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Chet and Bernie volume 14
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Chet the dog, 'the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction' (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing. At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne's expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case...
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Series
Marion Lane volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twenty-five-year-old apprentice detective at the elusive Miss Brickett's Investigations & Inquiries, is busier than ever and determined to prove herself worthy of an official Inquirer badge. But when her close friend's girlfriend, Darcy, is targeted by a dangerous gang leader and seeks out the Inquirers' assistance, Marion cannot help but get involved. Just when Marion thinks she has the situation under control, Darcy...
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English
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It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward. Cynthia Catchpool, Edward's mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while he solves the case. As Poirot digs into the mystery, he discovers...
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Series
Pentecost and Parker mystery volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award–winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much.
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Series
Jack Taylor volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
385 pages
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him.
When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy...
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English
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"This latest installment of the beloved No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series finds Botswana's premier detective agency as busy as ever, with no shortage of sensitive situations requiring Mma Ramotswe's keen eye and discerning input. Through it all, Mma Ramotswe will demonstrate that there are solutions to all manner of difficulties, there to be discovered as long as one is led by kindness, grace, and logic, and can rely on the wise counsel of close...
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Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander 'Andy' Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kenneth Branagh stars as celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot in this terrifying mystery set after World War II. Retired and living in Venice, Italy, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance where a murdered guest thrusts the detective into a sinister, shadowy world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Ines sale en libertad, despues de quince anos presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex marido. Su vida ha cambiado, pero as tambien la sociedad: el avance del feminismo, las leyes de matrionio igualitario y del aborto, el lenguaje inclusivo. Ines, una ama de casa tradicional y a quien la maternidad no le resulto algo feliz, entiende que debe ser practica y adaptarse. Aunque le cueste. Se asocia con la unica amiga que hizo dentro de...
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer-and warmer-in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn't want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she's expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County....
11) A grave robbery
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Series
Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Susan Ryeland ha sido durante años la editora del excéntrico escritor superventas Alan Conway. Los lectores adoran al protagonista de su serie más famosa, el detective Atticus Pünd, que se dedica a resolver crímenes en la década de los cincuenta por pueblecitos ingleses aparentemente tranquilos.
Sin embargo, la última novela que ha entregado Conway, y a la que le faltan los últimos capítulos, no es como las demás y está a punto de cambiar...
13) Broken trust
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Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him on of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain's beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concernedhe has recently become secretive, bordering...
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Series
Mac and Sam mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Eleanor Davis is discovered shot to death in her garage, the only suspect, her estranged husband, is found not guilty in a court of law. However, most of the good citizens of Washington, Missouri, remain unconvinced. It doesn't matter that twelve men and women of the jury found him not guilty. What do they know? And since Private Investigator Mackenzie Love accepted the job for the defense and helped acquit Connor Davis, her friends and neighbors...
15) Dead again
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer husband in 1948.
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the streets of Galway. The pandemic had hit while he was under, devastating the lives of many in his beloved city and beyond. Now, as Jack tries to recover from the attack that put him in the hospital and absorb the incredible changes in the world around him, a woman approaches him with a distressing case: two local nuns have been bludgeoned by a...
18) Missing persons
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection betwee the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap ... A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private--the world's largest investigation agency--with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What...
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