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China Bayles Mystery ; 29
Language
English
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Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard, which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs-someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident-or something...
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Publisher
Planète Ariadne, Association loi 1901
Pub. Date
2032
Language
Français
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Le premier volume de la "Chronique des poètes malchanceux" joue dans le Berlin de l'année 1979, à l'ombre du mur, où la richesse et la pauvreté vit côte à côte, où la solidarité est un élément du quotidien dans cette ville ressentie comme une "Île dans la mer rouge". L'histoire se déroule au milieu du mouvement "alternatif" de la libération de la littérature, où les cercles de poètes se créent : des cercles des rêveurs pragmatiques,
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Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Easy Rawlins' latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk, from "master of the genre," (Washington Post) Walter Mosley. January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations.He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency.All is right with the world. and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Being a new mom is murder. Alice didn't think her maternity leave would involve so much, well, murder. Before becoming proud new moms, she and her friends bonded more than members of a prenatal group usually would, as they became accidental amateur sleuths and solved a crime together. Now, with all this behind them and Alice's son Jack somehow already a year old, Alice is keen to finally catch up on some sleep. So when an opportunity presents itself...
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English
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It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye, scraping by.
Clay is brought a fraud case that begins with a man surprised to learn that he's been named the executor of his grandmother's estate. Her accounts are a mess, and not everything is adding up. He's at the end of his rope and needs Clay's expertise.
As Clay dives deeper into a decades-old scheme targeting...
6) Flashback
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Investigator Kendra Michaels-formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition ofSherlock Holmes-returns in this novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris and Roy Johansen.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Delaney Detective Agency gets a taste of the spotlight when they are called to a case on a movie set in Greenville, MS, right on the Mississippi River. Marlon Brandon, heir to a wealthy and influential political family, has brought a film crew to town to film a drama about the 1927 flood that submerged a great deal of Greenville. Marlon wants the world to know the story of the flood-and the heroic role the Brandon ancestors played in rescuing dozens...
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off a frothy, irreverent, witty new series with an irresistible premise-Romeo and Juliet's daughter as a clever, rebellious, fiercely independent young woman in fair Verona-told from the delightfully engaging point of view of the captivating Rosie Montague herself.Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story,...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The fourth installment in the beloved Detective Annalisa Vega series. Is there such a thing as a good sociopath? Newly minted private investigator Annalisa Vega is skeptical, but her first client, Mara Delaney, insists that some sociopaths are beneficial to society. Mara has even written a book titled The Good Sociopath centered around Chicago neurosurgeon Craig Canning. Dr. Canning has saved hundreds of lives so it shouldn't matter that he doesn't...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Chester, 1400. Riding for his life, with a copy of Chaucer's heretical Canterbury Tales in his possession, friar-sleuth Brother Chandler is ambushed on the road and wakes up in a stranger's house. Is his `rescuer', wool merchant John Willoughby, friend . . . or foe? Willoughby declares that he, like Chandler, has renounced the self-crowned King Henry IV and will help Chandler get his dangerous belongings to safety. He seems trustworthy, but Chandler...
11) The burning
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakenedby an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan...
12) The wilds
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Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Elin Warner unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of a young woman in a propulsive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium Since the dark events that scarred her childhood, Kier Templer escaped her hometown to live life on the road. She and her twin have never lost contact until, on a trip to a Portuguese national park, Kier vanishes without a trace. Detective Elin Warner arrives in the same park...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine's main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia's dander, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhems. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead from a breakfast of poisonous...
14) Secondary Target
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
20240507
Language
English
Description
After the brutal murder of her mother and brother, Corina Roberts built a new life--but when their killer resurfaces, she is next on his hit list, and her best hope for survival depends on her ex, army veteran Bryce Jessup. As old secrets come to light and the killer closes in, can they keep both their hearts and lives safe?
15) Puzzleheart
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
When nonbinary twelve-year-old Perigee tries to reunite their dad with his estranged mother, they end up facing off against their grandmother's mysterious sentient "puzzle house," which has a dangerous agenda all its own.
16) House of glass
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie. A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying? Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible...
17) Catch and Kill
Author
Publisher
Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In Hollywood, deadly secrets lurk just behind the scenes.
Scarlett Norris is Hollywood's darling, an award-winning actress on her way to the top. To her younger sister, Angie, she is all that and more-beautiful, loving, fearless, and a guiding light-things Angie believes she herself could never be. When Scarlett suddenly commits suicide, Angie is devastated, but something keeps nagging at her. Scarlett would never do such a thing. Would she?
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18) Man in the water
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When his wife finds the body of an Army veteran in the lake, it is inevitable that former cop, now unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie will get enmeshed in a complicated case of possible murder. It all starts with the body in the water-on what should be the first boat day of the season, McKenzie's wife Nina finds a dead Army vet. As the dock owner and the insurance companies claim that it was suicide, despite the deceased, E.J. Woods, having no obvious...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Months after meeting a kind gentleman on the most embarrassing night of her life, a newly divorced woman gains the courage to reclaim her life and explore newfound love with the perfect stranger in this enthralling romance, perfect for fans of Kennedy Ryan.
Pascha St. Claire has nothing to live for.
After five years, her once-loving husband, Raymond, decides to end their marriage. He's unable to deal with her mental health, significant weight...
20) Lady Killer
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015-
Language
English
Description
"The killer housewife is back! The Schuller family has moved to Cocoa Beach, where life carries on as usual. Josie continues to juggle Tupperware parties, her kids, and a few heads--and things don't get any easier for the entrepreneur hit lady when her past comes back to haunt her."--
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