Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7095&N=3+6643+4294966740 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686170 Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart knows how to treat her customers. But sometimes life can get a bit sticky. When a spat she has with a local blacksmith - one that could have been solved with a handshake and a mixed dozen - ends with his murder, Suzanne is caught dead in her tracks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711716 Lila Wilkins has it all: the home of her dreams in the charming town of Inspiration Valley, North Carolina; a perfect police officer boyfriend; and a new job she absolutely loves. At the Book and Author Festival, which is sponsored by the Novel idea Literary Agency, Lila expects to discover some talented new authors, but what she finds instead is the body of an editor to whom she bears an eerie resemblance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732116 Psychotherapist Frieda Klein takes on a case involving the murder of conman Robert Poole who was found in the flat of a mentally disturbed woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713394 In Deadly Stakes, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead womans ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. Hes the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes to retrieve a mysterious buried box hidden by his absent father-- a box that turns out to be filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in poker chips. When the body of an ex-con is discovered near the first crime scene, Ali struggles to determine if A.J. and Lynns cases are related. Though her friends in the police department grow increasingly irritated by her involvement with the cases, Ali must stop a deadly killer from claiming another victim-- before she herself is lost in this game of deadly stakes -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704213 After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686194 Tempted by the offer of a free Caribbean cruise, Jordan accepts a spot as a judge in a week-long big-time cooking competition aboard the Carnation Queen. She just better hope no one finds out that her famous palate is far from refined. But there are bigger fish to fry when arrogant chef Stefano Mancini falls face first into his signature halibut dish during the first event. While evidence suggests that the handsome Italian chefs death was an accident, Jordan thinks otherwise. But shell have to keep her wits about her--and the sea sickness pills handy--if shes going to solve this one...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698364 When a tragic fire strikes Victoria Square, destroying Wood U - a small store selling wooden gifts and small furniture, Katie Bonner, the manager of Artisans Alley, discovers that the fire was set to cover up a murder and is determined to smoke out a killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740138 Detective Lindsay Boxer just gave birth to her daughter a week ago, but already she is being forced to return to work. Not only is a rising star football player the prime murder suspect, but an English professor has been having dreams about a murder that he is convinced are real. At first Lindsay doesnt believe the professor, but then a shooting occurs and it fits the professors description to the last detail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687797 A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infants body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctors vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case - and draw out the disturbing truth. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation - all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege. Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface - a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743860 When animal psychic Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain an African gray parrot after its owners death, she discovers that the parrot witnessed its owners murder, and Pru begins to investigate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722574 Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly games they play. With no checks on their ambition, the wealthy will go to any ends to increase their power, and only Stone stands in the way of their dark schemes. Two unexpected invitations may be the first clues in the intricate puzzle Stone must unravel to learn the truth, a puzzle that will lead him deep into the rarefied world of European ultrawealth and privilege, where billionaires rub elbows with spooks, insider knowledge is traded at a high premium, and murder is never too high a price to pay for a desired end. It soon becomes clear that beneath the bright lights of Europe lurks a shadowy underworld, and its only rule is deadly ambition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729626 Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body thats linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705446 Rendered a public hero when he is forced to kill a chief suspect in the murder of a high-profile judge, New Jersey police officer Luke Somers is targeted by the suspects vengeful older brother, who kidnaps Lukes brother and insists that his own brother was innocent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735983 When a photo shoot at Fairy Tale Cupcakes ends in the murder of the magazines creative director, Melanie and Angie try to catch a killer before anyone else is killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742893 San Francisco, 1882. After enjoying an evening listening to the young Oscar Wilde, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are making their way home when a gunshot sounds and a bullet pierces the fog, striking Samuel. Who could want to hurt Samuel? Was he even the intended target? Determined to find answers, Sarah discovers more murder and mayhem on Telegraph Hill. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734578 Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried--and hes sworn to uncover it. His plans take an unexpected turn when, in the midst of a blizzard, he rescues Meg Walker from her wrecked car. Suddenly Linc discovers another reason to clear his name. Meg, his high school sweetheart, had always believed in his innocence, and if he wants a future with her, he has to show the world proof that she was right. As the community chooses sides, those who once let a teenage boy take the fall for their crime are forced to raise the stakes. They kidnap Meg, leaving her to the mercy of the mountain. And a second rescue may be more than even Linc can manage....