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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm
Description
2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides:...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 6
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them have done her in, and when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him...
3) La ronda
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Series
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
En La Ronda, el premiado autor Francisco Bescos le pone una marcha mas al genero negro con una novela policial ambiciosa, repleta de giros y adrenalina.
In La Ronda, award-winning author Francisco Bescos takes the noir genre up a notch with an ambitious detective novel, full of twists and adrenaline.
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Series
Publisher
Seix Barral (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
octubre de 2023.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Una tarde, poco antes de la pandemia, un encuentro imprevisto trae de vuelta a la vida de Nina un espectro largamente anhelado: Bárbara, de quien no ha sabido nada en casi cuarenta años, la mira desde la bruma del pasado. Los recuerdos emergen; los juegos, el candor y los secretos de su infancia cobran vida nuevamente; pero, esta vez, la memoria que los ilumina está desprovista de toda inocencia. Para descubrir qué sucedió con Bárbara, Nina...
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Series
Asker volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
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Series
ChupaCarter volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When Ernie's dad is accused of stealing artifacts related to the legendary El Dorado gold, Jorge and his friends set out to clear his name and run into a fiendish ring of thieves along the way.
Author
Publisher
Cross Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Edimburgo, 1817. En una época en la que la mayor meta de las mujeres es casarse, el sueño de Hazel Sinnett es convertirse en cirujana. Para Jack Currer la vida tampoco es fácil: sobrevive saqueando tumbas y vendiendo lo que encuentra en ellas es una ciudad llena de peligros. Sus caminos se cruzarán cuando, para poder formarse académicamente, Hazel hace un trato con un renombrado médico: si consigue superar al examen de ingreso, podrá estudiar...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 15 cm
Description
"Being an apprentice to one of the world's most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn't think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death—and worse, it comes true—Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs. The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered boss's youngest son. With suspicion swirling around...
Author
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
346 pages : plans, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Description
"Doce dias. Doce pistas. Que empiece el juego. Desde que su madre murio, hace 21 anos, Lily Armitage no habia regresado a la mansion familiar, hasta que recibe una invitacion de su tia para volver a participar en la tradicion de su familia: el juego de Navidad. Cual es el reto? Descifrar doce pistas y encontrar doce llaves junto a sus primos y parientes. Este ano el premio es mucho mas tentador, ya que consiste en la escritura de la casa. Son doce...
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Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target. A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods--with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Agatha's old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes,...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
vi, 391 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
In the aftermath of a young archaeologist's discovery of human remains that may be modern, Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate a case that is further complicated by the subsequent murder of an elderly woman.
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Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 36
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with - crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city...
Author
Publisher
Martínez Roca
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 23 cm
Description
UNA MUJER ALUMBRARℓ CON LA LUZ DE LA RAZÓN LA VERDAD TRAS UN SANGRIENTO MISTERIO En el coraz̤n de una ̌poca oscura y llena de supersticiones, una serie de terribles asesinatos, que tienen como rasgo dos pequęas marcas en el cuello de las v̕ctimas, hacen sospechar a la Santa Inquisici̤n que un vampiro merodea por las calles en busca de sangre. Para confirmar la validez de este temor, el Santo Oficio pide ayuda a la astuta y letrada monja sor...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
433 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...
16) Los inocentes
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones Destino [Editorial Planeta Mexicana]
Pub. Date
octubre de 2023.
Physical Desc
461 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Faltan dos semanas para la boda de la teniente Valentina Redondo y Oliver Gordon. En plenos preparativos, los sorprende la noticia de un atentado masivo en el Templo del Agua del famoso balneario cántabro de Puente Viesgo. Las instalaciones del idílico paraíso de agua estaban ocupadas por un grupo de empresarios, y todo apunta a que la masacre ha sido perpetrada con una peligrosísima arma química. Valentina tendrá que cooperar con el ejército...
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Series
Publisher
Espasa (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
junio de 2023.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"La inmortal Miss Marple, la legendaria detective creada por Agatha Christie, vuelve a la acción tras su último caso cuarenta y cinco años atrás. Doce célebres escritoras contemporáneas capturan la voz única de la sagaz investigadora en doce nuevas historias, doce nuevos y trepidantes casos repletos de misterio, emoción e ingenio con los que rememorar a una de las detectives más importantes de todos los tiempos. Una celebración triunfal...
18) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In 2018, Di�egane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the 'Black Rimbaud,' after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Di�egane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust. Alongside...
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