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541) A curious beginning
Author
Series
Veronica Speedwell novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she's spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan's long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates....
543) The family way
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...
545) Aura of night
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 37
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
True evil never dies. It only waits in the dark. All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail--a reminder that the nightmare isn't over just yet. FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running...
546) Gone baby gone
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, 2007.
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
547) Code 6: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed woman is approaching obsession. And when Walter discovers that he's not alone in his search,...
549) 6 days
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A group of dissident Iranian gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the Iranian Embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages.
550) Sleepless
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
551) Face of a killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
FBI forensic artist Fitzpatrick questions the guilt of a man about to be executed for her father's murder twenty years earlier.
553) Nick of time
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Bell's NICK OF TIME is an epic adventure story starring young Nick McIver, who uses a time machine to rescue two young children taken prisoner by pirates. Along the way, with courageous feats of derring-do, not to mention his resourcefulness, our young hero-"the most reliable boy in England"-changes the course of events in two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II.
554) Facing the enemy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the past five years, FBI Special Agent Risa Jacobs has worked in the violent crimes against children division of the Houston FBI. She's never had reason to believe there's a target on her back. . . until now. When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death. On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his wife is kidnapped while they are in Boston, Smoke Jensen, the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier, travels back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where he faces a showdown with the culprits, a gang of hired guns.
556) Good half gone
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cry no more: Milla Edge, head of an organization called Finders, passionately devotes her time to tracking down kidnapped babies, including her son Justin, who was stolen from her arms in Mexico ten years ago.
Kiss me while I sleep: It's a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be...
Author
Series
Smurfs graphic novel volume 26
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Smurfs have been unhappy lately with their meals as prepared by Chef Smurf. When Chef Smurf suggests to Papa Smurf to investigate what's causing Farmer Smurf's crops to be wilted and stunted, Papa Smurf whips up a potion that works a bit too well, not even he can predict that his Smurfs will smurf into Veggie-Smurfs!"--Page [4] of cover.
559) NYPD Red 6
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When reality star Erin Easton disappears from her wedding reception leaving behind a blood-spattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle in her dressing room, Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already on-scene as a plus-one, loops in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan to activate Level One mobilization for this public relations nightmare, but after Erin's "proof of life" video makes it to air, every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Kingdom of Fantasy volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"I, Geronimo Stilton, had been called to the Kingdom of Fantasy so many times. Each visit was more of an adventure than the last! This time, there was big trouble! Queen Imaginaria had been kidnapped. The evil witch was using Imaginaria's wand to steal treasures from the kingdom. Could I help stop the evil witch before all the treasures were gone?"--
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