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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
2) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"For Nick, Kurt, and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few too many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers, permanently. There's only one problem: even the best laid plans are only...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Biloxi, Mississippi, is a city of contradictions. A lush green jewel on the Gulf of Mexico, a Southern Riviera steeped in Confederate history, where antebellum mansions command staggering ocean views. Yet it has also been home to The Strip, a beachside center of neon decadence, prostitution, drugs, and corrupt public servants - all in thrall to a shadowy band of criminals called the Dixie Mafia. Here in Biloxi, Old South virtue clashes with a long-standing...
11) Purrfect setup
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 30
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When we were called to the home of a banker who'd taken his own life, little did I suspect this would lead to an actual case. But then the banker's daughter asked Odelia to investigate, convinced her father had been murdered. And so we set out to prove the impossible. The police were satisfied with a verdict of suicide, and we had nothing to go on except the girl's plea. Meanwhile Dooley had his own theories about the case, and then there was his...
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 31
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
I was going about my usual business (napping, eating... more napping) when I was approached by a client to take on a very intriguing case. Yes, I know cats aren't supposed to take on cases, since A) we aren't licensed and B) we're not allowed to carry a weapon, not even a concealed one, and C) we don't have the opposable thumbs to count the fees. But I'm getting sidetracked here. The case involved a woman whose boyfriend was kidnapped then murdered,...
Author
Series
Darcy Gaughan mystery volume 1
Publisher
Level Best Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the manager of Marysburg Music, Darcy Gaughan, returns to work after a vacation, she expects to jump right back, into work as the store gets ready for the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations. She's also celebrating five years of sobriety and is confident that there are good things in her future. She doesn't expect to find her boss in his office, dead from an apparent self-inflicted stab wound."--Page 4 of cover
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. The price of his clandestine operation? Cia's entire family, and her leg. So, when her best friend Alice says she has a secret too, Cia wants nothing to do with it--even if it could shed light on her family's dark past. But Alice doesn't let go so easily, especially when her search for answers might help find Noah, the boy who broke...
15) Purrfect yacht
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 60
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Gran announced that she wanted to spend her vacation cruising along the French Riviera, I should have known it was a sign of things to come. Before long we, too, temporarily relocated to France, to conduct an undercover investigation into a blackmail attempt targeting Odelia?s cousin. A marriage had been arranged and was going to take place between Emily King, Zumba instructor, and Harry Griffiths, scion of the well-known Griffiths family. Only...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve. None of that is true. Yet. In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty hunter in the Thirteen Kingdoms--and when a priceless artifact goes missing from the home of famed monster hunter...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms' night out, Mary shares her darkest secret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing. Two months later, Mary's divorce is almost finalized, and she's trying to build a new life for...
19) Purrfect deceit
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 32
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ideally reporters aren't supposed to take on paying clients. It's against the reporter's code - if there is such a thing as a reporter's code. I may be thinking of doctors. At any rate, when Joshua Curtis showed up in Odelia's office, asking her to catch a person in the act of being unfaithful, it's only understandable that my human balked at the request. But then she took comfort in the fact that a juicy article might come out of this, and so she...
Author
Series
Down South Café mystery volume 6
Publisher
Grace Abraham Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her cousin, Jackie, asks her to give a presentation to her online class, Amy thinks all she has to worry about is speaking before a group. But then the nitpicky professor collapses. He has been murdered, and hot-tempered Jackie is the prime suspect. Some online forums are even speculating that the professor was an extra-terrestrial, so Amy must sort out fact from fiction to get to the truth. Certain the real killer is setting Jackie up, will...