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9301) Winter of despair
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
9302) Double jeopardy
Author
Publisher
Sheldon M. Siegel, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"He was just trying to help a friend. After three tours in Afghanistan, homeless and hooked on painkillers, Lenny was working to pull his life together. He gave Annie the las of this oxy pills to ease the pain from her shoulder injury. But when she was found dead in her tent the next morning, Lenny wound up in jail accused of killing her with fentanyl."--
9303) El veredicto
Author
Publisher
Roca
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Just as defense attorney Mickey Haller's life is going back to normal, a Hollywood lawyer named Jerry Vincent is murdered and Mickey takes on the case of the accused, which could take his career into the big leagues. Haller learns that the killer may be looking for him and Harry Bosch. With danger mounting, Bosch and Haller decide to work together.
9304) Last nocturne
Author
Series
Grand and Batchelor volume 7
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara Jenkins...
9305) Madigan
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A veteran New York City detective is given only a few hours to track down a vicious killer.
9306) Midsomer murders: Set 24
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
DCI Barnaby and DS Jones are called upon to solve a series of crimes in rural Midsomer County, England.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Captain Barney Miller leads the detectives of New York City's 12th Precinct as they deal with potential layoffs, bomb threats, rocky relationships, disappearing evidence and the never-ending lineup of criminals who are ultimately more funny than they are dangerous.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Day to day, the officers of the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Division face one of the United States worst crime rates, not to mention the pressures of their own personal lives. Some days, justice isn't just blind, it flat-out just doesn't exist.
9310) Bloodlines: the true story of a drug cartel, the FBI, and the battle for a horse-racing dynasty
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Melissa del Bosque follows FBI rookie Scott Lawson and Agent Alma Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle cartel leader Miguel Treviño's American racing dynasty--a dynasty built on extortion and blood money. With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque delivers a riveting and suspenseful narrative about greed and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
When a disturbing video of her late ex-best friend surfaces, making it like look like she was murdered, Haley digs into what really happened and must solve this supernatural mystery before history has a chance to repeat itself.
Prestigious, historic Windham-Farnswood Academy is the perfect place for girls to prep for college. But each January, the Winter Girl comes knocking: she's the spirit who haunts the old senior dorm. This month marks the one-year...
9312) Rebus: Set 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The black book: When a part-time prostitute turns up in a shallow grave among shale hills known locally as the Five Sisters, Rebus links her murder with the death of another young woman 10 years earlier. He targets a distinguished member of Parliament as the prime suspect for both cases. But the real proof may lie in an anonymously mailed book, lavishly illustrated and written in rune-like code.
A question of blood: Called to investigate a college...
9313) Sacred games
Author
Series
Nicolaos volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nico works to clear his Olympics competitor best friend of a false murder accusation when a rival is found dead, a situation that is complicated by escalating violence between Athens and Sparta.
Author
Series
Elizabethan spy mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Elizabethan court is beset by traitors at home and abroad as spies, rogues, and would-be usurpers of the throne vie for power. England, 1586. Tensions rise as threats to the realm abound. Traitors are plotting for Mary Queen of Scots to depose Elizabeth I and take the throne. Rumors of a Spanish invasion by sea mount daily. And the body of one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents is found floating in the Thames as other agents face enemies armed...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher...
9320) The waiting game
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Feeling burned out, Sara Fraser abandons her trendy lifestyle and sets off to the mountain cabin of Lowell Kincaid, her mysterious uncle and the black sheep of her family. But Uncle Lowell has gone missing . . . and that means finding Adrian Saville, a recluse Kincaid had told her to contact if anything should ever happen to him. Adrian tells her not to worry; he knows Lowell well, and he's received instructions to look after Sara if she ever turns...