[back cover]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735129 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698366 While feeding the actors in her grandmothers production of Hamlet, Charlotte Bessette, the owner of The Cheese Shop, finds her world melting when a container of her signature ice cream is used as a murder weapon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735228 Kate Reilly cant remember a worse time in her life, on-track or off. She wrecks her racecar at Road America in Wisconsin, sending a visiting NASCAR star to the hospital, and loses her cool on-camera, only to end the day by discovering her boyfriend with a friend of hers. a dead friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715484 Soloing the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the clients murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700258 When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishops Lacey, its shocking contents lead to another case for Flavia de Luce, where greed, pride and murder result in old secrets coming to light, along with a forgotten flower that hasnt been seen for half a thousand years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715469 Tea shop owner and bridesmaid Theodosia Browning investigates when the groom is literally late on the couples big day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734595 London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679067 LAPD cop Max Kent is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Allie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged. Shunned and shunted to the side, Max and his new partner Maggie set out to investigate the one case that no one wants them to touch. Whether they will make it out again, no one can say. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696717 Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousins wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698878 Meet Darryl Graham, or as his new neighbors in Jamaica, Queens call him, The Man in 3B. He is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be, so inquiring minds want to know. Unfortunately, in Darryls world, what you know can hurt you, and when he winds up dead, those inquiring minds become the prime suspects--Provided by the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703857 When the body of a gunshot victim rolls into the Santa Fe morgue, it should be a day like any other for medical investigator Lillian Cruz. Yet upon examination, the corpse appears to be over a hundred years old with smallpox scars, and an odd wound protrudes from the victims leg. Lodged in the femur is a bullet shaped like a musket ball, which looks like it was fired during the Civil War and had remained in the victims leg ever since. Rattled by the discovery, Cruz instructs her assistant to take specimens to the state authorities immediately. Minutes later, Cruz is kidnapped. The Defense Intelligence Agency calls in former war correspondent Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, to discreetly investigate the disappearance. And very quickly, a relatively simple case turns into something much more sinister. With each new lead they uncover, Warner and Lopez are inadvertently bringing a warped and dangerous individual closer to achieving a catastrophic goal: immortality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735231 Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the worlds biggest stars, including Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, and Ann-Margret, who performed regularly at the Fontainebleaus La Ronde Room. He sat by while his parents entertained presidents and movie stars, as they reigned over Miami Beach in the 50s and 60s, and when the family business went sour he became wealthy in his own right, founding a multi-million dollar business using connections he made at the Fontainebleau. But Ben, Jr.s luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel room--a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up--when police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death. Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation--when his wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for twenty-four hours and robbed him. Claiming it was a sex game, he never pressed charges and never followed through with a divorce. Now prosecutors claimed Narcy let the vicious killers into the room and watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells. They also suspected she was involved in the horrendous death of Novacks mother, just three months before. But it would be Narcys own daughter who implicated her to the police--in this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734553 A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Caffertys antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter and secret ceremonies on abandoned plantations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695716 Watching from beyond the grave while her long-lost identical twin, Emma, assumes her identity, Sutton Mercer witnesses the discovery of a dark family secret and realizes that someone from Emmas past may be her own killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713757 Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Hollys age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case. It was discovered after her death that the victim had been working as a high-class prostitute, and the police are content to assume she was killed by a client, common in such a dangerous line of work. Yet as Till digs deeper, he realizes that the victim is just one of several young female escorts killed in different cities in the exact same way--all had strawberry blonde hair, and all were shot with a 9mm handgun in the sanctity of their apartments. Till must find his way around the tawdry and secretive online escort business, and decode ads placed by young women who all use false names, sometimes advertise using other womens pictures, and move from city to city every few months. Yet when Till is finally able to catch up with the killer, he finds that the man hes after is far more dangerous and volatile than he ever could have imagined. As the body count rises, Till must risk his life to find this seductive and ruthless killer whose murderous spree masks a far deadlier agenda. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694698 Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he is called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C. is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all out frenzy. Alexs investigations are going nowhere, and he is too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him and will stop at nothing until he is dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713337 When one of her famous Red Velvet cupcakes is thought to have caused the death of her rival--a scandalous Lake Eden legend who was trying to steal her boyfriend--Hannah Swensen becomes the unlikely suspect in a murder investigation and must whip up the real killer before someone else gets iced. