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In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
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2024.
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English
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"The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region,...
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Aimée Leduc investigation volume 21
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English
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"Parisian private investigator Aimaee Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father-now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mysteryseries. Aimaee Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody-all but stalking...
4) Cougar clues
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Young sleuths Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel are excited to search for clues of a cougar near Abbi's home, but they soon discover something more might be going on.
"No one has seen cougars in Maine for more than a hundred years. Then, a TV crew starts filiming in the woods near Abbi's home, looking for cougars! Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel are curious: could this sly animal have returned to Maine? All clues point to YES! -- but something doesn't quite add up....
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family, who over three generations built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth of...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Hannah Ives and her husband are staying at their idyllic vacation cottage on Maryland's eastern shore when a young friend, Noel Sinclair, stops by for a visit. As Hannah shows Noel around the property, they notice some bald eagles in a neighboring cornfield who look seriously ill. Could these magnificent birds have been poisoned? Hannah's investigation soon clashes with powerful commercial agricultural interests. Meanwhile, Noel uncovers some shocking...
7) Olivetti
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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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.
"Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family—the family he's lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from 12-year-old Ernest, who would rather...
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Imposters volume 2
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As part of England's most elite private investigation firm, Gemma and Graham must set aside their broken relationship to work together on a new case. Graham is determined to use this opportunity to win back the only woman he's ever loved, but there's noguarantee Gemma's shattered heart can be restored"--
"Gemma Parks is known to the London elite as G. M. Parker, a columnist renowned for her commentary on the cream of society. Behind the scenes,...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Reimagines the life of Anna Filing Fort, wife of the most famous researcher of "anomalous phenomena" as she searches for three missing girls and encounters a ghost in the woods on Prosper Island at the estate of an eccentric millionaire.
''A haunting mystery about lost girls and the woman driven to find them, from the author of the contemporary classic Lives of the Monster Dogs. Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying...
10) Trained to hunt
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Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is second-guessing his decision to join a CIA hunter-killer team that will take him far away from his daughter. But when a new performance-enhancing drug kills four football players—including his daughter's boyfriend—settling down becomes the last thing on Hunt's mind. When Anna Garcia, Hunt's lover and head of the largest drug cartel in Miami, becomes the prime suspect in the investigation, the stakes become even...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know...
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Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ANDREW SCOTT, JOHNNY FLYNN, AND DAKOTA FANNING. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a...
13) Off the air
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air. Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments--anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo--and special projects. Stories that take more time to research and produce. Stories that Jolene wants...
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Series
Stephen Ramsay novels volume 3
Publisher
Bello
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Dorothea Cassidy, the Vicar's wife is found dead in the park's flower bed. The list of suspects include old Mrs Bowman, Clive Stringer, a disturbed adolescent, and Theresa Stringer, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and even members of her own family.
15) Blind vigil
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Series
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Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Blinded by a gunshot wound that forces him to reassess his capabilities, Rick Cahill reluctantly agrees to help Moira MacFarlane in a case that unexpectedly spirals into a murder investigation.
''Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He's still trying to figure out what that life is when his...
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
''Award-winning author Gillian McDunn pens a delightfully quirky mystery that examines the meaning of home, perfect for fans of The Vanderbeekers series. Simon's family is always on the move. Every few months, they load up their van,...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
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Twisted Pen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023
Language
English
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Some secrets never die. A daughter's sin may be the only thing that can expose the truth.
Madison Moore has been estranged from her family for years, but when her dying father summons her home, she reluctantly makes the trip back to the place that still evokes heartache. Her family's reception is lukewarm. They still hold the strict religious beliefs that cast her out. But when her father tells her about a murder years before and that he has proof...
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Brash Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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After Blanch White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina to help a friend, she investigates a young woman's murder and recognizes the suspect as her rapist from years ago who was able to escape prosecution, but this time she is determined that he will not get away.
"Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It's a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught...
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Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In 1910, Effie joins forces with an English newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place"--
"As the walls of the house at Predicament Avenue reveal their hidden truths, two women--generations apart--discover...
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