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1481) Heather and homicide
Author
Series
Highland bookshop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"True crime writer Heather Kilbride arrives in the seacoast town of Inversgail, Scotland, to research a recent murder for her new book. But if that's true, why does she seem more interested in William Clark, a shadowy lawyer with no connection to the murder? Her nosy questions arouse the suspicions of Constable Hobbs, the members of a local writers' group, and Janet Marsh and her crew of amateur sleuths at Yon Bonnie Books. Heather's unconventional...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins...
1483) A killer stitch
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. In the midst of overflowing bins of sumptuous yarn, unexpected winter romance now buzzes, in chorus with the spindles of shy new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when a rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts these festive pastimes aside.
With his reputation for lovin' and leavin' the ladies of Fort Connor, it seems a little strange...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Documents the confirmed murders of more than three hundred women in the border city of Juárez, Mexico, as well as reports of hundreds of missing women, traces the work of the Mexican police, and speculates on who is behind the attacks
Author
Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe--who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple--have obviously been murdered; the way Mr. Smith-Aidoo has been gruesomely decapitated suggests the killer was trying to send a specific message--but what, and to whom, is a mystery. The Smith-Aidoos, pillars in their community, are mourned by everyone, but especially...
Publisher
Cambridge Documentary Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the fight against the toxic and degrading messages to women and girls that dominate the media. The film presents leading authorities in the fields of psychology of women and girls, eating disorders, gender studies, violence against women, and media literacy -- and focuses their ideas on practical solutions and the best tactics for reclaiming our culture
Publisher
Pop Flix
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Blood on the sun: In Tokyo before World War II an American newspaper editor and a beautiful spy discover a Japanese plot for world domination.
He walked by night: The LAPD launches the biggest manhunt in its history, it's object a cunning psychopath.
Port of New York: Two narcotics agents infiltrate the crew of a gangster who uses his yacht club as a front.
D.O.A.: A vacationing accountant retraces the last twenty-four hours of his life to discover...
1490) Argyles and Arsenic
Author
Series
Highland bookshop mystery volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After ninety-three well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is ready to simplify her life. Her eccentric solution? She'll throw a decanting and decluttering party at her family home-a Scottish baronial manor near the seaside town of Inversgail, Scotland. Violet sets aside everything she wants or needs, then she invites her many friends in to sip sherry and help themselves to whatever they want from all that's left. Janet Marsh and Christine Robertson,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood...
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up.
Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart.
The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the...
Author
Publisher
New American Library, Published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve"--NoveList.
1495) The Indian Ring
Author
Series
Joshua Strongheart novels volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A spy has infiltrated President Grant's administration. The best man to weed him out: Joshua Strongheart, a half-Lakota warrior/half-white lawman of national repute. But luck isn't on Strongheart's side. As soon as word gets out that he's on the job, a group of well-trained shooters are on his trail. Ronald M. Hartwell once worked for the Secretary of War, but he is now the leader of the Indian Ring -- a deadly syndicate of criminals out to decimate...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
A study in terror: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson set out to bring down the notorious Jack the Ripper. Sherlock Holmes & the leading lady: Holmes must prevent the assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph. Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls: The world's most famous diamond, the Star of Africa, goes missing aboard the Orient Express. A study in scarlet: Members of a secret society are dying at an alarming pace. The sign of four: Holmes must penetrate...
1497) Murder crossed her mind
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much"--
Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing. Detective Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's...
1498) Slavery by another name
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
1499) Murder in the park
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"June, 1925. Having been widowed in the First World War, Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life at the home of her wealthy parents in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. Although she does her best to avoid emotional entanglements, determined never to be hurt again, Elizabeth forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony, who owns the local antiques store. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop....
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The poet: "Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work--a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of 'suicide notes' drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan...
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