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714166 While trying to help a restless spirit find peace by solving a long-forgotten murder, Piper Tucker and her childhood crush, Brady, discover that their passion is even more dangerous than their investigation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739234 Amelie Ainsworth longs to graduate from high school and live a normal life, but as an abused child she became one of the Furies, driven to mete out justice on the Guilty, and lives on the run from the murders they commit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739622 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.%% http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715973 The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastians former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder. Central to the case is a magnificent blue diamond, the Hope diamond, believed to have once formed part of the French crown jewels. Set in Regency London: September, 1812. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739434 Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his soon-to-be-ex-wifes murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722573 While on the trail of a stolen relic, P.I. Dana Cutler is called back to Virginia where she must stop Charles Benedict, a criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist and professional hit man, from framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722576 In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a familys past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate, tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer, doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone is not who he claims to be? Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself. Step by step, the author once again presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters, one of whom may just be a ruthless killer http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735952 When she is hired by the Master of Natchez, Mississippi to stop rogue vampires from terrorizing his city, skinwalker Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that there is something different about these vamps as her simple job turns into a fight to stay alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698405 Washington, D.C., fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian has always believed clothes can be magical, but shes never thought they can be cursed. Until now. Laceys best friend, Stella, is finally getting married, and at her bachelorette party, fellow bridesmaid--and fortune-teller--Marie Largesse arrives with a stunning Russian shawl. A shawl, Marie warns, that can either bless or curse the wearer. When a party crasher who mocks the shawl is found dead the next day, the other guests fear the curse has been unleashed. But Lacey has her doubts, and she must employ all her Extra-Fashionary Perception to capture a villain who has vowed that nobody at this wedding will live happily ever after.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713733 Devs five-and-dime may be doing well, but her love life is in turmoil. Shes torn between Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio, who is on an undercover assignment, and her ex-beau Noah Underwood, the local doctor from a high-society family. So she welcomes the distraction when Elise Whitmore offers her a great deal on antique chocolate molds that would be perfect for her Easter gift baskets. But do the molds actually belong to Elises soon-to-be ex-husband? In buying them, has Dev committed a felony? When Elise is found shot to death, the mystery deepens-and Devs good friend Boone, who discovered the body, is taken into custody. With the help of her best buds, Dev must clear Boones name and find the real killer. Good thing that when it comes to amateur sleuths, they broke the mold with Dev Sinclair.--Page [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735010 Traveling with fellow journalists on an all-expenses-paid trip to Acapulco, Lily Moore worries about a colleague who goes missing after revealing an intention to expose a companys fraudulent activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685238 Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735949 When Jessica Fletcher runs into Dr. Seth Hazlitt in Tampa, the pair attend a party at the home of researcher Alvaro Vasquez, who is developing a cure for Alzheimers disease, but end up investigating his murder after Vasquez is seemingly struck by lightning. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715655 A young woman is discovered hanged in a room in a decrepit hotel, and Gothenburgs Chief Inspector Erik Winter must try to figure out what happened. As Winter looks around, he realizes that he was in the same hotel room many years earlier, when it was the last known location of a woman who subsequently disappeared and was never found. The two women seem to have nothing in common except for this hotel room, but Winter suspects that there may be other connections. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731951 Candice (and her sisters) have moved in with Patrick and everything is more than she could have ever dreamed. Then suddenly she (they) are in knee-deep in new case that brings the escaped Threefer Killers back onto the scene. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687336 Zookeeper Teddy Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay-area Renaissance Faire. When she discovers the body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel, dressed in his royal robes as Henry the Eighth, it appears as if Aljandro stomped the man to death, but a closer look reveals a crossbow dart in the mans back. And the reverend is really an escaped convict, and every marriage hes performed in the past twenty years is null and void! When Teddys mother Caro becomes the chief suspect, Teddy puts her crime solving skills to work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715980 Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733247 For more than 300 years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, but to Eli Landon, its home. Eli has had an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. Local resident Abra is a woman of many talents, including helping Eli take control of his life and clear his name. As they become entangled in each other, they find themselves caught in a net that has ensnared a man intent on reaping the rewards of destroying Eli Landon once and for all -- from vendor record. