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Author
Series
Truth Seekers volume Book 3
Publisher
Edge of Your Seat Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Evaluating trace evidence is her job... When Sierra Byrd's father needs a kidney transplant, despite her parents' protest claiming they could never ask for her help, Sierra insists on being tested for the transplant. But when results prove it is physically impossible for her father to be her biological father, her family finally confesses their long-held secret. She was conceived in an affair her mother had the summer before her parents' wedding....
7962) All things murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Emmy-winning actress Veronica Walsh is accustomed to role-playing. Over her thirty-two-year career on the soap opera Days and Nights, her character has been a businesswoman, wife (multiple times), mother, prison inmate, and fugitive. None of that prepared her for the role of a real-life sleuth.When Veronica cannot land a new part after the soap's cancellation, she returns to her Adirondack hometown for what she hopes is a temporary visit. No sooner...
7963) A gathering of old men
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer, a racist, is shot. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her defense of this group of men who stand resolute against decades of injustice.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
No matter where she goes, church secretary Cindy Preston always seems to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. While traveling in Hawaii on a long-planned vacation, she discovers the body of a restaurant owner who has been murdered. Soon Cindy is swept up in events beyond her understanding and is kidnapped by people convinced that she knows more about the murder than she's telling. And when she fails to return home, Jeremiah sets out to find...
7966) Every broken trust
Author
Series
Marquitta Skeet Bannion mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When her friend Karen stumbles upon a dead body, chief of campus police Skeet Bannion investigates the man's pre-death allegations that Karen's husband's accidental death years earlier was actually a murder.
7967) Gideon's sword: Playaway
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Professor Sophie Knowles mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While celebrating famous scholars of the past with her students, Dr. Sophie Knowles, a much loved math teacher at Henley College, must add up the clues to prove her assistant's innocence when she is accused of killing Dr. Keith Appleton, the most disliked professor on campus.
7969) Sour apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell,...
7971) You belong to me
Author
Series
Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When forensic pathologist Lucy Trask stumbles across a mutilated body by the chess tables in her local Baltimore park, its face so badly damaged it is unrecognisable, her sole concern is that it might be her old school teacher Mr Pugh. When the corpse is identified, Lucy is shocked to discover that the victim is actually another man from her past. Who killed him and why his skin is burnt with the letter "I" is unclear but it's evident that someone...
7972) The Angel Creek girls
Author
Series
Detective Kay Sharp volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy mountain town a widowed mother is brutally killed in front of her three daughters, and the oldest, a 16-year-old, is missing. Three suitcases found in the hallway make it clear that the family was about to run away. Who were they trying to escape? Turning the town upside down, Detective Kay Sharp discovers that it is home to a serial killer who preys on helpless girls.
7973) Ink or swim
Author
Publisher
Annies
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The manor is hosting the New England Whaling in History and Literature Conference. The place is transformed into a scene from a rugged high sea adventure. Before the conference begins one of the guests makes waves. Raymond refuses to show his valuable scrimshaw. Raymond then is found murdered. His widow then claims the scrimshaw is missing." --
7974) The black list
Series
Sydney Fitzpatrick mystery volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The first death was ruled an accident. But when a second accountant from A.D.E.-a popular relief organization that resettles East African refugees-turns up dead, FBI Special Agent and forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is called in to lend her expertise in an increasingly troubling case. Not only is the charity backed by a powerful U.S. senator, but the investigation reveals that its funds have been siphoned off to bankroll terrorist cells in black...
7975) Awakening
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, �2009
Language
English
Description
Disfigured by a childhood accident, veterinary surgeon Clara Benning generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Cara's expertise is needed. She's chilled to learn that the victim's postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake--and therefore the killer must be human.
7976) Dead and married
Author
Series
Publisher
Annies
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The wedding of Maggie's daughter is overshadowed by the murder of Nick Orman. When Maggie's friend, June McGillis, is arrested for his murder, Maggie must prove her friend's innocence while handling nuptial-related crises.
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The most sensational and intriguing murders from across the USA are re-examined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Spanning the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Second World War, these are homicides from a seminal period of American criminal history, an era that saw the formation of the first state police agency, the first murderer convicted using fingerprints...
7978) Don't let go
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Radcliff, a homicide detective, picks up his niece Ashley from a theater. It is revealed that Ashley does not like her father Garret due to his bipolar disorder and history with drug abuse. A day after Jack has a serious talk with his brother about getting his life together, he receives a crying call for help from Ashley. Jack rushes to her house but is too late, finding the dead bodies of Ashley, his brother Garret, and Garret's wife in an apparent...
Author
Language
English
Description
Outrage presents in a clear, conversational style Bugliosi's scrupulously analyzed and supported argument about why O. J. Simpson was not convicted. He sets forth, in five chapters, five reasons why the prosecution lost this case, despite the overwhelming amount of physical and scientific evidence pointing to Simpson's guilt. His chapter titles lay out the argument: "In the Air: What the Jurors Probably Knew" describes the pro-Simpson sentiment that...
7980) The Wrath & the Dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.
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