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10881) South village
Author
Series
Ash McKenna novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ash McKenna used to be an amateur -- emphasis on 'amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a commune in the Georgia woods, binge-drinking cheap whiskey and waiting for his passport to flee the country and nightmares that have followed him. Then a man is found dead. Known only as 'Crusty Pete', the commune dweller is sprawled...
10882) Canyon standoff
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
361 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Canyon Under Siege by Valerie Hansen, hostages' lives hang in the balance as FBI agent Holly Forbes works with her former crush, park ranger Gabe McClelland, to outwit dangerous criminals. And in Jodie Bailey's Missing in the Wilderness, a rescue mission turns into a race for pure survival when a killer begins stalking park ranger Morgan Dunham and her military ex-husband, Eric Larson."--Backcover.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that changed the course of the future. In The Hank Show, critically...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Terry McGowan was a beat cop, a Marine captain, and an FBI Special Agent before retiring at age fifty. But after September 11th, 2001, McGowan was in Iraq, serving as a member of a team of high-ranking retired and active duty military working for the highest level of Marine military intelligence. McGowan's success in Iraq led to a position as a Law Enforcement Professional with the Marines in Afghanistan. There he found himself the oldest member of...
10885) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
347 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker.
10886) Madigan
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran New York City detective is given only a few hours to track down a vicious killer.
10887) Winter of despair
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The last untold story of Watergate--by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years. L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle. Though a lifelong Republican, he was considered a threat by Nixon. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate's most shocking acts--Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate focused its attention on...
10889) The railway murders
Author
Series
Yorkshire murder mystery volume Book 8
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a film star is killed in Wharfedale, DCI Oldroyd's holiday becomes an investigation. It happened in a train carriage while the cameras rolled outside. But nobody else went in, or came out. Was it the perfect crime?
10890) Holly
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
617 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...
Author
Series
Daisy's Tea Garden mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous tip during a true crime podcast reveals clues to a 20-year-old unsolved murder, tea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson suspects a connection between a current homicide and this cold case, setting out to solve it before she walks down the aisle.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (G) (approximately 66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker must continue to conceal his secret identity as Spider-Man, all while handling the pressures of teenage life at home and school. New York City's criminal underworld succumbs to a cataclysmic upheaval as the super-villains try to outmaneuver each other for the top spot. Now, it's all-out gang warfare and Spider-Man is the only hope the good citizens of New York have against Hammerhead, Doctor Octopus and Silvermane.
10893) Thunder over the prairie: the true story of a murder and a manhunt by the greatest posse of all time
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xiii, 146 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
10894) Death on Delos
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Greece, 545 BC: It is illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos. It's also illegal to give birth there. Yet when murder is committed, the only available detective to solve the crime is the priestess Diotima, and she is heavily pregnant. Delos is the holy birthplace of the divine twins Apollo and Artemis, and it is an island in crisis. Not only has murder tainted the holy sanctuary, but there are about a thousand Athenian troops on the island. The...
Author
Series
Adventures of Team POM volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
92 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Roberto, Ruby, and Agnes are back for a summer of mis-adventuring in Shadyside! This time, they've got their sights set on becoming the natural history scientists of the future -- but their plans are about to be rudely interrupted by the nefarious Steve and his band of ruffians. Steve's got his beady eyes on New York City, and he's using every scheme in his collection to finally achieve criminal glory! With the fate of the Big Apple in their hands,...
10896) Smokin' Aces
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent hunts for Las Vegas stand up comedian and illusionist Buddy 'Aces' Israel. Aces has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins. Now Aces will have to pull his greatest disappearing act before the assassins can get to him.
Author
Series
Whitewash volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
" ... explosive documents revealing what the Warren Commission knew about Oswald's alleged ties to the FBI"--Page 4 of cover.
10898) Black butler: XII
Author
Series
Black butler volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The decks of the Campania run red with blood when the corpses brought back to a semblance of life by the Aurora Society's 'absolute salvation' turn on the ship's passengers in a ghoulish farce. With their investigation waylaid by this primitive struggle for survival, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his exceptional butler, Sebastian, are trapped at the mercy of both the unnatural and Mother Nature herself. For even as dead feet shuffle along the opulent...
10899) The blue kingfisher: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happens when a master of disguise tries to be herself for once? If you're private investigator Kat Stone, trouble seems to find you with or without your favorite wig. Kat knows she's living on borrowed time, waiting for her violent past to catch up with her. Still, she doesn't expect men to start falling from the sky. On a desolate morning in Fort Washington Park, Kat discovers the body of her building's French expat maintenance man atop the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter describes how she uncovered the alleged identity of a long-time serial killer who has been murdering women in South Central Los Angeles since the 1980s.
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