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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the final months of World War II, San Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding and subsequent exit from the newsroom into domestic life. Instead, Ellie, who harbors dreams of having her own column, is using all the skills she's learned as a would-be reporter to try to uncover any scrap of evidence that her missing pilot father is still alive. But when she discovers a stack of love letters from a woman who is not...
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that's how they want things to stay. But fate intervenes. Kathleen's brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can't shed her gut feeling something awful has happened to them. She goes looking for them but is she prepared for what she will find? Twins, Megan and Eileen Doyle have lost so much already. Bella can't...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Quinn's The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the job of finding Judge Crater, who just went missing in 1930. Based on a real story, it is quite an intriguing tale that was even more so for people living at the time. The famous missing-person case is comparable to the Amelia Earhart missing-person case,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believes it all adds up to a killer in their midst--and that murder is a family affair. Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiancé's sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York. But as a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There was no quiet homecoming for Nikki King. Not with a body discovered on her lakefront property and Terrence Sutton's unexpected arrival. The police detective is convinced his sister's disappearance and the threats Nikki has been receiving are connected. Nikki would rather avoid the man who once let a family feud tear them apart, but can she afford to refuse his protection? Not with danger lurking in the dark water just beyond her doorstep." --...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a client--rendered mute by her mother's disappearance--is the only suspect in a brutal stabbing death. Private detective Rachel Alexander's investigation uncovers complex, heartbreaking issues, and problems someone is willing to die--or kill--for.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
8 books (348 pages) in a cloth bag ; (35 x 44 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"When Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Las Ram̕rez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece ąos, desapareci̤ sin dejar rastro despǔs de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia qued̤ marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce ąos despǔs, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisi̤n a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a dec̕rselo a Nina, su hermana menor. El pelo de esta mujer est̀ tęido...
51) Inherit the dead
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...