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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Farley stands out among his Iñupiat neighbors in the Alaska village he calls home, both white and enormous, like the hungry polar bears that wander its streets. Jovial and a little hapless, he works as an investigator for a North Slope oil company, passing the long Arctic winters drinking whiskey with the village's preacher and playing in the weekly poker game hosted by its matriarch and mayor. When his young daughter visits from thousands of miles...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister @evelyn, a lifestyle influencer. Evie came of age on the family YouTube channel after a viral video when she was five. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to dodge the family business-so although she can barely afford her apartment, at least she made her own way. Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar...
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Language
English
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"On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel Cafferty's phone buzzes with a disturbing text message. 'Something's happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP'. The words would be jarring from anyone, but the sender is the only man she ever loved. And it's been several years since she learned he died. Seeing Drew's name pop up is heart-stopping. Ariel's gut says it can't be real. But she goes to the tree anyway. She has to. Nobody...
Author
Series
Tidemagic volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the mystical town of Shelwich, where magic waxes and wanes with the tide, Ista Flit joins forces with Nat and Ruby in their quest to find missing loved ones and unravel the mysterious connections among thieves, monsters, and the missing townspeople.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister never found out what happened. Instead, they did what they hoped their mother might be doing: survive. As soon as she was old enough, Jess fled the small town of Knife River, wandering from girlfriend to girlfriend like a ghost in her own life, adrift and aimless in her attempts to outrun grief and confusion. But one morning, fifteen years later, she...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The nineteenth-century whaling village of Warbler is famous for its lucky ship figureheads—and infamous for people disappearing into the nightly fog. In this murky locale, the lamplighter is synonymous with safety and protection, and it’s a position Temperance assumes when her father is found hanging from one of the lampposts. Though Tempe proves competent, the town is still hesitant to let a woman handle this responsibility. When a girl disappears...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"When Lauren Spierer-a gregarious young woman at a crossroads in her life-vanished from Indiana University in 2011, her story drew global attention from celebrities and news outlets such as People magazine, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today. What made the case so confounding to those outlets was that the 20-year-old was out with dozens of classmates in a bustling university town on the night she went missing. She was seen in public by witnesses and security...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"One moment they were there, the next they were gone. How can an entire family vanish into thin air? Sixteen years ago, a doctor, his wife, and two sons disappear unexpectedly. The dinner table was set. There was food on the stove. Their car was in the driveway. But they were nowhere to be seen. Private Investigator Lee Callaway is pulled into finding out what might have happened to the missing family. The only remaining relative is fighting dementia,...
11) Point zero
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto, the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. First published in Japanese in 1959, the novel abandoned the template of closed-room mysteries so popular in pre-war Japan to embrace social criticism. In a radical departure from tradition, the novel has a female protagonist, a housewife...
12) Fighting types
Series
Publisher
Pikachu Press, The Pokémon Company International
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pikachu is ready for a big challenge, and it thinks Heracross would be a perfect match! There's just one problem--Pikachu doesn't know where Heracross is! Come along as Pikachu asks some Fighting-type Pokémon friends for help. Will they find Heracross in time for the battle?"--
13) Fatal witness
Author
Series
Pearl River volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a child, artist and potter Dani Bennett witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. With no memory of the incident or her true identity, she was forced to take on a new name and a new life, hidden away in Montana for the past 25 years. Mae Richmond has spent the same stretch of time searching for her granddaughter, who went missing the night her daughter and son-in-law were murdered. Convinced the woman she saw in a pottery magazine feature is...
14) Blancura
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Un hombre conduce sin un rumbo en mente, hasta que su coche queda atascado al final de una pista forestal. Es una tarde de finales de otoño, ya casi no hay luz y comienza a nevar. En lugar de volver caminando hacia atrás en busca de ayuda o quedarse en el coche, de forma imprudente y sin saber muy bien por qué, el hombre decide adentrarse en el bosque. Inevitablemente, se pierde, y la noche sigue avanzando. Cuando el agotamiento y el frío empiezan...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this mesmerizing fantasy rooted in Urhobo and West African folklore, sixteen--year--old Naborhi longs for a life away from her small, traditional clan in Kokori. But as her rite of passage approaches and she is betrothed to an arrogant young man, Naborhi feels her dreams slipping away from her. Then Naborhi becomes bonded to a mysterious animal and begins having harrowing visions of a kidnapped boy. She soon meets Atai, the son of an Oracle from...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Jo-Lynn Kirby's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked-and since everyone decided she deserved it. There's no way Maddie would actually come to her for help. But then Maddie is gone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houndstooth Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hazel wants a new life. She's thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a children's home--The Orphanage By The Lake, as the locals call it--and Madeline wants Hazel to find her. At first glance, it appears to be a standard runaway case,...
Author
Series
Bellman noir trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When his close friend, Anna, who is said to be in possession of a letter with the names of revolutionary conspirators, goes missing, Cardell must find her before the secret police, and as he and Winge fight for justice and life, they are caught between powerful enemies in 18th-century Stockholm.
19) En el lejero
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"En un lugar donde la neblina y el aguacero libran una batalla a muerte, Jeremías busca sin tregua a su nieta. Pero toda amenaza con impedir el encuentro: la plaga de ratones muertos que inundan las calles, la inescrutable dueña del hotelucho donde se hospeda y su asistente enana, el albino siniestro que guarda un secreto, los niños que juegan fútbol con cabezas, la marea de monjas que vaticinan el horror. Llena de símbolos oníricos que resaltan...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a love story that bends space, time, myth and science, perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John Mandel. Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the planets themselves. Told through...