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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...
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...
4) 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...
5) 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.
7) 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
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet. When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's...
Author
Series
Pluto's snitch volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Raissa James not only sees the dead but she's caught the ears of the living-especially now that she's solved her first case. Word of Pluto's Snitch, her private-investigation agency specializing in the occult, has spread far and wide. It's even come to the notice of Zelda Fitzgerald, the nation's most celebrated flapper. And Zelda's in need of its services. Along with Reginald Proctor, her partner in detection, Raissa travels to Montgomery, Alabama,...
10) The dime
Author
Series
Detective Betty novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight. Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the...
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...
13) 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...
14) Te echo de menos
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una amiga le ha abierto a la solitaria agente de policía Kat Donovan una cuenta en una web de citas. Lo que allí encuentra removerá peligrosamente su pasado sentimental y le conducirá a una espeluznante investigación sobre una cadena de siniestras desapariciones. Al mismo tiempo, Kat se debate con el misterio que aún rodea el asesinato de su padre, el agente Henry Donovan, muchos años atrás. Nuevas pistas la llevarán a sospechar que ni los...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her...
16) Dead to me
Author
Series
Scott and Bailey novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural featuring a stellar but unlikely female dectective team, perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of humor. She's put in the time and seen it all, but has no desire for the boss's job--she loves her own too much. Rachel Bailey couldn't be more different--she's energetic,...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
Amelia Peabody, the intrepid archaeologist, returns to the Nile with her Egyptologist husband Emerson and their entourage to track down a brilliant and dashing master criminal wreaking havoc among the excavations.
18) Still life
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
19) The craftsman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before...
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