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"December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupre receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell Fenton in Essex. The once-prominent artist has a number of enemies, and has faded into obscurity since the war ended. Is the invitation to his own death or someone else's? Arriving at Winterfield on a cold winter evening, Donald and Maria meet five strangers who have also received numbered invitations. They all had a reason...
4022) You know her
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"--
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to...
4023) Silent footsteps
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English
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"When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim's friends are waylaid in the dark and beaten bloody? When she receives photographs memorializing these events? Or when people start dying? For Constable Hazel Best, the pivot point is the attack on her friend Gabriel Ash. That's when she focuses all her ingenuity on finding the man responsible. Her police...
4024) Shadows of death
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English
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Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go on a trip to Orkney in Scotland to visit an old friend and see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. They realize there's considerable dissension between the archaeologists and the principal donor for the newest dig, a wealthy and abrasive American.
When a more recent corpse is found at the dig, various suspects are named, but there's not enough evidence to bring a case against...
4025) The crime trade
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English
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When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers, goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the police officers involved: "Stegs" Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal just a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend...
4026) Flight
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English
Description
"With a serial killer on the loose in the new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin, one tenacious local detective can only get the help he needs from a former forensic photographer. When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she's decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning,...
4027) The gulf
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 285 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Senior Sergeant Jess Savage is recovering from a car crash that killed her husband when she hears about a new lead in a high-profile case she worked on years ago. Jess demands to continue the investigation but starts to notice troubling lapses in her memory. Are they a side effect of her injuries, or is she slowly losing her mind?
Publisher
Sky UK Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (455 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Arctic island town of Fortitude has survived the parasitic threat from last year, but another horrible death is discovered and the police must solve this barbaric murder. A mysterious stranger arrives, convinced that a demonic presence has been causing all the troubles, and has sworn to seek out and eradicate the demon in their midst.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It's the final chapter of one of television's greatest mystery series of all time. Recipient of 41 Primetime Emmy Award and 16 Golden Globe nominations, Murder, She Wrote set the standard with its fascinating charaters, well-crafted plots and beloved heroine, mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. Reunite with acclaimed actress Angela Lansbury in her iconic role in all 24 episodes of the final season. From the shadowy nooks of hometown Cabot Cove to crime...
4030) Seeing Darkness
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English
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"When a past-life regression session instead sends a terrifying vision of murder to Kylie Connelly, she's shaken and doesn't know what to think. Worse, later she identifies the attacker from her vision: he's a prominent local politician. Special Agent Jon Dickson of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters is on the trail of a suspected serial killer based on the scantest of clues and unreliable witness testimony. When he realizes Kylie's vision might be his best...
4031) Murder on Bedford Street
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English
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"Nobody could accuse Frank Malloy of being a snob. As a former Irish Catholic policeman, he was, in fact, the kind of person snobs usually looked down on. He might be a millionaire now, but lots of people still looked down on him because he'd always be Irish no matter how much money he had. This was why he felt a little guilty about feeling snobbish about the prospective client who had just been escorted into his office. Hugh Breedlove, according...
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English
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"April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it--bringing her cousins, her 3-year-old twins, her step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin. Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies' room and fails to return....
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English
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure...
4034) The hollow men
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English
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Immersing himself in his work as a surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police to ward off memories of his time as an army medic, Dr. Harry Kent is sent to treat a mentally ill teen who has taken hostages in a fast-food restaurant. When Solomon's life is put in danger again at a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect. Determined to uncover the secret that drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon...
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English
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"Thirty-year-old Max Maguire, detective with the NYPD, finds herself in France again as she is sent as a bodyguard to one of America's most famous wine critics, who is traveling to Bordeaux, France to taste some of the most expensive wines in the world. In the tragic circumstances that follow, Max is paired once again with French examining magistrate, Olivier Chaumont, with whom she had had a fling the year before while solving a case in Champagne....
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English
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"Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with her husband, police superintendent Edgar Stephens. Soon...
4037) Peril at the exposition
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. 1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim,...
4038) Cutting teeth
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Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...
4039) Rum and choke
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English
Description
"The Florida Panhandle Barback Games are coming up and Chloe's been drafted to represent the Sea Glass Saloon--competing in various obstacle-course events that conclude with rolling an empty keg up a hill. The rivalries are so fierce that some of the participating bars even stoop to bringing in ringers. Meanwhile, Chloe's friend Ann--a descendant of the famed pirate Jean Lafitte--asks her to come along for a boat ride as Ann dives into the Gulf of...
4040) Executive privilege
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English
Description
Private detective Dana Cutler is called upon to follow a young college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on her activities; however, when she turns up dead after a secret meeting at the White House, Cutler becomes a suspect.
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