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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...
2) Devious
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, detectives Bentz and Montoy are called in. The deeper the investigation goes, the eerier it gets. More nuns are being brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets. Though Bentz is sure Father Frank is their man, there are other suspects, including a killer thought to be dead. Has the monstrous Father John returned? Or is the truth...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are charged with solving his murder. All the while, the picturesque village is becoming increasingly and dangerously...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin is going through a man-hating phase after being left by her husband, is bored with tottering around Carsely, and wishes men would just sod off, so she is unmoved by news of a captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue-eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet--along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him, but the next day Agatha...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. The Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him with something worse than simple migraines. Officer Eric McCrea is battling to keep his constant rage from affecting his life as a cop, and as a father. High...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to "A Perfect Evil," Maggie O'Dell is shocked by Father Keller's audacious proposition: he will help her catch a serial killer in exchange for her protection. She reasons that the deal is a necessary evil to put a killer away for good.
9) Vapor trail
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone -- winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory.
The news on the phone has nothing...
10) Familiar friend
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xi, 322 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone agrees that Mason Blaine had a lot of enemies. But one of them hated the chairman of the university's Spanish Department enough to kill him- and then stick a knife in his back. The Reverend Kathryn Koerney is no stranger to the sins of man, but this shocking example of overkill in small-town New Jersey has even her puzzled. Now, with Harton police chief Tom Holder, she finds herself hunting a killer through the cloistered world of academia-...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Christmas guest: Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is subsequently murdered.
Christmas secret: Dominic Corde is thrilled to fill the robe as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Reverend Wynter is away on a three-week Christmas holiday. However, it turns out that the Reverend Wynter isn't on holiday at all-and that something very sinister...
12) Eye of the wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a psychotic killer stalks the Wind River Reservation, murdering three Shoshone Indians and posing their bodies on a historical battlefield, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden investigate to uncover the motives behind the killings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she's asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold and ambitious father confesses that he won't only give away his best racehorses as gifts--he has also arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly's financially strapped...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman . . . and what she does to his senses is criminal.
Double Trouble.
Bryan Kelly has a few rules. Rule #1: Women are for fun, not commitment. Rule #2: He'll do anything for his twin brother, even switch places with him to find out who's sabotaging his charity. But playing a really good guy isn't easy around a luscious Shay Sommers. Which brings him to Rule #3: If you can't...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Hyperion ed.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman minister of the Anglican Church in England and her husband, who is a policeman, search for their daughter who was abducted from the baby sitter's. Sally and Michael Appleyard learn that the snatch was the work of professional kidnapers and one of them is a killer.
19) Arthur & George
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race, this tale is a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what is believed, what is known, and what can be proven. Two men's lives become interwoven and each becomes the other's salvation.