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Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 31
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Agatha, who runs a private detective agency in the Cotswold village of Carsely, is fuming about the upcoming nuptials of her friend and former lover, Sir Charles Fraith, to his 'vile fiancée,' Mary Brown-Field. No stranger to gate-crashing, Agatha shows up at an extravagant postwedding masked ball held at Charles's grand house, where a shoving match takes place between Agatha and the new lady of the manor. When Mary is later found dead in the estate's...
63) Dead scared
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Disfigured by a childhood accident, veterinary surgeon Clara Benning generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Cara's expertise is needed. She's chilled to learn that the victim's postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake--and therefore the killer must be human.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass market ed.
Description
The eccentric Olive Kettering swore someone was trying to harm her. Too bad no one listened, though plenty wanted her dead. When Olive is shot and killed, Mrs. Jeffries has no problem speaking her mind to see justice served.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume Book 9
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Description
The indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, must solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British theater and a killer who may mean curtains for all involved.
Author
Series
A William Monk novel volume 17
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
Author
Series
Mydworth mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In 1929 Mydworth, a Sussex, England town 50 miles from London, Sir Harry Mortimer and his American wife Kat Reilly find themselves investigating a jewelry heist-turned-murder at Harry's aunt's home, Mydworth Manor.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Description
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
70) Awakening
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Disfigured by a childhood accident, veterinary surgeon Clara Benning generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Cara's expertise is needed. She's chilled to learn that the victim's postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake--and therefore the killer must be human.
71) You are dead
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Description
"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team investigate two seemingly unconnected events--the disappearance of a young woman and the discovery of the remains of another young woman who appears to have been dead for thirty years. When another woman goes missing and another body is found, Grace believes Brighton has its first serial killer"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects....
74) A book of bones
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 17
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. From the forests of Maine to the deserts...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds Hills, she was heartily welcomed. She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she had a nasty habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, just small things, a teapot here, a set of silverware there. So it's quite the shock when she is found...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume Book 24
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Agatha has fallen head over heels in love--again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. Shamelessly determined, Agatha will do anything to get her man--including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. And then George doesn't even show up. Only partly deterred, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap....
77) Moriarty: Bk 2
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes volume Book 2
Pub. Date
c2015, c2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Description
Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and...
78) Three debts paid
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Description
"A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. He turns to Miriam Fford Croft, Daniel's good friend and now officially of the first female pathologists in London, to find details he and Daniel have missed. As the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing them, Miriam and Daniel find themselves questioning everything. Is the "Rainy-day Slasher,"...
Author
Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Pearl Nolan always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career and instead she built up a successful seafood restaurant in her coastal home town of Whitstable - famous for its native oysters. Now, at 39, and with son Charlie away at university, Pearl finds herself suffering from empty nest syndrome ... until she discovers the drowned body of local oyster fisherman Vinnie Rowe, weighted down with an...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
"Our favorite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer with a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an "accidental" drowning on a film shoot may have been something more sinister; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby...
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