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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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English
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"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked. Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There's another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks. Robinson launches an...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely...
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Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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"When Sandra Ashville is found murdered in a sleepy town near Oakhurst, Detective Jo Fournier is first at the scene. Jo is shaken by the similarities between herself and the dead assistant District Attorney, a dedicated woman with a heart for justice. And as she examines Sandra's body, Jo discovers something that chills her to the bone: the bullet hole is covered by an intact blindfold. Why was Sandra only blindfolded after her death? The very next...
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's a sleepy morning in suburbia when a girl's body is discovered by a running trail in the town of Oakhurst. Local detective Jo is shocked to the core. Because the girl is the second innocent victim to turn up dead in three days. And just like the first, a tarot card has been left by the body. The meaning of the card: betrayal. Jo soon uncovers a series of threatening messages targeting the girl and the first victim, her teacher. The primary suspect...
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Series
Detectives Kane and Alton volume Book 4
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The light fades as she runs for her life, the forest now becoming quieter around her. The only noise she hears is the sound of footsteps following her ... It's hiking season in Black Rock Falls and the small town in Montana is flooded with visitors. But when a hiker finds a human skull on a deserted trail in the woods that surround the town, Detective Jenna Alton is called in to investigate. With no mission persons reported, Jenna has no leads. Then...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Widower Luke Driskell didn’t expect to fall in love and marry again so quickly. But Ashley and her daughter, Joy, are special―a quality borne out when Ashley rushes into a burning day-care center to save the children. Immediately she’s a social media sensation and hero. Then, just as suddenly, Ashley and Joy disappear into the bitterly cold night. With no trace of their whereabouts, Luke begins a panicked investigation. Alarmingly, he can find...
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
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When a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed during Movie Town Theater's first ever Film Noir Festival, Penelope Thornton-McClure turns to P.I. Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled ghost who remembers the victim's dark past, for help in solving the mystery.
11) Amber alert
Author
Series
Chase Adams FBI thriller volume 4
Publisher
Patrick Logan
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago, four children went missing from rural Tennessee. FBI Special Agent Chase Adams' sister was one of them. She's been searching for her ever since. Now, after more than three decades of silence, seven-year-old Stacy Peterson's bike is found at the end of her driveway. Only problem is, Stacy isn't riding it. When her abduction is linked to three other girls who vanished into thin air, Chase fears that this is the start of another kidnapping...
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Series
Detective Jo Fournier novels volume 5
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the body of single mother Melissa Rollins is found trapped inside a bedroom closet in her immaculate suburban home, Detective Jo Fournier races to the scene. The small town of Greenfern is sweltering in a heatwave, and Jo is horrified to find that Melissa's heating was turned up to the max whilst she died of thirst. Who would kill a devoted mother in such a cruel way? Searching the house for clues, Jo's team discovers that the front door was...
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Series
Thomas Austin crime thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
219 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A triple homicide. A blind witness. What is the sound of evil? Late one night, four friends walked to a park in an affluent Bainbridge Island neighborhood to celebrate the sale of their tech startup. The next morning, three dead bodies were found. One witness was left alive. Blind from birth, she didn't see anything. But she heard everything. The killer took his time, butchering her friends as she listened to every sadistic moment. What she heard...
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier volume 7
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The young woman lying on the forest floor looks like she's dreaming; her brown hair fanning out into a crown around her head, her hands clasped over her breast. She could be sleeping - if it weren't for the brutal slash across her neck ... It's autumn in Oakhurst when Detective Jo Fournier rushes to local beauty spot, Crone Ridge Woods, desperately hoping to find Madison Coehlo alive. Instead, she discovers the pregnant woman's pale and lifeless...
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier volume 8
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Jo Fournier’s cousin goes missing with her sweet five-year-old Alexia, Jo heads straight to where they were last seen. Her heart stops when she finds their unlocked car—one door has been left open and Alexia’s beloved teddy is lying in the snow. Jo’s blood runs cold as she realizes her family have been kidnapped… Even as she swears to bring them home, Jo makes a discovery that chills her to the bone: other young, single mothers...
Author
Series
The Blood River volume 1
Publisher
Blue Merle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the long-waited spin-off to the award-winning Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series: Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing, his predecessor has been murdered... Leaving behind two failed marriages and a job that almost cost him his life, all Buck wants for himself and his new...
17) The vacation
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of them is missing… One of them did it… The Thanksgiving retreat was meant to be a time for them to get away from it all, miles from the secrets that threaten to tear their family apart. But they’re each hiding something: Rose hopes the pretty house overlooking the sea is just the break her family needs. But as she gazes at the water and remembers her own childhood, she is utterly terrified. Brandon knows his wife Rose has barely forgiven...
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier volume 4
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's a crisp spring morning when the small-town community around Briar Ridge Elementary School is shattered by devastating news. Bright and shy five-year-old Nicole has disappeared at recess. When the phone call comes, Gia Marchand is suddenly living every parent's worst nightmare. She feels like time has stopped and she struggles to truly understand it: she dropped her daughter at the school gate this morning and now Nicole is gone. In her big house...
19) Drawing dead
Author
Series
Chase Adams FBI thriller volume Book 3
Publisher
Patrick Logan
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Chase Adams goes undercover to hunt a killer who stalks high-stakes poker games in Las Vegas.
Author
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
244 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If the marshlands could speak, whose name would they whisper? On Memorial Day,1992, three decorated Navy officers disappeared in the sleepy beach town of Hansville, Washington. Thirty years later, their medals were found in the marshlands of Foulweather Bluff. So were their bones. For private investigator Thomas Austin, this case hits close to home. The son of a JAG lawyer, Austin grew up around the Navy. To solve the case, he must piece together...
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