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1061) A lie for a lie
Author
Series
Ministry is murder volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Actor and singer Grady Barber has returned to his hometown to judge the Emerald Springs Idyll, a talent show to help raise funds for the local hospital. As the newest volunteer on the fund-raising committee, minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox is assigned the unenviable task of ensuring that Grady's needs are met. Unfortunately, Grady's needs are legion, as are the enemies he makes. So when Aggie stumbles upon his dead body, she isn't surprised.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips - a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it - is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On April 22, 1993, 18 year-old Stephen Lawrence was killed in an attack by a racist gang. Thirteen years later, his parents continue to fight for justice. When DCI Clive Driscoll comes across the cold case file, he is convinced it can be solved, despite opposition from within the police. Shocked by historical failures, Clive tasks an independent team of forensic scientists to conduct a fresh examination of the evidence. Meanwhile, he works to gain...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. But even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help. An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing -- and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers-turned-sleuths are determined to find the killer. Although Prentice had recently...
1066) Killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Reign of Terror against the Osage people was one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes. As the Wild West was dying, someone was killing members of the Osage nation who had gotten rich off the oil under their land. Investigators who tried to uncover the truth were disappearing, but still J. Edgar Hoover asked a former Texas Ranger to work with the Osage to unravel the mystery.
1920s Oklahoma. The richest people per capita in the world...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Watch me: Tess Hooper is a diligent and earnest cinema studies student, haunted by a shameful incident from her past. One by one Tess's friends end up brutally murdered after opening the "Watch Me" email, a file that spreads through electronic address books to seek its next victim. All murders bear the same traits: a red-headed woman in a yellow dress, an internet connection, the victims' eyes sewn shut. As Tess becomes the next target in line, she...
1068) The body in the piazza
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 21
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
To celebrate a wedding anniversary, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband are off to Italy for a vacation. The plan is to spend a romantic weekend in Rome before heading to Florence to visit Faith's former assistant Francesca at her cooking school. But a dark shadow clouds joy when someone is murdered in the Eternal City almost right before the Fairchilds' eyes. Faith struggles to follow a trail more twisting than fusili and ends...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The dead was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered...
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