seventeen year old Lydia Troyer is far from concerned with science or politics. Growing up behind a concrete wall in the exiled community of Hemlock Hollow, life hasn't changed much since her Amish ancestors came to America. She milks her cow by hand, makes fresh bread every morning, and hopes to be courted by a boy she’s known since childhood. But when Lydia's father has a stroke and is rushed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Newly paroled from a Youth Detention Center, Jules returns to her high school with post-traumatic amnesia of her boyfriend’s murder. As the community scapegoats her as “Snow Black” for the murder, Jules sets out to find the real culprit. The more Jules remembers, however, the more tangled up she gets in a web of deceit spun from her troubled past. Set in 2003 in the fictional state of Elterra, Snow Black combines the angst of transracial adoption...
99) Forgotten Girl
Author
Publisher
Jessica Sorensen
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one year-old Maddie Asherford is haunted by a past she can't remember. When she was fifteen years old, there was a tragic accident and she was left with amnesia.In the aftermath, Maddie's left struggling with who she is-the forgotten girl she was six years ago or the Maddie she is now. Sometimes it even feels like she might be two different people completely-the good Maddie and the bad one.Good Maddie goes to therapy, spends time with her family,...
100) Kizuna Coast
Author
Publisher
The Ikat Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Rei Shimura's beloved mentor Yasushi Ishida sends an S.O.S.. Rei immediately takes off from her historic cottage in Hawaii to find him. The search, however, is complicated by the disappearance of Ishida-san's apprentice Mayumi, a troubled 19-year-old from a famous lacquer dynasty. As Rei wades through wreckage, and her husband Michael heads to Fukushima to battle a spiraling nuclear disaster,...
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