Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Jazz Age rake investigates an utterly divine art-world mystery Everyone who's anyone knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village to open a gritty little art gallery showcasing the most shocking European artists imaginable. The gallery is a money pit, and Green is in debt to some of the roughest loan sharks south of 14th Street, but that doesn't stop him from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
If you like mysteries with a hint of romance...When Marion and Ruth open their salon, just as they do every morning, they're horrified to discover a corpse seated in a styling chair. The police determine that the cause of death is strangulation. The murderer has to be someone from Chippingville, someone who knows Marion and Ruth.In their quest to discover the truth, they receive the unexpected help of their hair salon's clients, and that of the attractive...
5) Sugar Sands
Author
Language
English
Description
Michigan's sunset coast turns deadly when a group of vacationers encounter a dying author who sees the ghosts of children. When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie's sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit. The area is known for...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mira Hawkings and Rose Wallace are able to ghost from their bodies to solve crimes. An NSA Black Ops team has taken Mira Hawkings' fiancée hostage and Mira and Robin will need all their Astral Projection powers, as well as help from a band of mysterious mercenaries to find and rescue him. An evil serial killer, and Agent John Taggart are using Borden to set a trap for the women, hoping to use them as Ghost Spies for the government. Will the ghostly-duo...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pru Pendergast, proprietor of Driftwood Creatives, returns to her shop after a walk around Ominpodge Village Center to find her obnoxious landlord, Bart Cunard, dead-garroted with driftwood handles and brown Vicuna yarn. Detective James Moriarty arrives, questions Pru, and accuses her of murder-though every one of Pru's fellow shopkeepers could attest to having a motive. Pru must escape attacks on her own life and the threat of being arrested while...
Author
Language
English
Description
Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is known as a hound dog when it comes to the ladies. But when someone pushes him off a ladder, he falls on the theater's resident cat-and somehow the two of them wind up trading bodies.
It takes a while to get used to living on four legs, but it's the perfect way for Winstanley to sneak around while he tries to uncover the attempted murderer, in this fun mystery from an Agatha Award–winning author.
9) Midnight
Author
Language
English
Description
A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their noses where according to the police they have no business being was strengthened when a second person dies-the second death of a member of the small crew building a beachfront home. With no connection between...
Author
Series
Brimful Coffers mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mystery writer Lorinda Lucas doesn't like the trend toward overly gruesome crime fiction-but she's even more upset about Roscoe, the cat who lives next door. He used to look well-fed and well cared for, but when Lorinda gets back from her most recent book tour, she's worried by his dangerously skinny appearance.
It turns out that Roscoe's owner has a new girlfriend who's put the poor cat on a deprivation diet-and that's not the only bad news in...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman's search for her biological parents uncovers a secret history of murder and conspiracy. When her adoptive parents die in a train crash in Italy, writer Courtney Marsh becomes more determined than ever to find her roots. She was mysteriously abandoned when she was just an infant, and she never knew the truth about her biological parents. The only clues to her past are a golden unicorn pendant she's had all her life and a tattered newspaper...
12) Run to Death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot...
Author
Language
English
Description
Carmel-by-the-Sea garden shop owner Courtney Kelly sees things others can't-like fairies, and hidden motives for murder . . .
Courtney is delighted when her tiny friend Fiona returns from the fairy realm, appearing at the base of a Cypress tree. When her Ragdoll cat, Pixie, emerges from her own portal-aka the cat door-the three set off for a busy day. Busier than usual, since Courtney has rented a small plot of land at the Flower Farm, where she...
Author
Language
English
Description
Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city in England, but one evening an old school friend, Geordie, bursts into Danny's shiny new life. On the run from a Loyalist militia, Geordie brings everything Danny...
15) Death and Taxes
Author
Language
English
Description
A CPA in 1940s San Francisco searches for his partner's killer in this witty mystery by the author of the classic To Catch a Thief. The first in the series of noir mysteries starring hard-drinking accountant Whit Whitney, Death and Taxes follows the calculating amateur detective as he looks into the murder of George MacLeod-a top tax consultant who was a close colleague of Whitney's, at least until his body was stuffed into a bank vault. A fast-paced,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Un juego trepidante en el que realidad y ficción se confunden, y en el que la narrativa serial parece inmiscuirse, cada vez más y sorprendentemente, en la vida de los protagonistas. Asesinos de Series es el nombre del blog de tres jóvenes (Andrés, Marta y Rubén) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, sueñan con crear su gran éxito internacional: una serie de referencia como podría ser Lost. Andrés se gana la vida escribiendo textos...
Author
Series
Philo Vance mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
A horse race turns into a murder case . . . "Mr. Van Dine's amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature." -Chicago Daily Tribune
Aristocratic detective Philo Vance has gotten an anonymous invitation to a New York rooftop garden, where a group of wealthy friends gather to listen to the horse races. But on the night Vance attends, a guest dies of a gunshot wound after losing a load of money on...
18) Death by Dancing
Author
Language
English
Description
Death's a jig!When a brutal dance marathon in the suburbs of Boston in 1932 turns deadly, Dr. Haley Higgins is surprised to discover the deceased is the widow of a man whose body still lies in the cold cabinets of her morgue. She has reasons to believe the man's death wasn't natural, and now, with his wife having succumbed to the same symptoms, her convictions of foul play are stronger than ever.With the help of investigative reporter Samantha Hawke,...
19) Run!
Author
Language
English
Description
In the English countryside, a man is caught up in an intricate web of greed and murder, in this mystery from the creator of Miss Silver The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dark, foggy country road. When he stops at a house to ask for directions, a woman rushes out and tells him to run. Seconds later, shots are fired. After they escape the unknown shooter, Aspidistra Aspinall says she's an orphan and has no idea who's after...
20) The stone bull
Author
Language
English
Description
The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister. Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright future with her new husband, Brandon, in their glorious new home at the McClain family's Catskill estate in the Shawangunk Mountains. But Jenny forgot her past . . . It was the night her twin sister, Ariel, threatened suicide. An emotional ballerina in Swan Lake, Ariel's sanity was known...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request