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4641) And then there were nuns
Author
Series
League of Literary Ladies volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
B&B owner Bea Cartwright has taken on the responsibility of taking meals to ten visiting nuns, who are on retreat at the Waters Edge Center for Spirit and Renewal on picturesque South Bass Island on Lake Erie. But the peace of the retreat is shattered when one of the nuns is found at the waters edge, murdered. And when a second nun is killed, Bea and the other members of the League of Literary Ladies--Chandra, Kate, and Luella--start to wonder about...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"More Brains Than Bullets": Banker Tom Lindsay made a bad decision when he decided to do business with Ross Yerby. Yerby convinced Tom to print a few extra greenbacks to help him trade some cattle in exchange for half the profit. What Tom hadn't figured into the equation was Ross losing the money and returning -- desperate -- for more. An argument between the two men goes bad, Lindsay is killed, and Yerby flees with a bundle of Lindsay's cash in tow....
Author
Language
English
Description
~In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug; it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
4644) The train wreckers
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has...
Author
Series
Mitchum volume 1-3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HIdden: "After being rejected by the Navy SEALS, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin - and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Malicious: "Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife....
4646) Close to the bone
Author
Series
Widow's Island novella volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2018.
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager's skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island. Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case - and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past....
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017, c2016
Language
English
Description
In glittering Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, status is everything. But despite being a poorer relation to the venerable Vanderbilts, Emma Cross has shaped her own identity--as a reporter and a sleuth. Fancies and Fashion reporter Emma Cross is sent by the Newport Observer to cover an elite house party at Rough Point, the "cottage" owned by her distant cousin Frederick Vanderbilt, which has been rented as a retreat for...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An elderly woman vanishes into the cold Chicago night. A dead body is pulled from Alaska's waters. A woman is haunted by memories she can't remember. Henderson, Pettrey, and Eason each bring unique skills and surprising twists to this one-of-a-kind collection of stories fueled by secrets that just won't stay hidden.
4650) The séance society
Author
Series
Plunkett and O'Nelligan mystery volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1956, and Lee Plunkett has taken over the family business as a private investigator despite his reluctance to follow in his father's footsteps. When murder intrudes on a group of ghost seekers, Lee is asked to solve the case by a cop on the verge of retirement. At the urging of his perpetual fiancée Audrey, Lee enlists the help of Mr. O'Nelligan, a scholarly Irishman with a keen eye for solving mysteries. The duo is drawn into a murder investigation...
Author
Series
Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Texas Ranger Lieutenant Luke Caldwell is leading a detachment of Rangers when they are ambushed by an outlaw gang. After a hard-fought battle, the Rangers defeat the gang, but at the price of several dead and wounded. Among the most severely hurt is Luke, who is sent home by the company surgeon to recuperate. Luke is nearly completely recovered when word comes that his sister's husband, Hank Brundage, the town marshal of Sonora and Luke's former...
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe...
4653) Murder of an open book
Author
Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A nasty faculty feud leaves one Scumble River teacher belly-up, and Skye must sort through a huge roster of suspects to figure out which wronged party was mad enough to kill him"--
Her honeymoon may have been less than relaxing, but Skye Boyd née Denison is still high on marital bliss with her new husband, Wally. The fact that their family is about to get bigger is even more exciting. But Skye quickly comes crashing down from cloud nine when the...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 25
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It's one of Walker's easiest jobs to date. In just a few short hours, Walker locates Marcus in his bedroom...murdered, his body shoved into a cupboard, a bullet through his head. This case is opened and shut quickly, but Walker can't quite let it go. When Dante is arrested for the murder...
4655) Right behind her
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert's father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way. When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree's dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she's spent most of her...
Author
Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When mega-millionaire and imitation cowboy Rex Taylor proposes building a country music theater in Scumble River, everyone's ready to do the boot-scootin' boogie except school psychologist Skye Denison. She's been asked by Suzette Neal, Rex's assistant and a rising country star, to investigate her mother's suspicious death twenty-seven years earlier. No sooner does Skye agree to help than she finds Suzette literally flattened -- and very dead. Now...
Author
Series
Blackbriar volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this explosive new series from the world of Robert Ludlum. A car explodes along a quiet Prague side street--among the dead is an undercover Treadstone agent. It's not unusual for such men to meet their fates on an operation, but in this case there's one catch. None of his superiors know what he was doing there. Two Blackbriar operatives,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been fourteen years since Greer Dunning's older sister, Eliza, was murdered, and Greer's family has never been the same. And now there's been a similar killing in Greer's small Kansas hometown. A copycat, according to the authorities, but Greer is convinced there is more to the story. That Eliza's murderer had help all those years ago. So Greer returns home after more than a decade away, desperate to answer the questions that have haunted her...
4659) Bred in the bone
Author
Series
Widow's Island novella volume 4
Publisher
Audible studios at Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager's skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island. Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case - and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a cold, lonely winter for Cora Felton. Long distance has cooled the Puzzle Lady's on-again-off-again affair with Sergeant Crowley, and the only case Chief Harper has for her to investigate is a routine liquor store robbery. So when her attorney friend Becky asks her to explore the possibility that her client Brittney's philandering husband is planning to murder her for the insurance money, Cora jumps at the chance. She brings in her loathsome...
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