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Series
Fate and flame (K. A. Tucker) volume 1
Language
English
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Gifted thief Romeria, plunged into a startling realm of opposing thrones, warring elven, and elemental magic she cannot begin to fathom, is given a quest: Steal a stone from Islor's sacred garden without anyone discovering her true identity, which would earn her certain death. Then King Zander asks for her help in exposing a growing plot against him--and threatens her with a prison cell if she fails. While digging deeper into the sacred garden and...
Author
Series
East of the sun volume 1
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
24) The Dain Curse
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Series
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English
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When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit...
25) Why we die
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Series
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English
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When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again -- but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter and Trent inherit the family business, they're not planning on making a go of it -- there are quicker ways of getting rich, if you're not squeamish about the violence involved. And when Zoe Boehm agrees to track down the the masked men who robbed Harold Sweeney's jewellery shop, she's hoping to...
Author
Series
Nonna Maria series volume 2
Language
English
Description
A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes the heat, but privately, she proclaims her innocence. Then the body of an unidentified woman is found on a curved road near the borough of Barano....
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Series
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English
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Going from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, Poppy Harmon has no real skills. With nothing left to lose she opens the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with her two best friends, Violet and Iris. And she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency. Working for a client desperate to retrieve priceless jewelry burglarized from an aging actress at the Palm Leaf Retirement Village, Poppy...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon, which disappeared during WWII.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them. In...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ... In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim--the Thursday Murder Club--are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor--an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?)--arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 in.
Language
English
Description
"A cache of diamonds is stolen in Phoenix. The prime suspect is former Maricopa County sheriff Mike Peralta, now a private investigator. Disappearing into Arizona's mountainous high country, Peralta leaves his business partner and longtime friend David Mapstone with a stark choice: he can cooperate with the FBI, or strike out on his own to find Peralta and what really happened."--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her best friend is accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace, Simi Chopra, to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward, transforms a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew with the help of a mysterious man.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective...
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English
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From jewelry thief to interloper to queen-in-waiting, Romeria flees Cirilea a traitor to all. But the yawning distance between her and Zander troubles her more than any king's bounty on her head. While Zander may have escaped by her side, he seeks to regain his throne, and no immortal will ever welcome her as Islor's queen. She fears it won't be long before Zander abandons her as everyone else she's ever loved has. Zander sacrificed his crown to save...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"1930. Frances Black is worried - divorce proceedings are under way and her solicitor has learnt of a spiteful letter sent to the court claiming that there is more to her friendship with her sleuthing partner, Tom Dod, than meets the eye. Fran takes Tom's advice to get away, travelling down to Devon to help the Edgertons with their family mystery. After meeting the charismatic Eddie Edgerton and arriving at their residence, Sunnyside House, Fran soon...
Author
Publisher
Library Magna Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
252 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What is Julie Quinn running away from? What memory has haunted her so that she will not talk about the accident that lamed her and took her as an outpatient at Eltonstock Hospital? Adam Hollidge, the surgeon at the hospital manages to win her confidence, but, before Julie can tell him everything, Boyd Marwick re-enters her life and shatters her new-found hopes of peace. Who is he, and how is he connected with Julie?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...
40) Gangland
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items--by whatever means...
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