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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
2) Goodbye girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Miami criminal defense lawyer helps a Grammy-winning popstar who signed an onerous contract as a teen that leaves her ex-husband with all her royalties.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town-and people-she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
4) One by one
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Description
"A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire's minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research assignment, she discovers she's "Baby Charlotte," who had mysterious disappeared in 1995 along with her family, and, led to the site of her disappearance, soon realizes no one is happy about her return.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
9) Double take
Author
Series
Lake City heroes volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lainie Jackson survived her fianc�e's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat"--
10) Days of wonder
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant shortly after sentencing, she reluctantly decides to give...
11) Kill her twice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
12) The other half
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's-catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Hudson, an autistic 17-year-old, is determined to leave Sawyer, PA as soon as she graduates high school -- in the meantime, she works as many hours as she can at a sandwich shop called The Triple S to save money for college. But when shop owner Clay Cooper -- a man who is both respected and feared by many in this economically depressed community -- is found dead, each member of his staff becomes a suspect in the perplexing case. Charlie must...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus's scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable...
Author
Series
Scarpetta novel volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianc�e, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
16) No one can know
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant--right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer...