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1921) Gold of our fathers
Author
Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at least a year, meaning Dawson has the unpleasant choice...
1922) Murder in old Bombay
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lays in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Jim's attention is being called the crime of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The small Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is faced with a flood, while the librarian Kathleen Paulson, her two cats, and detective Marcus Gordon try to solve the mystery of the drowning death of local artist and mask-maker Jaeger Merrill.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
1926) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Millers Kill community center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. And down-on-her-luck Tally McNabb has brought home a secret—a fatal one. Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne just wants Clare to settle down and get married—to him. But when he rules Tally McNabb's death a suicide, Clare sides with
...1928) Foyle's war: Set 8
Author
Series
Foyle's war volume Set 8
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Retired Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle begins working for MI5 in the early days of the Cold War.
1929) The black ascot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
1930) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
1931) The silence of the lambs
Author
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
1932) Crooked house
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A former spy is asked to investigate the suspicious circumstances of the death of a wealthy business tycoon.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world"--
1936) Murder most owl
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her aunt Olivia's farm in the coastal town of Twilight Cove and things have certainly changed. First of all it's now an animal sanctuary, and then there's the new farmhand who's as mysterious as he is handsome. Her first day on the farm, Georgie encounters the eccentric Dorothy Shale, an older woman who lives in a cabin in the woods. There are rumours that Dorothy's a witch, but Georgie...
1937) Secret in their eyes
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For ex-accountant Emma Reed and her beloved corgi, Oliver, opening Reeds Classic Tea & Cakes in the idyllic village of Trevena in Cornwall has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Her cakes are popular, she has a host of wonderful new friends, and even a potential new romance. There is even time left over for plenty of long country walks with Oliver, who is not only the cutest corgi on record (at least to Emma), he happens to talk (at least to...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival in love. When Poirot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to cut and dried.
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