|
|
|
|
|
|
South of nowhere
by Jeffery Deaver
When a levee collapses in Northern California, Colter Shaw and his disaster response specialist sister, Dorion, race to locate a missing family. But after a surprise attack along the river obstructs Colter's urgent search, the siblings are forced to consider a new reality: Is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes, or is someone sabotaging it? They must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens before the village washes out completely, destroying everything and everyone in its path..
|
|
|
|
Last wool and testament
by Peggy Ehrhart
Pamela Paterson and Bettina Fraser are keeping busy with their knitting group, Knit and Nibble. But it looks like April showers have brought May murders . . .fiber artist Ingrid Barrick has just been found dead in her ransacked house. After weeks of Ingrid's troubled behaviour and obsessively doodling bees, the Knit and Nibblers begin to wonder if this was really a burglary gone bad like the police think. There had been tension with a neighbor who was fuming over the ragweed in Ingrid's garden, a knitwear designer ex, and a suddenly cancelled tapestry exhibit that reveals more nature-themed sketches. Which of these many threads will lead to the truth about Ingrid's unnatural death?
|
|
|
|
Widows and Orphans
by Kate Hilton
Journalist Cat Conway is looking forward to an easy assignment covering a major wellness and self-actualization summit at the Pinerock Resort, featuring the creators of the Welcome, Goddess empire and widows with attitude. Cat's mother, Marian Conway, bestselling author and defiantly mediocre parent, is on the agenda - and so is murder. When one of the influencers turns up dead, suspicion falls on the high-profile guests, including Cat's mother. To top it all off, her livelihood, the Quill & Packet is struggling financially and may be heading to it's final edition. Can Cat rescue her mother and her newspaper, or will the killer stalking Port Ellis beat her to the deadline?
|
|
|
|
Detective aunty : a novel
by Uzma Jalaluddin
After her husband's unexpected death, Kausar Khan never thought she'd receive another phone call as heartbreaking--until her thirty-something daughter, Sana, phones to say that she's been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years, only to find that the thriving neighborhood she remembered has changed. The murder of Sana's landlord is only the latest in a wave of local crimes which have gone unsolved. With the help of some old friends and her plucky teenage granddaughter, Kausar digs into the investigation to uncover the truth. But even she can't predict the secrets, lies, and betrayals she finds along the way.
|
|
| Marble Hall Murders by Anthony HorowitzAfter breaking up with her Greek boyfriend, Susan Ryeland is back in London, editing a novel by the late Alan Conway that's been completed by Eliot Crace. But troubled Crace has laced the plot with references to his well-known grandmother's suspicious death, all which lead to murder. While Eliot's accusations become more plausible, his behaviour grows increasingly erratic. When he is suddenly killed in a hit-and-run accident, Susan finds herself under police scrutiny as a suspect in his death. If Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pund's Last Case, she may well be the next victim. |
|
|
|
The stolen heart
by Andreæi Kurkov
Based on a real-life case from Kyiv's secret police, Samson Kolechko and his colleague have been dispatched to investigate the illegal sale of meat. How selling cuts of one's own livestock qualifies as a crime eludes the young investigator, but an order is an order. Just as Samson is beginning to dig into the case, his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. Despite the rising danger, the detective cannot let himself be distracted from his dogged pursuit of the seemingly mundane matter of the meat sellers, for ultimately his fate, and Nadezhda's too, rests on it
|
|
|
|
No one was supposed to die at this wedding : a novel
by Catherine Mack
Attending your best friend's wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series. Because murder seems to follow her every time she goes on vacation and is definitely her uninvited plus-one to this special occasion. Despite this and the storm heading their way, nothing will stop the impending nuptials . . . that is until bride Emma receives a note that says "Someone is going to die at the wedding." Eleanor is a professional at this point, and she'll do everything she can to uncover the murderer so true love can prevail.
|
|
|
|
Death on the island : a novel
by Eliza Reid
Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner. One of them is about to die. A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner, each with their own reason for being there, their own loyalties and grievances. By the end of the night, one of them will be dead. And it will be up to the ambassador's wife, Jane, to figure out how-and why. What Jane soon comes to realize is that small communities can be the most dangerous of them all. With secrets around every corner and violent weather trapping the finite list of suspects together on the island, this locked-room mystery brings Agatha Christie and Nordic noir together in a brand-new twist.
|
|
|
|
The Tenant
by Freida Mcfadden
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets... Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.
|
|
|
|
The retirement plan : a novel
by Sue Hincenbergs
After thirty years of friendship, four friends' dreams of beachfront condos and a sunny, carefree retirement is shattered when their husbands' investment goes awry. Then one of the husbands dies in a freak accident and the other three women are shocked to see their friend rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida. In the aftermath, the three discover that their husbands have identical, seven-figure life insurance policies. A new dream begins to take form, and this time it involves a hitman. What follows is a high-stakes tale of cat and mouse that is both laugh-out-loud funny and unbearably tense and, ultimately, a big-hearted look at friendship, marriage, and middle age.
|
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|