Abigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of an earlier crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families. Starting her new life, Abigail moves to a small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. Once it was also home to Edna’s younger sister, Emily, and her two children, Jenny and Christopher, who, people believe, drove away one night, thirty years ago, and just never
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Bestselling author, ethnomusicologist and conference keynote speaker Dr. Archibald Finlay Dawson is found strangled on the campus of Twombly College. Who at the anthropology conference hated Archie enough to kill him? And why do references to the Devil keep cropping up? Emory Crawford, wife of Twombly College chemistry and forensic science professor Dr. Jebbin Crawford, is drawn into the case when she and Jebbin discover Archie’s body strangled with the strings from his own fiddle. Inspired by her mantra of “What Would Jane Marple Do?”
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The first three books from the Miss Fortune Series. CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever—in Sinful, Louisiana. She is trying to keep a low key from the world’s largest arms dealer. Unfortunately, Gertie and Ida Belle make this a more difficult task than any she has encountered in the CIA.
Winner of the Minotaur Books/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Competition Newly-minted private investigator William Fletcher is having trouble finding clientele. He’s not the only man out of work, but his past as a former heavyweight contender with a few shady connections-not to mention the color of his skin in race-obsessed New Orleans-isn’t helping lure clients to his door. Stuck without any viable alternative, he takes a case from an old criminal acquaintance, Storm. His only client assures him that the
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Guilt is a powerful thing, and former deputy Jack Collins is mired in it. Unable to forget the events that have taken place in the town he was sworn to protect, he feels as if he is slowly drowning as he tries to cope with the aftermath of a serial killer’s reign of terror, as well as his new–and unwanted–job as chief of police. When the body of a young woman, having the same puncture wounds as the serial killer’s previous victims, is discovered, Jack
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This small town in Prairie County, Montana has been rocked to its very core with the brutal murders of four women. A serial killer, whose calling card is as unusual as it is twisted, is on the loose – and Police Chief Nathan Sommers is bent on stopping him at all costs. While tracking the murderer, Nathan must battle his own demons as he tries in vain to cope with the death of his wife. He feels her dying was a direct result of his
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The Lake Killer series continues with Snake Island. The Litchfield brother’s return to the lake only to discover the chaos continues. It will be entirely up to them if their Aunt and Uncle survive. The killer continues to stay one step ahead of them. Can Danny’s team of men solve this mystery before it’s too late?
“The Ambassador's Wife is another terrific book from a terrific writer. In the genre of crime fiction set in Asia, Jake Needham is in a class of his own.” —The Bangkok Post
3 Unique Storylines. Over 50 Possible Endings. Just one question… Could you Solve a Murder? Murdered is a mystery novel unlike any other — You are the main character. Follow clues, interrogate suspects, and piece together the puzzle before the killer gets away! It’s up to you to solve the case in this action-packed, dark and humorous thriller. Each link represents a choice, and the story evolves based on your decisions.
With over 110 million copies of his novels in print, David Baldacci is one of the most widely read storytellers in the world. Now he introduces a startling, original new character: a man with perfect memory who must solve his own family’s murder. MEMORY MAN Amos Decker’s life changed forever–twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to
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James Bennett didn’t come to the Florida Keys to find a new father. As the rebellious, serially underemployed scion of an old-money New York family, he’d spent years disappointing the one he already had. But when smooth-talking ex-televangelist John Wainwright takes an interest in him, he spurns an invitation to grow up and finally join his family’s business on Wall Street in favor of staying in Marathon to help Wainwright rebuild his church. When James’ faith in his new mentor and his infatuation with Wainwright’s
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Schlow Centre Region Library: If you like your murder mysteries with a bit of prestidigitation, then Elly Griffiths' The Zig Zag Girl is the book for you! Spoiler alert, though, the killer uses classic illusions as their weapon, so the reader finds out the secrets behind the tricks long before they find out "whodunnit!"
Edgar Stephens is a former member of MI5's shadowy unit charged with deceived the enemy into believing the British military was more prepared than they actually were. He is now a police detective who finds himself thrown back into his own history as he investigates alongside Max Mephisto, another of the Magic Men.
Set in the post-war England of the 1950s, The Zig Zag Girl is intriguing on many levels and hopefully the first of another successful series for Ms. Griffiths, author of the Ruth Galloway novels centered on archaeology.
In this short, cozy mystery, Jake and Emma Rand discovered each other after they both left painful first marriages. Their idyllic life together in the shadow of Casper Mountain is shattered when they stumble across the frozen body of a woman after an early blizzard. When the police investigation stalls, Jake and Emma set out to unravel the puzzle of who she is and how she met her lonely fate. What they uncover will rock this small western town to its core.
Marty Morgan is a recently divorced antique and art appraiser who moves from the Midwest to live with her sister in High Desert, California, just outside of Palm Springs. Since their early childhood days, her sister has always possessed unexplained psychic abilities that often enable her to predict future events. An antique appraisal in the home of a recently murdered woman puts Marty at the center of a search for the killer. Who did it? The woman’s son? The well-known collector of antique Meissen china?
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