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3) Fowl Prey
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impoverished popcorn vendor is murdered -- along with his foul-mouthed pet parakeet -- a local copper's suspicious gaze settles on the two visiting Americans. The cousins, in turn, suspect one of the Sacred Eight" -- an odd-duck...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Fast-paced tales of crime and coppers from "one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century"(Mystery Scene).
This collection presents a dozen classic detective stories that include "The Mind-Readers," "The Sirius Man," "The Couper Buckle," "The Guy from Memphis," and more featuring Chief Insp. Oliver Rater, a man of few words ironically nicknamed the Orator by his colleagues. But silent as he may be, there is much going on under...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Agatha Christie’s delightful sleuthing duo, investigate the strange and troubling doings behind the scenes at a gothic British nursing home in By the Pricking of My Thumbs
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a
...6) Motor mouth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First, there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's convinced one of the competitors is up...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dark, twisting tales from an Edgar Award -- winning author whose storytelling skills will "dazzle you" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). From a local sheriff's casual narration of brutal crimes to a sideshow performer's evil exploits to the tension and terror created by a madman's escape, Frederic Brown's collection of mystery and thriller stories provides a showcase of short fiction ranging from the grim and grisly to the darkly humorous. Discover the...
8) Fromage
Author
Series
Alex Grant volume 1
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Alex Grant is enjoying the last days of her summer holiday in Croatia, when she is, accosted by an old school friend, Marie Puharich, and her odious brother, Brian, both there to attend the funeral of their fearsome grandfather's two loyal retainers. The only upside of the whole, sorry business is meeting Marco, the family's resident Adonis. An incorrigible foodie, Alex is unable to resist Brian's invitation to visit the family creamery...
9) White Lilies
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'A compelling story with a procedural authenticity that few authors can match.' M.W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show The third in the D.I. Jack Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV's Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey Work has taken over Dylan's life once again and Jen, now heavily pregnant, feels sidelined. When a newly promoted detective sergeant arrives in Harrowfield, she...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A shipwreck brings excitement-and tragedy-to a sixteenth-century town, and a reluctant lawyer is drawn into the mystery behind it . . .
In the swell of a storm, a ship is wrecked in Scotland's St Andrews harbor. A young Flemish sailor, the last man aboard, collapses and dies at the inn. The cargo of the ship appears a welcome windfall-but soon brings devastation to the town as petty squabbling turns to rage and tragedy.
Now Hew Cullen must...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION Praise for Adrian Magson '... a classic crime star in the making' Daily Mail 'A gripping police procedural' Eurocrime France, 1963. A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A tramp's body is discovered in a burnt-out truck. All this occurs after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector Lucas Rocco knows there's...
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For Keith Furness, it has been a long and difficult road, but he is finally fulfilling a lifelong dream: He is a freshman in medical school, and his first class of the morning is gross anatomy. Eddie (the cadaver), on the other hand, is definitely not so thrilled to be in attendance. Hovering above his lifeless body, he wonders, sometimes bitterly, why he signed up for this and why he still tarries here in the gross anatomy lab. And though he freely...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'A cracking story.' Natasha Harding, The Sun The first in the D.I. Jack Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV's Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey. When a young girl disappears yards from her own front door, Detective Inspector Jack Dylan has to shelve his plans for a quiet Christmas with his partner, Jen. The Yorkshire community of Harrowfield is unsettled and its worst fears...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Picardie, 1963. A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death.
For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travellers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but trawling for any who aren't is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION Praise for Adrian Magson '... a classic crime star in the making' Daily Mail 'A gripping police procedural' Eurocrime France, 1963. It's a time of great change in France, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco . As part of a nationwide 'initiative' to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the Paris metropolis to a small village. His new patch might be rural, but it's certainly not uneventful: on his first day,...
16) Sedona Sunset
Author
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After an auto accident leaves her crippled and takes her mother's life, Lara Fallon completes her mother's dream of opening a school and offering scholarships to promising young artists. Although Lara is struggling with survivor's guilt, she is thrilled to fulfill one more of her mother's dreams when she hires Alexander Summers, world-renown Flamenco player and professor of art, to perform at the grand opening of The Fallon School of Art. But Alex...
17) Just Ducky
Author
Series
Lexie Starr mystery volume Book Five
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Police Rule Librarian's Death as Suicide, Lexi Starr Disagrees in Just Ducky , a Cozy Mystery by Jeanne Glidewell Lexie Starr, the 50-year-old, newly married co-owner of a B&B, needs something to keep her busy during the off-season. Filling in for the head librarian, Bertha Duckworthy, seems the perfect choice. Until she finds Ducky" hanged from the library's rafters. The police rule the death as a suicide, but Lexie disagrees. Determined to obtain...
18) Monday's Child
Author
Series
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Monday's Child must Hide for Protection... This was not the assignment Luke Nemec expected when he came to the UK-babysitting a beautiful widow. It wouldn't be so bad if Sara wasn't such a hostile witness. Despite her complaints and continued jibes, Luke finds himself falling for her. When, Sara Barnes is thrown into the witness protection program, she becomes the 'wife' of Lt. Luke Nemec, an American cop on temporary assignment with the British police....
19) Consequences
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'A compelling story with a procedural authenticity that few authors can match.' M.W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show The second in the D.I. Jack Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV's Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey Detective Inspector Jack Dylan has two unconnected murders to solve. And one of his detectives has gone missing. Long hours are part of Dylan's job, but his...
20) Tuesday's Child
Author
Series
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tuesday's Child tenders direction... Deaf from the age of five, Adeline Munroe operates a hospital for injured dolls, but lately her quiet life is disturbed by violent, haunting visions. Perhaps it's just her unspoken fear-a serial killer has struck in Headley Cross. But Adeline soon realizes she's seeing each murder just before they happen and reluctantly contacts the police. Detective Sergeant Nate Holmes has enough to deal with between caring for...
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