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1) Split images
Author
Language
English
Description
"Constant action and top-notch writing."
—New York Times
A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard's Split Images—a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from "the coolest, hottest writer in America" (Chicago Tribune). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game, a bravura example of how exemplary crime
...Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted novelist, a shocking story of voyeurism, betrayal, and the gray areas between truth and fiction that reflects our era of tabloid media and fake news. In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and the tabloids are aflame, accusing Mr. Wolphram, the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious, friendless, and eccentric. Charged with investigating this...
3) Devious
Author
Series
On the run volume 5
Publisher
CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Free-spirited Zoe Andrews has settled into married life and feels she has found her ideal niche working for a company that discreetly recovers lost items for elite clients, but her first assignment, which takes her to Edinburgh to recover a stolen painting, turns out to be more complicated than she expected. Instead of simply getting in touch with contacts in the art world, Zoe finds herself tangled in a web of contradictions. Why would someone steal...
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 1
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs. So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels to the one place she swore never to go: back home. As the pressure mounts and the temptation of booze calls like a siren,...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume prequel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military...
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 3
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
PI Martina Monroe has found her groove working cold cases alongside Detective Hirsch at the CoCo County Sheriff's Department. With a growing team of cold case detectives, Martina and Hirsch are on the heels of bringing justice for Julie DeSoto, a woman Martina failed to protect one year earlier. But when Martina receives a haunting request from her past, it nearly tears her in two.
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide. In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A week of "mayhem-as-usual" at Hillside Manor kicks off with the arrival of a mysterious "Mr. Smith" and his floozie "Mrs." from New York City-and it accelerates into chaos when Mr. Smith himself kicks off, a victim of the foulest of plays. Hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is shocked to learn that her now-defunct roomer was actually "Legs" Benedict-hit man for the notorious Ronzini Family-and that virtually every other guests at her B&B had good reason...
9) If she ran
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 2
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department. Diving into the cold case files Martina stumbles upon a pattern of missing young women, all of whom were deemed runaways, and the files froze with minimal detective work from the original investigators. The more Martina digs into the women’s last days the...
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Harding moves into the former mansion of the Barbary family, he discovers, behind a secret panel, the skeletal remains of an ancient murder and investigates the Barbary's involvement in the killing.
11) In cave danger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A debate is raging over the use of public lands, and to cover the story for Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg joins a congressman and several others on a subterranean adventuredespite her intense claustrophobia. The thoughts of cave-ins and cougars are unnerving, but at least its a distraction from her other anxieties, like her best friends departure for Italy, her bosss plan to sell the company, and the ongoing questions about her fathers suspicious...
12) Chasing darkness
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous place to hide is the dark.
13) Pilgrim soul
Author
Series
Publisher
Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets, and Douglas Brodie's past is engulfing him. It starts small. The Jewish community in Glasgow asks Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman turned journalist, to solve a series of burglaries. The police don't care and Brodie needs the cash. Brodie solves the crime but the thief is found dead, butchered by the owner of the house he was robbing. When the householder in...
14) Lazarus curse
Author
Series
Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1780s London, American anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone is plunged into a swirling cauldron of sorcery, slavery, and cold-blooded murder . . .
When the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition to Jamaica goes missing upon his return to London, Dr. Thomas Silkstone--entrusted with cataloging the expedition's New World specimens--feels compelled to investigate. There are rumors of a potion that has the power to raise the dead--and the formula...
15) One lonely night
Author
Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
A judge’s harsh condemnation of Mike Hammer’s take-no-prisoners methods sends him on an introspective walk across a secluded bridge, ending in a way that could only happen to Hammer. When a terrified woman on the run from a gunman leaps off the side of the bridge, Hammer ends the would-be assassin’s life, but it’s too late for the dame. Now he’s got two bodies on his hands—and to find out why he’ll have to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Fall has fallen upon Judith McMonigle Flynn, leaving her Hillside Manor nearly devoid of guests. And what better cure for the off-season blahs than a brief bout of B&B sifting for a friend amid the quiet rustic splendor of secluded Chavez Island? Judith and cousin Renie both are more than ready for some relaxation. But their peace goes to pieces when Renie conks an odious interloping blowhard on the noggin with a heavy china dish-and, moments later,...
17) Cop out
Author
Series
Publisher
World
Pub. Date
c1969
Language
English
Description
To escape a manhunt, a gang of killers takes a cop's daughter hostage After years of toil for Aztec Paper Products, Thomas Howland only makes $112.90 per week. When it comes time for the company to compensate its workers, he is in charge of carrying the payroll: $24,000 in cold hard cash. Eventually, Howland is overcome by temptation. In exchange for a promised cut of the spoils, he hands the payroll over to a gang of thieves-but they reward him with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grousable Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1862 London, the body of a famous surgeon is found, sitting upright, in an old operating theatre. His dead eyes stare at the table at the center of the room, where patients had screamed and cried as medical students looked on. The bookish Inspector Slaughter must discover the killer with the help of his American sergeant Mark Honeycutt and clues from Nightingale nurses, surgeon's dressers, devious apothecaries, and even stage actors. Victorian...
Author
Series
Body movers novels volume 5
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror-;especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action.
And then...;
She's forced to take refuge in her former fiancé's house-;much to the chagrin of other interested parties...;
Her brother Wesley begins to behave as if he has his own death wish...;
And someone close to her is implicated in the mass murders.
Meanwhile,...
20) Undue influence
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient, elderly widow Nora Selleck, who seems increasingly confused. When Florence visits Nora's house she's surprised when she encounters Ben Evans, a mysterious young stranger who's befriended Nora. Florence doesn't trust him, but no one else shares her concern. Until Nora suddenly disappears . . ."--
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