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5661) Mortal music
Author
Series
Silver rush mystery volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"San Francisco. Winter 1881-82. All pianist Inez Stannert wants for Christmas is for the struggling music store she owns in San Francisco to be a success. When diva Theia Carrington Drake asks Inez to be her accompanist for several high-profile personal appearances, Inez is thrilled. This is the chance she was waiting for--a way to make some extra money and bring her store into the limelight of the city's polite society to enhance her business. But...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is...
5663) Playing with fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The death of a young girl leads Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and Kate O'Donnell into a hotbed of simmering tensions, violence and threats in sixties' Soho. London, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where a young girl has fallen to her death from a top-floor window. A new breed of fans is flocking to Soho's rock and roll haunts. But was it a tragic accident, or something...
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide. With this group of students who are all hiding something,...
5665) The ranger
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novel volume 1
Formats
Description
Returning to what has become his violently corrupt hometown in Mississippi after a tour in Afghanistan, Army Ranger Quinn Colson investigates his uncle's alleged suicide and uncovers shocking personal secrets.
5666) Chilled to the cone
Author
Series
Bakeshop mystery volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The deep freeze has thawed in Ashland, Oregon and Torte is gearing up for a busy spring. When a surprise opportunity to launch a pop-up ice cream shop comes her way, Jules jumps at the chance to showcase Torte's signature iced drinks and cold custards. But selling the desserts of her dreams comes at a price ... and, before she knows it, Jules's life swirls into a nightmare. One of the town's most colorful characters, a street performer known for...
Publisher
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Based on the characters from Archie Comics, Riverdale returns with its subversive take on Archie and his friends, exploring small town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade. Determined to protect the sanctity of his town in the wake of his father's shooting, season two finds Archie seeking vengeance. As a civil war brews between the Northside and the Southside, loyalties will be divided. Betty and Jughead's...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 48
Description
This book is an excursion into Britain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past. The author's investigation into Lord Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in English history. Its conclusions shed light on the actions and motives of the conspirators and, in particular, the extent of Mary's own involvement. Tall, handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, had it all, including a strong claim to the English...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Sling blade: 25 years after committing an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl is finally returning home. Once there he is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. As a strong relationship develops between Karl and the boy, a confrontation builds with the mother's abusive and sometimes violent boyfriend.
Monster's ball: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and...
5672) A fatal finale
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Kathleen Marple Kalb debuts with the first book in a new historical mystery series set in Gilded Age New York and following the adventures of swashbuckling opera singer Ella Shane, an Irish-Jewish Lower East Side orphan who finds fame and fortune singing male trouser roles. On the cusp of the twentieth century, Manhattan is a lively metropolis buzzing with talent. But after a young soprano meets an untimely end on stage, can one go-getting leading...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, pathologist Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Sommerdahl has devoted his life to protecting his beloved town, which has, unfortunately, cost him his marriage. But can he learn to accept, that his ex-wife is now in a relationship with Flemming?
5674) Wallander: Season 4
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
5675) Chaos
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by TVA Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
After a deadly bank heist, Detectives Quentin Conners and Shane Dekker are drawn into a mysterious case where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind who seems to kill without warning or reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception, the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaos.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives.
5677) Hello, transcriber
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. As an aspiring writer, Hazel believes that writing a novel could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape. And then her neighbor confesses to hiding the body of an overdose victim in a dumpster. The suspicious death is linked to Candy Man, a notorious...
5678) Like a sister
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this "tense, twisting mystery" (Megan Miranda), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead--except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth. "I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she'd died from the New York Daily News." When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the...
5679) George Gently: Series 6
Series
George gently volume Series 6
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Detective Chief Inspector George Gently ... returns to the job six months after he and his sergeant, John Bacchus ... were gravely injured in the line of duty. Both officers appear to be on the mend, physically at least. ... At a time of changing attitudes and values in Britain, Gently and Bacchus are undergoing transitions of their own ... set in 1969"--Container.
5680) Antiques ravin'
Author
Series
Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 13
Publisher
Kensington Books
Formats
Description
"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne--elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own--springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shihtzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly...
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