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Author
Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
2) The cabin
Author
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie and six of her friends head out to a secluded cabin for fun, but two of them are murdered and since they are all suspects, Mackenzie launches her own investigation, revealing secrets and sins among the original seven friends.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 860L
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
Author
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man-- but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons,...
Author
Series
William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 14
William Monk novel volume 14
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 14
William Monk Mystery
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Only dire need persuades William Monk to accept an assignment from shipping magnate Clement Louvain to investigate the theft of a cargo of African ivory.
9) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
Author
Series
Madman's daughter trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness.
11) Blind fury
Author
Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helping to investigate a series of killings, Detective Inspector Anna Travis accepts an offer of assistance from Cameron Welsh, a convicted murderer she helped arrest in the past, but Welsh's obsession with Anna brings terrible consequences.
12) Scaredy cat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne tracks two serial killers who seem to be working hand-in-hand, trying to catch them before those closest to him get caught in the crossfire of the investigation.
13) The craftsman
Author
Series
Craftsman volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before more...
14) Play dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dead don't tell secrets unless you listen. The girl's smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A 'body farm' investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when Detective Kim Stone and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it seems a killer...
15) Dear killer
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three years before Jack the Ripper began his murderous spree on the streets of London, women were dying in their beds as The Midnight Assassin terrorized the citizens of Austin, Texas. Now, with suspicion falling on Her Majesty's family and Scotland Yard at a loss as to who the Ripper might be, Queen Victoria summons her great-granddaughter, Alice Anne von Wettin, a former Pinkerton agent who worked the unsolved Austin case, and orders her to discreetly...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, proẗеeg̈еe of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Some stories include: When a young man is found brutally murdered, Banks' instinct drags his team into a world of organized crime. The apparent suicide of a young girl drags Banks deeper into the dark world of 'untouchable' criminal Steve Richards. When a devoted husband and father goes missing, a ransom demand takes Banks and his team on a journey into the Chinese community.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The decks of the Campania run red with blood when the corpses brought back to a semblance of life by the Aurora Society's 'absolute salvation' turn on the ship's passengers in a ghoulish farce. With their investigation waylaid by this primitive struggle for survival, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his exceptional butler, Sebastian, are trapped at the mercy of both the unnatural and Mother Nature herself. For even as dead feet shuffle along the opulent...
20) Rellik
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An original six-part thriller, about an obsessive and disfigured UK police detective, the drama is told in reverse.
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