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694680 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture hes administered himself for years. Jakobs daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing monk, and an Italian playboy, they discover that behind the false accusation is a plan that will endanger the entire German Empire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739470 Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli find their lives in danger after they become targets of a vicious stalker. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713752 When a wedding guest becomes seriously ill after eating one of her desserts, Ella Mae, whose baked goods are literally magical, must whip up some clues to prove that her pies didnt contain the killer ingredient. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713751 From back cover -- Disaster strikes a mere week before the Hemlock Falls Ladies Auxiliary hosts the annual Spring Fete when the festivals chairwoman--the redoubtable Adela Henry--gives up her job in a huff. Who will stop the members of the Craft Guild from sabotaging their rivals, the Crafty Ladies? More to the point, whos got the tact, diplomacy, and iron will necessary to organize the booths and settle quarrels over the programming? Hemlocks mayor hopes to assure the fetes success when he recruits professional organizer Linda Connally and her staff to take over Adelas duties. But when Connallys body turns up in the trunk of a used car at Petersons Automotive, Meg and Sarah Quilliam, owners of the Inn at Hemlock Falls, are back in the detecting business... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685968 New student Jade uncovers a murder mystery when she moves into a house haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jades high school. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582408 As chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, Josie has plenty to worry about. Between greeting collectors, overseeing the dinner cruise, and attending to the many needs of the guest of honor, Thad Wyant, she barely has time to deal with her gorgeous ex-husband...let alone a dead body. But when Thad is found dead in a hotel linen closet, Detective Nevin Riley needs Josie to help him solve the case. Mr. Wyants historic Geronimo button has gone missing, and considering how many enemies hes made in the small and peculiar world of button collectors, Josie will have to act fast-before she becomes history herself...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518840 Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire, to raise his teenage daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy SEAL Tom Hawkins becomes the target of vicious rumors and implicated in a series of disturbing crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486899 In 1937, Captain Korolev of Moscows Criminal Investigation Division looks into the suicide of a young loyal party member who was intimately involved with a party director, a case that is unexpectedly linked to a treasonous plot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649871 Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself unwittingly involved in a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556222 Having fled her Amish community to pursue her dreams of a singing career, Hannah Esh returns with four friends to the Amish graveyard near her family home for a Halloween party. But when shots are fired and one of her friends is killed, Hannah is pulled back into the world of her past. Caught between her former betrothed Seth Lantz and FBI agent Linc Armstrong, between old and new, between Amish and worldly, Hannah must choose her future. Unless a killer, bent on secrecy, chooses it for her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629299 When wedding planner to the stars Madeline Aberson becomes embroiled in a nasty divorce, her life falls apart and rumors swirl that her parties are total duds. Desperate for work, she finds herself planning far less glamorous affairs - like Savannah Reids wedding to Dirk Coulter. It doesnt take long for Madeline to get on Savannahs last nerve, and on the big day she cant wait to send Madeline packing. But when the bride finds Madelines body face down in the pool, its clear that someone has already hastened the divas departure -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1661970 Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and her partner Tommy Gunderson continue to investigate the ritual murder of Julie Leonard, last seen alive at a party attended by students from St. Adrians Academy, an exclusive boys school in New Yorks Westchester County. Another death--of an Alzheimers patient and pious historian, Abbie Gardener, somehow crushed by sucking asphyxiation one night in her room at the school--complicates their inquiry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680102 When she stumbles upon the dead body of a hardworking bakers assistant during the Great New York Cookie Swap, coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi and her boyfriend, NYPD detective Mike Quinn, spend their holiday poring over the clues to catch a killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554858 Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange mans seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems--and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. But Abigails reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something--and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627815 Summoned to a rustic cabin during a blizzard, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch embarks on a dangerous investigation involving a notorious drug dealer, a beautiful woman with a dark past, and her troubled young son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1528022 ...[Brooklyn Wainwright] decides to find out who sold [a rare first edition of Beauty and the beast] so she can return it to its rightful owner...She believes a rare book dealer can assist her, but when she arrives at his shop, she finds him murdered...With the help of her handsome boyfriend, Derek Stone, Brooklyn must unravel the murder plot--before she ends up in a plot herself...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615972 My friends and I used to play lying games. Now my twin sister is living one. When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, were both learning just how flawed my family really is. Laurel is shooting Emma nasty looks and sneaking around with my ex-boyfriend. And it turns out my parents are keeping a huge secret-could it be the reason Im dead? How far would they go to keep the truth buried? No one can harm me now, but Emma is still fair game. And if shes not careful, shell end up buried, too...