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1) Who She Was
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume Book 9
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A missing woman. A man with a secret past. Can Martina uncover the truth in time to save Katie and herself from becoming the next casualty?
Five years on from the adrenaline-fueled days of the Cold Case Squad, PI Martina Monroe is now a managing partner at the renowned, Drakos Monroe Security & Investigations. She spends her days running the firm - a safe desk job allowing her to spend more time with her sixteen-year-old daughter and less time in...
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 8 of 8
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Martina and Detective Hirsch, still reeling from their last high-profile case, agree to reopen the missing person case of Sadie Jarreau, a friend of one member of the Cold Case Squad. At first glance, Sadie’s disappearance from the local marina looks like the typical unhappy marriage resulting in a deadly end.
But between the marina’s surveillance cameras malfunctioning that day, her husband’s air-tight alibi, and no one with a motive to harm...
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Series
Detective Annalisa Vega volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran's death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran's open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty...
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English
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"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...
Author
Series
Angela Richman novels volume 8
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Nobody in Choutaeu Forest expected one of their most prominent citizens, socialite Selwyn Skipton, to be found dead in such salacious circumstances: strangled on satin bedsheets, a red letter A brutally stapled to his chest, in his private apartment above the Chouteau Forest Chocolate Shoppe. Selwyn was a good man. He gave to charity, supported local causes, and was married to his wife for more than twenty years. What did he do to deserve such a terrible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered--days after responding to a possible domestic violence...
7) Widow Lake
Author
Series
Detective Ellie Reeves volume 8
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the hottest day of the year, as a heatwave takes hold of the Appalachian Mountains, a five-year-old girl goes missing. Just as the sun is setting, a family vacation becomes a worst nightmare--Betsy, with her green eyes, ponytail and rainbow t-shirt--disappears in the woods by Widow Lake. Detective Ellie Reeves is straight on the scene, promising Betsy's heartbroken parents that she will stop at nothing to find their precious daughter. Hours later,...
8) Lion & Lamb
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case. Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to...
Author
Series
Brigid Reardon mysteries volume 2
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after traveling from Deadwood to Cheyenne to join her brother Seamus, Brigid Reardon finds herself caught up in a deadly mystery-beginning with her discovery of a neighbor's body on the plains near their homes. Inspired by the true story of Ellen Watson in Cheyenne in 1889, The Big Sugar continues the adventure begun in Mary Logue's celebrated mystery The Streel"--
10) Wild Kat
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is harassed and terrorized after blowing the whistle on her employers' corrupt practices and Kat learns some hard and deady lessons during the investigation.
11) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Language
English
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Description
In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing body parts. The case, given the...
12) Arrowed
Author
Series
Resort to murder mystery volume 4
Publisher
Blazing Sword Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It all began when a dying man with an arrow in his chest grabs her ankle.
During a heat wave at a Santa Fe resort, Julienne has the resort owner pressuring her to solve the murder. The victim is a high profile business man who made enemies rather than friends, leaving Julienne with a roster of suspects. She was supposed to be training the staff and spending quality time with Mason rather than investigating a murder. The heat turns up when an old girlfriend...
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Series
Miranda Abbott mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She’s facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theater. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered,...
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Series
Publisher
Cindy Sample
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"After Sierra Sullivan is furloughed from her cruise director position, she moves to Spindrift Cove, Washington, to be closer to her married daughter. She soon discovers that gigs for middle-aged entertainers are scarcer than good hair days in the Pacific Northwest. With her bank account sliding toward zero, she swallows the indignity of donning a ten-pound wig and elaborate costume to perform at a child's birthday party. Little does Sierra know...
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Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Sharon McCone, female detective, is hired by Vietnamese refugees occupying a seedy Tenderloin district hotel to investigate some strange goings-on.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of people, still traumatized by the disappearance of three young boys in the 1970s, converge in a small Wisconsin town after a chain of random events culminates in violence and reveals long-buried secrets.
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Series
Detective Josie Quinn thriller volume 13
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the thin glow of moonlight, a mess of auburn curls gleams against the rocks. Hands bound, the girl's fragile body is limp and still. Seconds later, a wall of raging white water crashes down, swallowing her whole... A knock on the door late in the evening can only mean trouble for Detective Josie Quinn, but fear chokes her at the news that one of her own team is missing. No one has seen Denton PD's Press Liaison Amber for days. Sweet-natured and...
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Series
Detective Josie Quinn thriller volume 16
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"when Denton's most loved TV presenter returns home to find his wife dead at the dining table, it shatters the close-knit community. Beautiful and absolutely besotted with each other, Beau and Claudia Collins were Idolized for being the perfect couple. But the devastating scene Detective Josie Quinn finds in the remote hideaway has her asking what dark secrets lurk beneath the surface of the seemingly flawless marriage?"--Back Cover