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Author
Series
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate bargain is broken... Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life - but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set... Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help-for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Elise King's investigation into a woman's murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing. When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine's Day,Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating tricky problems both public and personal "McCall Smith's assessments of fellow humans are piercing and profound . . . [His] depictions of Edinburgh are vivid and seamless." -San Francisco Chronicle Isabel Dalhousie, everyone's favorite moral philosopher, is once again called on to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute with all of the insight and...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results. Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. Afterher world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now she's back in Queenstown, New Jersey, her childhood home, in search of solace and recovery. It's a small community of nine thousand...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring...
10) Shades of mercy
Author
Series
Porter Beck mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges-a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins. Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, doing the same lawman's job his father once did now that he's returned home after decades away. With his twelve person department, they cover a large area that is usually very quiet, but not of late. One childhood...
Author
Series
Meg Lanslow Mysteries volume 35
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Readers will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Meg's neighbors, the Smetkamps', have won a makeover for their old home from Marvelous Mansions, a flashy, yet dubious company, focused on making historic homes more "modern." The company already several days into its makeover of the Smetkamps' house, and tensions are running high--not only between the officious, demanding...
12) The dark wives
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death. The man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed...
13) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan returns in P. J. Tracy's City of Secrets, the next book in the series praised by the New York Times Book Review: "Tracy seems to have found her literary sweet spot." Los Angeles Police Detective Margaret Nolan and her partner have worked a lot of different cases, ones where things aren't always as they appear. And it's Nolan's job to find the truth in the darkness around her. When they're called to the scene of what...
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
16) The wilds
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 3
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Elin Warner unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of a young woman in a propulsive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium Since the dark events that scarred her childhood, Kier Templer escaped her hometown to live life on the road. She and her twin have never lost contact until, on a trip to a Portuguese national park, Kier vanishes without a trace. Detective Elin Warner arrives in the same park...
Author
Series
A Chet and Bernie mystery volume 15
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe) and his human partner PI Bernie Little are back again, and this time they're entangled in a web of crime unlike anything they've ever seen before. Their next door neighbor,Mr. Parsons, thought he was doing the right thing by loaning his ne'er do well son, Billy, some money to help get himself settled. But days later, Mr. Parsons has discovered that his entire life savings...
18) A refiner's fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that...
Author
Series
The Boxcar children volume 162
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are not expecting a mystery when they offer to show their new neighbors around Greenfield, but when they uncover a series of coded messages hidden in historical documents, they realize they might still have a lot to learnabout their hometown's past.
Author
Series
An Andy Carpenter novel volume 29
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Paterson, New Jersey's favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the next mystery in this fan favorite series from National Bestselling Author David Rosenfelt. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation - the dog rescue organization named after his beloved golden retriever - for years. It's always been his calling, even as Andy's pulled into representing clients in court. His investigator, Marcus Clark,...