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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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"El cuerpo sin vida del juez de paz y coronel retirado Lucius Protheroe aparece en el despacho del vicario de St. Mary Mead, un pequeño y tranquilo pueblo de la campiña inglesa. La esposa del coronel y su amante, un joven pintor, confiesan el asesinato. Sin embargo, su vecina, Miss Jane Marple, una anciana solterona con un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza humana y una agudísima intuición, descarta inmediatamente su culpabilidad. La hija...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"El juicio contra el padrastro de la joven Johana Márquez está a punto de comenzar. A él asiste una embarazada Amaia Salazar, la inspectora de la Policía Foral que un año atrás había resuelto los crímenes del llamado basajaun, que sembraron de terror el valle del Baztán. Amaia también había reunido las pruebas inculpatorias contra Jasón Medina, que imitando el modus operandi del basajaun había asesinado, violado y mutilado a Johana, la...
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
While searching for a winning newspaper story, Roxy befriends a mysterious young girl and believes her to be a mermaid.
Ka-ching! That's all super sleuth Roxy Hunter hears when she finds out about a newspaper contest that will pay $300 to the winner who writes the best story. The trouble is, she doesn't have one! Then, like magic, a mysterious young girl arrives out of the blue with nothing, literally. No words, no memory, nothing! Roxy names her...
6) Murder games
Author
Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: A serial killer is loose on the streets of Manhattan. His victims appear to be total strangers. The only clue that unites the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that hints at the next target. The killer, known in the tabloids as The Dealer, is baiting cops into a deadly and scandalous guessing game that has the city increasingly on edge. Elizabeth Needham, the gorgeous, tenacious cop in charge of the case turns...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses...
8) The unquiet
Series
In Death volume Z
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Five "New York Times" bestselling authors-five superlative stories. From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in "Chaos in Death." From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word .. ."wish." From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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At Castle Kinloch in the Scottish Highlands, literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley is found dead under strange circumstances, leading Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh to investigate three American novelists—each with their own motives and secrets—as he uncovers connections between Presley's murder and the castle's dark history.
10) The likeness
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggles in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie had used as an undercover officer.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
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Publisher Annotation: A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated . . . Hannah Swensen mystery series, 304pp., 75K
12) The black book
Author
Series
Black book (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
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Series
Language
English
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"Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
16) The moth catcher
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter to look after the place while they're away. But he is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look round the attic of the big house, Vera finds the body of a second man. As...
Author
Series
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are busy managing the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room in anticipation of the store's upcoming book signing with the illustrious Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series. But during the author Q&A session, dedicated Sherlockian Donald Morris verbally attacks Renalta and her series for disgracing Sherlock's legacy, only to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Hannah has excellent reasons to despise the caddish Bradford Ramsey, as do many other women. Nevertheless, she'd rather not expose her youthful indiscretions, especially to her policeman beau. Hannah is very busy with the mayor's wife Lake Eden, Minn. charity event at which Ramsey is host. So what should she say when she stumbles upon his murdered corpse?
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