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The goddess affair
Par Lillian O'Donnell. 1996
Private investigator Gwenn Ramadge is hired to find out who is robbing guests on a cruise ship. While on board…
she meets Minerva Aldrich, who (along with her sisters) inherited her late mother's prestigious dress company, Goddess Designs. When terminally ill Minerva is found dead in the pool, Ramadge's investigation expands to murder. 1996.The goodbye body: A Claire Malloy Mystery (Claire Malloy Mysteries Ser. #Bk. 15)
Par Joan Hess. 2005
Bookstore owner Claire Mallow and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter, Caron, accept a customer's offer to stay in her palatial…
home while work is being done on their house. No sooner are they ensconced than disquieting events start to occur. The owner turns out not to be who she claimed; and a dead body keeps turning up. 2005.The gooseberry fool (Kramer and Zondi novel)
Par James McClure. 1974
A South African lieutenant and his Bantu detective sergeant investigate the murder of a pious but hypocritical young man, who…
is stabbed to death with a steak knife during a Christmas heat wave. 1974. (Kramer and Zondi novel)The good life
Par John Brady. 1994
Minogue finds himself immersed in Dublin's underworld of drugs and sex after the body of a young woman is pulled…
out of the Grand Canal. He suspects that the Egan brothers, Dublin's own Mafia, are involved, but it's his new partner, whose criminal brother is being wooed by the Egans, who finds the answers. Strong language. c1994.The gold frame: a whodunit
Par Herbert Resnicow. 1984
Alexander and Norma Gold are asked to investigate the authenticity of a Vermeer painting that an art museum wants to…
purchase. When the museum's director is murdered, the Golds have two puzzles to solve. 1984.The Golden Gate
Par Alistair Maclean. 1976
The rulers of two powerful oil-producing countries of the Middle East, and the President of the United States are held…
to ransom half way across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco. Only one man does not think the situation hopeless. 1976.The girl in the cellar (Miss Silver mystery. #32.)
Par Patricia Wentworth. 1996
She comes to consciousness to find herself in the dark, standing on some cellar steps, not knowing who she is…
or how she has got there. But she does know that a dead girl lies at the bottom of the steps. Fortunately Miss Silver is about to enter the scene. 1996.The girl with green eyes
Par Betty Neels. 1990
Lucy wasn't a bright career girl like her two sisters. All she wanted was to find a man she loved…
and settle down with him. But Mr Right seemed to be peculiarly elusive. Until the day she encountered paediatrician William Thurloe. Not that she had the faintest hope of ever attracting his interest with the glamorous Fiona as direct competition! 1990.The girl in Times Square
Par Paullina Simons. 2004
Lily's life in New York is a struggle; to finish college, to pay her rent, even to find love. Yet…
she loves her aimless life until her best friend and roommate disappears. In desperation she turns to a derelict police detective for help. As he uncovers the truth about her life, her friend and her family, she is dragged into the fight of her life. 2004.The girl from Addis
Par Ted Allbeury. 1984
The last time Johnny had been in Ethiopia was in 1942: his MI6 cover had been blown and he had…
been given 48 hours to get out of the country. Now, five years later, he is back, ostensibly an ace photographer but his past is still remembered; by his old employers as well as the Ethiopians. Deadly enemies hatch plots more subtle and lethal than anywhere else in Africa. 1984.The Garden of Eden and other criminal delights
Par Faye Kellerman. 2006
Seventeen short stories include mysteries and family tales. In the previously unpublished title piece, Rina Decker discovers the body of…
her elderly gardening buddy. In "The Stalker", Dana's boyfriend changes after they marry. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2006.The ghosts
Par Antonia Barber. 1969
The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Par Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 1999
Japan, 1735. While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's fourteen-year-old son who longs to…
be a samurai, joins a group of Kabuki actors. Junior High. 1999.The general (CHERUB. #10.)
Par Robert Muchamore. 2008
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.The game
Par Mandasue Heller. 2005
When Mary's mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend Lynne…
is older, more sophisticated. She has a taste for cocaine and isn't above walking the streets for extra cash to pay for it. Mary sticks to a straighter path, until the night Lynne brings Ali and Raiz back to their flat. The women don't know that their sexy new friends are small-time criminals, desperate for alibis for a drug-dealer's murder. All too soon, Mary is in more trouble than she can handle. 2005.The garden club
Par Muriel Resnik Jackson. 1992
Merrie Lee and Warren Spencer, forced by the recession to rent out their New York penthouse and move into an…
inherited house in North Carolina, find it hard to adjust to small-town life. Merrie Lee finds it even harder when she is asked to believe that a prominent citizen died of a sprained ankle. Her curiosity is then excited by a mysterious note that reads "Stop meddling," and by a few more suspicious deaths. Some strong language. 1992.The ghost
Par Robert Harris. 2007
The narrator of this novel is a professional ghostwriter. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he…
jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house. But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. 2007.The forgotten (John Puller series. #2.)
Par David Baldacci. 2012
John Puller is called out on another case--and this time, it's close to home. His Aunt Betsy has been found…
dead in her Florida apartment, drowned in her backyard pool. The local police have ruled the death an accident, but Puller isn't so sure. Sequel to "Zero day", followed by "The escape". 2012.The frame-up
Par Wendy McLeod MacKnight. 2018
Don't let anyone know the paintings are alive. Thirteen-year-old Mona Dunn has followed that rule for almost one hundred years,…
ever since she was painted by William Orpen and her portrait was hung on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. So when the gallery director's son, Sargent Singer, discovers Mona is alive, she's sure she's just exposed the gallery's biggest secret. But Sargent, an aspiring artist himself, just wants to know more about the world beyond the frames. When Mona and Sargent suspect shady dealings in the gallery, they set out to find the culprit. Grades 5-8. 2018.The fine art of murder: a Katherine Sullivan mystery (The Katherine Sullivan series. #1.)
Par Emily Barnes. 2016
Former police chief Katherine Sullivan has been called brilliant, brave, compassionate, and quirky, but after decades of crime fighting, this…
resilient grandmother with an artist's soul is discovering that retirement can be just as deadly as being on the job. Followed by "Death in the abstract". 2016.