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Series
Regan Reilly volume 9
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With her wedding to Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, only a week away, Regan thinks she has everything under control. But when she arrives to pick up her wedding dress at Alfred and Charisse's Coutures in Little Italy, she finds the young designers bound and gagged, a wedding dress shredded and four others missing, including her own.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"An intricate plot in the post-WWI English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) combine in this absorbing mystery perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie. Dead one minute... Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they rush off quickly to look for some help. Alive the next? When...
905) This won't end well
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
No new people: that's Annie Mercer's vow. It's bad enough that her boss sabotaged her chemistry career and her best friend tried to cure her with crystals. But after her fiancé, Jon, asks for space while he's gallivanting around Paris, Annie decides she needs space too--from everyone. Yet when Harper moves in next door, Annie can't help but train a watchful eye on the glamorous but fragile young woman. And if keeping Harper safe requires teaming...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 18
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling story: a woman, accused of being rude to a valued customer, has been wrongly dismissed from her job at an office furniture store. Never one to let an act of injustice...
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice...or revenge. When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father...
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Series
Jade del Cameron novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameroon lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch and driving a ambulance on the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down man maddened by shell shock. Still suffering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa determined to fulfill a man's dying wish, never expecting to become involved in murder." "With his last breath, Jade's...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he took to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. Since...
910) Double
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Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
Pub. Date
1995, c1984
Description
Sharon McCone has come home to her warm, troubled family, to San Diego and a convention of private detectives in a posh seaside hotel. For Sharon it's a chance to catch up with old friends--all except for the one who fell four stories from one of the hotel spires. Now, Sharon is determined to find out why her friend died.
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle Mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redheaded private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment, but playing a mild-mannered secretary working out of a construction trailer is not quite the thrill ride she had in mind.
912) Bye-bye, black sheep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Their fledgling detective agency has spread its wings--and now partners Juliet Applebaum and Al Hockey, once in the hole, are finally flying high. A Hollywood lawyer uses them regularly to clean up after some of his less-than-discreet celeb clients. They see people come through the doors of their garage-turned-office, seeking defense investigation. They also see insurance investigation cases. But Juliet and Al are about to find out, they ain't seen...
913) Bleeding edge
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
914) Witness to murder
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Lady Eleanor Swift volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Autumn, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, accidental amateur detective and retired explorer, is determined to take a break from investigating murders. So when a local politician dies suddenly at an elegant dinner party at Farrington Manor, she tries her hardest not to listen to the raft of rumours around the village that he might have been poisoned by the fudge. It's the anniversary of the disappearance of her beloved parents and she's promised herself not...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A smart and determined field operative in Tucson, Del Shannon has earned a reputation for being nearly invincible in tracking down missing persons. Ironically, the only person Del has not been able to locate is the mother she's never known. Deep in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, the Feds are investigating Nazareth Church, an isolated religious compound led by faith healer Silas Rule. People desperate for salvation are giving up everything they...
917) True grits
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Series
Savannah secrets volume 18
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Savannah's best restaurants are throwing a True Grits competition, with each restaurant presenting their most popular grits recipe. But someone has replaced the paprika with ground ghost peppers in all the entries except the entery from Charlene Jackson's diner. Now, Julia and Meredith must prove Charlene's innocence and find the real saboteur.
918) Sapphire secret
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Series
Savannah secrets volume 19
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A young woman stopped Meredith and Julia in the street, gave them a wad of cash, claimed someone was following her, and ran off before they could ask her any questions. They soon learn that the girl was Sapphire Riverton, niece of mental health clinic owner Theodore Riverton. The more Meredith and Julia learn about Sapphire, the harder it is to seperate fact from fiction. Sapphire is plagued with nightmares of her mother's death. Could there have...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Christmas, 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather unexpected invitation to the village Christmas party in the tiny, rural hamlet of Derrydee in the west of Ireland. Eleanor is thrilled about exploring her ancestral roots at her late uncle's estate and spending the festive season in a castle. Packing Gladstone the bulldog's coziest Christmas jumper, they set off to the Emerald Isle with her butler Clifford in tow. Arriving late at night, Eleanor...
920) Meant for good
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Savannah secrets volume 15
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In 1918, James Brandon was sentenced to twenty years in prison for stealing valuable jewels from his employer, the wealthy Thomas Van Orden. Now, James's great-granddaughter comes to Magnolia Investigations to see if Meredith and Julia can help clear James's name and give her mother some closure before Alzheimer's takes what's left of her memories. When the investigation leads them to the history of Van Orden Industries, it soon becomes clear that...