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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When nineteen-year-old Tiffany Perron vanishes without a trace, the residents of rural Grand Trespass, Louisiana, launch a desperate search to find her. But few clues are unearthed, and before long another young woman disappears. As locals continue to vanish, residents begin to discover that they might not know those closest to them as well as they had thought. Lies and insecurities quickly surface, leading everyone to question one another...and...
462) The fire pit
Author
Series
Faroes novel ; 3
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a dying man's apparent suicide, the skeleton of a young woman is discovered on a windswept hillside. Detective Hjalti Hentze suspects that it is the body of a Norwegian woman reported missing forty years earlier, while a commune occupied the land, and whose death may be linked to the abduction and rape of a local Faroese girl. Meanwhile British DI Jan Reyna is pursing his investigation into his mother's suicide. But as he learns...
Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
People like Ann Buckhalter, the wife of a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, often stay at the Bachelor Officers' Quarter (B.O.Q.) when they return to Camp Lejeune to visit friends or shop at the Exchange. But their dead bodies don't end up floating in the nearby New River. When Special Agent Fran Setliff and her Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) team investigate Ann's murder, they soon discover that more than one person's life has been...
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies,...
465) Tell me the truth
Author
Series
Adler and Dwyer ; 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There's just one problem: the people in her life won't let her go. When Jenny is viciously stabbed and left for dead, it's her mother who finds Jenny's body underneath the pines outside their home in the upscale town of Lewisboro, New York. State police investigator Susan Adler and her consultant partner Liam Dwyer are called to investigate the crime scene, but they sense...
Author
Series
Maharaja mystery ; 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"December, 1911. A vast tent city has sprung up outside the old walled enclave of Mughal Delhi, where the British are hosting a grand Durbar to celebrate the coronation of the new King, George V. Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore is growing increasingly bored, cooling his heels at the Majestic Hotel as he awaits George V's arrival. Just as his frustration is about to peak, a pair of British officers shoulders in. They insist that he accompany them...
467) Thin ice
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The sudden death of research scientist Mary Clare Ryan shatters the already fragile world of her sister, Nicole. A reticent scholar of mythology, Nicole had long felt estranged from her exuberant younger sister. Using Mary's ticket to a scientific conference in Los Angeles, Nicole flees her stifling life in Georgetown to try to come to grips with her grief and answer disturbing questions about her sister's last days. Once there, Nicole learns that...
468) Lake of tears
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyrus Books, F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has had an easy summer in Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, the only problem is that her daughter Meg is leaving for college soon. When Claire walks down to the park to watch the Burning Boat, a large replica of a Norwegian longboat set on the shores of Lake Pepin, burned at the autumnal equinox she has no idea that more than just a wooden structure is going up in flames. The next day, the bones of a young woman are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuatro chicas desaparecidas. Un secreto enterrado en el pasado. Lunes por la mañana. Un obrero encuentra el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer embarazada. Ese mismo día, una joven acude con su hijo a la casa de la inspectora Lottie Parker para pedirle ayuda: su amiga ha desaparecido. ¿Podría tratarse de la víctima? Cuando el mismo obrero descubre otro cadáver, Lottie deberá trabajar día y noche para averiguar qué relación guardan los crímenes....
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter....
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
"It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora...
472) Murder on Mustique
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is just 28 years old and the island's only fully trained police officer. He...
473) Por mi gran culpa
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Edaf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Por mi gran culpa quizá sea la primera y única novela narrada y protagonizada por Dios. Adán y Lidia --que en realidad se llama Eva-- son una pareja que de repente ve truncada su aparente felicidad después de recibir una inesperada llamada. Tras ese incidente, Eva, que durante el tiempo que ha compartido con Adán se ha hecho pasar por otra persona, ocultando su verdadera identidad, se ve obligada a huir precipitadamente para tratar de evitar...
474) The fourth crow
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the ninth Gil Cunningham mystery set in medieval Glasgow, the crime-solving notary investigates the slaying of a woman found dead outside a cathedral. Tied to St. Mungo's Cross by the cathedral, to be cured of her madness overnight by the saint, a young woman is found in the morning beaten and strangled, still tied to the cross. Who would flout the saint's protection like this? And who is stealing cathedral property? The crows are gathering about...
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