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382) Snow White must die
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is a tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller--with more than 2.5 million copies in print!On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia...
384) Eleven hours
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A woman nine months pregnant is abducted from a shopping mall by a man who wants her baby. The novel describes the woman's terror as the spasms begin, the man planning to kill her after she gives birth.
385) Please see us
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English
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"Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they're there. Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and disturbing visions, she suspects they could be related...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
On the train home after her graduation, British drama student Lyndsey Barratt is raped by boys from a boarding school cricket team. When police fail to prosecute them because the boys' parents have influence, Lyndsey's twin sister, Linda, swings into action. One by one the 11 boys proceed to die.
390) Latter end
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Series
Miss Silver mystery ; 11
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Lois has always dreamed of being a Latter. The Latter brothers are both so attractive--nearly as handsome as their stately manor, Latter End. After she spoils her relationship with one brother, Lois succeeds with the other, winning his heart with her good looks and a sizable fortune from her first marriage. But even after they've wed, she never quite fits in with the family. Still, she hardly expects them to kill her. When the psychic Memnon warns...
391) Prima facie: a novel
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
392) Death takes the cake
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Language
English
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Description
To help boost ratings for her cable cooking show, humble host Della Carmichael reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx - even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastry making is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally - until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter. When her dear friend's husband becomes the prime...
393) A steep price
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Series
Tracy Crosswhite ; 6
Language
English
Description
"Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy's suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isn't Tracy's only challenge. The detective...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending...
395) The sideman
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Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no goodbyes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his cast-iron alibi, Costello has gone solo, determined to expose a ruthless killer without being hampered by police protocol. But is she right about Haggerty's guilt? And where has she disappeared to? DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder the loss of his partner of twenty years. With a badly beaten body found on...
396) Mary, Mary: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young woman in Dublin is raped and murdered by a limousine driver. The killer obtains a good lawyer and when the mother, a psychiatrist specializing in the criminally insane, realizes justice will not be done, she takes the law in her hands. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books/Marble Arch Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman's body in a bomb site in north London. Detective Inspector Jim Cooper, assigned to investigate the case, unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death.
398) Cruel acts
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Series
Maeve Kerrigan ; 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Leo Stone is a killer. A year ago, he was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life without parole. But now, a juror from his trial has revealed the jury was prejudiced, and a retrial is called. Detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent are tasked with re-examining the evidence. Before long, they uncover links between Stone and a possible third victim. But with Stone behind bars, a fourth woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is...
399) Island of bones
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Series
Louis Kincaid ; 5
Language
English
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Description
"In the wake of a hurricane a tiny skull washes up in front of detective Louis Kincaid's cottage. Days later, the bullet-riddled body of a woman surfaces on a nearby island. She has no identification ... except for a unique coral ring. Sensing a connection, Louis begins his investigation, a search for the truth that will lead him down a trail of secrets and lies--to the Island of Bones, where evil never dies and the living never escape. The tension...
400) Loose tongues
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A series of chilling murders has left Manchester in a state of terror. Women are being found dead in their homes, their bodies arranged in the same macabre pose. Each has been strangled, her mobile phone forced down her throat. How is the killer getting in to each victim's house? What have they done to become a target? Why have none put up a fight? Fresh-faced and full of enthusiasm, newly-qualified Detective Constable Sean Blake has just landed...
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