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2) One by one
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire's minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Parker knows what she's getting into when she marries billionaire businessman Hank Tudor -- she's his sixth wife, after all, and was by his side as his assistant when his fifth marriage to actress Caitlyn Howard fell apart. But honeymoon plans go awry when a headless body is discovered near Hank's summer home, forcing Kate to contend with two more of his exes: Catherine Alvarez -- the first -- who lives as a shut-in with her computers, carefully...
Author
Series
Soulwood (Faith Hunter) volume 6
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a local vampire reports a dead body on her compound, Nell Ingram, along with her Psy-LED team, discovers this is just the beginning of a mystery involving supernaturals of all kinds, and as she gets closer to the truth, she senses there is something personal about this crime.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher's British cousin, Emma MacGill, will be traveling to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to perform with internationally famous star of stage, screen, and television Derek Braverman in an old-fashioned musical review. Emma would love for Jessica to join her there and suggests she bring along some friends. Having just finished her latest book, Jessica is ready for a vacation and is delighted to agree. Dr. Seth Hazlitt and Sheriff Mort Metzger...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They're the picture of domestic tranquility-until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they're real-and frightening. Defying Pete's demands, Loretta finds an encouraging supporter in...
9) Dear killer
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
10) The rules
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
High school junior Robin Brissett accompanies her best friend, Beth, to the hottest party of the year knowing there will be alcohol, drugs, sex, and a scavenger hunt designed to scare and thrill, but this year the school's elite are not the hunters but the hunted.
11) Rhythm and clues
Author
Series
Record shop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been five whole months since the last murder in Cedar River, Texas, and Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie have been humming along when disaster strikes again. Their struggling vinyl records shop/coffee nook, Sip & Spin Records, is under pressure from predatory investors, though the Jessup sisters aren't ready to face the music and admit defeat. But the night after their meeting, the sketchy financier is killed outside their shop...
12) Knife skills
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average restaurant, the only place that will give her a job. Things change when she finds head chef Louie Ferrar dead in the walk-in freezer of his restaurant. But instead of closing the place down, the owner, Russian gang boss Anatoly Morzov, not only offers her Louie's job, but also the position of his personal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Espasa
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Hércules Poirot viaja en un lujoso autocar a la exclusiva mansión Kingfisher Hill: Richard Devonport le ha pedido ayuda para demostrar que su prometida, Helen, es inocente del asesinato de su hermano, Frank, pese a que ella misma ha confesado el crimen. En el trayecto, una joven sufre un ataque de nervios y exige apearse: afirma que si permanece en su asiento será asesinada. Se organiza un cambio de asiento y el resto del viaje transcurre sin...
14) The last word
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp--from her own memory,...
16) Kill her twice
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely...
18) Ocean's Godori
Author
Publisher
Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
20) Stag: a novel
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The farther he can get from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of a gentleman rancher. But there is evil afoot, as dark...
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