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By Mary Feliz. 2017
Professional organizer Maggie McDonald has a knack for cleaning up other people’s messes. So when the fiancée of her latest…
client turns up dead, it’s up to her to sort through the untidy list of suspects and identify the real killer.Maggie McDonald is hoping to raise the profile of her new Orchard View organizing business via her first high-profile client. Professor Lincoln Sinclair may be up for a Nobel Prize, but he’s hopeless when it comes to organizing anything other than his thoughts. For an academic, he’s also amassed more than his share of enemies. When Sinclair’s fiancée is found dead on the floor of his home laboratory—electrocuted in a puddle of water—Maggie takes on the added task of finding the woman’s murderer. To do so, she’ll have to outmaneuver the suspicious, obnoxious police investigator she’s nicknamed “Detective Awful” before a shadowy figure can check off the first item on their personal to-do list—Kill Maggie McDonald.“Fans of Feliz’s first book as well as newcomers to the series won’t be disappointed…Moves forward quickly with freshness, a few surprises and a couple of real scares.” —Kirkus Reviews on Scheduled to DeathBy Sarah Alderson. 2009
A girl looking to escape her past in New York City only to end up on the run from a…
dangerous conspiracy in this sizzling, high-stakes novel.When seventeen-year-old Liva came to New York City, all she wanted was to escape the painful memories of her past and finally find a fresh start. Her hopes for a new future were dashed the moment she became the sole witness to a brutal murder. When she's taken into police custody--supposedly for her own protection--she realizes something isn't right, but it's too late. Soon, bullets start flying, and Liva realizes that she is not just a witness, but the target--and she needs to escape before it's too late.With the help of a sexy car thief that she met at the station, Liva manages to get away from the massacre unharmed, but now the two of them are alone in New York, trying to outrun and outwit the two killers who will stop at nothing to find them. Liva and Jay are living on the edge, but when you're on the edge, there's a long way to fall.By Candice Fox. 2014
Twenty years ago, two children were kidnapped and left for dead . . . Homicide detective Frank Bennett has a…
new partner—dark, beautiful, coldly efficient Eden Archer. Frank doesn’t know what to make of her, or her brother Eric, who’s also on the police force. Their methods are . . . unusual. But when a graveyard full of large steel toolboxes filled with body parts is found at the bottom of Sydney harbor, unusual is the least of their worries. For Eden and Eric, the case holds chilling links to a scarred childhood—and the murderer who raised them. For Frank, each clue brings him closer to something he’s not sure he wants to face. But true evil goes beyond the bloody handiwork of a serial killer—and no one is truly innocent . . .By James Craig. 2011
What happens in the Merrion Club stays in the Merrion Club . . .Edgar Carlton is rich, handsome, and in…
line to be the next Prime Minister. But his rise to the top takes a steep turn downward when somebody begins murdering alumni of the 1984 Merrion Club, an exclusive Cambridge University society to which he belongs. Bullheaded Inspector Carlyle is tasked with handling this delicate case, and to discover the killer, he must question all the members of the 1984 Merrion Club. But finding the truth proves difficult when this group of powerful men is so determined to let events of the past remain in the dark . . .By Norah Mcclintock. 2008
By Liza Marklund, Neil Smith. 2005
Stockholm is bustling with preparations for the upcoming summer Olympics when a bomb explodes in the city's new Olympic arena.…
One of the most powerful women in Sweden, Christina Furhage, is blown to bits. The police begin a wild and desperate chase for the killer, while crime reporter and mother of two, Annika Bengtzon, discovers connections no one else sees. Thus begins the first stand-alone crime novel by Liza Marklund, which follows the impulsive and passionate reporter Annika Bengtzon on her thrilling assignments.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Carolyn Keene, Peter Francis. 2015
In this Nancy Drew and the Clew Crew adventure, Nancy and her friends must track down a beautiful--and very rare--butterfly…
when it goes missing from the new butterfly museum.Nancy, Bess, and George can't wait to check out Flutter House, an awesome new museum that's all about butterflies! The girls are thrilled when they get to see the beautiful creatures up close and personal. But soon after their class leaves, the rarest butterfly, a Blue Morpho, goes missing! It's up to the Clue Crew to get the valuable butterfly back safely. But with a long suspect list and not many clues, it's going to be a tough case for Nancy and her friends.By Kaye Morgan. 2008
Puzzle master Liza Kelly must sharpen her pencil-and her wits-to solve a calculated killing. Second in the Sudoku mystery series--from…
