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1601) Music and murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"July, 1926. When Elizabeth Fairchild's beau, Fred Wilkins, suggests going to Chicago's Sunset Club to see Louis Armstrong, the world's best trumpeter, in action, she faces a dilemma. The burgeoning jazz scene in the city is proving to be controversial, associated with gangsters and scandal. Even her dear friend Susannah refers to jazz as "the devil’s music". Intrigued, Elizabeth brushes her fears aside and visits the club with Fred, but an...
1602) Meat thy maker
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sausages to kill for . . . The competition to go into business with Hernia's finest sausage makers is getting hotter than Magdalena Yoder's frying pan in this sizzling culinary cozy. Schmucker Brothers' Sausages are the talk of the town. The good folk of Hernia are obsessed with the delectable meaty treats, and the prospect of going into partnership with the brothers is proving equally irresistible to investors far and wide, including Magdalena Yoder's...
1603) The day of the serpent
Author
Series
Brother Chandler mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
January, 1400. The bowman strikes at night, slaying one of King Henry's loyal garrison men before melting back into the darkness. Was the murder the result of a personal quarrel? Or is it, as Henry's stepbrother, Swynford, fears, the start of an uprising against England's self-crowned king? Swynford orders Brother Chandler to investigate, before the spark of rebellion can set the whole country alight. Friar, reluctant sleuth, and even more reluctant...
1604) Hiroshima boy
Author
Series
Mas Arai mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend's ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy's death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served"--Amazon.
1605) Borrowing death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold. . .
After three months in Cordova, Charlotte is getting accustomed to frontier life. She is filing articles for the local paper--including a provocative editorial against Prohibition--and enjoying a reunion with her brother...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A crafty killer lurks among the prized collectibles of a Southern smalltown flea market in this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author.
There's nothing Laura Fleming's Southern family likes better than a get-together, and cousin Augustus returning from the army is a perfect reason to gather for a party in Byerly, North Carolina. While Laura and her scholar husband, Richard, are in town, her formidable great-aunt Maggie has an assignment...
1607) A fatal truth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
‘An explosive read… Characters, dialogue and plot were superb.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars As the Hughes family celebrate bonfire night, a terrible accident leaves the garden shed in flames – and father and grandfather Thomas trapped inside. Tragic though it is, Thomas’s death passes without suspicion – until a local journalist makes accusations of a police cover-up in the press. WPC Trudy Loveday is sent to investigate, and asks coroner...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city's most feared executioners, reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour - and now he's come to collect his dues. Hal has ordered Jack to track down his long-lost son and, although Jack believes he's been set an impossible task, he's in no position to refuse. But when Jack's search draws him to the attention of a ruthless nobleman, a dead priest's vengeful brother and finally to a bloodstained body in...
Author
Series
Midnight Louie mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Midnight Louie, that loveable and feisty feline sleuth returns once again to delight his legions of fans in Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Leopard Spot.
This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. All of Louie's and Temple's allies and enemies converge on the case when a big-game hunter is found dead with only...
1610) Murder most treasonable
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"London. March, 1382. Deep in the shadows, a clandestine organization known as the Secret Chancery operates under the sinister leadership of John of Gaunt's Master of Secrets. When two clerks from this covert group meet their demise in suspicious circumstances, friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan is urgently summoned to unravel the truth behind their deaths. A puzzling question lies at the heart of the investigation: how did the killer manage to navigate...
1611) Too much stuff: a novel
Author
Series
Stuff volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Combine a 1935 hurricane, a massive train wreck, lost gold, and the Florida Keys with two bumbling private detectives and you have Too much stuff"--Flyleaf.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Award-winning author, Abigail Padget returns with Book No.2 of the Blue McCarron Mystery series.
When two prominent female politicians die in San Diego of cerebral hemorrhages within days of each other, social psychologist Blue McCarron knows that their deaths are a statistical impossibility-they simply cannot be from natural causes. Within hours, a female evangelist almost dies, and threats from a religious fanatic, illustrated with blue...
1613) Cotton: a novel
Author
Series
Clarkeston chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When new evidence arises in a cold case, can Professor Hopkins refrain from delving into a newfound world of corruption, vice, and danger? Stanley Hopkins cannot resist the invitation from a honey-voiced US attorney asking him to track down the source of photographs of a young dance major abducted five years earlier from her apartment in Clarkeston, Georgia. A journalist has stumbled across newly posted pictures of Diana Cavendish on the Internet,...
1614) Deadly nightshade
Author
Series
Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
An amateur sleuth aids a Maine town plagued by poison in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author.
With talk of war all over the radio waves, antiquarian book dealer Henry Gamadge is back in Maine, this time by invitation of his friend Detective Mitchell. Mitchell has a real puzzler on his hands: three different children have been poisoned with deadly nightshade, and there is no motive that could possibly link all three poisonings,...
1615) Return to Umbria
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by mariachis and machine guns, incompetent bikini contest judges, and at least one killer who is closer to Hector than he thinks....
1616) Flat white
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Filling in for a vacationing Amy Caprese, Christy Wrigley is surprised when her long-distance, online boyfriend from Denver shows up at Wisconsin's Uncommon Grounds coffee shop.
1617) Murder at the bookstore
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jen Dawson, mystery writer, coffee lover, and amateur detective? Crime writer Jen returns to her small hometown with a bestselling book behind her and a bad case of writer's block. Finding sanctuary in the local bookstore, with an endless supply of coffee, Jen waits impatiently for inspiration to strike. But when the owner of the bookstore dies suddenly in mysterious circumstances, Jen has a real-life murder to solve. The stakes are suddenly...
Author
Series
Midnight Louie mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered...at least, not in the past few weeks.
Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo...
1619) The night of the wolf
Author
Series
Brother Chandler mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Chester, 1400. Riding for his life, with a copy of Chaucer's heretical Canterbury Tales in his possession, friar-sleuth Brother Chandler is ambushed on the road and wakes up in a stranger's house. Is his `rescuer', wool merchant John Willoughby, friend . . . or foe? Willoughby declares that he, like Chandler, has renounced the self-crowned King Henry IV and will help Chandler get his dangerous belongings to safety. He seems trustworthy, but Chandler...
1620) The cry of the hangman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1667. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is horrified when Magistrate Hargrave is viciously attacked with a brass hourglass during a break-in. The puzzling case is just the start of a series of dark, bizarre crimes. Lucy's determined to get justice for her much-loved former master, but someone is determined to stop her--whatever it takes"--
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