--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671721 When the towns most-hated banker is beheaded by a wire staked in the snow behind the Cackleberry Club cafe, Suzanne, with most of her customers on the prime suspect list, must serve up the real killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533632 Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughters lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jills life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jills ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things dont add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill cant turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own. Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits to love of family? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667720 When a peaceful monastery in Qubec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Surete du Qubec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656637 While serving as an assistant to the hostess of a large Christmas house party in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Georgie gets the attention of her retired detective grandfather after dead bodies begin showing up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1628401 Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eighteen-year-old Beccas determination to leave home as soon as possible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527005 Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller rush to uncover a terrorist cells plot to destroy a packed professional football stadium in one of the biggest attacks on American soil. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615524 A high-end prostitute is found brutally murdered on the London docks, and Monks quest to discover the truth behind her death leads him down a shocking path, littered with secrets that have been buried since the infamous Opium Wars. Monk must unravel the victims link to the widow of a dead doctor, and the doctors vanished report on the misuse of opium, before the killer strikes again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518241 Now that troubled Thayer Vega is back in town, Emma Paxton must struggle to figure out the relationship her twin has with him...and whether he may have been the one to kill her-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670897 Entreated for help by a childhood nemesis who has been wrongly accused of murder, Lady Emily launches an investigation in Venice that takes her from elegant palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos before she links the crime to a centuries-old puzzle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478908 A 28-year-old police dispatcher seeks out Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren Grant at a crime scene and asks the homicide detective to investigate her expected murder. Meanwhile, Warren is looking into the execution-style slayings of two pedophiles with the assistance of a female rookie sex crime detective. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518184 When PI Lena Jones partner, Pima Indian Jimmy Sisiwan, is arrested in the remote town of Walapai Flats in northern Arizona, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid. What she finds is a town up in arms over a new uranium mine located only ten miles from the magnificent Grand Canyon. Jimmys sister-in-law, founder of Victims of Uranium Mining, has been murdered, but the opposing side has taken hits, too. Ike Donohue, the mines public relations man, is found shot to death, which casts suspicion on Jimmy and his entire family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481932 Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell--the heroes of New York Times bestseller Stabenows most beloved series--team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kates help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511403 On an all-expenses-paid trip to a Hollywood Hills luxury spa to create a unique wedding cake, Piper Donovan discovers the gruesome murder of another guest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545192 Unraveling the madness behind L.A.s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadnt a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills, even Alex is stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion. yet with no apparent connection among the victims. And the only clue left behind--a blank page bearing a question mark--seems to be both a menacing taunt and a cry for help from a killer baffled by his own lethal urges. Under pressure to end the bloody spree and prevent a citywide panic, Milo redoubles his efforts to discover a link between the disparate victims. Meanwhile, Alex navigates the secretive world of mental health treatment, from the sleek office of a Beverly Hills therapist to a shuttered mental institution where he once honed his craft--and where an unholy alliance between the mad and the monstrous may have been sealed in blood. As each jagged piece of the puzzle fits into place, an ever more horrific portrait emerges of a sinister mind at its most unimaginable--and an evil soul at its most unspeakable. This one was different, Alex observes at the start of the case. This one will haunt his waking life, and his darkest dreams, long after its end. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682586 Faced with the death of his father and a growing international scandal, Em Governton must uncover the secrets behind the Knights of Themis before its too late-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622273 Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that dont add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat to both sides at once. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1520499 First in a new series. After losing her job as a journalist at the age of 45, Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in North Carolina. When a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agencys waiting room--and Lila discovers a series of threatening letters--shes determined to find out who wrote him off. