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21) The trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Erica Sands is called out to an isolated cottage in Dorset, England. A local woman, Jane Smith, has been found murdered in her home. At first, it looks like a burglary gone wrong, until Erica's attention is grabbed by a seemingly minor detail. A framed photograph of Jane's two cats--one black and one white--triggers a strange disquiet in Erica, which turns to shock when she discovers a cryptic note written in blood tucked beneath the frame....
Author
Series
Beacon Bakeshop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop's Halloween decor light and autumnal, rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried to break in to witness the resident ghost themselves. Dreading Halloween night, Lindsey reluctantly allows her influencer and podcaster best friend, Kennedy, to host a live ghost-hunting investigation in the lighthouse, conducted by a professional team....
23) Here in the dark
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife. Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview,a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's one challenge after another for 10-year-old John Avery Whittaker! He tinkers with electronics, takes on the lead in the school Christmas play, and comes up against a new bully, all while continuing to investigate the mysterious properties of the cloth from his grandfather's trunk - if he can find it! It's missing! Meanwhile, strangers have come to Provenance and they're asking lots of suspicious questions about the Confederate gold Johnny and...
26) A novel disguise
Author
Series
Lady librarian volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries...
Author
Series
Max Rupert and Joe Talbert volume 0.5
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School,...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune, she's not sure what will happen. What she doesn't expect though is for her roommate Elizabeth to disappear after Sade's first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it. With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention...
Author
Series
Rip through time volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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...
30) Tell-tale bones
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 26
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner Tinkie are in Sheriff Coleman Peters's office, consulting Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case of her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the investigation of her missing daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, the heiress to a large fortune who disappeared along with her friend Bethany nearly seven years ago. Lydia and Bethany were rumored to be working as human rights organizers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dangerous denizens lurk around every dark corner as Kitty searches for clues in bookstores, alleyways, rooftops, and waterfronts. Who made off with the majestic Marshmallow Monkey (inspired by none other than the Maltese Falcon)? Where is the beloved Mitch the Mutt? Kitty's got plenty of questions and not enough answers! Follow along through a tangled web of crime and intrigue as Kitty tries to solve the case.
Author
Series
King and Kayla volume 10
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
King and Kayla go on a sleepover adventure at Thor and Jillian's house, where they investigate spooky occurrences in the basement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Moon Finder Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Maddie Dehler demonstrated one of the most remarkable survival escapes in history. Still horror returns again and again to the same county in rural Minnesota, and eventually to the home Julia Adams built. The cases go cold until BCA Investigator, Jon Frederick, is called in to find a common thread to a series of crimes that appear unrelated. Jon's relationship with Serena is put to the test by an old "friend." Serena makes a mistake with profound...
35) The dark we seek
Author
Series
Lost light volume 2
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When multiple solar flares strike Earth, half the planet goes dark. Store shelves gather dust, pharmacies run out of life-saving medications, and banks and gas stations shut their doors. As tens of millions of people grapple with a new reality without power, a serial killer hunts freely in the chaos. Alger County Undersheriff Jackson Cross is determined to stop him no matter the cost. Torn between vengeance and a chance at redemption, ex-confict Eli...
Author
Series
Lost light volume 1
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A catastrophic solar flare strikes Earth, plunging half the planet into darkness. Amid the chaos, Shiloh Easton awakens to a nightmare: a dead body beside her, her brother missing, and no recollection of what happened. As she desperately searches for her brother, a killer is hot on her trail, determined to silence the only witness to the brutal crime. Meanwhile, Undersheriff Jackson Cross races against time to catch the killer and save an innocent...
37) The hope we keep
Author
Series
Lost light volume 3
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two months after super flares devastated the Northern hemisphere, the power grid is in shambles, gas is running low and hospitals shuttered their doors. Neighbors turn on each other, vying for the last scraps of food. Caught in the chaos, Jackson fights to maintain order as he faces the insidious threat posed by the escaped convicts. Out for vengeance, Sykes will kill anyone who gets in his way.
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that night-in...
Author
Series
It's murder volume 2
Publisher
North Star Press of Saint Cloud
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Doris Day Anderson and her sister, Grace Kelly Anderson, the owner of the local café, take ninety-year-old Rose O' Brien ice fishing. The day ends, however, with nothing to show for their efforts except a dead body. With Rose distressed over the crime, Doris feels compelled to make inquiries in an effort to move the murder investigation along, much to the chagrin of the sheriff, an old boyfriend and a current puzzle. While in the café , at a funeral,...
Author
Series
Emma Griffin FBI mystery volume 26
Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When the body of a "bride," clutching a bloody invitation is found in a shallow grave with flower petals scattered around, FBI agent Emma Griffin is called to the scene. Initial reports about the victim's disappearance were conflicting. Some believed she had simply gotten cold feet, just a "runaway bride". While her family feared something far more sinister occurred. When another "bride" is found in a similar fashion, it seems as though a serial killer...
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