Catalog Search Results
2) Gypped
Author
Language
English
Description
PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigate an L.A.-based business scam that extends up and down the coast of California.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Timothy O’Day knew the woods. Yet when he disappeared on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip with his best friends in the world, he didn’t leave a trace. What he did leave behind were two heartbroken parents, a crew of guilt-ridden groomsmen, and a pile of clues that don’t add up.
Frankie Elkin doesn’t know the woods, but she knows how to find people. So when she reads that Timothy’s father is organizing one last search,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Johannesburg, prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. The husband of the wealthy woman is the primary suspect in his wife's murder. PI Jade de Jong fled South Africa ten years ago after her father was killed. Now back in town, she offers to help her father's former assistant, Supt. David Patel, with...
5) Free fall
Author
Language
English
Description
Wren Valere, separated from her lover Sergei, takes a Retrieval job that puts her to the challenge as the Truce holding violence at bay is shattered and Magical Manhattan goes to war.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband Willy, as well as the recently married P.I. Regan Reilly and her groom, Jack, head of the NYPD major case squad, are back. The couples are on a luxury cruise the day after Christmas along with a group of mystery writers as part of a mystery seminar. The tranquility vanishes when a ghost is sighted on board, a fan disappears, and a storm blows the ship off course. Alvirah, Regan,...
7) Forgive me
Author
Language
English
Description
"Readers of Harlan Coben will feel right at home here." -Booklist.
At DeRose & Associates Private Investigators in Virginia, Angie DeRose strives to find and rescue endangered runaways--work that stands in stark contrast to her own idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother's sudden death, Angie makes a life-altering discovery. Hidden in her parents' attic is a photograph of a little girl, with a code and a hand-written message on the back:...
Author
Language
English
Description
It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1943, and the war escalating in Europe and the Pacific seems far away. But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, the war feels as if it were right in New York City-what with food rationing and frequent blackouts . . . and a boyfriend she hasn't heard word one from since he enlisted in the navy. Now her rent is coming due and she hasn't been cast in anything for six months. The factories are desperate for women workers, but Rosie the Thespian isn't...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
A sleuth rescues two orphaned Golden Retrievers—and tries to solve their master's murder—in this "delightful" mystery from the Agatha Award finalist (Publishers Weekly).
This year, all Melanie wants for Christmas is a dull moment. Between her teaching job, and showing her Standard Poodle puppy, there just aren't enough hours in the day. But when her son Davey's usual bus driver, Henry Pruitt, disappears and is replaced...
This year, all Melanie wants for Christmas is a dull moment. Between her teaching job, and showing her Standard Poodle puppy, there just aren't enough hours in the day. But when her son Davey's usual bus driver, Henry Pruitt, disappears and is replaced...
13) Hide and sneak
Author
Language
English
Description
Savannah Reid of the Midnight Magnolia Detective Agency takes on the case of a rising-star actor whose wife and toddler went missing right before their nanny was found murdered
Author
Language
English
Description
In a culture obsessed with celebrity, baby Muffin's death is big news. Crib death-or something more sinister? Everyone wants to know, including the police. Whatever the truth, the bereaved parents-celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz-live in curate Callie Anson's parish. And despite the disapproval of her vicar and his wife, Callie becomes involved with funeral arrangements.
It's a high-profile case, all right. Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is...
15) Holly: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.
Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Connecticut teacher Melanie Travis learns that her son has entered the family dog, Faith, in the "All Dogs Are Champions" contest only after receiving notification that the poodle has been named a finalist, and soon finds herself caught up in a mystery when the owner of a Scottish Terrier takes a deadly plunge off the fire escape.
Author
Language
English
Description
Melanie Travis has her hands full these days, what with adding a husband and three more dogs to her already cramped home. The advanced obedience training for her dog Faith is a welcome respite from the stresses of house hunting--until murder forces Melanie to the head of the class...
Even amidst the chaos, Melanie somehow manages to eke out a bit of time to get Faith enrolled in "school." The South Avenue Obedience Club looks like fun, even if there...
Author
Language
English
Description
PJ Sugar receives shocking news that she's inherited the Kellogg family mansion. Though she has no idea why, the timing is perfect-PJ has clearly worn out her welcome at her sister's house. Unfortunately, the mansion is in shambles, and PJ is short on cash. Rescue comes in the form of Max Smith, a mysterious handyman willing to trade his services for PJ's investigative skills. But PJ already has a full docket with cramming for her PI license and nurturing...
20) Desert run
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Jones's electrifying 10th...Scottsdale, Arizona, PI Lena is approached by Harold Slow Horse, one of Arizona's leading artists...[and] gets on a trail that leads her at long last to answers about her troubled past..." -Publishers Weekly
At the age of four, Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones was shot in the head and left to die on a Phoenix street. After her rescue, she spent years in the abusive foster care system, never knowing who her parents...
In Clover
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other Clover libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request