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Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago Julia Gooden's brother Ben was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found, despite her own guilt and grief. Then, on the anniversary of Bens disappearance, Julia's two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed--...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a mentor's murder in the aftermath of a socially embarrassing dinner upends their tightly knit artist community, Knitters Society members Izzy, Birdie, Nell, and Cass connect scattered clues to investigate a list of potential suspects.
4) Grave sight
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The first Harper Connelly mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris!
Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting out of town fast—because the people who hire Harper have...
Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting out of town fast—because the people who hire Harper have...
5) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When her husband is convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Kate plots her revenge on the people responsible.
6) Evil genius
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief St�ephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
9) Catch me
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A 28-year-old police dispatcher seeks out Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren Grant at a crime scene and asks the homicide detective to investigate her expected murder. Meanwhile, Warren is looking into the execution-style slayings of two pedophiles with the assistance of a female rookie sex crime detective.
11) Tidewater Inn
Author
Series
Hope Beach novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Libby inherits an old hotel from a father she'd never met. Although she wants to restore it, she can't afford the upkeep and things just keep getting worse. Her newfound brother and sister are convinced she's going to steal their birthright and when her business partner is kidnapped, Libby is suspected of the crime. She must prove her innocence or lose everything.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan from notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered in a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiancé Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. Meanwhile Lorenzo...
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria's crown prince is the event of a lifetime, but to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making, so as she aches to tell the truth about her engagement, she becomes a skilled practitioner of deceit and as a spy passes information and gets close to uncovering a shocking secret.
14) The Lost
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
15) Strings attached
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
16) Unraveled
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Kelly Flynn, member of the Fort Conner, Colorado House of Lambspun knitters, unravels the clues after a fellow knitter's real estate client is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a riveting new thriller from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever -- her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed...
18) Death swatch
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote.
20) Still life
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec is called to a tiny hamlet south of Montreal to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of a local fixture in the village.