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4641) Beyond absolution
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father Dominic had lent a listening ear to sinners of all kinds: gunmen and policemen; prostitutes and nuns; prosperous businessmen and petty swindlers; tradesmen...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.
4644) A choir of crows
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With the great and the good about to descend on York for the enthronement of Alexander Neville as the new archbishop, the city authorities are in a state of high alert. When two bodies are discovered in the grounds of York Minster, and a flaxen-haired youth with the voice of an angel is found locked in the chapter house, Owen Archer, captain of the city bailiffs, is summoned to investigate."--from book jacket.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
When Mike Sweeney is found floating in a vat of green beer and the nephew of one of their best customers is accused of the crime, Bernie and Libby Simmons, the owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, must find the real killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Obnoxious diet guru Clarissa Jardin reports her womanizing, gambling husband, Bill, missing. When Bill turns up as a frozen corpse with a bullet in his skull, Bill's mother hires Savannah to prove Clarissa killed her son or hired someone to do it.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...
4649) Antiques ravin'
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne--elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own--springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shihtzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tom Klay is a celebrated investigative wildlife reporter for the esteemed magazine, The Sovereign. But Klay is not just a journalist. His reporting is cover for an even more dangerous job: CIA agent. Klay's press credentials make him a perfect spy - able to travel the globe, engage both politicians and warlords, and openly record what he sees. While on assignment in Kenya, Klay is attacked and his closest friend is murdered. Soon Klay's carefully...
4651) 21 tiao zuo xie xian
Author
Series
M xiao shuo volume 23
Publisher
Lian pu chu ban
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a trio of cases, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a complex web of vengeance, and comes to learn that the female of the species is not just deadlier than the male, but often cleverer, too. Criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, Maine, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers-- the enigmatic sisters Strange. Then, Parker must protect two women under threat as Portland...
4653) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. In 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true-crime journalist who created the popular website True Crime Diary, was determined to find the violent...
4655) The devil's promise
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a corpse on a deserted beach is just the first in a series of mysterious and terrifying events that threatened Sherlock Holmes. While investigating the death, Holmes and Watson attract unwanted attention from the strange inhabitants of the nearby village, and are viciously attacked. Watson wakes to discover that months have passed and his friend is not the man he remembers. What transpired during those lost days? And is it connected...
4656) Mortal prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucas Davenport's boss is about to lose her job as chief of police, his fiancě is distracted with wedding plans, and his house-remodeling project is at a standstill. So when the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker's bloody murder spree, he's glad to oblige. The lady killer and the killer lady have tangled before in Sandford's Prey series, and their personal history seasons this fast-paced story of mayhem, murder,...
4657) The hot country
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an early 20th-century American war correspondent reporting on Mexico's civil war, witnesses the attempted assassination of a priest and the arrival of strange ships bearing German officials.
4658) The prophecy of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
1325: There is turmoil in England. But could the Prophecy of St Thomas's Holy Oil save King Edward? It is believed that the king who is anointed with it will be a lion among men: he will conquer France, unite Christendom and throw the heathens from the Holy Land. King Edward II has rejected his wife, Queen Isabella, confiscated her income, exiled her servants and taken away her children. Yet even now she is in France to negotiate peace with her brother,...
4659) Hannibal rising
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After young Hannibal is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa, being devoured by starving soldiers in his Lithuania homeland. Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. Hannibal's revenge plan includes his cannibalism to justify his insatiable appetite for human flesh. Hannibal excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers....
4660) The third man
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his friend's Czech girlfriend. Includes commentary, interviews,...
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