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3081) The hellfire conspiracy
Author
Series
Barker and Llewelyn novel volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When an upper-class girl goes missing in the East End, rough-hewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Baker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, link her disappearance to the murders of five girls in Bethnal Green before receiving taunting letters from a man with possible ties to a hedonistic gang of debauched aristocrats involved with possible satanic rituals.
3083) Next of kin
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that night-in...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Full cupboard of life: Mma Ramotswe has been engaged to Mr. J.L.B Matekoni for quite some time, and still they have no wedding date. But she doesn't want to be too pushy, for Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has much on his mind. Mma Potokwani, who runs the orphan farm, has tricked him into a parachute jump to benefit charity.
In the company of cheerful ladies: Handling a busy case load at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and contending with an intruder in...
3085) Hot dog
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While a mysterious stalker terrorizes her life, Melanie Travis also deals with the amorous advances of both her ex-husband and ex-fiance, and sets out to find a missing Dachshund puppy, the victim of a divorced couple's tug-of-war.
3086) Dead weight
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Baffled by the suspicious deaths of a member of her weight-loss support group and the realtor selling her house, amateur sleuth E.J. Pugh struggles to find a link between the two killings, a situation that is complicated by E.J.'s growing estrangement from her husband.
3087) The quiche of death
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume Book 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
3089) The whitewashed tombs
Author
Series
Emma Djan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ activist, is butchered to death one night after being lured on Grindr to a deserted building site. With high instances of homophobia in Ghana, Marcelo's wealthy father doesn't trust the Ghana Police Service to find the killer, so he goes to the Sowah Private Investigators Agency for help, partly because he still feels guilty for disowning his son when he came out. Emma is assigned the case, but quickly...
3091) Lost tomorrows
Author
Series
Rick Cahill novel volume 6
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill's past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, is dead. When Rick goes to the funeral in the city where his wife was murdered and where he is seen as guilty for her death in the eyes of the police, he discovers that Krista's death may not have been a tragic accident, but murder. Hired by Krista's sister, Leah, to investigate, Rick...
3092) Sloth sleuth
Author
Series
Sloth Sleuth volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On an island crawling with crime, everyone's a suspect. Luckily, its resident sloth can solve crimes in her sleep (and often does!). Meet Paz, the world's first sloth sleuth. She may be slow . . . but she's always one step ahead of the bad guys.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett and Jill Monroe were all graduates of the Los Angeles Police Academy. However, rather than do meaningful police work like their male counterparts, they are given menial jobs such as meter maid (Sabrina), crossing guard (Kelly) and typist (Jill). Reclusive millionaire Charlie Townsend hires the trio to work for his private investigation agency. Their only contact with him is through the phone and through his right hand...
3094) Her Colton P.I
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A private investigator tracks a mysterious widowed mother of twins in the next gripping installment of The Coltons of Texas series! Raised in foster care apart from his six siblings, PI Chris Colton knows what it's like to be separated from family. So when a kindly older couple hires him to find their son's gold-digging widow who ran off with her twin toddlers, Chris won't rest until Holly McCay is held accountable. But he quickly discovers that...
Author
Series
Chicken Squad volume 1-3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
3096) A dagger before me
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, LTD
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan have been invited to rural Suffolk to take part in the christening of the newest member of the aristocratic Montcalm family. But on arriving at Dunham Manor, they discover the household in turmoil as the ceremonial dagger, used in Montcalm family christenings for generations past, has gone missing. Dorothy and Alan offer their help in locating the ancient heirloom, but when a stranger is murdered in the village...
Publisher
Alliance Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
Author
Series
Desert Flowers mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Poppy never planned on speaking to her old acting rival Serena Saunders again, let alone accepting her as a client. But familiar drama barges back into her life when Serena requests an urgent background check on Ned Boyce, her fiancé, before tying the knot. And the flighty film star is behaving out of character by wishing to start over with Poppy--this time as friends ... Wealthy, connected, and the owner of a breathtaking mountaintop home, Ned...