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Author
Series
Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When two of Peyton Cross' bridemaids die in freak accidents, the third turns for help to Bailey Weggins, true crime writer, sometime-sleuth, and Peyton's former college roomate. A dangerous trail of clues leads Bailey from the elegant suburbs of Connecticut to New York's Lower East Side to a fabulous oceanfront hotel room in Miami.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1931, Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the murders of Asta Eicher and her three children and, obsessed with finding out what happened to this beautiful family, allies herself with the man funding the investigation.
63) The poet prince
Author
Series
Magdalene line volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Maureen Pascal uncovers a scandal in Renaissance Italy and must face a descendant of the mad monk Savonarola and a 500-year-old vendetta that threatens Maureen's life.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the 1960s, an ambitious young Australian journalist must carve her own path among the scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London where she encounters the last man she ever wanted to see who brings her dark past rushing back." --
66) Heartsick
Author
Series
Archie and Gretchen thrillers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
When her father is implicated in the theft of millions in chemical weapons from a government depot, an investigative journalist risks her life to prove her father's innocence and expose the true culprits.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
69) The grammarians
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of...
Author
Description
"A brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After her friend Heather allegedly kills two people in cold blood, reporter Jess returns home to cover the case, which, she soon discovers, is linked to the disappearance of Heather's sister twenty-five years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks when she discovers that the woman in the subway's video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friend who disappeared without a trace a decade earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When Slimkat the Bushman's life is threatened by an unknown adversary, recipe writer-turned-crime fighter Tannie Maria becomes embroiled in a nature-reserve land dispute among Bushmen descendants, diamond miners, and cattle companies.
Author
Description
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the vein of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and A.S.A. Harrison's The Silent Wife, The Devil You Know is a thrilling debut about a rookie reporter, whose memories of the murder of her childhood best friend bring danger--and a stalker--right to her doorstep. The year is 1993. Rookie crime beat reporter Evie Jones is haunted by the unsolved murder of her best friend Lianne Gagnon who was killed in 1982, back when both girls were eleven. The suspected...
76) The book of love
Author
Series
Magdalene line volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
516 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
After returning from her successful hunt for the scrolls of Mary Magdalene, Maureen Paschal receives an ancient document from the secret wife of a pope that reveals hidden aspects of the early Christian church.
77) Hit and run
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm
Description
AnnaLise Griggs discovers that her biological father might be notorious womanizer Dickens Hart, but when Hart invites his former loves and their offspring to his White Tail Lodge a body is discovered and AnnaLise must identify the killer.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
79) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now."--Amazon.com.
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There is an arsonist setting fires in town. Journalist Claire Abbott thinks she knows who the firebug is. Or does she? Realizing she cannot rely solely on her sixth sense to solve this crime, Claire sets out to catch the arsonist in the act before he ends up killing someone.
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