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1) The cabin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mackenzie and six of her friends head out to a secluded cabin for fun, but two of them are murdered and since they are all suspects, Mackenzie launches her own investigation, revealing secrets and sins among the original seven friends.
Author
Series
Crowther and Westerman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther investigates an ancient tomb where an extra body and clues about Crowther's haunting past are discovered.
Author
Series
Lord John Grey novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lord John Grey has documents that expose the corruption of a high-ranking British officer. But they also elude to an even greater danger, one that sends Grey on a quest to the Irish country. Along the way, he seeks the aide of Jamie Fraser, a paroled Jacobite still fighting for Ireland's independence. Grey needs Fraser to help translate a message left in the language of the Scottish highlanders, but Fraser has his doubts about helping the British...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She's lonely. Orphaned as a child, she's never felt like she's belonged anywhere... until she meets Jack Parker. He's the first man to ever really see her, and it's life changing. Teenager Izzy Parker is holding it together by her fingertips. Since her mother passed away a year ago, looking after her dad and little sister is the only thing that makes Izzy...
Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Hope Tantry and her friends, Anna Page and Julie, discover astonishing secrets about Hope's identity while perusing coded journals, puzzle boxes, and other artifacts in a Lake District cabin Hope's mother used as a literary retreat.
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Seven years ago, Bethany Friend was found drowned in mere inches of water in the lonely Serpent Pool in England's Lake District. Was it suicide or murder? Now, determined to win justice for Bethany's dying mother, SCI Hannah Scarlett of the Cold Case Squad re-opens the case.-- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Of love and war volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After losing her fiance in the Great War, Nora Lewis leaves America for England where she has inherited property and develops a deep friendship with her neighbor, Colin Ashby, who has returned from the war to find his family's estate in ruin. He's expected to save his home and place in society with a well-bred match to a wealthy heiress, but finds a kindred spirit in Nora, who has also faced the rigors of war and survived. The ex-soldier has one more...
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ramona Smith went missing, presumed murdered twenty-one years ago; her body was never recovered. Gerald Lace, accused, tried, and acquitted of the crime, took his own life shortly thereafter in the treacherous waters along the Crooked Shore. In his suicide note, he blamed the police for wrongfully arresting him and ruining his life. On the twentieth anniversary of his father's suicide, Darren Lace has drowned himself in the very same spot. His death...
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The magnificent Dungeon House and gardens overlook Cumbria's remote western coast with its mix of beaches, dunes, and fells, Roman ruins, and nuclear plant. Twenty years ago the wealthy Whiteleys called it home. But not a happy one. Malcolm Whiteley had begun to disintegrate under financial and emotional pressures. He suspected various men in their social circle of being his wife's lover.
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England{u2019}s Lake District, each time on Hallowe{u2019}en. Just before the First World War, a young woman{u2019}s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost {u2013} the Faceless Woman {u2013} is said to walk through Ravenbank on Hallowe-en. Five years ago, another woman, Katya Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries.
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England's Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his cottage in the Hanging Wood, everyone assumed it was a sign of guilt. But the body of the boy was never found. Now his sister, Orla Payne, who never believed in their uncle's guilt, has returned to the Lakes...She wants to find the truth about...
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