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Coffeehouse mysteries volume 16
A coffeehouse mystery volume Bk 16
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Coffeehouse mystery volume 16
A coffeehouse mystery volume Bk 16
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Coffeehouse mystery volume 16
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Dead to the Last Drop returns with the latest in the "delicious" (Woman's World) Coffeehouse Mysteries. Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi sheds tears of joy when her NYPD detective boyfriend surprises her with an engagement ring. But her bridal bliss is put on hold when a chilling mystery brings a wave of deadly danger to those she holds dear... After everything Clare and Mike have been through, they deserve...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file -- the cases nobody gives a damn about. She has no idea just how hot a cold case can get.
Ten...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 8
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It was not a cold case. Or was it...?
Sebastian Acosta has been gunned down at three AM on a Saturday morning, sitting behind the wheel of a beaten up Toyota. The passenger door is open and a few paces away his pal, Luis Irizarry, lies with his life ebbing away through two gunshot wounds in his chest. It should be a red hot case, except that fifteen years earlier, Rosario Rojas was raped and strangled in that self same house, the house Luis was...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 2
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It was November in New York. It was raining,, it was cold and the trees all looked like skeleton's hands. And Detective John Stone was having a problem with habeas corpus, because all there was of the body, was two bare arms. Two bare arms that somebody, twelve years ago, had put in a lock up in the East Bronx. What they had done with the rest of the woman, nobody knew. But as Stone and Dehan start to investigate, two things become clear: whoever...
5) Let Us Prey
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 4
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It seemed to be a cold case like any other. So much so that Stone and Dehan hadn't even considered reviewing it-- until private investigator Karl Baxter requested a copy of the police file. Then Stone got curious.
Why did a second rate PI in the Bronx want to look into the case of a low life petty criminal found tied to a chair in his apartment, beaten and shot through the heart? And that question led to other questions, like, whose was the second...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 7
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"David Thorndike, an investigative reporter on the New York Telegraph, is in the habit of disappearing for weeks at a time. So when he vanishes in the winter of 2008, investigating the story of his life, nobody worries --until he shows up shot in the head with his own 9mm -- no laptop and no story.
It wasn't much to go on in 2008, but when Stone and Dehan pick it up ten years later, the case is as cold as the icy winds blowing off the East River....
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 6
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"There is nothing unusual about a young Catholic girl from the Bronx winding up raped, beaten, strangled and decapitated -- unless she winds up that way in Lefthand Canyon, in the Colorado Rockies, where there hasn't been a murder since 1922. Then it's unusual enough to become a problem for the sheriff of Lee County. And when he finds no blood at the scene and no physical evidence, it becomes more than a problem. It becomes a headache -- for five...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 3
Publisher
Right House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a tramp was found in a dumpster on Lafayette and Bryant in the Bronx, with no papers and no ID, the case was filed as unsolved -- another victim nobody cared about, shot by some punk nobody cared about.
That was twelve years ago.
Then Detective Stone notices that the 'tramp' had a hundred dollar haircut and manicured nails. That makes him curious. He wants to know, who dresses a murder victim up as a tramp, then leaves them in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When the Scottish dance troupe she once had belonged to arrives in Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss MacCrimmon, throwing a reception in their honor, finds herself among the suspects in the sudden death of the despised company manager, Victor Owens.
10) Cold dead cash
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HAVE COFFIN, WILL TRAVEL
On his latest bullion run for the Reverend’s Temptation Gold Mine, Shotgun Johnny crosses paths with three desperate strangers. One is an old man. The other is his daughter Dixie. The third is his son, Jake Teal, a bank robber who’s wanted dead or alive. Thing is, Jake is already dead—stuffed in a pine box on his family’s wagon. Now every bounty hunter in the state is after his body . . .
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
Johnny...
11) Stone cold dead
Author
Series
Rock shop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When her brother abandons the family rock shop, recently widowed Morgan Iverson reluctantly becomes the manager. Business is as dead as the fossils cluttering the dusty shelves. While rounding up a runaway donkey, Morgan discovers the body of a Goth teen. A newspaper article hits the streets hinting that Morgan witnessed the murder, and she becomes the victim of escalating threats that make it clear the killer thinks she holds a clue to the teen's...
Author
Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong fights a new enemy, an ISIS group interested in a devastating weapon on Texas soil. The oil drilling on an Indian reservation is steeped in mystery and controversy and a secret from the past may trigger an Armageddon from the canyonlands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Innkeeper Natalie Barnes is living her dream life, creating scrumptious scone recipes and relishing cool summer days on quaint Cranberry Island, Maine... until she stumbles across a dead body tucked under the blueberry bushes. Could the killer be one of her artsy out-of-town guests? Or will the murderer turn out to be uncomfortably close to home?
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand," a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses. This,...
16) A fatal grace
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Series
Language
English
Description
"No one liked CC de Poitiers -- not her family, not her lover, not her neighbors in Three Pines. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate CC's sudden death on the day after Christmas, it seems like an impossible murder. How could she have been lectrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake in the midst of Three Pines annual curling match without anyone seeing a thing? In the beautiful but deadly Quebec winter, Gamache digs for secrets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Sent to a village south of Montreal to investigate the death of CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpopular woman apparently killed in an electrical accident, Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec finds that nearly everyone in town had a motive to kill her.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"September 2020 stood out for a number of reasons. The month was the hottest September on record and the year was on track to be the hottest since records were first kept in 1880. The sweltering temperatures were blamed for extreme weather in the United States, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Extreme heat was not the only news in September. At the other end of the weather spectrum temperatures in the Northern Plains plunged 55°F (30°C) in one day,...