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Author
Series
Girl Friday mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1950 New York City, this gritty noir follows Viviana Valentine, former Girl Friday, now partner to the Big Apple’s top investigator, Tommy Fortuna, is drawn into a sordid new case when murder attends a wealthy scientist’s party whose top-secret lab has just been exposed.
2) Near miss
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 64
Language
English
Description
"Following a string of adventures, Stone Barrington is enjoying some downtime in New York City when a chance encounter introduces him to a charming new companion. Too bad she also comes with the baggage of a persistent ex-boyfriend intent on retribution. As Stone skillfully dodges each disturbance, it soon becomes clear that there is potentially an even more treacherous game being played behind the scenes. And when long-standing grudges resurface,...
4) Void moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassie has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night and now she is thriving at a job selling Porsches. Her greatest secret is threatened and Cassie tosses her new life away to get money as fast as she can.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
""Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in All That Is Hidden, the latest in Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series..."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, on an isolated Isle of Iona, Jane Wunderly joins the Order of the Golden Dawn, a group made up of supernatural ceremonies, influential people and an undefinable darkness, to catch a killer and soon finds playing along won't help her solve the case, but revealing too much could be deadly.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 7
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While bumbling PI Percival Smidgely tries to find missing pig Mercy Watson, a trio of clever neighborhood sleuths follow a trail of hoof prints — and a delicious aroma — to recover their porcine wonder, in this uproariously funny, extra-special series finale.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First trade edition.
Language
English
Description
Renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate the sniper-killing of a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
When a desperate businessman asks him to find his daughter and grandchildren who have disappeared without a trace, Jack Morgan, the head of Private, finds this simple missing persons case turning into something much more deadly, forcing him to face the trauma of his past to save a family’s future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township—she is terrible at needlework, has absolutely no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people. Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life with her marriage-scheming mother, prankster father, and two younger sisters— beautiful Louisa and forgettable...
11) Shadowghast
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"When townspeople start disappearing after the arrival of a magician who knows about his past, Henry must separate truth from sleight-of-hand to solve the mystery of the Shadowghast lantern before they are all swallowed by darkness"--
Author
Publisher
Duomo editores
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"A young woman named Samantha Andretti wakes up in a hospital bed. Samantha was abducted when she was thirteen. She was kept prisoner for fifteen years. The man by her side, Dr. Green, believes that Samantha's memories contain the clues that will lead to the capture of her abductor. But why does she keep referring to a labyrinth? Outside the hospital, private investigator Bruno Genko does not have long to live. Bruno was assigned to Samantha's case...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How far would you go to keep your family safe? Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, she has Bradley, her young nephew, to worry about, and the cops don't seem to be putting much effort into finding the kids. And then the unthinkable happens: Bradley disappears....
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
16) Hard rain
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando,...
Author
Series
Nick Ryan novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
19) Lion & Lamb
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case. Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to...
20) Broken ice
Author
Series
Nils Shapiro novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing Linnea Engstrom, a teenager from the small northern hockey town of Warroad, MN. Most of Warroad is in Minneapolis for the state high school hockey tournament, and Linnea never returned from last night's game. Linnea's friend Haley Housch is also missing--and soon found dead. Shot through the arm with an arrow at the Haley Housch crime scene, only the quick work of medical examiner Char Northagen saves...
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