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41) Dangerous women
Author
Series
Secret lives volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A bewitching political thriller."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ethel looks like Marple but acts like Marlow." -- Kirkus Reviews In a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court will lean. DANGEROUS WOMEN stirs up the perfect cocktail of ingenious spy-craft and political intrigue of Thomas Perry's The Old Man brightened with the charming, uncanny energy of Killers of a Certain Age ....
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first three “warm, cozy crime capers” in the witty series starring a librarian turned detective by the author of the Constable Mavis Upton novels ( Jill’s Book Cafe ). This three-in-one volume includes: Murders at the Winterbottom Women’s Institute Librarian Prunella Pearce has begun a new life in the village of Winterbottom, where there’s little social life to be had aside from the meetings of the Winterbottom Women’s Institute. But...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: CRIME SCENE WITNESS (An Amish Country Justice story) by USA Today Bestselling Author Dana R. Lynn Targeted by a serial killer, single mother Lissa Paige is attacked while cleaning a crime scene. Now US marshal Micah Bender is determined to protect Lissa and her child, deciding to hide them in Amish country. Can they uncover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sadistic killer is terrorizing Phoenix, and he's got Gene Hammons' number…
It's 1936, and private investigator Gene Hammons has more work than he can handle. A crime syndicate, J. Edgar Hoover, a wealthy family from back East, and a wily stalker all want something from him. His capable-but-drug-addicted brother, still a homicide detective, is as much a hindrance as a help. Luckily, Hammons finds a professional ally in Pamela Bradbury, a fellow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This mystery featuring a crime-fighting mother-daughter duo is "smart, page-turning fun, with the most feisty and likable P.I. since Kinsey Millhone" (Deb Caletti, National Book Award finalist).
When private investigator Edwina "Eddie Shoes" isn't fending off surprise visits from her troublemaking mother, she's spying on cheating husbands, hoping to land hefty divorce settlements for their heartbroken wives. But when the latest mistress Eddie captures...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
47) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“The 10 Best New Mystery and Thriller Books of December are Giving Us Literal Chills”--E! Online “10 Books to Cozy Up With This December”--PopSugar A popular sorority girl. An unsolved murder. A campus podcast with chilling repercussions. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party one night and never came back. Her body was found after two weeks, but the case has grown cold. Three years later while interning...
Author
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Young Woman's Body Discovered in Library Gazebo, Lou Prophet Accused in Library Spirits, a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan --1926, Pasadena, California-- When Daisy’s old nemesis, Stacy Kincaid, is found murdered in the Pasadena Public Library’s gazebo, suspicion is cast upon the one-legged Lou Prophet--former bounty hunter, current curmudgeon, and reluctant Pasadena citizen. Daisy, who has had remarkable success in the kitchen considering...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 30
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
Author
Series
Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her "Martini Club" of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife Erica Spindler comes The Other Girl , a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her. "Explosive.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A fantastic thriller from one of the best in the genre!” -- RT Reviews A horrific crime. One witness--a fifteen year...
Author
Series
Martyr maker volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eriq La Salle has emerged as a terrific writer with unique gifts." --Don Winslow, #1 international bestselling author A war is brewing in New York City, and no one can stop it. With grit, relentless action, and twists you'll never see coming, Laws of Annihilation is the third installment in the highly-acclaimed Martyr Maker series by Eriq La Salle. It's another blistering summer in New York City, and a sweltering heat wave stifles the area. Hostility...
54) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 27
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why."--
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Six lies killed Huw Jones. On New Year's Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby cliffs at St Non's. That night, all six friends lied in their statements to the police. Over a decade later, Huw's mother, Heledd is found dead. Mallory Dawson must uncover the lies lurking in the tight-knit community of St Davids. But someone has kept their secrets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Run. Moonlight slants through the trees on the ancestral Dunlow estate, where a young woman runs for her life. Gunshots break the silence. The next morning, the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found. DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to take the lead on her first murder case. Determined to prove herself to the cold and mysterious DI Juliet Stern , Gabe can’t afford any distractions – especially not ones that wake her in the...
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
All kinds of secrets get lost at sea... Ella loves the nomadic lifestyle of working on a luxury superyacht. She can leave her past behind and over the years she's found a new family to return to every summer – the crew of the Ananke . Now she's returning to work on the Ananke following a tragedy the previous summer, when one of the deckhands died in an accident. Newcomer Ashley was confident, capable and beloved by everyone. But everything Ashley...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cloaked strangers and danger abound...
Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are coming to the end of another busy half term as dinner ladies at Summerview Secondary school. The school is abuzz with chatter about the upcoming break, the local harvest festival, and the fact that maths teacher, Mr Weaver, hasn't turned up to work in days.
When the pair embark on an evening walk, they discover Mr Weaver's body in the woods, with a mysterious symbol...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the one place she swore she'd never return. Thus begins her visit to Penryth Hall. A foreboding fortress, Penryth Hall is home to Ruby's once dearest friend, Tamsyn,...
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