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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it. One slip on the rug. That's all it took for Louise Wilt's daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes the other two are dead, leaving this coldblooded psychopath to claim both the sapphires and the mysterious windfall for himself. If he disappears, he won't...
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 17
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning's life heats up when a gala at a local jewelry store serves up heists and homicide alongside her herbal teas... --Publisher
Author
Series
Duke's men volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Victor Cale never imagined that his sweet, shy bride, Isabella, would use her talent for creating exquisite imitation jewels in a criminal way. But there's no denying that Isa's handiwork was used in the brazen heist of the Dutch royal family's diamonds after she disappeared into the night. Ten years later, still reeling from her betrayal and enraged that her duplicitous side was so undetectable, Victor is sent to Edinburgh to investigate a wealthy...
Author
Series
Avery Ayers antique mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business ... Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise"--
Author
Series
Gemini mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Yellow Jacket, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing USA
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a valuable diamond necklace is stolen, it is up to the Gemini Detective Agency--twins Zach and Evie Mamuya and their friends Vishal Desai and Sophia Boyd--to investigate; clues to the mystery are included in the illustrations throughout.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist, who has interviewed more than 200 people, from veteran cops to strippers, follows in the tracks of a high-profile jewel thief dubbed "the King of Diamonds" and discovers beneath the glittering surface of the Swinging Sixties was a world of sex trafficking, illegal gambling and political graft.
Author
Series
Haunted library mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty million dollars' worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton's long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life and it's up to Carrie to clear his name. A devoted dad is as precious as diamonds, but Carrie Singleton wouldn't know since her dad Jim's been on the lam most of her life. In an unusual family reunion, she finds Jim breaking into her cottage in the middle of the night. The fun really starts when he begs her to help him recover his...
Author
Series
Barbie sisters mystery club volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's perfect weather for a day at the beach! Barbie's friend Raquelle arrives dressed to impress with a diamond necklace, gold bracelet, and ruby ring. But when she takes her jewels off to go swimming. Raquelle returns to find them missing! Can Barbie and her sisters discover the true identity of the beach bandit?
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 25
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1867
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A search for stolen jewelry takes Nancy to New Orleans where she uncovers a swindling racket in which a medium uses her trade to relieve victims of their valuables.
Author
Series
Hope diamond trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Notorious rake Lord William Townshend, Earl of Harclay, meets his match in Lady Violet Rutledge when he attempts to steal the Hope diamond, which she has borrowed from its owner, from around her neck.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing the disastrous and humiliating arrest of her hedge fund executive husband-to-be, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention and allegations she was a co-conspirator by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets "Lady Em" who plans to wear her priceless emerald Cleopatra necklace. Three day sout at sea and Lady Em is found dead--and the necklace is missing. Celia, with...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 28
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1976]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.
18) Secret promises
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Crossed Hearts. Garrick Rodenheiser got a second chance when he crawled away from an accident four years ago. He's been trying to move on with his life ever since, but when a rain-soaked, injured woman comes banging on the door of his remote cabin, everything changes. Leah Gates doesn't look like a reporter, but Garrick isn't sure he should let his guard down. Falling in love is the easy part—learning to trust again will be a different challenge...
19) The love punch
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Middle aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund, including his own, has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind this, Vincent...
20) Hard as ice
Author
Series
Fortis volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When priceless jewels are stolen from an auction house, Fortis operative Evan DaCosta goes undercover to stay close to business manager Nia James and is distracted from his mission by this beautiful woman who just may be a thief.
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