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Author
Series
Cormoran Strike volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained...
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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 slitting...
3) Warbound
Author
Series
Grimnoir chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Only a handful of people in the world know that mankind's magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up here in the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Power's hiding place has been discovered by a killer. It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next. Former private eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As Laura and Remington continue to fight crime, and their growing attraction to each other, Laura catches tantalizing glimpses into her partner's mysterious and very private past. Despite the secrets, the twosome know they need to trust each other.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts? Brendan Holmes - A keen, science-minded sleuth with an even keener sense of smell. Margaret Marple - A charming snoop who works best undercover. Auguste Poe - A weapons expert with a weakness for muscle cars and beautiful women. The agency's daring methodology...
Author
Series
Private volume 16
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail...
Author
Series
Pentecost and Parker volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1947; the location is New York City. The pair has been hired to look into the disappearance of retiree Vera Bodine, who has embarked on a late-in-life mission to expose Nazis hiding in postwar America, an uncommon and dangerous avocation for an 80-year-old. Bodine is reputed to have a photographic memory, and there are some villainous characters who would like to pick her brain or silence her forever. Perhaps both. Lillian, the senior...
Series
Kitchen witch mysteries volume 4.5
Heyley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.5
Cece Barton mysteries
Heyley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.5
Cece Barton mysteries
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Death of a Christmas mitten knitter: The church’s annual Christmas bazaar is an unqualified success until the local jeweler cries out that a valuable diamond ring has been stolen. Food writer Hayley Powell joins the search for it but discovers something decidedly more shocking—the dead body of a local knitter with a homemade mitten stuffed in her mouth. With only days to spare before the holiday, Hayley must unravel the mystery of Bar Harbor’s...
Author
Series
Underdogs volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of bumbling dog detectives and their newest cat recruit as they sniff out the identity of an art forger.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It's the '60s and Sister Boniface, with her aptitude for detective work, is an invaluable asset to the Great Slaughter Police Department. Her faith in forensics is only rivaled by her passion for investigation. If there's evidence to be found, Boniface will find it. In this series, the sister forces a murderer into checkmate at a chess tournament, takes a spin at a pirate radio station, confronts a coven of witches, and defends her reputation as the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
That's right, Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case...and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they're sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case...the old-fashioned way. The bees-that's "bee-ee-ee," like the insect-that run the resort are hiding something under the tropical sands, and Marsha and Bongo are just the bumbling agents to...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Retired detective Jack Janssen is tormented not by the hundreds of child abuse investigations under his gun belt but by a single case. One case that not only keeps him up nights but gives him night terrors. Deciding to retire early, he struggles with his subconscious as he tries to figure out where he goes in life from here. Suddenly he finds himself drawn back into his old life and begins to get a glimpse of what the rest of his life has in store...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early December 1931, Poirot is preparing for a quiet Christmas alone when Cynthia Catchpool, the mother of Scotland Yard inspector Edward Catchpool, summons both men to solve one murder and prevent another in the small Norfolk town of Munby-on-Sea. Someone has bashed in the head of universally beloved postmaster Stanley Niven during his recent hospital stay. Vivienne Laurier, a friend of Cynthia's, is convinced that her husband, Arnold, has put...
16) Those empty eyes
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
You know her name. You know her face. You know those eyes... Ten years after she was exonerated for the slaughter of her family, the girl the tabloids called "Empty Eyes" is the only one looking for the truth in this propulsive excoriation of our cultural obsession with true crime from #1 internationally bestselling author Charlie Donlea. Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself -- her name, her appearance, her backstory. She's no longer...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
At a Halloween party, Joyce-a surly thirteen-year-old-boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Famed detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Set against a night of trickery and the occult, it's up to Poirot to uncover the real evil presence responsible for this ghastly deed.
Author
Series
Riley Thorn volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of "the Guild." Then there's the homicide detective who needs her help figuring out who murdered the well-dressed corpse in the walk-in closet. Nick's got his own hands full with a tricky missing person case and his parents who want to know why he didn't tell them about his live-in girlfriend. Then there's the fact that he's still the tiniest...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love and to life itself. The Ora sisters are no exception. Io, the youngest, uses her Fate-born abilities as a private investigator in the half-sunken city of Alante. But her latest job leads her to a horrific discovery: somebody is abducting women, maiming their life-threads, and setting the resulting wraiths...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Season three of this dark, gritty crime drama follows two concurrent mysteries: one the case of a man suffering from psychosis, desperate to find answers about a girl he saw strangled years ago. The other, the case of a government minister blackmailed by the same man's brother. However, the mystery of how these two cases connect is not the only source of driving tension. Fans of the series want to know if Cormoran and his assistant Robin end up together,...
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