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Author
Series
Saffron Everleigh volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars forever. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber, Kate Khavari's debut historical mystery is a fast paced, fearless adventure. London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh attends a dinner party for the University College of London. While she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition...
Author
Series
Mallory Dawson volume 1
Publisher
Canelo US
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mona is a carefree artist staying at the island's upscale hotel to work on her illustrations. Beth is the harried mother of a toddler, on the island for a weekend escape with her family. Charlotte wanted a romantic getaway with her husband, not a trip with his troubled teenage stepdaughter. One of them is a serial killer who poisoned four of the girl's friends at her eleventh birthday party. Three guests who fit the profile. Cut off from the mainland...
Author
Series
Crystals and CuriosiTEAS volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the descendant of an Irish witch and the owner of a New Age tea shop, intuitive gemologist Shay Myers has been living her most authentic life since moving home to California's scenic Monterey Peninsula. But in the latest Crystals & CuriousiTEAS Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Lauren Elliott, not even her heightened senses can predict how to run a business-or catch a killer.... Self-taught "seer" Shay has much to learn as autumn hits...
Author
Series
Wilma Tenderfoot volume 2
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
314, 20 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As apprentice detective to Theodore Goodman, Wilma, a ten-year-old orphan of Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, helps investigate who is poisoning actors at the Valiant Vaudeville Theater but when Theodore disappears, she must take action on her own.
6) Pink slime
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult...
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Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
8) Marauder
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 15
Language
English
Description
"Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. While interrupting an attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Cabrillo and his team discover something even more dangerous: a ruthless billionaire's dying wish has allowed a paralyzing chemical to end up in the hands of a terrorist group. When an Oregon crew member falls victim to the poison, Juan Cabrillo will stop at nothing to find an antidote...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the tiny northern town of St. Polonius, everyone over the age of twelve falls asleep after the traditional tasting of the Sacred Bear Liver at the Founders' Day Festival, leaving the children in charge, including Jean who tries to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 8
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few months of normal life is more than he can handle. He needs...
Author
Series
Flavia Albia volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands -- in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of...
14) Poison's cage
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marinda and Iyla must work together to save themselves and the ones they love from the wrath of the Snake King"--
15) Poison
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Katy receives a "gift" of poison that turns her into a killer, while powerful witches stir up trouble, not only at Ainsworth School, but in a world known as Avalon, as well.
Author
Series
Sin Eater's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Using magic to control the golems he has raised, the legendary Sleeping Prince has woken, killed King Merek, and taken Lormere, and many of its people are refugees, including Errin and her sick mother--but there are those who oppose the Prince, and Errin, a skilled apothecary, may hold the key to ending his power.
Author
Series
Legendtopia volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Amid the festivities of the Luminary Ball, twelve-year-old Kara and Prince Fred search for her father and for the antidote that will save his parents from the Shadow Queen's poison.
18) Assassin: #1
Author
Series
Lady Grace mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed. Annotation. When Margaret Cavendish, one of Elizabeth I's Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a prot*g*e to the monarch, who takes Grace under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl who romps through the gardens with the laundry...