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Big boned: a Heather Wells mystery (Heather Wells mystery. #3)
By Meg Cabot. 2007
After events in "Size Fourteen Is Not Fat Either", Heather Wells longs for her landlord Cooper, dates a vegan professor,…
and continues her job at the university "death dorm," where several murders have occurred. But when her boss, Dr. Veatch, is killed, Heather investigates. Some strong language. 2007."F" is for fugitive: a Kinsey Millhone mystery (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #6)
By Sue Grafton. 1989
In Floral Beach, no one thinks about the long-dead Jean Timberlake or Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer who was tried,…
convicted and a year later walked away from prison. Now 17 years later, Bailey reappears and Kinsey Millhone is hired to prove his innocence. 1989. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 6)New York City. Dorm advisor Heather Wells, a former pop singer, has her hands full when a resident is murdered,…
her ex-fiancé insists she attend his wedding, and her father is released from prison. Heather uncovers fraternity secrets while lusting for her landlord, Cooper--her ex's brother. Some strong language. 2006."N" is for noose (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #14.)
By Sue Grafton. 1998
Kinsey Millhone is hired by a detective's widow to investigate the last few weeks of her husband's life in tiny…
Nota Lake. Millhone discovers uncooperative neighbors and a connection to an old murder case in her own hometown of Santa Teresa. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "M is for malice", followed by "O is for outlaw". 1998."E" is for evidence: a Kinsey Millhone mystery (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #5.)
By Sue Grafton. 1988
Gutsy private eye Kinsey Millhone is up to her ears in trouble when she is unwittingly set up to take…
a fall in an insurance scam. Before charges can be brought against her, she investigates the frame-up and finds it tied to one family's onerous past and to a heinous secret. Sequel to "D is for deadbeat", followed by "F is for fugitive". 1988.Kisscut (Grant County series. #2.)
By Karin Slaughter. 2002
Dr. Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver of Grant County, Georgia, uncover a web of pedophilia, incest,…
and child pornography after a thirteen-year-old girl is killed. Sequel to "Blindsighted". Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2002.A faint cold fear: a novel (Grant County series. #3.)
By Karin Slaughter. 2003
Georgia coroner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, detective Jeffrey Tolliver, investigate a series of suicides--or murders--at the local college. And…
Sara's pregnant sister is attacked on the campus, where an untrustworthy former policewoman now works. Sequel to "Kisscut". Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2003.Isle of dogs (Judy Hammer mystery.)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2001
The misguided Virginia governor decides to put speed traps everywhere. He begins with the small Chesapeake Bay island of Tangier,…
but the eccentric natives don't cooperate. Meanwhile police superintendent Judy Hammer and her undercover assistant Andy Brazil chase a female serial killer. Bestseller. 2001.High five (Stephanie Plum novel ; #5)
By Janet Evanovich. 2000
Stephanie Plum has a whole heap of trouble on her doorstep. Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is…
convinced he's been abducted by aliens. Meanwhile Cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically-challenged Randy Briggs, who's jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie's closet. The mysterious man called Bunchy is trailing Stephanie in the hope of tracking down Fred. And Benito Ramirez is back from jail, quoting Scripture and vowing to introduce Stephanie to God - face to face. Sequel to "Four to score" (EB71980) followed by "Hot six". 2000. (Stephanie Plum novel ; 5)The chameleon's shadow
By Minette Walters. 2007
British lieutenant Charles Acland returns from Iraq badly injured and extremely angry, especially toward his ex-fiancée and other women. When…
evidence links Charles to a series of vicious attacks in London, he finds an unlikely ally in a weight-lifting pub-owner. Strong language and some violence. 2007.S is for silence (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #19)
By Sue Grafton. 2005
California PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by Daisy Sullivan to investigate her mother's disappearance. Violet Sullivan never returned from a…
Fourth of July fireworks display thirty-four years ago when Daisy was six. Descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. Bestseller. 2005. (Kinsey Milhone mysteries ; 19)Point of origin
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1998
Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. She has also sent Kay Scarpetta a…
message making it clear she blames her for Gault's death and has plans for revenge. Investigating another case, Scarpetta begins to feel she is being manipulated by an unseen hand.The breaker
By Minette Walters. 1999
Twelve hours after a women's broken body is washed up on shore, her traumatized 3-year old daughter is discovered 20…
miles away, alone and abandoned. Police suspicion falls on an actor whose boat is moored yards from the toddler and the victim's husband.Déjà dead
By Kathy Reichs. 1997
Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in Montreal, is used to visiting recently discovered burial sites. But her newest case is…
different. The dismembered body and its decapitated head remind her of another case, and she is soon plunged into a frantic investigation to find a serial killer who is about to strike again. Strong language, descriptions of sex, and graphic descriptions of violence.Look alive twenty-five: a Stephanie Plum novel (A Stephanie Plum Novel #25)
By Janet Evanovich. 2018
Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling…
series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum. Bestseller. Sequel to "Hardcore twenty-four". Bestseller. 2018.Heat wave: a Paradise Café mystery / (A Paradise Café mystery #1)
By Maureen Jennings. 2019
July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private…
investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this story. 2019.Dark August: A Novel (Gus Monet Series #1)
By Katie Tallo. 2020
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein…
of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The WintersAn electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined.Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But that’s not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can’t resist following her mother’s clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mother’s investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus’ obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever…? Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.November Rain (Paradise Cafe #2)
By Maureen Jennings. 2020
Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of…
the detective agency. Mrs. Jessop hires the newly promoted Private Investigator to inquire into the untimely death of her son, a veteran injured in the Great War. The police ruled it a suicide, but Mrs. Jessop doesn’t agree and wants Charlotte to find out what really happened. Then Charlotte is hired to infiltrate a small women’s wear manufacturer to uncover communist agitators. When the factory supervisor is murdered on the job just as Charlotte starts to look into it, she gets seconded to the police to help find out what happened. The November clouds darken and Charlotte is left to struggle to solve two mysteries at the same time — until they intersect. Add an aging grandfather, an absent boyfriend, and a mad scheme to mount a controversial play at the Paradise Café and Charlotte has her hands full.Mercy, Mercy
By Marlene Stanton. 2020
Smart, sarcastic TV reporter Mercy Pepper struggles with feelings of guilt after her cameraman dies while on assignment with her.…
A news tape that he had hidden in his personal effects contains a secretly recorded conversation, and Mercy picks up the scent of corruption. She soon finds herself mired in the muck of provincial politics—the power brokers and the opportunists and those willing to go to extreme measures for a piece of the pie. With a keen observer's eye and sharp, sparkling wit, Stanton, a former news reporter, delivers a compelling crime/mystery story with a satisfying dash of romance.7th heaven (Women's murder club. #7.)
By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2008
San Francisco. Detective Lindsay Boxer and her new partner Rich Conklin uncover a lead in the disappearance of a former…
governor's teenage son. The two also investigate a rash of house fires that have killed several wealthy couples. 2008.