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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy have been best friends since grade school. They wonder if that was the last time they all actually liked each other. As adults, their lives have splintered. Farah is engaged and is fast becoming a complete bridezilla. Dominica's a successful divorce attorney with no time for anything but work. Tansy runs a vegan cafe and is preparing for a shotgun marriage to awful Ivan. Lauren has had a total "failure to...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according to the couple's servant in the witness-box, the flask disappeared the night Fordish died, and all attempts to trace it have come to nothing. The jury delivers its verdict, but this is just the end of the beginning of Marie Belloc Lowndes's...
Author
Series
Eleanor Wilde mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that she's established herself as the town witch, Ellie's contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enough--or gullible enough--to request her mysterious potions... Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least it's Ellie's main source of income--until a villager turns up dead....
45) Poison
Author
Series
DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery volume 14
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jordan Gough is an important man. He's the town's biggest benefactor. He is the proprietor of the Whitebridge Evening Telegraph. He owns the local football team. He is also, DCI Monika Paniatowski thinks, as bent as a corkscrew - and if she had any evidence, she'd put him away like a shot. A single encounter with him as a young detective sergeant left an impression she's never forgotten. And neither, she is certain, has he. So when Jordan calls and...
46) Lies like poison
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
47) Death in the air
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington chokes on his cocktail at a dinner party thrown by Sir Charles Cartwright, it is thought by nearly all thirteen guests, including Belgian detective extraordinaire, Hercule Poirot, to be an accidental death. Shortly afterwards, a second death in suspiciously similar circumstances puts both Poirot and a team of sleuths on the trail of a murderer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Thyme and Tide bed-and-breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point. It's a popular place but (needless to say!) things haven't been the same since Max Russell died there. Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam. Nobody has any idea why he showed up or--most important of all--who killed him.
50) The night market
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From an author who consistently gives us "suspense that never stops" (James Patterson), a near-future thriller that makes your most paranoid fantasies seem like child's play...It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him...
51) City of saviors
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable--heatwave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn't make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed...
Author
Series
Sister Fidelma novels volume 34
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Summer, AD 672. Princess Gelgeis has arrived in Cashel with her personal bodyguard, a troop of female warriors called the Daughters of the Storm. When one of them is found slain next to the sleeping chamber of the newly married king and queen and, a short time later, the stewardess of the royal house is poisoned, questions are raised as to everyone's safety. Fidelma and Eadulf must first explain the 'locked room' mystery of how the attack took place...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Although he acted in time to save Harriet's life, she did not escape from the poisoning unscathed. She was bed-ridden for much too long a time before she was well enough to join in the search for her would-be murderer. But being imprisoned in bed gives one plenty of time to think, and Harriet soon realized that the attempt on her life was the initial move by an unknown who would soon earn the title of "serial killer." Even after there had been more...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From seat #9 on a flight from London to Paris, Hercule Poirot was perfectly positioned to observe his fellow passengers -- yet even he had no idea a murder had taken place during the serving of lunch. The victim, a woman known to the passengers as Mme. Giselle, is discovered to have been a notorious blackmailer. And the weapon is a poisoned dart containing a deadly South African snake venom and a blowpipe like the ones used by South American Indian...
55) City of lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Outwardly, Jovan is the lifelong friend of the Chancellors charming, irresponsible Heir. Quiet. Forgettable. In secret, he's a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellors family from treachery. When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, Jovan and his sister Kalina must protect the Heir and save their city-state. But treachery lurks in every corner, and the ancient spirits of the land...
Author
Series
Granny Reid mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As quirky as McGill's residents can be, they usually welcome society's oddballs and outcasts into the community with open arms. But the three members of the Lone White Wolf Pack are a different story. Townsfolk aren't feeling the least bit neighborly toward the ignorant gang widely believed to have orchestrated several hate crimes in the area . . . When the small group's irredeemable leader, Billy Ray Sonner, is found dead in an abandoned motel,...
57) Sad cypress
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""A war's on and a murder has been committed and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, mince pies and misdirection, cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age detective fiction to create a pacey, light-hearted package admirably suited for the holiday season. Featuring an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author and series editor Martin...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor's appointment: she has a terminal brain tumour - and only six weeks left to live. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family - her adult triplets and twin grandsons - close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she's determined to discover who might...
Author
Series
Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Saffron embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for Saffron's assistance. The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poisonous flowers. Digging deeper, Saffron discovers that the bouquets may be more than just unpleasant flowers--there...