Search:

Results 41 to 50 of 65 | « previous |

Hard kill / by Turner, J. B.;
An American diplomat goes missing and ex-Special Forces operative Jon Reznick joins a top secret team, led by FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein, to help track him down.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Reznick, Jon (Fictitious character); Diplomats; Terrorism; Missing persons;
© 2014., A,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Grace cries uncle / by Hyzy, Julie A.;
While investigating the death of an FBI agent, Grace copes with the possibility of being Bennett's niece and with the reappearance of her estranged sister.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Wheaton, Grace (Fictitious character); Government investigators; Americans; Murder; Museum curators; Sisters; Manors; Uncles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Sunday philosophy club / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-;
When Scottish-American philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, a single woman of independent means who edits the esteemed Review of Applied Ethics and presides over the titular club, witnesses fund manager Mark Fraser fall from a balcony after a performance at an Edinburgh concert hall, she feels obliged to investigate the gentleman's demise.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Dalhousie, Isabel (Fictitious character); Stockbrokers; Women editors; Women philosophers; Housekeepers;
© 2005, c2004., Vintage Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Adventuress / by Alexander, Tasha,1969-;
"Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; English; Heiresses; Murder; Upper class;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The silent boy / by Taylor, Andrew,1951 October 14-author.;
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The ashes of London / by Taylor, Andrew,1951 October 14-author.;
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is Richard Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul's, in a tomb that should have been empty. The man's body has been mutilated and his thumbs have been tied behind his back - the sign of a Regicide, one of those who signed Charles I's death warrant. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer across the devastated city. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters - and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Great Fire, London, England, 1666; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Old bones / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.; Child, Lincoln,author.;
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage, resourcefulness, bad luck, murder, barbarism--and, finally, starvation and cannibalism. Captivated by the Donner Party, Nora agrees and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg--and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far more complex and surprising than they could have imagined ... but it is one that puts them both in mortal danger from a very real, present-day threat in which the search for the lost party, and its fabled fortune in gold, are merely means to a horrifying end.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Donner Party; Archaeologists; Archaeological expeditions; Detective and mystery stories;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

Clark and Division / by Hirahara, Naomi,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the new Japanese American neighborhood near Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family's reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train. Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose's death a suicide, in part because the coroner's examination revealed Rose had recently had an abortion. Aki cannot believe her perfect, polished, and optimistic sister would end her life-nor can she imagine Rose carelessly getting pregnant. Her instinct tells her there is much more to the story, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth. Based on a true crime that terrorized the resettled Japanese American community in Chicago, and inspired by historical events, Clark and Division infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty years of research and archival work in Japanese American history"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Japanese Americans; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Dead to the last drop / by Coyle, Cleo.;
"After the White House asks coffeehouse manager and master roaster Clare Cosi to consult on the coffee service for a Rose Garden Wedding, she discovers a historic pot was used as a CIA "dead drop" decades before. Now long-simmering secrets boil over, scalding Clare and the people around her. Clare's visit to the nation's capital is off to a graceful start. Her octogenarian employer lands her a housesitting job in a charming Georgetown mansion, and she's invited to work with a respected curator on the Smithsonian's culinary salute to coffee in America. Unfortunately, Clare's new Village Blend DC is struggling to earn a profit, until its second floor Jazz Space attracts a high-profile fan the college age daughter of the U.S. President. Clare's stock rises as the First Lady befriends her, but she soon learns a stark lesson: Washington can be murder. First a stylish State Department employee suspiciously collapses in her coffeehouse. Then the President's daughter goes missing. Is she a runaway bride or is something more sinister in play? After another deadly twist, Clare is on the run with her NYPD detective boyfriend. Branded an enemy of the state, she must piece together clues and uncover the truth before her life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness come to a bitter end."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Cosi, Clare (Fictitious character); Murder; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

A simple murder : a Kate Burkholder short story collection / by Castillo, Linda.;
Long lost -- A hidden secret -- Seeds of deception -- Only the lucky -- In dark company -- In plain sight.While on vacation with her partner John Tomasetti in LONG LOST, Kate discovers that the old house where they're staying is haunted by a girl who disappeared decades before... An abandoned baby is discovered on the Amish bishop's front porch in A HIDDEN SECRET, and Kate is called in to investigate. SEEDS OF DECEPTION unearths the secrets of Kate Burkholder's own Amish past--and lays the groundwork for her future career in law enforcement. In the midst of a power outage in Painters Mill, a teenage girl is attacked at an Amish party in ONLY THE LUCKY. IN DARK COMPANY is the story of an injured woman with amnesia who seeks Kate's help in trying to remember her attacker's identity...and her own. IN PLAIN SIGHT leads Kate to what she believes is a straightforward hit-and-run accident--but she soon uncovers a story of teenage passion that may have led to attempted murder.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Short stories.; Short stories, American.; Burkholder, Kate (Fictitious character); Amish; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 41 to 50 of 65 | « previous |