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Mitford murders volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
400, [3] pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica in Spain. But one case...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1993. A few days before their biggest gig, the singer in Jack's band disappears. But as Jack searches for his buddy, he uncovers a web of crimes tied to local real estate, and the recent death of Jack's mentor.
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie's investigation...
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Series
Department Q volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck, who used to be a good homicide detective -- one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects. But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations...
Author
Series
Mercy Street Foundation novels volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative–and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer’s work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to Sam’s case: The bodies in all...
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English
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The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student's life---a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sort you might bind a package with, half of a pulpy fried tomato, which was too far from the breakfast table to have been dropped, a fountain pen, and lastly, a card which said on the front The September...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Anahera Rawiri left New Zealand at twenty-one, fleeing small-town poverty and the ghosts of her childhood with no plans to look back. But eight years later, she returns, seeking familiarity as respite from the shattered remains of her new life. And despite the changes brought on by a bump in tourism--the shiny new welcome sign at the town line and a decidedly less shiny new police presence--Golden Cove appears much as it ever was: a small settlement...
88) The precipice
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness -- the most remote stretch along the entire 2,000 mile Appalachian Trail -- Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Evangelical parents in Georgia. When two corpses are discovered...
89) Widowmaker
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past. She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's dead and...
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Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eve's biological sister goes missing, the nun heads to Las Vegas to track her down before it's too late. Years ago, Eve heard God's call to become a nun, but her recent stint moonlighting at her father's detective agency invigorates her so much that she's wrestling with her vocation. She's working with him on a case involving a miner in New Mexico when alarming news develops: her sister Dorisanne is missing. The authorities won't act without...
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, missing in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, unsure of the dark secrets her suitor might be concealing,...
93) Collared
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Lawyer Andy Carpenter's true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. All kinds of dogs make their way to the foundation, and it isn't that surprising to find a dog abandoned at the shelter one morning, though it was accompanied by a mysterious anonymous note. But they are quite surprised when they scan the dog's embedded chip, and discover that they know this dog. He is the "DNA dog." Two...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the worldś oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments, she lives in Boston, exploring a new relationship with Seb, a psychologist who offers her glimpses of a better world. Returning from a harrowing assignment in the Congo where she was kidnapped by rebel soldiers, Marika learns that a man she has always admired from afar, Pulitzer-winning war...
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Language
English
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"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage...
96) Moonlight mile
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Language
English
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl -- only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen -- and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
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Guillermo Downes volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
473 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is a long way from his native home of Argentina, heading up the police department in the English Cotswolds. But he isn't far enough to escape the memories of his past, or to lose the baggage he carries from the loss of someone close to him. So when a young girl, Gail, disappears -- the second girl in the span of two weeks to go missing -- Downes makes a promise to the child's mother to find her no matter what it takes....
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Series
Linda Wallheim mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Linda Wallheim, who is increasingly jaded with the Mormon church, has begun marriage counseling with her bishop husband, Kurt, hoping to reconcile their household and philosophical disagreements. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visits to see her five grown sons and their families. When Linda's eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter's babysitter, a local teenager named Sage Jensen, has vanished, Linda can't...
99) The short drop
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Series
Gibson Vaughn novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard -- then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency -- disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal -- Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance,...
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O'Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry, and Cork is understandably uneasy. His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing. As the official search ends with no recovery in sight, Cork is...
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