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2) King Zeno
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
5) Ruddy gore
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Phryne Fisher thwarts one murder on her way to the theatre for the performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Ruddy gore,' when incidents on the stage require her to further intervene and prevent any more murders happening at the theatre.
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Lady Phoebe Renshaw investigates the murder of an illustrious china manufacturer with the aid of her lady's maid, Eva, who goes undercover at the ceramic works.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder.
9) East of Eden
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
10) Storm prey
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Series
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Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport, unwittingly witnesses the robbery of the hospital pharmacy where she works. With the death of a pharmacy worker on their hands, the three thieves set out to find out who Weather is, and eliminate the only possible witness ...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 1
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Description
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.
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Series
Norvelt books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
13) The night fire
Author
Series
Renee Ballard novels volume 3
Renée Ballard volume 3
Ballard and Bosch volume 2
Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch novel volume 2
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Renée Ballard volume 3
Ballard and Bosch volume 2
Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch novel volume 2
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before-the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her...
14) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
15) Family of liars
Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
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Description
When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
"This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can't say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead of ornaments there are wishes from those in need. One poignant wish leads Andy to a child named Danny, whose selfless plea strikes a chord. Danny asked Santa for a coat for his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens. Daphne soon learns that the mysterious woman was engaged to marry Lord Hartley of Padthaway, an Elizabethan mansion full of intriguing secrets. As the daughter of the famous Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne is welcomed into the Hartley home, but when...
20) Psycho II
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Out of the asylum after 22 years, murderer Norman Bates comes home and again hears Mother.
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