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548557 After a friends niece is found dead on the beach in Bermuda, Jessica Fletcher and Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland delve into a series of murders that have an eerie resemblance to the late nineteenth-century Jack the Ripper killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569092 Deputy district attorney Rachel Knight takes the case of a murdered homeless man, over the objections of potentially backstabbing rivals. With the help of Detective Bailey Keller, she finds a missing piece of the puzzle, and realizes that the case is connected to the vicious murder of a LAPD cop a year earlier. The primary suspect in that case had been acquitted, but now Rachel and Bailey are hot on the trail of new leads. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614973 As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victims name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little, only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but, described as quiet and kempt, she doesnt appear to be a fallen woman. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monks investigation? While the public cries out for blood, Monk, his spirited wife, Hester, and their brilliant barrister friend, Oliver Rathbone, search for answers. From dank waterfront alleys to Londons fabulously wealthy West End, the three trail an ice-blooded murderer toward the unbelievable, possibly unprovable truth, and ultimately engage their adversaries in an electric courtroom duel. But unless they can work a miracle, a monumental evil will go unpunished and an innocent person will hang. This is a novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to make the hardest decision of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647882 When a murder occurs in Landon Mansion, docent and historian Allison Leigh works with Agent Tyler Montague to discover if the ghost of British Lord Butcher Bedford has resurfaced or if there is another malevolent force at work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735020 Maria Kallio has just been assigned her first murder investigation. To prove to herself and her squad that she has what it takes to be a detective, shell have to solve the death of Tommi Peltonen. Found floating facedown at the waters edge of his Helsinki villa, Tommi had invited his choir group to spend a weekend at his retreat. But beneath the choirs seemingly tight-knit bonds seethed bitter passion and jealousy. As Maria sets out to determine the difference between friends and foes, she uncovers the victims unsavory past - and motives for all seven suspects. Now its up to her to untangle a complex set of clues before the killer strikes again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554714 Tori Sinclair has found a sense of home with the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle. During their get-togethers, she can relax with her sewing and listen in on Sweet Briars latest gossip. Bet when the town is chosen to be the setting of Warren Shoemakers movie, the sewing circle gets cought up in bigger drama. With dreams of stardom, everyone is hoping to be cast as an extra - which lucky Tori is. But fame has its price, as they learn when Anita Belise, the films leading actress, is found murdered--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565695 Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a caf and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582244 Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winstons neighbor, Natasha, cultivates a plan to shine on television-using Sophies backyard. As the cast and crew of the makeover show Tear It Up With Troy bulldoze through her backyard-and vacation-Sophie retreats to her perennial boyfriend Wolfs to replace a dead rose bush. But her tender deed goes awry when she digs up a purse belonging to Wolfs missing wife. As speculations sprout, Wolf bolts, and then a body crops up in a garden. Is Wolfs thorny past raising a dead head? This is one case the domestic diva cant let wither on the vine...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1525763 In the U.N. building in New York City, a U.S. Ambassador contracts an unknown virus after opening a threatening letter. In a slum near Paris, a rogue geneticist is found dead, tortured and defiled. His last message, a desperate plea for help, was sent to an old friend and fellow outcast, the ex-CIA agent and former mercenary named Hawker. His final legacy appears to be the fingerprints he left all over the letter to the Ambassador. Consumed by thoughts of revenge but fighting to see the truth, Hawker teams up with NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw on a quest to find the killers and track down the secrets his dead friend may have lost or sold. From the streets of Paris to an underground auction in the catacombs of Beirut to the merciless deserts of Iran, Hawker and Danielle find themselves hunting a murderous cult leader whose scientific arsenal could lead humanity to a new Eden-or unleash hell on the Earth itself-- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1654472 Top notch real estate agent and amateur private investigator Nikki Harper begins to investigate the death of Eddie Bernard, the priveleged son of a big television producer and who was found in a dumpster behind Victoria Bordeauxs mansion, when her friend Jorge Delgado, the son of Victorias housekeeper, becomes the prime suspect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1599439 In an underground club, a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of the Dungeon, its her job to fulfill them. But shes playing a far more dangerous game-one of blackmail, politics, and murder that reaches into the shadow world of the GhostWalkers, and the creation of a spectacular, one-of-a-kind new weapon of defense. But when a dictator makes his own catastrophic moves, the GhostWalkers have no choice but to bring in two major players-a man and woman both driven by passion and revenge. Both expendable. Both with nothing left to lose.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554863 Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his fathers death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715261 Visiting his uncles estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556220 When attorney Izzy McNeils home is broken into, right after her boyfriend, Theo, moves in, she ignores the coincidence. When Theo is arrested on charges of fraud, she wants to believe hes innocent. But when a neighbor is found dead, she cant ignore that something is very, very wrong. Izzy also cant forget how Theo was inexplicably turned down for a mortgage. Or his recent moody silences. Or how a stranger warned her that Theo needs to accept responsibility. Thrust into Theos case, Izzy must walk the line between attorney and lover to prove that Theo is innocent. But only Izzy can decide whether trusting Theo will keep her safe or throw her into unimaginable danger.