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Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him-to save him....
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer, but the main event is her upcoming wedding to her fiancé Jonas. Somehow Daisy still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist's crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved. After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that's about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. When a body turns up in Willow Creek,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her husband confesses to killing someone, and then shoots himself, Anna moves into the run-down apartment he rented as an art studio to find the truth, while the superintendent, Cass, after blackmailing the wrong guy, must keep her secrets under wraps, especially with Anna asking questions.
Author
Series
Apocalypse Cult series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it’s determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1910, Effie joins forces with an English newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books/Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails - flooding the hospital with the dead and maimed. Most of the dead are Black; scalded to death in a flimsy segregated car at the front of the train. Among the seriously wounded white passengers is the wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings, Etha. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This lavishly illustrated book by Lisa Perrin introduces more than 25 infamous women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime. Learn about popular poisons throughout history and their deadly effects, and explore the common motives that drove these women to commit their dastardly deeds. You might find yourself rooting for some of them-like Sally Bassett, who helped poison her granddaughter's enslavers in...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory,...
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
15) Cheater
Author
Series
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...
16) It had to be you
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron fist. He can't show any sign of weakness, as the neighboring Wiley City has spent lifetimes beating down the people of Ashtown and would love nothing more than its downfall. There's only one person in the desert the Emperor can fully trust--and her name is Scales. Scales is the best at what she does: keeping everyone and everything in line. As a skilled...
18) Red hot murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Love-Based Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kingsley’s tea customers have two things in common: They rave about her teas. AND they have a knack for attracting trouble. There’s never been a connection between the two … until now. One night, one of Charlie’s customers passes out, only to wake up to her fiancé dead in her home and no memory of what happened the night before. But one thing she DOES remember is drinking a cup of Charlie's tea. Charlie knows it wasn't the tea, but...
Publisher
Gnomish Hat, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Safecracker Nicky Wagner has been killed in the middle of a high-stakes diamond heist, and his brother Vincent needs your help to figure out what went wrong. The only thing Vincent knows for certain is that the killer had to be a member of Nicky's own crew. But which of them could it have been? And where is the pricelss diamond Nicky died for? Do you have what it takes to Hunt a Killer?
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
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