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Series
Highland Bookshop novels volume 3
Highland bookshop mystery volume 3
Highland bookshop mystery volume Book 3
Highland bookshop mystery volume 3
Highland bookshop mystery volume Book 3
Publisher
WorldWide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"Out for a bicycle ride in the hills beyond Inversgail, Janet Marsh discovers the body of Dr. Malcolm Murray. The elderly Murray and his own bicycle went off the road and down a steep slope--he's sprawled in the burn at the bottom, his damaged bike in a patch of thistles on the bank. Janet calls the Police Scotland emergency number. Tire tracks at the side of the narrow road suggest a vehicle might have been involved. But if it was an accident, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abacus
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
440 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and Togashi ends up dead. Yasuko's next-door-neighbor Ishigami offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer and reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real-life inspiration for her own novel--that is, until the abbey's sexton is found dead under an avalanche of gouda. Despite the reservations...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her beloved Great-Aunt Ilse arrives on her doorstep, leaving war-ravaged Germany behind, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent soon discovers that danger has followed Ilse when ant-Germen sentiment is taken to murderous lengths.
"November 1919. At the seaside with her husband, Sidney, could almost convince Verity Kent that life has returned to the pleasant rhythm of pre-war days. Then her beloved Great Aunt Ilse lands on their doorstep after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Mack and her barfly allies, solving homicides calls for equal parts instinct and wit. To strain out a crafty criminal, the mixture has got to be absolutely perfect . . .
It's a week before Christmas, but Milwaukee bar owner Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton is hardly in good spirits. Chilled to the core by the murder of bouncer Gary Gunderson, Mack is determined to use her extra perceptive senses to identify the gunman responsible. Did Gary's patchy past...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes. The dead man is Marcus Dalrymple, who had once asked Esmie to marry him--and inside...
10) Cold to the bone
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Nicole Cobain knows the secrets perfect families can conceal. She was lucky to escape her own personal nightmare and start over with her young son. So when fourteen-year-old Beatrice SEsparza is found strangled outside Montana's most exclusive hotel, Nicole immediately homes in on what the girl's family isn't saying. Why didn't they report Beatrice missing? Why are they reluctant to help? Text messages reveal Beatrice was being stalked by...
Author
Series
Tintin three-in-one series volume 2
Publisher
Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
192 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The broken ear: Determined to recover an Indian fetish stolen from the Museum of Ethnography, Tintin and Snowy follow a curious trail that leads to South America, revolution, and hostile jungle Indians.
The black island: Following the trail of a mysterious plane, Tintin encounters for the first time Doctor Müller, the head of a strange mental institute where all the patients are not necessarily crazy ... As he pursues Müller, Tintin sets foot on...
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
13) A will to kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021, c2020.
Physical Desc
297 pages; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris -a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths; a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems...
14) The bullet
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor. Diane is on the run with a secret that will not only put Eve in danger but make her choose between protecting her family and doing what is right. Diane is not Eve's favorite person. But years of animosity must be cast aside because Diane is no longer the selfish woman that Eve once knew....
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else ... moved on ... Now he's sixteen and officially retired. That is, until Lily shows up suddenly at Gideon's door, needing his help ... As a cover, Gideon joins Lily on the school paper. Surprisingly, he finds himself warming up to the welcoming, close-knit staff ... especially Tess, the cute, witty editor-in-chief"--
16) Coyote wind
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A decades-old plane crash leads Du Pré to possible murder, and to a landowner with dark secrets Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure that no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town's small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed hybrid...
17) House of ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Mitchell lives in the majestic Battersea Bluffs, a brooding Queen Anne home originally built by her great-grandparents. Local lore has it that there was a curse placed on the family and the house is haunted. Cassie stands to lose her beloved home due to mounting debt and the machinations of her ex-husband. Her hopes are raised when a young couple wanders onto the property and promise to help Cassie renovate the carriage house into a guest...
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Around the world in 22 murders... Murder Blackmail Revenge From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York - twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories. Featuring Oyinkan Braithwaite, Abir Mukherjee, S.A. Cosby, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, J.P. Pomare,...
Author
Series
Tangled mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-graders Sloane and Amelia are devastated to be paired for a research project about long-lost jewels, but soon they are finding clues hidden for nearly a century--and realize they are being used.
20) It had to be you
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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