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41) Borrowing death
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold. . . After three months in Cordova, Charlotte is getting accustomed to frontier life. She is filing articles for the local paper--including a provocative editorial against Prohibition--and enjoying a reunion with her brother...
42) Skies of ash
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his family. Chatman is devastated that he couldn't save them. Unless, of course, he's the one who killed them. Neighbors and family friends insist the Chatmans...
43) Aviary: a novel
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mourning a long-ago loss. Down the hall, retired professor Rydell Clovis tries desperately to stay fit enough to restart a career in academia. Cassie McMackin, on the same floor, has seemingly lost everything - her husband...
44) Liar liar
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll's House... Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It's as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground... With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to find...
45) May God forgive
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth installment in Alan Parks' internationally bestselling thriller series. Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the...
46) Against the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the police accuse troubled teen Angel Ramirez of setting fires in his real-estate development, Gabriel Raines goes up against Mattie Baker, a volunteer at the Family Abuse center who is determined to prove Angel's innocence.
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