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17941) These deadly prophecies
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Being an apprentice to one of the world’s most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn’t think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death—and worse, it comes true—Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs. The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered boss’s youngest son. With suspicion swirling around...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A collection of stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession: ghosts. The Phantom Coach gathers memorable ghost tales from the Victorian era from Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton to Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Features an introduction to the genre and notes on each story.
17943) PhDeath: the Puzzler murders
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"PhDeath" is a fast-paced thriller set in a major university in a major city on a square. The faculty finds itself in deadly intellectual combat with the anonymous Puzzler. Along with teams of U.S. Military Intelligence and the city's top detective and aided by the Puzzle Master of The New York Times, their collective brains are no match for the Puzzler's perverse talents.--Publisher.
17944) Within these gilded halls
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Hidden treasures and betrayal mingle with unexpected love in Abigail Wilson's latest Regency romance. After studying art under Miss Drake, a renowned painter, Phoebe Radcliff is certain she can finally move beyond the childish mistake that's kept her away from home. She is thrilled when Miss Drake employs her to complete a complicated ballroom renovation, believing it will lead to a new, happier future. Everything changes, however, the moment Miss...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries graphic novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Ned Nickerson arrested for shoplifting! Nancy Drew threatened with a lawsuit! A rare computer chip stolen from Rackham Industries! It all gets even more exciting when Nancy receives a mysterious charm bracelet in the mail ��� and soon a crime is committed for each charm! Will Nancy, even with the help of Bess and George, be able to find the real culprit before Ned is convicted? Plus, Nancy Drew battles the Abominable Snowman in "Global Warning"!...
17947) Afraid
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"...a trio of never-before-released, linked novellas about dark secrets and revenge, all connected by St. Cecilia's School for Girls. An elite boarding school and a haven for the daughters of the rich and famous, it's a place where scandals are buried and secrets hidden. But for three former students, evil is about to resurface..."-- Amazon
17948) Baby blue
Author
Series
Jack McCoul capers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"El Niño brings more than long-awaited rain to San Francisco and the neighboring wine country. An old flame shows up on McCoul's doorstep and trouble is not far behind. Sparks fly and a storm of murder and double cross forces him back into the world of con games to protect the ones he loves from a deadly swindler bent on taking over California's precious water supply. At the same time, he must unlock the secret to the whereabouts of a missing child....
17949) The cat who went underground
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Description
Millionaire newsman Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats solve a series of murders of handymen in the resort town of Mooseville.
17950) Murder on the hoof
Author
Series
Colleen McCabe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"It's mid-August in the Outer Banks village of Corolla and Fire Chief Colleen McCabe is conducting rookie training and spending increasingly more time with her best friend, Sheriff Bill Dorman. The wild horses have been relocated to the sanctuary, and the town is occupied with the upcoming local theatre production. All is right with the world. But when a member of the acting troupe is found dead in the dunes after an emergency training exercise and...
17951) La casa de Riverton
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Invierno de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de noventa y ocho an��s que otrora fuera doncella en la mansio�� de Riverton, recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que esta�� rodando una peli��ula sobre aquel suicido [suicidio]. Esa visita convoca los recuerdos que durante de��adas Grace habi��...
17952) A boatload
Author
Series
Jack McCoul capers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"When San Francisco con artist Jack McCoul marries a smart, sexy, and sustainability-minded yoga instructor, he vows to give up his life of crime for good. But then her punk brother pulls a heist and Jack gets caught in the middle of a lethal fight over hot computer chips. On one side is a greedy high-tech billionaire with a larceny streak. On the other is a Chinese triad bent on revenge. When a corpse turns up and Jack's fingered as the prime suspect,...
17953) Shake City
Author
Series
Jack McCoul capers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"This time it's personal. First they killed his neighbor. Then they framed his best friend for murder. Any thoughts of his going legit go out the window when con artist Jack McCoul must dodge killers and turn the tables on greedy developers and crooked politicians to save his friend along with the heart and soul of San Francisco, the city he loves." --
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Charles Wolfe Collins is an Irish immigrant, ex-spy, Pinkerton operative, and a veteran of the Civil War. Collins is being sent on a hazardous assignment by President Grant in 1876, the nation's centennial. President Grant has recently received intelligence in military dispatches that there had been white men fighting alongside the Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He wants Collins to investigate and report back regarding the identity...
17955) The string
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A sociopath is running a deadly social experiment on a university campus. Markus Haas is the first to refuse to play the game. What unravels is a sequence of impossible decisions and a race against time to stop the sociopath before others pay the ultimate price.
17957) A royal murder
Author
Series
Lady Eleanor Swift mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At the royal boat race there are beautiful barges, plenty of bunting, a handsome prince and ... is that a body in the water? Lady Swift is on the case! A warm and witty 1920s mystery that cozy fans will just adore.
17958) Murphy's revenge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Murphy is living a quiet life of semi-retirement with his wife, Kai, and their newly adopted baby in their home outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. Kai, part Navajo, teaches on the reservation in the Indian Nation in the Ozarks. Murphy is called back into service when William Burke, special advisor to President Arthur, shows up in Fort Smith with an assignment. New York Governor Grover Cleveland is running for president and Arthur wants Murphy to head...
17960) The fragility of bodies
Author
Series
Veronica Rosenthal novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of...
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