the author of Death by Sudoku. Taking on the role of publicist puts Liza in the center of the action on the production of the film Counterfeit, where inflated egos and artistic temperaments clash both on set and off. But when one of the film's major players is found dead, Sudoku Maven Liza realizes that the numbers don't quite add up. Now it's up to her to investigate the cast and crew in order to determine just who wrote this death scene.By Janwillem van de Wetering. 1997
A Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery Grijpstra and De Gier are being blackmailed. A wealthy yacht owner and his son…
want the retired policemen to investigate the hijacking in the Caribbean of an entire cargo of oil from a supertanker and are threatening to reveal information they have on them to the tax authorities. Their rendezvous is Key West where, amongst other things, they are confronted by a murder. 'One of the masters of the mystery form. ' - Los Angeles TimesBy Carolyn Keene, Peter Francis. 2018
Help Nancy and her friends find the truth behind a haunted theater in the tenth book in the interactive Nancy…
Drew Clue Book mystery series.The hit TV show Twinkle Little Stars is coming to River Heights to audition contestants for their upcoming Halloween show. They’ll choose talented kids from all over the country to compete for prizes. Nancy, Bess, and George are dressing up as witches and are planning to create a special potion onstage for the judges. The recently renovated Heights Theatre has opened its doors for the auditions. The old theatre had been abandoned for fifty years but is now restored to its original beauty. But on the day of the auditions, everything seems to go wrong; the girls’ cauldron over bubbles, a werewolf mask makes its owner sneeze, spider webs fall on the dancers. That’s when the clue crew learns the Heights Theatre is rumored to be haunted—people say ghosts are the reason it stayed empty for so long. But Nancy knows better than to believe in ghosts. She’s sure that the culprit is of the human variety. Then Bess sees monsters dancing around a piano playing on its own—the keys moving but no is playing it. Could the rumors be true? Is the Heights Theatre really haunted? It’s up to the clue crew—and you—to find out!By Frances O'Roark Dowell, Amy June Bates. 2018
Sam Graham is a mystery man. But when there are no mysteries to solve, Sam comes up with a plan…
to find one in this hilarious fourth chapter book in the Sam the Man series from Frances O’Roark Dowell.Sam Graham loves solving mysteries. After successfully solving the mystery of Annabelle’s lost sock, Sam decides to make mystery-solving his main hobby (after tending the chickens, of course). He recruits his best friend Gavin and a couple of their classmates for a detective club, and together they’re ready for any mystery that comes their way. There’s a problem though…there are no cases to solve! So, Sam comes up with a plan: They’ll take the most interesting things in the lost and found and try to find out who lost what. But who could a locked box, a very long stuffed snake, and a red jacket belong to? And how will Sam and his friends find them? And…why does that jacket smell so bad?!?By Alfred Hitchcock. 1971
By David Dickinson. 2011
An unwelcome guest - Death - gatecrashes a society wedding and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned by his barrister friend,…
Charles Augustus Pugh, to investigate this most singular case of murder in the Fens.The dead man is Randolph Colville, successful wine merchant and father of the groom. The murderer would appear to be his brother Cosmo, found in the same room with a gun in his hand. But is this simply a modern-day version of Cain and Abel, or is there more to it than that? Cosmo isn't speaking and time is running out for him for he has an appointment with the gallows in two weeks.Francis has to act fast and sets out to discover all he can about the dead man - and his brother. Cosmo's silence is bothering him for it can only be for two reasons; either he is protecting a woman - or a family scandal. His investigations take him to the vineyards and towns of Burgundy, where he uncovers evidence of serious malpractise in the Colville wine trade, bitter rivalry with a London-based competitor and a disgruntled ex-employee bent on revenge. But there is another secret - more terrible and shocking than anything gone on before - which finally reveals the motive for the untimely death of a wine merchant.Praise for David Dickinson:'Splendid entertainment' Publishers Weekly'A leisurely period whodunit with Dickinson's customary historical tidbits and patches of local color, swathed in an appealing Victorian narrative' Kirkus Reviews'Detective fiction in the grand style' James Naughtie'A cracking yarn, beguilingly real from start to finish' Peter SnowBy David Deamer, Wallace Kaufman. 2016
Genetics professor Michelle Murphy losesher husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while theirbrilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted…
