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Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything changes. Since her father became ill two years ago, things have been bad, but not lose your house bad . . . until now. Sarah feels helpless until the day Hannah mentions a treasure rumored to be hidden in...
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English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Lyrical Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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In this delightful prequel to the beloved Tourist Trap mystery series, lawyer Jill Gardner flees job burnout to take a vacation—and finds a brand-new life on the California coast.
Jill's family law career is in a rut. Watching a client go back to her abusive husband, yet again—and then learning she's been passed up for a partnership, yet again—finally prompts her to take a break. She'll have to dip into her emergency...
Jill's family law career is in a rut. Watching a client go back to her abusive husband, yet again—and then learning she's been passed up for a partnership, yet again—finally prompts her to take a break. She'll have to dip into her emergency...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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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...
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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...
8) Olivetti
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but she's turned her taste of the beyond into a career as a psychic, parting people from their money with a combination of psychology and internet research. When the Lake District is gripped by a series of grisly child murders, Ashley offers...
11) Murder backstage
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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...
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Publisher
Orion Fiction
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the globe, on the edge of their seats, and it continues to be a sell-out hit of London theatre. This brand new edition of the world's longest-running play will contain a new introduction by Sophie Hannah, author of the authorised Agatha Christie Poirot continuation novels, as well as the official play script and a host of exclusive material from the show's...
14) Rough trade
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Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Katrina Carrasco plunges readers into the vivid, rough-and-tumble world of the late-1800s Pacific Northwest in this genre- and gender-blurring novel. Rough Trade follows Carrasco’s critically acclaimed debut The Best Bad Things and reimagines queer communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures -- and price -- of satisfying desire.
15) Rhythm and clues
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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...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.
"Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."—Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan series
All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the
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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...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lively and charming silent movie actress Lily Temple is everything private investigator Peter Driscoll is not. It makes sense, then, that combining forces would mean more cases solved and secrets revealed. Except for Lily's own -- why a legendary missing sapphire is within her possession and on her person at all times"--
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
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