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1781) Legacy of death
Author
Series
Matthew Rowsley ; 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land agent Matthew Rowsley and his capable wife Harriet. But the smooth running of Thorncroft House is disrupted by a series of unforeseen events. Building work on the estate workers' new cottages is halted by the discovery of Roman remains. Shortly afterwards, the family butler is brutally assaulted and left for dead....
1782) The panda of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"California zookeeper Theodora Bentley is now happily married to Sheriff Joe Rejas. The Gunn Zoo is celebrating the arrival of Poonya, an adorable red panda, who forms a strong bond with Teddy. All appears fairytale blissful in the small Monterey Bay village of Gunn Landing until Teddy's mother-in-law, mystery writer Colleen Rejas, has discovered through DNA testing that Joe has sired a son he knew nothing about. Dylan Coyle, 18, arrives to meet his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joining a friend for a skiing vacation in the Italian Alps, Rick Montoya reluctantly investigates the murder of an American banker and uncovers a wide range of suspects, in a case that is challenged by the victim's heiress sister.
Author
Publisher
Arcade/CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now returned from another tour in Afghanistan, Tommy Smith is rebuilding his life with his new wife, Deputy Sheriff Sarah Cathcart, and their baby daughter, as he opens his own pack outfit in the high country of his youth. When a young girl is reported lost in the canyon above their home, Tommy leads the search, but instead of the missing child, he discovers a corpse that may hold the key to a long-unsolved local bank theft and a fortune in stolen...
1785) Cold turkey
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Literary caterer Tish Tarragon is looking forward to opening the new Cookin' the Books cafe the day after Thanksgiving, but before then she has the small matter of catering for the Thirty-First Annual Colonial Springs Turkey Trot, a highlight in the Hobson Glen calendar. With her food stall ready to go, Tish, the spectators and participating 'trotters' are eagerly awaiting the starter's pistol when they are confronted with the sound of rifle shots...
1786) Magic in the weave
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the Company, arrive on their 'Plague Tour'. Country physician Gabriel Taverner is both bewitched and unnerved by the Company's sexually charged staging of Othello. The play thrums with magic and witchcraft - perilous subjects, with the King's deadly spies lurking around every corner. When Gabriel's good friend,...
1787) 100 proof murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, and is keen to explore the local distilleries with her videographer, Michael Erickson - especially since her new beau, Lieutenant Nick Harris, lives in the city. But the night before Jill's first tour at Parker's Distillery, she is shocked to learn that the master distiller, William Scott, has died suddenly of a heart attack - and even more shocked...
1788) The Pickwick murders
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When his initiation into the Lightning Club takes a murderous turn, Charles Dickens is accused of the crime and is locked away in Newgate Prison where he must rely on his fiancé and her sleuthing skills to save him from the hangman's noose."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Murder takes center stage in a Southern small town's Christmas play in this cozy mystery by the New York Times—bestselling author of Down Home Murder.
Laura Fleming's theater-loving husband, Richard, is getting an early Christmas present- he's been asked to direct a production of A Christmas Carol in Laura's hometown of Byerly, North Carolina. To Richard's annoyance, the play is beset by practical jokes and glitches, and Seth Murdstone makes an...
1790) File under dead
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After years of avoiding volunteer organizations, Chicago high school teacher Tom Mason is finally guilted into volunteering a few hours a week at a local gay services clinic. Since he finds the bitter in-fighting at the organization to be intolerable, and the head of the clinic to be downright poisonous, Tom does his hours on early Saturday morning before anyone else arrives and avoids most of the office politics.
But his quiet Saturday goes quickly...
1791) Murder off stage
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1926. It's not like Jessie Beckett goes around looking for murders to solve, but the vaudeville star turned movie script girl has a natural talent for it. After a lifetime on stage, she's sensitive to details that other people miss. So when leading theatre star Allen Crenshaw is shot live on stage during a performance of hit Broadway show Rules of Engagement - a horrified Jessie watching from the second row - she knows she has to act fast...
1792) Shadow play
Author
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Shadow Play is the first in a series set in rural Malaysia during the 1970s. At the center of the series is Mak Cik Maryam, one of the middle-aged "aunties" who sell batiks in the local market and offer advice on any subject that might cross their paths. Of course, not everyone is grateful for the advice. The new police chief, for example, seems to imagine that he could solve this terrible murder on his own, without Maryam's help. She soon puts him...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Campion, formerly a ladies' maid in the local magistrate's household, has now found gainful employment as a printer's apprentice. On a freezing winter afternoon in 1667, she accompanies the magistrate's daughter, Sarah, to the home of a severely injured Quaker man to record his dying words, a common practice in 17th century England. The man, having been trampled by a horse and cart the night before, only has a few hours left to live. Lucy scribbles...
1794) The faces of angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this Edgar Award—winning mystery, an American in Italy is haunted by her past ... and a deadly killer.
On a sweltering day in Florence, art student and newlywed Mary Warren wandered into a shady tunnel of trees. Within minutes, she was brutally attacked and her husband murdered. And within months the killer was identified, caught, and dead.
It's now two years later, and Mary has returned to Florence at the invitation of her lover-a relationship...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she's plunged into the mystery of a centuries-old letter regarding one of the most famous stories of Arctic exploration--the Franklin expedition, which disappeared into the ice in 1845. At the center of the mystery is Franklin's wife, the indomitable...
1796) Goodnight moo
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With a foster cow in her corral and a new calf on the way, Brynn MacAlister has a lot on her plate. Especially since her micro-dairy farm is hosting the first annual cheesemakers contest at this year's summer fair. A relative newcomer, Brynn's hoping the contest becomes a tradition, bonding her even more strongly to the community. But when a mysterious tractor accident looks suspiciously like murder, Brynn suspects someone is up to no gouda ... Some...
Author
Series
Mrs. Claus ; 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Love is full of surprises - though few compare to realizing that you're marrying the real-life Santa. April Claus dearly loves her new husband, Nick, but adjusting to life in the North Pole is not all sugarplums and candy canes. Especially when a cantankerous elf named Giblet Hollyberry is killed - felled by a black widow spider in his stocking - shortly after publicly arguing with Nick. Christmastown is hardly a hotbed of crime, aside from mishaps...
1798) Steel butterflies
Author
Publisher
Van Velzer Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Deadly secrets & destructive, unintended consequences are unearthed in this coming-of-(s)age story of an unlikely friendship between a teenage girl and a former WWII spy. Some truths are best left unspoken. Ebony Dobbs has problems: unruly hair, not fitting in with the popular kids, figuring out how to pay for college…and a secret she’s buried so deeply even she doesn’t know the truth. A kick-butt best friend Connor Leibovitz, uses his computer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact--the body of a man who died not from the plague or the fire, but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to launch a high-risk Las Vegas mob museum and casino, publicist Temple Barr uncovers a buried safe and a recently murdered body during a live event and finds herself turning to Midnight Louie's cat posse to stave off mafia threats on her life.
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