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Series
Joseph Spector novels volume 1
Joseph Spector locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spetor locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spector locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spetor locked-room mystery volume 1
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in...
Author
Series
Writer's apprentice mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Jane Wyland is found dead after threatening to reveal Camilla's late husband's family secret, Camilla and Lena work to close the case before Camilla stands accused of the crime and Lena becomes a victim.
483) The wrong victim
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board, the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands. Accused of putting profits before people after leaking fuel that caused a massive fish kill, the West End Charter company may itself have been the target. But as special agent Matt Costa, detective Kara Quinn, and the rest of the FBI team begin their investigation,...
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 26
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia--invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting...
485) Synchronized sorcery
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Strange things are happening in Lily Ivory's San Francisco. First, she finds a vintage mermaid costume which dates from the 1939 San Francisco's Treasure Island World's Fair...Next, she stumbles upon a dead man in the office of her predecessor...When the dead man is linked to the mysterious mermaid costume, and then yet another victim is found...Lily uncovers ties between the long-ago World’s fair and the current murders, and begins to wonder whether...
486) The ominous eye
Author
Series
The Nocturnals volume 2
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Join Dawn, Bismark and Tobin as they set out to investigate the source of a violent jolt that fractures the earth! Along their journey, the Nocturnal Brigade meets an unfamiliar reptile--a tuatara named Polyphema--who reveals that a giant beast caused the destruction and will soon strike again. Polyphema with her special insights, is the only one who can help the Nocturnal Brigade stop this fearsome predator... but can she be trusted? With help from...
487) Death of an eye
Author
Series
Eye of Isis volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
488) Treachery in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Eve Dallas lets her partner Peabody take the lead in their investigation into the death of an elderly grocery store owner, but when Peabody overhears an argument between two fellow officers--Garnet and Oberman--she finds she has a bigger case to solve and Eve and Roarke--Eve's husband--all work together to find the evidence that proves the officers guilty of corruption and murder.
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 6
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lisbeth Salander has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone silent electronically. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights. Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who lived and died on the streets in Stockholm--a man who does not exist in any official records and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trouble is brewing for a tea shop owner with a penchant for investigation and her talking corgi in this delightful cozy mystery. When Emma Reed moved to the Cornish village of Trevena, she was looking forward to making new friends, opening up a small tea shop, and taking plenty of brisk walks with her talking dog, Oliver. But when a valuable motorcycle and an old skeleton are found together under the local pub, Emma's antique dealing friends David...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.
493) A thousand steps
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt...
494) Message in a bottle
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Pinkalicious and Molly find a message in a bottle, the riddle inside sends them on a pinkatastic adventure! Will the pinktectives solve the mystery?"--
495) The hand on the wall
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Ellingham Academy, three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. Stevie Bell knows who Truly Devious is-- or thinks she does. But David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers....
496) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah and Frank Malloy must catch a scheming killer in this latest gripping installment in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the...
Author
Series
Student Ambassador volume 1
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A student ambassador is sent on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a far away land, where he and a newly crowned boy king are thrust into a globe-trotting action-adventure mystery"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel
"The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man's brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood...
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