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81) Left for dead
Author
Series
DI Amy Winter volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself...
82) Iced chiffon
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Reagan Summerside makes the most of the only two things she has left after a messy divorce: a run-down Victorian house and a closet full of designer clothes, and she opens a consignment shop on the first floor of her home. Her husband, meanwhile, got the Lexus and a young blonde girlfriend. When the girlfriend is found dead in the Lexus, Regan is determined to find the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then shes going to need some help....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Some years after the disappearance of a young woman, three boys uncover her body during a treasure hunt out in the woods of Norway. THE COLD SONG centers itself on the individual lives of a small family and the murder of this woman, their babysitter, Milla. In life, Milla's relationship with the family is constructed by the many details that come to implicate each character in her murder, implications that haunt them all once her body is found. Milla,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved. She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"It's mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society ball"--Page...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Formats
Description
Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, twenty-one years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo and disappeared forever. For months, the police's only lead was a suspicious message left with Lucie's best friend claiming she had joined a religious cult. The truth would prove much darker.
Author
Series
Thouroughly Southern volume 10
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved. She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered,...
Author
Series
Kamil Pasha novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"The naked body of an Englishwoman washes up in Ottoman Istanbul wearing a pendant with the sultan's seal. This debut novel captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The murder of an English governess for the royal harem stirs up a crisis at the palace and at the British embassy. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved.
But were these political murders...
Author
Pub. Date
�2016.
Description
"James Stevens was, at one time, a good man with a great life. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at th darkest crossroad of his life. Angry, desperate and unable to hold down a steady job, he agrees to drive a box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash--no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering is actually a who, the questions in his mind begin haunting him mercilessly....
Author
Series
Inspector Devlin mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Inspector Benedict Devlin investigates a series of murders in the Irish borderlands as the carnage begins to jeopardize those he cares about most.
"It's summertime in the Irish borderlands. As temperatures rise, a series of gruesome murders takes place. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin's enquiries point to a local body builder, but when born-again ex-con James Kerr is found nailed to a tree, crucified, Devlin realises that the case is more complex,...
Author
Series
Journey of Jim Glass volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Jim Glass is a drifter who soldiered for a losing cause, upheld the law as a Texas Ranger, and often has been mistaken for legendary gunman John Wesley Hardin. He's a lost man on a trail to nowhere and where he rides, death usually follows.
Author
Series
DCI Jonah Sheens volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Aidan Poole logs onto his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. To his horror, he realizes that there is someone else in her flat, and Aidan can only listen to the sounds of a violent struggle taking place in the bathroom--and then the sound of silence. Aidan is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the police? When his messages finally reach them, Detective Jonah Sheens and his team take the case--and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
n the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing,...
Author
Series
Sandhamn murders volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It’s been eight years since a tragic accident changed Mo Kaminski’s and Chloe Miller’s lives forever. Now in their midtwenties, they’re sharing an apartment in San Francisco and navigating the normal challenges of early adulthood. Along with their roommate, Hazel, they are making their marks on the world—Mo revolutionizing the news with her media start-up, Hazel using her big brain to anticipate the future, and Chloe rescuing abandoned...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"At once a shocking, unputdownable thriller and a brilliantly imagined journey through South Africa's troubled history, The Monster's Daughter is one of the most original and exciting debuts since Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. December 2010. A disgraced young constable named Alet Berg is reassigned to the sleepy provincial town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition....