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"A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe... even a dead someone... must have witnessed a crime. Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis's brother, is back with an agenda...
442) Edge of the grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
416 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case--despite sharing a troubled history with the victim's widow. From the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow's criminal underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vickery twins, Lee and Felix, live in a house in Poplar Wood where, because of the "Agreement," their mother serves Memory, their father assists Death, and only Lee is allowed to leave the house except for Halloween; but when a local girl is murdered, Gretchen Whipple, daughter of the mayor, offers the boys a deal--help her solve the crime and she will help them break the Agreement and regain their freedom.
444) Peril at Owl Park
Author
Series
Aggie Morton mystery queen volume 2
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with death in her small town of Torquay on the coast of England, Aggie can't wait to spend the holidays with her sister Marjorie, the new Lady Greyson of Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country; Grannie Jane; and her fellow sleuth and partner in crime, Hector Perot. Owl Park holds many delights, including Aggie's almost cousin...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a London slowly recovering from the ravages of World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, avuncular and unmarried, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world. But the promising start to their marriage bureau is threatened...
446) A plain death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vii, 324 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24-year-old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex-Amish teenager looking for a new home. While driving Chloe's car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish bishop. But what looks like an accident is soon labeled murder when police discover the...
447) Northern lights
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the death of his partner, former Baltimore cop Nate Burns accepts the job as chief of police in a remote Alaskan town. Once there, he falls for feisty bush pilot Meg Galligan, a woman haunted by her own demons. When Meg's father turns up dead, Nate and Meg finds themselves at the center of a high-profile murder case.
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English
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"When Agatha Lapp's brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country. She's there to make a success of her brother's dream--an Amish B&B. Agatha is friendly, efficient, and capable. She's also a fifty-five year old widow who has learned to be independent. When she discovers Russell Dixon's lifeless body in Cabin 3, she runs next door where...
Author
Series
Van Buren and DeLuca mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hamish DeLuca has spent most of his life trying to hide the anxiety that appears at the most inopportune times--including during his first real court case as a new lawyer. Determined to rise above his father's expectations, Hamish runs away to Boston where his cousin, Luca Valari, is opening a fashionable nightclub in Scollay Square. When he meets his cousin's 'right hand man,' Reggie, Hamish wonders if his dreams for a more normal life might be...
451) Homespun Homicide
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pleasant Creek, Indiana's first annual summer arts and crafts fair has Liz Eckardt beaming. Tourists are coming out of the woodwork to get their hands on Amish-inspired goods and the Olde Mansion Inn, her bed-and-breakfast, is full to the rafters. But when sawbucks start disappearing from the vendors and Mayor Jackson Cross's furniture samples are marred, it's clear someone is trying to throw a monkey wrench into the festivities. Unfortunately, Jackson...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders and Inspector O discovers too late he has been sent into the chaos. This is a world where nothing works as it should, where the crimes of the past haunt the present, and where even the shadows are real. A corpse in Pyongyang's main hotel, the Koryo, pulls Inspector O into a confrontation of bad choices between...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 22 hr., 1 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Where are the children: "Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime." -- IMDb.com
The cradle will fall: "Charged with investigating the suicide of a pregnant woman, prosecutor Kate DeMalo unwittingly becomes entangled in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder." -- IMDb.com
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454) Drowning with others
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished twenty years ago--during Ian and Andi's senior...
455) Gattaca
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Standard full screen and widescreen (2.35:1) versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid, " who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception,...
456) 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.
457) 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.
458) 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.
459) The price of life
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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...
460) Bet on Jack
Author
Series
Publisher
AugustBooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four military veterans are dead. One was under Jack Reacher's protection. Were they murdered? One Gold Star wife implores the Army to help find her husband's killer. A request Jake Reacher's CO can't refuse. The unraveling begins and every answer Jake and FBI Special Agent Kim Otto find spawns more shocking questions. With few allies and too many enemies, they slam into a terrifying conspiracy. Ruthless men with everything to gain. And one woman...