in Kazakhstan, stubbornlybelieves she is a mutant. As if this were not enough she soon findsherself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacyof Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic transcription factor thatcould herald the dawn of new human species. Initially caught helplessly betweenwell-meaning fellow scientists, the government and more sinister agents,Michelle, with the help of a host of unlikely heroes, eventually takes controland finds the courage to confront the decision of whether to save human livesor humanity. The scientific andtechnical aspects underlying the plot - in particular aspects of FOX proteins,genetic mutations, viruses and cancer as well as the relation betweenintelligence and cortical complexity - are introduced and discussed by theauthors in an extensive non-technical appendix.Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling series—“the most sustained feat of…
imagination in mystery fiction today” (Lee Child). With Mrs. Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad and missing aunt. Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. And although her mental state seemed to be improving, she’s now disappeared after an outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital . . . better known as Bedlam. Russell wants nothing to do with the case—but she can’t say no. And at least it will get her away from the challenges of housework and back to the familiar business of investigation. To track down the vanished woman, she brings to the fore her deductive instincts and talent for subterfuge—and of course enlists her husband’s legendary prowess. Together, Russell and Holmes travel from the grim confines of Bedlam to the winding canals and sun-drenched Lido cabarets of Venice—only to find the foreboding shadow of Benito Mussolini darkening the fate of a city, an era, and a tormented English lady of privilege.A despairing protagonist on a quest for his inheritance. An alluring artist. Twin Japanese hostesses. A mad mathematician driving a…
kombi, and an old potter schooled in Zen, are part of the cast of characters in an adventure of the spirit; its hopes, dreams and desires. The Possibilities in Emptiness, is a book for all people. It takes you on a young man's battle against conscription and the Vietnam war, in 1970. And into the mysterious contradiction which is Japan, in the late 1980's. Miles Tracy is on a mission to find Shigeo Kitani...and anything to fill the void. If you like Bob Dylan, Che Guevara, Kurt Vonnegut, Zen, Sushi, and a search for meaning; then read on...By Neely Tucker. 2015
Washington, D.C., reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and corruption, by the author of…
The Ways of the Dead When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.'s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it's time to start asking some serious questions--no matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead and pressure mounting for Sully to abandon the investigation, he has a hunch that there is more to the case than a drug deal gone bad or a tale of family misfortune. Digging deeper, Sully finds that the real story stretches far beyond Billy and into D.C.'s most prominent social circles. An alcoholic still haunted from his years as a war correspondent in Bosnia, Sully now must strike a dangerous balance between D.C.'s two extremes--the city's violent, desperate back streets and its highest corridors of power--while threatened by those who will stop at nothing to keep him from discovering the shocking truth. The follow-up to last year's acclaimed The Ways of the Dead, this gritty mystery showcases Tucker's talent for spot-on dialogue, authentic characters, and complex narrative.By Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon. 1997
While Nancy visits a friend at the University of Utah, Frank and Joe Hardy are working undercover just outside Salt…
Lake City at the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Together, they team up to investigate acts of sabotage by eco-terrorists, and are led into a tangled web of financial intrigue, political corruption, and explosive action.By Tanya Anne Crosby, Yaiza Barrio Parra. 2015
Desvelando los secretos de una gran familia sureña en declive, Tanya Anne Crosby, la autora que se encuentra en la…
lista de los más vendidos del New York Times, explora las vidas de Caroline, Augusta y Savannah Aldridge, tres hermanas que comparten un pasado oscuro y un futuro incierto. Tras la muerte de su madre, Caroline debe hacerse cargo del periódico de la familia, y las tres hermanas deben convivir durante un año o perderán la herencia. Pero hay un asesino que acapara los titulares, y puede que Caroline se haya puesto inconscientemente en su punto de mira... Una serie de secuestros y de asesinatos reviven los recuerdos de infancia de la desaparición de su hermano, y Caroline teme ser la siguiente. En mitad de la confusión, puede estar reavivando un romance extinguido largo tiempo atrás. Con Jack Shaw en su vida y con los andrajosos vínculos con sus hermanas remendándose poco a poco, Caroline espera que la familia pueda restaurar su posición en la sociedad de Charleston; a menos que una fuerza siniestra que se escapa a su control las separe para siempre...By Patricia Windsor. 1991