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41) The big nowhere
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Warner Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s as the Red scare blazes, three men--an unheeded deputy, an opportunist D.A.'s assistant, and a high-rolling pimp--become immersed in a nightmarish reality.
42) A star witness
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Formats
Description
Famous astronomer Dr. Arnot gives Nancy, Bess, and George a star-studded planetarium show and promises to elt them gaze at the night sky with his famous telescope, the Starship 5000, but the telescope goes missing. It's up to the Clue Crew to investigate the suspects and track down the telescope snatcher.
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 5
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others--even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might...
44) An evil heart
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to solve: the dreadful poisoning of the scoundrel Willoughby's new wife. Catherine and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder-which Juliet...
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades...
49) Cold wind
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do --especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
51) I will find you
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl’s sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly during visiting hours and drops a bombshell. She’s come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park with a boy in the background who has...
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.
Author
Series
Detective P. T. Marsh novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until his wife and young son died in an accident. Since that night, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. Such as when he agrees to help out a woman by confronting her abusive boyfriend. When the next morning he gets called to the scene of his newest murder case, he is stunned to arrive at the house of the very man he beat...
55) A quiet place
Author
Publisher
Consortium
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasnt totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wifewho was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetingsended up dead in a small shop in a shady...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
Author
Series
Gwen Marcey novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When forensic expert Gwen Marcey discovers a skull and a tortured girl in a cabin near her Montana home, her investigations into the matter lead her to believe that she is dealing with a neo-Nazi serial killer with a score to settle with Gwen.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
Este no es un cuento de hadas, detective -interrumpio otra vez-. Esta es una historia de amor. De desamor -lo corregi a mi vez. Una ex detective vuelve, despues de mucho tiempo y bastantes fracasos, a aceptar un caso: encontrar y traer de vuelta a una mujer que abandono a su marido para huir con otro hombre hacia el interior de la taiga. Este marido traicionado esta convencido, por un breve telegrama que recibio, que en realidad su segunda ex esposa...
Author
Language
English
Description
Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father-it just hurts to see him enjoying married life with someone else. Still, she owes it to her daughter Poppy to make this arrangement work. But Poppy returns from the weekend tired and withdrawn. And when she shows Tess a crayon drawing-an image so simple and violent that Tess can hardly make...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The editor of "The Review of Applied Ethics" and a curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm.
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