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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared.
Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen; finding them will be the scoop of the year. But rival author...
1562) Broken inn
Author
Series
(Andrew Wayne),Relic volume 5
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
303 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A moonshining hermit -- A budding reporter -- A $25 million misdirection. The mob, undercover agents, and secret payloads make Broken Inn a dangerous place for a fresh reporter, a newspaper photographer, and a moonshining hermit. Hailey witnesses a murder at the enigmatic Broken Inn, but when she learns that the hotel manager and her editor are pals, she investigates on her own. When a corrupt guard finds her snooping, she flees into a box canyon,...
1563) Fallen creed
Author
Series
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryder Creed rescues abandoned dogs and turns them into heroes. But this time, it's Creed who may need rescuing when a madman leads him and Agent Maggie O'Dell on a gut-wrenching scavenger hunt.
K9 handler Ryder Creed and his scent dog, Grace, return to Nebraska to join FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell and Special Investigator Tommy Pakula. A rural Postal carrier found a black plastic bag discarded in a grassy roadside ditch-- containing the partial remains...
1564) Holmes, Marple & Poe
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish PIs open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Brendan Holmes: A keen, science-minded sleuth with an even keener sense of smell. Margaret Marple: A charming snoop who works best undercover. Auguste Poe: A weapons expert with a weakness for muscle cars and beautiful women. The agency's daring methodology and headline-making cases attract the attention of NYPD detective lieutenant Helene Grey. Her...
1565) The Murder Inn
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
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...
1566) Impostor's lure
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The disappearance of a federal prosecutor launches the latest high-stakes case for FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan"--
1567) The Rattlesnake Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 7
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway agrees to help out his friend, Sheriff Hum Stocks, as a deputy for the winter, he never guesses he'll soon be deep in the rugged and wild Dolores Triangle, trying to solve not only the mystery of a skeleton wearing knee boots, but also the murder of rattlesnake-hunter and wannabe rodeo clown, Chicken Bottoms.
Set in the Dolores Triangle, that area defined by the Colorado-Utah border and the Colorado...
1568) The Cessna Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 10
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns that his job is on the line, he knows that big changes are coming, though he has no idea exactly what kind. And with his wife's new business running an air-based catering service, he knows she'll be too busy to help him figure out his now uncertain future. Add in the invasion of his little Utah town by a group of wanna-be Vikings, and his employment woes soon take backstage to solving a murder...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her-someone who knows about her murderous hobby-and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.
1570) Sun storm
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help...
1571) Private Moscow
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 17
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy. On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and children grieve, the details of his death remain buried for twenty-two years. With the release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities in 1975, LSD is linked to Wilson's death, and suddenly the Wilson case becomes news again. Wilson's family and the...
Author
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...
1574) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why"--
1575) Thief's mark
Author
Series
Sharpe and Donovan novels volume 7
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped, thwarting their plans for ransom. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced. Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a break-in at the home of Emma's grandfather,...
1576) The Paradox Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 3
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rancher Mack Murphy has been buying up land in southwest Colorado, threatening those who won't sell, including Junior, the uncle of ex-sheriff Bud Shumway. Bud agrees to visit his uncle to help defuse things, never suspecting he would get caught right smack in the middle of Mack's murder. And it becomes the toughest case Bud's ever had to solve, as almost everyone is a suspect. Set in the Paradox Valley, a beautiful and remote area with a wooly Wild...
1577) The Beartooth Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 8
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, head to Montana to pursue Bud's dream of learning to fly-fish, Bud never guesses he'll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mystery of a missing lunch lady he's never met, as well as trying to stay off the radar of a strange religious cult that believes in immortality while plotting to kill people.
Set in the magnificent Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone National...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it.
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been...
1579) The Ghost Rock Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 1
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old hermit has been killed in Utah's wildlands, and Sheriff Bud Shumway knows it's murder, even though some say it was a cougar kill. Others think it was done by a Bigfoot who has roamed the area for years, killing cattle and leaving people so traumatized that they never want to go into the wilderness again. But Sheriff Shumway can't afford to believe in Bigfoot, given the huge area he's responsible for, most of it wildlands.
1580) The Melon Rind Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 9
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns his wife, Wilma Jean, wants to sell her cafe and become a backcountry pilot, he senses his world is about to change, and not necessarily in a good way.
But Bud never guesses he'll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mysterious death of a crusty old Scotsman who, as he was dying, told Bud his killer was a witch's tongue. Bud soon becomes an unwilling witness to the frenzy surrounding...
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