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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accepting an invitation to spend the weekend at a music mogul's house in upstate New York with her friend Jessie, true crime journalist Bailey Weggins finds her relaxing getaway turning into a murder mystery when supermodel Devon Barr is found dead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar and Agatha Award-nominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women A Gaslight Mystery Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
25) 212: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
212 is acclaimed author-and former deputy district attorney-Alafair Burke's gripping thriller featuring hip, Manhattan-based detective Ellie Hatcher. Fans of Lisa Gardner, Sandra Brown, Karin Slaughter, Harlan Coben, Sue Grafton, and PJ Tracy will find it hard to put 212 down until the very last page.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a family friend's traumatized daughter is accused of murdering her new husband, newlyweds Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Malloy investigate with the assistance of household members and uncover sinister truths about the victim's true identity.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
345 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heather Wells rocks. Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Oakes, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all-too-common story--or so it seems. Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the...
31) The thin man
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client. Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any worse. And then her long-lost mother shows up....
33) Time of death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects three novels from J. D. Robb's in death series.
34) Take out
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sigrid is still reeling from the untimely death of her lover, acclaimed painter Oscar Nauman, when she is called to investigate the deaths of two homeless men in the West Village. The police at first assume an overdose, until they realize that one of the men shows no signs of drug use. Then when containers of poisoned takeout food are found nearby, Sigrid's case is suddenly much more complicated. As Sigrid investigates, she uncovers an intriguing...
35) Silent city
Author
Language
English
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Description
NYPD Detective Claire Codella has just won a tough battle with cancer. Now she has to regain her rightful place on the force. She hasn't even been back a day when Hector Sanchez, a maverick public school principal, is found murdered. The school is on high alert. The media is howling for answers. And Codella catches the high-profile case at the worst possible time. As she races to track down the killer, she uncovers dirty politics, questionable contracts,...
36) Fried by jury
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Meg Quilliam would rather eat a rat than judge a deep-fat frying contest. But when celebrity chef Banion O'Haggerty offers to do it - for a pretty penny - and decides to stay at Quill and Meg's inn, it's the start of even more turmoil. Before the new franchise even opens, Mr. Holcomb has competition: Captain Cluck is setting up shop here too. Then, a butcher knife is missing and so is Banion! It's anyone's guess who will ruffle this killer's feathers...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award finalist Victoria Thompson colorfully portrays the prejudices and hardships of turn-of-the-century New York City. Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is. Has she been sold to a brothel, or has she run off with a secret love?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case--and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clare Cosi has coffee in her veins. That's why she jumped at the chance to return to New York City and manage the Village Blend coffeehouse. Her new life is a flavorful blend, too - with her daughter and ex-husband close by, and a double-tall drink of water named Detective Quinn needing help with the occasional cup of crime. But there's trouble brewing at the Village Blend. Clare's customers are starting to die, and Quinn is convinced that someone...
40) Sunrise highway
Author
Series
Lourdes Robles volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible...