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Author
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What's more, the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she's no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her colleagues Saevar and Hoerdur, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman's past that continues to reverberate in the present day ... But as Elma and her team make...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Jazz's best friend, Annika, has been kidnapped. She can't call the cops, so she forges a truce with her nemesis, Phoenix. In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 hours to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die"--Page [4] of cover.
5) All the rage
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant-information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give. Without the girl's assistance, DI Adam Fawley's investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern-and a link to something long buried in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An Amish outcast. A woman willing to help. A killer determined to silence them. Daniel Miller's Amish community won't accept him even though he's been acquitted of a crime he didn't commit. When Lela Borntrager offers to help him find the real culprit, Daniel has a chance to prove his innocence. But a killer on the loose puts them both in danger. Will Daniel accept Lela's help, or will he sacrifice clearing his name to keep her safe?
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose... until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo detectives Frolich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations soon lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceutical deals. While Gunnarstranda closes in on the killers in Norway, Frolich and Lise, his...
9) Cheater
Author
Series
The San Diego case files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting high-stakes thriller. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick...
Author
Series
Publisher
Traveling Life Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn't expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most....
Author
Series
Publisher
Traveling Life Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1961 New Guinea: While collecting Asmat artifacts for a New York museum, American anthropologist Nick Mayfield stumbles upon a smuggling ring organized by high-ranking members of the Dutch colonial government and the Catholic Church. Before he can alert the authorities, he vanishes in a mangrove swamp, never to be seen again. 2018 Amsterdam: While preparing for an exhibition of Asmat artifacts in a Dutch ethnographic museum, researcher Zelda Richardson...
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the snow-covered depths of a St. Paul park, the lifeless body of a young man sends shockwaves through the community. Detectives Anders Holt and Jo Mulaney, teaming up for the first time, are determined to uncover the truth behind the murder. Despite the prevailing belief in a resident ghost at St. Francis Academy, they know the killer is human, a dangerous adversary hiding in plain sight. As they delve deeper, a web of secrets unravels, leading...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New chief of police Jake Love is just settling in when information on a cold case pops up. Bringing closure to the murder at Vincent Vineyard is his top priority. And having his girlfriend, Ella Bowman, at his side helping with the investigation should have drawn them even closer. But when Ella's connection to the powerful family leads to threats, the truth's revelation might destroy them both." --back cover
15) Stab stitched
Author
Series
Annie's quilted mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As Emma Cotton and Kelly Grace inch closer to finding out what really happened to their friend Rose Peterson, their journey comes to a perilous fork in the road. Down one side of the trail, the stalker who has tried to dissuade them from their investigation has become more and more desperate. He now has made a direct threat on Emma's life, a threat that makes her blood run cold. Down the other, a trip to nearby Lantern Cove in search of their next...
16) Celtic chains
Author
Series
Annie's quilted mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dottie Faye Sinclair is on edge from the minute she arrives in Ireland. She is there to help her niece, Emma Cotton, in the investigation of Liam Gallagher, a textile shop owner in the quaint town of Merrow. But talk of banshees and pookas, mythical creatures of the Emerald Isle, incites Dottie Faye's superstitious nature and compromises her ability to help.
18) Terror In topaz
Author
Series
Publisher
Oportet Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting. Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant visit takes a dark turn when a visitor to the school is shot...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
AnniesQuiltedMysteries.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Emma Cotton and Kelly Grace, best friends and business partners, have been on the trail of a murderer for nearly two years. And they are down to their last suspect. Danielle Moore, now known as Mary Jones, is the last student from Rose Peterson's college class Emma and Kelly need to track down. Was Mary involved in Rose's death? If so, that would explain her taking an alias and going underground since then. Either she was the killer, or she knows...