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401) What the bishop saw
Author
Series
Amish Bishop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A wildfire blazes out of control in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, leaving an elderly Amish bachelor dead. When Bishop Henry Lapp is told the bad news, he also learns the fire was no accident. Someone intended to kill Vernon Frey. But who would want to kill Vernon? Well, practically everyone--Amish and Englisch alike. When the police point the finger at a suspect Henry knows is innocent, the bishop must decide whether or not to use his mysterious,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Though she is deeply loved by her parents, the fact that Lydia Brand is adopted has always made her different from her close-knit Amish community. But as Christmas approaches and she begins to search for answers about her biological parents, more questions surface. Soon it seems that the deaths of two women in her small town may not be coincidences, after all. And her pursuit of the truth has left her only with hints of a dark secret--and threats...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dandy is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Dandy's services are needed when the heiress to one of the stores goes missing. As Dandy starts to unravel the long-hidden family secrets, she begins to discover disturbing connections and it's not long before danger abounds."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it--bringing her cousins, her 3-year-old twins, her step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin. Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies' room and fails to return....
Author
Series
Kate Marshall thriller volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal. Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road...
407) Threads that bind
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks--the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations. The woman proves to be Alicia Lewis, an...
409) Dumb witness
Author
Language
English
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Description
An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emilys accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didnt receive the letter until June 28th& by which time Emily was already dead.
410) Zodiac
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 1103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rejoin Jessica Fletcher, everyone's favorite mystery writer, back in Cabot Cove, as she continues her quest to find the truth in even the murkiest circumstances.
412) Whiteout
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is the only law-enforcement officer assigned to Antarctica. Carrie is on the verge of shipping out before the really bad weather hits, when she is confronted with a mysterious murder that sounds like a riddle: how did a lone corpse find its way to the middle of an ice field, as though dropped from a great height? And what does this have to do with the prologue about a Soviet fighter jet crashing some decades earlier? Along...
413) Cold skin
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
414) Demise in denim
Author
Series
Consignment shop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
The azaleas and magnolias are in bloom and Walker Boone is on the run. When Reagan Summerside turned the first floor of her old Victorian home into a consignment shop, she never imagined she'd be harboring a fugitive in her attic. But after a dead man is found in a bathtub and local lawyer Walker Boone is accused of doing the dirty deed, she suddenly has a new houseguest. Having the lawyer who took her to the cleaners in her divorce settlement and...
415) Sawbones
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
605 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang...unless she can disappear. With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new life and name, a female doctor with a bounty on her head can hide for only so long." -- Page [4] cover.
417) Precious blood
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly assisting in the investigation into the murder of a young student, former forensic pathologist Edward Jenner realizes that a serial killer is at work and incites the wrath of his former boss and nemesis in order to pursue his suspicions.
Author
Series
Hidden Springs mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a few years as a police officer in Chicago, Michael Keane has no trouble relaxing into the far less stressful job of deputy sheriff in his small hometown. After all, nothing ever happens in Hidden Springs, Kentucky. Nothing, that is, until a dead body is discovered on the courthouse steps. Everyone in town is a little uneasy. Still, no one is terribly worried--after all the man was a stranger--until one of their own is murdered right on Main...
419) Tightwad energy
Author
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tightwad Energy never trusts the flow of love or money in either direction." -- Page [4] cover.
420) The price of life
Author
Series
Publisher
Santa Rita Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The death of a DEA agent pulls Santana off the cold case investigation of a young woman's murder and into the dark and lethal world of drug smuggling and sex-trafficking. Soon, he suspects there is a link between the two cases and a group of wealthy and highly influential men belonging to a secretive club. Working with the DEA agent's partner and hunted by a deadly sicario searching for the cartel's missing half-million dollars and the young woman...