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Author
Publisher
Forever
Language
English
Description
"England, 1865: As one of England's most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she's determined to inform and educate the ladies of London on the nefarious-and deadly-criminals who are praying on the fairer sex. When her reporting leads to the arrest of a notorious killer, however, Katherine flees to a country house party to escape her newfound notoriety-only to witness a murder on her very first night....
682) The vanishing stair
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
Author
Series
Firekeeper's Daughter volume 2
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is--the laid-back twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the already striking number of missing Indigenous women continues to rise, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe,...
687) Enigma
Author
Series
The FBI thrillers volume 21
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 479 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn't realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using "John Doe" to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses him, he ups the stakes and targets another to take his experiments to the next level. It's a race against time, literally, as Savich and Sherlock rush to stop him and save both present and future victims of his experiments....
688) Thunderstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.
689) Open season
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plain, small-town librarian Daisy Minor is tired of not having a life and sets out to transform herself, but her plans go awry when she witnesses a deadly crime and becomes the target of a killer who will do anything to stop her from revealing her secrets.
690) The Mitford murders
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale...
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...
693) Follow me down
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
585 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mia Haas has built a life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up. Then she receives word that her twin brother is missing, and is forced to return home. Once the golden boy of their town, now a popular high school teacher, Lucas Haas disappeared the day the body of one of his students was pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of his affair with the teen and the media's portrayal of him as a murderer, Mia is desperate...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She'd once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains...
695) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374, 16 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Gold Coast, Long Island, everything from the expensive downtown shops to the manicured beaches, to the pressed uniforms of Jill Newman and her friends, looks perfect. But as Jill found out three years ago, nothing is as it seems... Freshman year Jill’s best friend, the brilliant, dazzling Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boyfriend. After that dark night on the beach, Graham confessed, the case was closed, and Jill tried to move on... Now, it’s...
697) Cat me if you can
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Harris and his feline companion, Diesel, take a bookish vacation but discover that murder never takes a holiday, in this all-new installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Charlie and Diesel along with Charlie's fianc�ee, Helen Louise Brady, are heading to Asheville, North Carolina, to spend a week at a boutique hotel and participate in a gathering of a mystery reader's club composed of patrons of the Athena Public Library. In...
698) Into the fire
Author
Series
Undaunted courage volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When arson investigator Bri Tucker inherits unfinished business from her predecessor, she must convince ATF Special Agent Marc Davis to help her find the missing link and track down a serial arsonist who will stop at nothing, including murder, to carry out a nefarious plan"--
As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. After a blaze takes the life of a former colleague, someone doesn't want her picking up where...
699) Summers at the Saint
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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...
700) Dream town
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious entering the property, there's a dead body in the hallway...