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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a stranger leaves a box of books at Mary Fisher's shop, each containing a letter written by Mary's mother to a man named Jacob, Mary sets out to discover the truth about this youthful relationship.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During the first meeting of the Winter Warmth Book Chat, the lights in Mary's Mystery Bookshop go out. When they come back on, Mary realizes a book has been stolen from the counter. And not just any book. This was a signed early edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Mary intended to sell the rare and valuable copy and donate the money to help a little girl get a kidney transplant. Now everyone at the Book Chat is a suspect, and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a stranger is murdered on her front lawn, Dr. Shannon Frasier begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who believes she and her sister, Megan, may have information about a crime in which the deceased was involved.
24) Dark justice
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Mary and her sister Betty visit the Ivy Bay lighthouse with their friend Henry, Mary stumbles upon a crude map drawn on the wall. Henry wonders if it might be connected to his ancestor David, who was accused of stealing a large sum of money and a precious family heirloom.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Eve's biological sister goes missing, the nun heads to Las Vegas to track her down before it's too late. Years ago, Eve heard God's call to become a nun, but her recent stint moonlighting at her father's detective agency invigorates her so much that she's wrestling with her vocation. She's working with him on a case involving a miner in New Mexico when alarming news develops: her sister Dorisanne is missing. The authorities won't act without...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
El Littllefield runs The Butler Did It catering. It's the perfect cover for her to solve "who-done-its" (nothing too dangerous, please!) in this small university town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. While catering her most important event yet--a fancy retirement dinner for Dr. Max Haverhill, life-long bachelor and history dean, countless guests fall ill, a 200 year-old relic is stolen, and her best friend vanishes. All in the first hour. As El...
30) Detained
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A dream-trip to America becomes a tortuous nightmare at the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp. When a Navy Petty Officer is arrested and accused of terrorism, Navy JAG Officer Matt Davis is called on to right a wrong.
31) Hiding places
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Kate keeps her knowledge to herself--one sister's stash of marijuana, the others petty cash pilfering, her grandfather's contraband candy bars. She protects her mother and Gran, too, screening out critical comments from the hotel suggestions box. But suddenly the stakes are raised; her grandfather's best friend is murdered the day after Kate heard the two men arguing. At the same time, far from the quiet mountain resort, a homeless...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hunter Galen and Nicki Price join forces to solve Hunter's business partner's death. Encountering sophisticated shell games, black mail, and death threats the only thing they can really on is faith and fearless determination.
33) Motherless
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of their father, parentless Marina and Dylan are led to suspect that successful chocolatier Sarah Rochester is actually the mother who they believed to be dead, but Marina comes to believe that the truth may be more complicated.
34) The photograph
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Language
English
Description
"In a 1980s Amish community, three sisters face a time of transition in their family, and each searches for a way to define her own future"--Provided by publisher.
35) Undercover bride
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail order bride. Her fiance is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she s confronted with an early wedding date the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal s wife! As the day of the wedding draws near, Maggie begins to panic. The problem is that the more she gets to...
36) Calico spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkerton operative Katie Madison' newest case takes her to Calico, Kansas, where two Harvey House restaurant waitresses were murdered in mysterious circumstances. Calico's sheriff, Branch Whitman, has never met a Pink he liked and is stunned to learn the pretty redhead's true identity as she works undercover as a Harvey girl. A tornado hits town, and a past deception puts Branch's eight-year-old-son in danger. Now the Sheriff has no choice but to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if a balm for your greatest pain appeared in a lost corridor on the far side of a remote lake? Would you search for it? Or dismiss it as nonsense? Jake Palmer's annual lake-house vacation with longtime friends was supposed to be relaxing--it was supposed to take his mind off his recent divorce. But when he meets an elderly man early one morning on the lake, his world tips on its side. The old man claims there's a forgotten corridor at the far...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Private Investigator Nate Price and his new wife, Isabelle, need a vacation. Their coworkers generously team up to surprise them with a belated honeymoon...but the happy trip turns sour when Izzy spies her ex-husband, who appears to have taken up his gambling addiction once again.
39) Miracle drug
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The infection wasn't supposed to happen, but it did. The treatment was supposed to take care of it, but it didn't. Then Dr. Josh Pearson discovers why--his patients, including the former President of the United States, have been dosed with a different strain of the original virus, one that is universally fatal.
40) No one to trust
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a deserted area of a beach town, Leah Hampton is helpless against the stranger trying to drag her away at gunpoint. But a handsome man comes to her rescue, risking his life for her. Suddenly, she and Jon Wilson are being hunted by very powerful, dangerous people. Why? Could she have been a target for the human trafficking ring that Jon's mother suspects is taking over the tiny town? Leah and the brave, love-shy man who saved her are now being framed...
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