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15901) Invasion of the UFOs
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Sean and Melissa, a brother and sister detective team, and J.E.R.E.M.I.A.H. and the wonder dog, Slobs, undercover a group of thieves whose agenda is just as scary and probably a little more dangerous than any insignificant little old man and wind up learning "that sometimes by helping the least, you're doing the most".
15902) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Greer is nothing special--at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity--which doesn't really count. But...
15903) 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...
15904) Everybody knows
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Mae Pruett, a "black-bag" publicist working at LA's most powerful crisis PR firm protecting the rich and depraved, decides to investigate, running afoul of the whole system.
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily's brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst...
15906) The housemate
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng. As Oli and Cooper unearth new facts about...
15907) Missing
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Storm Warning, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her colleague Nate are racing a severe storm, but the weather is the least of their worries when two prisoners escape and take a child hostage along the way. Lucy and Nate must try to rescue the boy and survive the storm, without letting these violent criminals get away."--
"In No Way Out, Lucy's husband, Sean Rogan, and his brother, Kane, go missing on the eve of a family wedding, and she's forced to...
15908) The last move
Author
Series
Criminal profilers (Mary Burton) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An urgent call brings FBI agent Kate Hayden back to San Antonio, the scene of her violent past. A brutal new murder shows hallmarks of a serial killer nicknamed the Samaritan. Tricky part is, Kate already caught him. Did she make an error, or is it a copycat? Paired with homicide detective Theo Mazur, Kate faces an enemy who knows her intimately. When a second body is found, the mode of death is identical to a different case that Kate had worked on....
15909) All these ashes
Author
Series
Line of sight volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Russell Avery, laid-off reporter turned private investigator, is almost out of clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work, Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting mysteries: the...
15910) 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...
15911) The dark lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While on summer vacation at the seaside, twelve-year-old Irene Adler meets the young Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Arsène Lupin--and when a dead body floats ashore the three young friends set out to solve the mystery.
15912) Meow or never
Author
Series
Snazzy cat capers volume 3
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia and her inventor sidekick Oscar F. Gold are deep in preparations for the biggest challenge the FFBI (Furry Feline Burglary Institute) has to offer: The M.E.O.W. competition! The fur-and-fin duo show up with the most valuable treasure they can find--and Ophelia's cousin Pierre von Rascal beats them to the punch with a priceless painting that puts their loot to shame. But Ophelia is certain the expensive artwork is an elaborate fake! Ophelia...
15913) City of stones
Author
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
American troops are fighting the Communists in Korea. McCarthyism is on the rise. The Kefauver Commission is investigating organized crime. In the midst of this turbulent time, the murder of a MPD police officer and the two young Jewish men accused of killing him sets off an explosive investigation that ultimately encompasses mobsters, police corruption, political blackmail, and the ethnic biases that existed in 1950 Minneapolis. Known as the most...
Author
Series
Lady Petra Inquires volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a young lady from Cabot Cove shows promise as a singer and songwriter, Jessica and a local citizens committee send Cyndi on a scholarship trip to Nashville, Tennessee. Only weeks later, Cabot Cove is shocked to hear of the cold-blooded murder of a brash country music publisher-by the young talent Cyndi! Jessica finds that the murdered man was no country gentleman, with a list of ex-wives, cheated partners, swindled singers, and stolen songs that...
15916) Murder in masquerade
Author
Series
Lady of letters mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Countess Amelia Amesbury's secret hobby, writing an advice column for a London penny paper, has gotten her into hot water before; after all, Amelia will do whatever it takes to help a reader in need. But now, handsome Marquis Simon Bainbridge desperately needs her assistance. His beloved younger sister Marielle has written Lady Agony seeking advice on her plans to elope with a man her family does not approve of. Determined to save his sister...
15917) Murder in postscript
Author
Series
Lady of letters mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion, relationships, and manners. But when a lady's maid writes...
15918) Stone maidens: a thriller
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI's Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the native tribes of Papua New Guinea -- the same tribes...
15919) The jump
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The stress of an oil refinery being built in their backyard, threatening their families' livelihood, prompts four working-class teens to join a dangerous scavenger hunt where the reward of power could change their families' fates and save the city they love so much.
Author
Series
Pigeon private detectives volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a thief steals the prized painting from the Museum of Food Art in the middle of the night, the Pigeon Private Detectives take on the case and break down clues, while still taking time to indulge in a sweet treat from Mama Pigeon.
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