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41) American rust
Publisher
Showtime Networks Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young woman is left reeling when a broken engagement is followed by a shocking death - one she must prove was a murder"--
When her ex-fiancé is found dead from a gunshot wound while at their friend's Connecticut country house, Kiki is determined to prove it was murder, not suicide, and to get the police to take her seriously, searches for the missing link, uncovering something far more sinister than she had ever imagined.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A boy who is captured by a cannibal tells her three horror stories to avoid becoming her victim. Contains an adaptation of Stephen King's short story Cat from Hell.
Wraparound story: A boy who spins all the tales ... to distract a modern-day witch who wants to pop him in the oven!
Lot 249: A malevolent mummy gives new meaning to "final exams" when he awakens to wreak revane on unsuspection student bodies.
Cat from hell: A hitman is hired by Drogan...
Author
Series
Riley Thorn novels volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score's suspenseful reluctant psychic Riley Thorn series features hapless Riley and her hot tattooed PI boyfriend Nick Santiago who's determined to keep her safe at all costs. They're are all moved in to their new fixer-upper, finally have their own place, and no new dead bodies for some time. But then a woman from Nick's past shows up and throws a wrench into everything"--
"Riley Thorn and her hot, tattooed,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"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 Arabellaand 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...
46) Play dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The dead don’t tell secrets… unless you listen. The girl’s smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A ‘body farm’ investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when Detective Kim Stone and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it...
Author
Series
Georges Dupin novels volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jean-Luc Bannalec's internationally bestselling series starring Commissaire Georges Dupin returns with Death of a Master Chef. Commissaire Georges Dupin is certain these first beautiful summer days in June would be perfect for a fun trip to Saint-Malo. In a region known as the culinary heart of Brittany, the paradoxical city is known for being a uniquely Breton, yet un-Breton, place. Their cuisine's moto is voyages et aventures. Travel and adventure....
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home.Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
49) It had to be you
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest thrilling entry of the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons. The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome, intelligent, popular—until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air at night, and mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
''"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America's collective memory." —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer Prize From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake...
53) Granite harbor
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in small-town Maine, an English novelist-turned-detective investigates a serial killer preying on the historic town."--
"A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on—quiet and serene—for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town's historic archaeological...
54) It had to be you
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''In the latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons. The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco is home to more than 200 privately owned streets. Most are alleyways, but a select few look torn straight from the pages of a magazine. Lined with mansions and elaborate gardens, the properties are luxurious and perfectly maintained; security guards patrol the grounds to keep the curious at bay. Few know of these exclusive enclaves, but those who do prowl for availability, ready to make a grab for the precious real estate if opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new. Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants. London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases...
57) Westport
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When she becomes the lead suspect in her coworker's murder, Nora Carleton calls in her old colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and lawyer Carmen Garcia, and as they hunt for the true killer's motive, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who framed her.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Teenage Lauren must confront her dark past when she gets pulled into a murder investigation involving her new fling and his brother.
''Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count—the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they'll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria...
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is found murdered, and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police, providing...
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a gathering for her cousin’s wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that...
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