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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A mother's quest for justice turns into a race against time to stop insidious murders that mysteriously begin populating throughout the city. The need to right a wrong against an innocent victim triggers a hailstorm of revenge! In less than twenty-four hours - before Alexia Leighton is scheduled to return to Miami from spring break in Jamaica - a group of friends betray her in a grisly assault that stops a heartbeat away from murder. The seventeen-year-old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Natasha Smith's free-spirited mother's fiancé, a notoriously pompous antiques dealer, drops dead during their extravagant engagement party, entertaining guru Sophie Winston must pull out the stops to solve this case before murder becomes the town's new trend.
4) Bad men
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place. No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend....
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Series
Record shop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been five whole months since the last murder in Cedar River, Texas, and Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie have been humming along when disaster strikes again. Their struggling vinyl records shop/coffee nook, Sip & Spin Records, is under pressure from predatory investors, though the Jessup sisters aren't ready to face the music and admit defeat. But the night after their meeting, the sketchy financier is killed outside their shop...
Author
Series
Detective Sheridan Holler volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A cold case that's no longer cold. A suspect who's been murdered. A silenced witness. DI Sheridan Holler is used to solving crimes on Liverpool's streets, but after a decayed corpse turns up in a cemetery, she finds herself reopening not one but two cold cases. Seven years earlier, two women were gunned down and the only suspect, small-time drug dealer John Lively, was never seen again. Case closed. Until the body in the cemetery is identified as...
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 4
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie...
9) The trial
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core. The evidence points to one man. Jimmy Knight has been convicted of multiple offences before and defending him will be no easy task. Not least because this is trainee barrister Adam Green's first case. But it will quickly become clear that Jimmy Knight is not the only person in Cliveden's past with an axe to grind. The only thing...