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1541) Every pretty thing
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ex-FBI profiler Darby McCormick is contacted by a former colleague. Jackson Cooper is not the type to ask anyone for help, but he's on the trail of a woman who's been missing for twenty years. She was one of the first victims of a serial killer who has been carving a dark path across America for decades. And he may have tracked the monster here to Montana. But when Darby arrives, Jackson Coop has vanished. Something is very wrong - and with no witnesses,...
1542) The haunted abbot
Author
Series
Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
1547) Curious toys: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Phillips, Sallie's best friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes might be the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, but she manages to outsmart him at every turn, solving thrilling mysteries in her very own way... As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herself. He needs her help to decipher a message from their long-lost mother. Sherlock, Enola, and their brother, Mycroft, must solve a triple...
1550) A grave robbery
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
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...
1551) The widow spy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the "magnificent...complex, vivid" (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warne is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy. It's August 1863, and her latest assignment could finally end the bloody war and bring the fractured...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Appearances can be deceiving and never more so than in the case of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth. She may look like a sweet old lady, but her demure hat and sensible tweeds conceal a superior intelligence and steely resolve. And although her eyes twinkle, they don"t miss a clue.
1553) A presumption of death
Author
Publisher
Chivers Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
While England is in the midst of a German bombing raid, Lord Peter Wimsey is away on business, leaving wife Harriet with their children alone in the safety of the countryside. However, the gentle English countryside has become as rough and tumble as the city, and after a practice air raid, a young woman is found murdered. In Peter's absence, the locals seek the help of the equally brilliant Harriet.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the events of an important early case for American female detective Kate Warne, describing how she went undercover as a society lady on a mission to thwart an assassination plot against the sixteenth president.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad" brought down robbers and rapists, investigated the notorious...
1557) One foot in the grave
Author
Series
Carly Moore volume 3
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bart Drummond, patriarch of Drum, Tennessee, breaks ground on a new resort that promises more jobs and money. The project comes to a halt when the construction crew unearths an unmarked grave. Authorities learn the body belongs to Wyatt Drummond's old girlfriend, who had supposedly left town, and Wyatt is suspect number one. Carly is sure Wyatt is innocent, even if the sheriff's department isn't. Carly has moved on from Wyatt, but now he's asking...
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