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3082) Shadow and light
Author
Series
Berlin trilogy (Jonathan Rabb) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles...
3083) Bad timing
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Christie thought he'd solved the case that drew him out of retirement, but finds himself joining forces with Diane Daniels once again when the body of a young woman is discovered close to the scene of the chilling murders that took place at Hawkshead Farm. The deaths appear to be linked, and when Henry and Diane stumble upon an execution in progress and narrowly avoid becoming victims themselves, Henry embarks on a mission to bring a merciless...
3084) Murder by milk bottle
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books/Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The August bank holiday is approaching and after two extremely high-profile murder cases, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But then they find the bodies - and the milk bottles. Three seemingly unconnected victims - a hard-working AA patrolman, a would-be Beauty Queen, a catty BBC radio personality - have all been killed with the same, highly unusual murder weapon. Constable Twitten, Sergeant Brunswick and Inspector...
3085) Skins
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Rudy Yellow Lodge is both a resident and a police officer of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dealing with the fallout and emotional burdens of reservation life in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., as alcoholism and poverty continually threaten the community, his family, and his own state of mind, Rudy finds himself taking the law into his own hands, with potentially tragic consequences.
3087) This earl of mine
Author
Series
Bow Street bachelors volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Introducing the Bow Street Bachelors--men who work undercover for London's first official police force--and the women they serve to protect ... and wed?"--Back cover.
"Shipping heiress Georgiana Caversteed is done with men who covet her purse more than her person. Even worse than the ton's lecherous fortune hunters, however, is the cruel cousin determined to force Georgie into marriage. If only she could find a way to be . . . widowed? Georgie hatches...
3088) Jack in the box
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
DCI Harry Brock is called to Ham Common early on a Sunday morning. But when he arrives at the murder scene, he learns that this killing is far from being an ordinary sort of murder. To his amazement, he finds that the victim has been stabbed to death, locked in a wooden box and set alight. This very public demonstration of murder leads Brock and his assistant, DS Dave Poole, to believe that there might be a connection to a gang. They are then led...
3089) Dead of night
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on power tightens. Reasons to fear the dark are growing . . . On a night in Berlin, during the most bitter winter in memory, SS doctor Manfred Schmesler is found in his study, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The hurried and official version of the Reich is suicide. Schmesler’s widow doesn’t believe it. At the risk of running afoul...
3090) High heat
Author
Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lift Your Voice is a memoir of faith, hope, and bravery, of what we all—Black and white—need to do to eradicate racism from our society. It’s a story of tragic loss and a worldwide uprising to ensure Perry’s death ushers society into a time where people are no longer judged, hated, or killed because of the color of their skin"--
3092) Touch of evil
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
cc2008
Language
English
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Description
"... exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot."--Container notes.
3093) A talent for life
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A feisty pensioner and a local Casanova are murdered and there is a long list of suspects! When the prime suspect turns up frozen to death Barnaby realizes something just doesn't fit
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Draws on transcripts, letters, and diaries to chronicle how an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s led to Nicolas de La Reynie's appointment as Paris' first police chief and the installation of lanterns that turned Paris into the City of Light.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs take on the investigation of a brutal triple murder in Manhattan's Diamond District. The killer, known as the Promisor, is murdering men and women midway through the purchase of an engagement ring.
3096) Reacher: Season one
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen, and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia. The first season of REACHER is based on the international bestseller "Killing Floor" by Lee Child.
3097) The sour cherry surprise
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Desiree Mitry is furious to discover that a major drug cartel has been operating in Dorset, Connecticut, right under her nose. Matters escalate when a troubled Sour Cherry Lane resident turns up dead. Desiree pursues the case in her own way. The problem is that her way gets her in way too deep. And there's only person who can possibly get her out--New York film critic Mitch Berger
3099) Hero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also make her its next victim.… Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients―killing two of the five armed robbers in the process―she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts...
3100) The coronation: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow, and in for a case which entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty. Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park Georgii's daughter Xenia...
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