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81) Paws to remember
Author
Series
Magical cats mystery volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a water leak repair results in a body being found behind the walls of the store run by the artists' co-op that Kathleen's friend Maggie is part of, everyone is completely mystified as to whose body it is and who hid it there. But as the dust settles, Kathleen's boyfriend, Detective Marcus Gordon, begins to suspect that the body could belong to a young woman who disappeared more than thirty years ago. When a friend with a connection to the young...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink-even before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces-something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who...
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 4
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India? Bombay, 1950 James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the...
Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 15
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds--and...
Author
Series
Book retreat mystery volume 9
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane's hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body... Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But the corpse on the roof will spark...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it's like to live with skeletons in your closet, and...
Author
Series
Powder River volume 1
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The McKenna and the Stafford families have been at odds with each other for longer than they remember. When Oakley Stafford is shot while trespassing on the McKenna ranch, everyone assumes it was a McKenna family member or one of their ranch hands who pulled the trigger. However, Cooper McKenna, newly back in town, is determined to help Tilly Stafford figure out who shot her younger sister and clear his family's name. The only issue is that Tilly...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She's the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted...
90) Dream town
Author
Series
Eve Ronin volume 5
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what’s real and what’s imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty’s surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy,...
Author
Series
Albert Smith's culinary capers volume 1
Publisher
Steve Higgs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a retired detective superintendent chooses to take a culinary tour of the British Isles, he hopes to find tasty treats and delicious bakes. His dog, Rex Harrison, an ex-police dog fired for having a bad attitude, cannot understand why the humans are struggling to solve the mystery. He can already smell the answer - it's right before their noses. He'll pitch in to help his human and the shop owner's teenage daughter as the trio set out to save...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narcotics detective Liz Burke is too late to save her confidential informant from a professional assassin and narrowly survives the encounter. Now she has no memory of the killer-and she's got a target on her back this Christmas. With homicide detective Oz Kelly's help, Liz will have to survive long enough to unravel a deadly cover-up...or fall victim to a lethal crash.
93) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 10
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
94) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 2
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk. Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch -...
95) Fall
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Foster thriller volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Marin Shaw's release from prison draws attention from all sides--from the press, from her family, and from the other Chicago aldermen who let her take the fall for their corruption. For three years Shaw has stayed silent, claiming that all she wants is to fade into anonymity with her daughter, Zoe. Meanwhile, detectives Harri Foster and Vera Li are assigned to the murder of an alderman--one of Shaw's coconspirators. They sift through the evidence,...
Author
Publisher
Evets Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church's immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church's time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman and his improbable...
97) Original sins
Author
Series
Riley Fisher volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped byfear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for duty as an FBI agent on her first assignment. Teamed witha man she's not sure she can trust and struggling to prove herself - while fighting the pull of her old life and family dramas - Riley...
98) Past lying
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After medical school in Philadelphia, Dr. Julia Lewis is one of Britain's first woman physicians. In 1866, that's still so unusual that Scotland Yard Inspector Richard Tennant is appalled when Dr. Lewis, and not her grandfather, shows up to help at his crime scene. Although this is her first crime scene, Dr. Lewis capably handles the gruesome murder. It's only the first of several, as a serial killer taunts Tennant with handwritten notes. Tennant,...
100) Cheddar off dead
Author
Series
Cheese shop mystery volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cheesemonger Willa Bauer is proving that sweet dreams are made of cheese. She's opened her very own French-inspired cheese shop, Curds & Whey, in the heart of the Sonoma Valley. The small town of Yarrow Glen is Willa's fresh start, and she's determined to make it a success--starting with a visit from the local food critic. What Willa doesn't know is that this guy never gives a good review, and when he shows up, nothing goes according to plan. She...
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