Catalog Search Results
61) Grounds to Kill
Author
Description
Barista Jen Hamby's coworkers give her a hard time for bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits outside her café-;but she has a secret. The scruffy man is her father.
She's also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches. But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That'll get her Employee of the Month.
When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating on...
62) Catch and Kill
Author
Description
In Hollywood, deadly secrets lurk just behind the scenes.
Scarlett Norris is Hollywood's darling, an award-winning actress on her way to the top. To her younger sister, Angie, she is all that and more-beautiful, loving, fearless, and a guiding light-things Angie believes she herself could never be. When Scarlett suddenly commits suicide, Angie is devastated, but something keeps nagging at her. Scarlett would never do such a thing. Would she?
...
Author
Description
A dog walker discovers the body of a young homeless man in Hunsbury Hill Country Park. It carries a message: 'your move'. Part-time grave digger and cab driver Will Peters knows just what it's like living on the streets and vows the young man's death will not be brushed aside during the mayor's re-election campaign. Forging a relationship with local detectives, Will gets creative and acquires information any way he can. With the help of ex-con Birdie...
Author
Description
An Old Love... A New Love... and Murder!Many years ago, Jack Travis was madly in love with Anya Westfield who broke his heart when she cheated on him. When she dies in suspicious circumstances Jack and Miranda (and Kyle) are drawn into the investigation. They discover that Anya had a secret which got her killed.The more they uncover about Anya's life the less Jack realizes he knew about her. The trio must keep their wits about them and use all of...
Author
Description
It's not everyday that a writer gets offered ten thousand dollars to write a memoir. Which is why Miranda Wylder is surprised to receive an invitation to speak with a wealthy stock investor about immortalizing his life in print.But when one of the other guests at the manor dies, the deal of a lifetime goes out the window. Miranda works to discover what caused the woman to die and why did her ghost not rise from the body?The old man's family is troubled...
Author
Description
An enthralling kidnap thriller about regret, desperation, and the power of a grieving mother.An immense and terrible fire erupts through the remote rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Wu can't save both the infants in her care as the building around her collapses and destroys everything in the isolated clearing. She clings to the only boy in reach and flees from the inferno moments before an explosion ends the life of the second child.Wu weeps as...
Author
Series
Description
Mr. and Mrs. North investigate the brutal murder of a Manhattan doctor Dr. Andrew Gordon is an orderly man, and the women who work in his office can predict his movements as regularly as clockwork. So when Grace Spencer enters his office, she expects him to look up and smile, as he does every time she walks in. But this time he doesn't raise his head. Dr. Gordon is dead. Though he was bludgeoned in his office, just a few feet from where his nurses...
Author
Description
Raines goes behind enemy lines to investigate a Confederate ship in this "colorful and exciting" mystery "that entertains from start to finish" (Publishers Weekly).
It's been years since Harrison Raines set foot in Richmond. Although a proud Virginian, he fled the South before the Civil War, unable to bear the evil of slavery. In 1862, battles rage on all sides of the Confederate capital, but Raines is not here as a soldier-he comes as a spy....
Author
Description
Lights... Camera... Action!It's not every day that a film is premiered in the small town of Moonlight Bay. So when Miranda Wylder and her friend Sapphire are invited to take part, they are more than happy to accept the invitation. But things go terribly wrong when Miranda discovers the body of a murdered woman in the Ladies room. The victim was in a new relationship with Jean-Paul Deveraux, one of her new friends, and he blames himself for her death.Miranda...
70) The Imposter
Author
Description
A vigilante prepared for war. Thirteen kidnapped criminals. One child still missing.Julian Lime has given his foster sister a baby, but when her dead body is discovered in the garage of a brothel, and the gangsters find Russel's crib is empty, the city descends into turmoil. The police cannot be involved, but the headquarters of bikers, the dens of drug dealers, and the safe houses of money launderers must be searched. Death is inevitable, and Julian...
Author
Description
It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the unlawful killing of three elk. Gala Book-eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber-has befriended one particularly huge bull elk and decides to protect it by leading it into the safety of the park's backcountry.Elk are not the only endangered animals, either. While someone's killing elk to get the "whistler" ivory teeth, some...
Author
Description
Set against the backdrop of 1930s England, Miss Quinn and Miss Abbott arrive on a perfect little holiday spot, but when one of their hosts is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, they have to ask themselves, was it suicide or murder?
Now, trapped between love, jealousy, and a murder investigation, Miss Abbott and Miss Quinn will discover how far people are willing to go for love, and the lengths people will go to, to prove its worth.
Author
Description
The beloved author of the Rachel Murdock Mysteries introduces an amateur sleuth who knows murder is never academic-especially when it comes to love.
Professor Pennyfeather is on his way to the desert town of Superstition to help a former student, now an army man. Tick Burrell is a charming troublemaker who's got himself in a bit of a bind. He's due to inherit a fortune when he marries, but until then, his aunt, Martha Andler, holds the purse strings...
Author
Series
Description
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
75) Last Gasp Motel
Author
Description
When retired maintenance man Frank Sinatra finds Darell Willows's body in the swimming pool of the Last Gasp Motel in Omnipodge, California, Frank must deal with the responding police officer making wisecracks about his name while trying to figure out what happened.Detective Duke Lambert arrives and quizzes Frank. Frank agrees to help the detective, whom he has worked with before. Suspects include the residents of the Last Gasp and the son and daughter-in-law...
76) Closed Circle
Author
Description
The killings of Ray Baker and Fellows Ngcube, and the attack on Lionel Bensch's home, were only the beginning. Before long there was a steady stream of murders. Activists, trade unionists, lovers of freedom, do-gooders who did not realise how soon they were going to die: all government opponents.When prison psychologist Yudel Gordon is offered a substantial sum to conduct an investigation privately for a group of political activists, he does not agree...
Author
Description
A wedding on a cruise ship! What could be better than that?Karen 'Cookie' Williams thought not too much. She was having the most wonderful romantic time until someone close to her was found murdered on board.With no real security team and endless miles of ocean between them and the nearest shore Cookie once again found herself in the middle of a murder mystery.Things become dire when another of her loved ones disappears and her own life is threatened....
Author
Description
Children's author Lyon Wentworth races to save his abducted wife, Bea, in this intense small-town thriller. Every Thursday night, Bea Wentworth follows the same routine. She visits the bookshop, the discount store, and the supermarket, and she's home by nine o'clock. It's utterly innocuous, but Bea Wentworth is a state senator, one of the most powerful women in Connecticut, and for that she must be punished. The kidnapper has been tracking her routine...
Author
Description
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
Author
Series
Description
A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels.
When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his real-life research, he hardly expected it to get published. But when a publisher changed the title of his novel to Bimbos of the Death Sun, James-under the pen name Jay Omega-becomes an overnight sci-fi star. Invited to the annual...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request