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Publisher:
Atria Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"When Orla returns to Hadley Island to confront the ghosts of her best friend's long-ago disappearance, she is drawn into another mystery alongside a suspicious girlfriend and a reclusive observer as they work to uncover the island's eerie, long-held mysteries"--
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Series:
Bell Elkins novels volume 3
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Language:
English
Description:
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer whoseems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. ...
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Publisher:
Stockholm Text
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Karin Jacobsson, Anders Knutas's newly promoted deputy, starts a complex inquiry into a murder committed while Knutas is on holiday. Peter Bovide, the owner of a small construction company, has been camping on the island of Faro with his wife and children. One morning, Bovide fails to return from his regular morning jog, and his bullet-ridden body, including multiple stomach shots after one to the head, turns up shortly afterward.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn't like her P.I. husband Max to abruptly disappear-and homicide is definitely not his style. But when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a brutally slain, once-beautiful young woman nearby and the murder weapon stashed in the trunk, Annie's worst fears seem justified. The police have Max all but tried and convicted-except for Chief Billy Cameron,...
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Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
In a chronicle of mourning and survival, Ali Liebegott wallows in loneliness and over-assigns meaning to everyday circumstance, clinging to an aging dog and obsessing over dead birds. But these unpretentious vignettes are laced with compassion, as she learns to balance the sting of death with the tender strangeness of life.
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Language:
English
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Someone murdered her coworker… Is she the next target? When her assistant's death is ruled a suicide, wildlife biologist Emma Copley knows the authorities got it wrong. The killer is still out there, threatening Emma's work and her life. Launching her own investigation, Emma turns to Beau Kingston, who'll do anything to protect her-even resist their growing attraction. But the handsome rancher has secrets of his own, secrets that could cost them...
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Series:
Catskill summer resort mystery volume 1
Publisher:
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
In the summer of 1953 at Haggerman's Catskills Resort, daring young widow Elizabeth must solve the mystery surrounding the death of a reclusive guest whose body was found in the lake on the grounds in order to save the business from going under.
13. Deadly Summer
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Series:
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Ten years ago, Summer Butler was television's most popular teenage sleuth. Since then, shes hit what gossip sites just love to call the gutter. Nearly bankrupt, betrayed, estranged from her greedy mother, and just about unemployable, she's coaxed into that desperate haven for has-beens: reality TV. Winging it as a faux PI, she'll solve off-the-cuff mysteries in her hometown of Sweet Briar, Alabama. For added drama, there's police chief Luke Montgomery,...
14. Dead Summer
Author:
Publisher:
Wes Mogenson Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Sydney was planning on having the perfect summer. She and her older cousin Sean, with their two best friends, were on their way to the music festival of a lifetime, with no parents!That is until their car breaks down, and they end up stranded in the town of Lucky Fields, where the zombie apocalypse has begun. It is being run by a group of mad science teachers, who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden.While running for their lives, Sydney...
Author:
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Car mechanic Florimond can't believe his luck when a beautiful young newcomer to his sleepy Provence village agrees to marry him. But his bride's motivation is slowly revealed as a cunning plan to avenge a long-ago crime. Told from four fascinating perspectives, this French noir thriller won the prestigious Prix Deux Magots. One Deadly Summer is a true classic of suspense.
Author:
Publisher:
Abbott Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
A serial killer is on the loose in Alaska, killing women who all look alike. Each woman is found abandoned in the uninhabited wilderness, and the only commonality among them is that they all physically resemble Denise Birdie Beardtom, an Alaska State Trooper. It would appear that someone wants Birdie dead, and it could be her abusive ex-husband. Her partner, Miles, is concerned for Birdies safety. He enlists local friends Myrna Elam and John Lebowan...
Author:
Publisher:
Community Fundraising
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Late summer 1931 and twenty-seven-year-old Adelyn Crawford is lying in a hammock in Tulip Junction, Georgia, when suddenly her former lover Innis Crawford begins to make love to her. Two things mar this perfect picture; Innis is dead and Adelyn is married to his brother, Garnett. Adelyn is the key to getting back into the world. A tug of war over Adelyn begins. Who will win? Innis died in a suspicious auto accident and Adelyn fell into Garnett's waiting...
Author:
Publisher:
Kat Mayor
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Things are going great for psychic and former ghost hunter, Barrett McDowell. He's set up shop as a ghost therapist in his native LA. Most of his work entails simple things, like telling loved ones the code to the safe deposit box at the bank, or Grandma giving her grandkids one last message of love before she passes into the light. That is, until Lauren Collins steps into his office. Lauren recently inherited a beach house in Laguna. It was the beloved...
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Series:
Key Lime Cozy Mysteries volume 3
Publisher:
Vibrance Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Real life can be ugly sometimes…But not as ugly as reality TV.SubLime Sweets owner and amateur sleuth, Marilyn Hayes is in quite a pickle when a reality show producer asks to visit her store, with cast and cameras in tow. She's hesitant, but when her daughter, Tiara convinces her that the publicity would boost their business, she agrees. Marilyn gets more than she bargained for when Tiara has a showdown with one of the reality celebrities, and things...