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2421) The blood card
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
May 1953. As the country prepares for the coronation of Elizabeth II, the optimistic mood is spoiled for DI Edgar Stephens and his wartime comrade, magician Max Mephisto, when they are informed by a high-ranking general that their old commander, Colonel Cartwright, has been murdered. This general found some puzzling items in Cartwight's pockets, not least a playbill featuring Tony 'The Mind' Mulholland (deceased), and a playing card, the ace of hearts:...
2422) Norwegian by night
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheldon Horowitz--widowed, impatient, impertinent--has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway--a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway. Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events...
2423) El rey de los pleitos
Author
Publisher
FonoLibro
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español del bestseller "El Rey de Los Pleitos" de John Grisham, uno de los mas famosos escritores internacionales de novelas en la actualidad y autor de los bestsellers "La Firma", "El Informe Pelicano", "Tiempo para Matar", "El Intermediario," "El Cliente" y otros éxitos llevados al cine. "El Rey de los Pleitos,"� llega a usted en una magnifica producción, con la calidad reconocida de Fonolibro, líder de...
2424) Aces
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 17 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Aces is the story of a young man who fights against the battering of his mother by his drunken father. The situation escalates until Ace desperately stabs his father to death, and is sent to jail for a period of 15 years. Nine years later he is out on parole. He kills again within a day's time of his release.
2425) Bone rattle
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Juneau, a young Native archeologist is sent to protect the ancient burial sites uncovered by an Alaskan gold mining company. He never returns. In Anchorage, a female torso--minus head, hands, and feet--is washed ashore near a jogging trail by the airport. It is not the first. At Alaska's Fugitive Task Force, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki are pulled from their duties and sent to a federal court in Juneau. Instead of tracking dangerous fugitives,...
2426) Every breath you take
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Laurie Moran's professional life is a success--her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand--Ryan Nichols--and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum...
2427) The witch haven
Author
Series
Witch haven volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whisked away to Haxahaven Academy for Witches in 1911, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell soon finds herself torn between aligning herself with Haxahaven's foes, the Sons of St. Druon, to solve her brother's murder or saving Manhattan and her fellow witches.
2428) Dead silence
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Unrated version] ; widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 31 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...
2429) Miss Scarlet & the duke
Series
Miss Scarlet and the duke volume Season 1
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London.
2430) Hidden Amish secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Julianne Graber left her Amish life behind after a family tragedy, but now she's back to sell the family home, and someone's dead set on getting rid of her. With her neighbor William Lavy by her side, Julianne must uncover dangerous secrets to make sense of the past and present. Looking to find justice for her family, and a future with Will, before the killer hits his target.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In nineteenth-century New York City, a wealthy newlywed is found bludgeoned to death with his wife cradling his body, too horrified to speak. The police charge her with murder and it's up to the other members of the newly formed household to do some detective work to solve the mystery"--
When a family friend's traumatized daughter is accused of murdering her new husband, newlyweds Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Malloy investigate with the assistance...
2432) DCI Banks: Season four
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (267 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Tompkinson returns as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks in three more gripping crime stories.
2433) With no one as witness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and artfully arranged on the top of a tomb, it takes no large leap for the police to recognize this as the work of a serial killer. This is the fourth victim in three months but the first to be white. Hoping to avoid charges of institutionalized racism in its failure to pursue the earlier crimes to their conclusion, New Scotland Yard hands the case over to Lynley and his colleagues. The killer...
2434) The Scholar
Author
Series
Cormac Reilly novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal--her card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland's most successful pharmaceutical...
2435) The crushing depths
Author
Series
Coastal guardians volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
487 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers take on the case. Mounting evidence shows the death may have been murder, and they must race to discover the killer's identity before he finds them first"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby, before her family was torn...
2437) Mimi Lee cracks the code
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When murder follows Mimi Lee to her romantic island getaway, she puts on her best sleuthing hat with her sassy cat in tow in this adventurous cozy mystery by Jennifer J. Chow. Mimi Lee just found an extra perk to being a pet groomer at Hollywoof (other than cuddling animals all day long, that is). Pixie St. James, one of Mimi's clients and also the investor behind Hollywoof, has offered her and her boyfriend, Josh, a weekend getaway at her vacation...
2438) A relative murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations.
When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
2439) Lemon curd killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"High tea and high fashion turn deadly in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning has been tapped to host a fancy Limón Tea in a genuine lemon orchard as a rousing kickoff to Charleston Fashion Week. But as fairy lights twinkle and the scent of lemon wafts among the tea tables, the deadly murder of a fashion designer puts the squeeze on things. As the lemon curd begins to sour, the...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 390 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A town wrapped in secrets. When the body of eleven-year-old Danny Latimer is found on the beach in Broadchurch on the Dorset coast, Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller and her newly-appointed boss, Detective Inspector Alec Hardy, are called to investigate. As suspicions mount and the mystery deepens, a national spotlight descends upon Broadchurch, threatening to pull the town, its residents and their secrets apart.
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