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Mystery with recipes volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Sisters and caterers Bernadette and Libby Simmons are set to appear on the Hortense Calabash Cooking show. They will compete with other chefs in putting together a holiday meal. The program gets off to a bad start, however, when Hortense is killed by an exploding oven. It soon becomes clear that the death was far from accidental.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
1705) A lie for a lie
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Pub. Date
2009.
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After the former wife of a local celebrity is charged with his murder, minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox seeks divine inspiration to help clear the woman's name.
1707) Until thy wrath be past
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Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation...
1708) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Pub. Date
2009
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Description
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. --From publisher description.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Focusing on the years of the Reconstruction, this volume examines the actions of the Ku Klux Klan between the years of 1865 and 1899. It explores how the organization sponsored and promoted violence against former slaves, and how that violence eventually led to the formation of armed defensive units, which in some instances engaged in retaliatory action"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Jessica Fletcher is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police investigations. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, a behemoth of a man who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends and culture with Jessica. Sadly, all the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff. Mala Kapule was a botanist and popular professor at the school, known...
1712) I shall not want
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Psalm 23 mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Charity work can be murder! It's Thanksgiving and Joseph Tyler, a member of Cindy's church, has organized a new charity that provides homeless people with rescue dogs to love and care for. But one by one, the homeless recipients are being murdered and their dogs stolen. Could an overly competitive millionaire with his prize-winning pooches and a grudge be behind the crimes? Cindy and Jeremiah must rush to find a killer before he strikes again.
1714) Together we rot
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Wil Greene’s mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed—they claim she skipped town and you can’t find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn’t just leave…and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday—in dread. It marks leaving school and joining his pastor...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"It's mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society ball"--Page...
1716) Old bones
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Sarah Alt novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah 'Salt' Alt confronts the fleeing vehicle of the suspects, but they get away ... While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs...
1718) Murder in mind
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Ellie is drawn into the family circle when two children of her daughter's fiance die.
1719) Missing person
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone. But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search...
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
In 'Captive', Allan Hall reconstructs one of the most shocking cases of abuse in modern times. He reveals the dark obsessions that drove the Cleveland Abductor, Ariel Castro, to kidnap and enslave three young women. Using interviews with witnesses, psychologists, family, friends and the police, he shows how these girls remained undetected for ten years in a home just three miles from the block where they all went missing, and the extraordinary moment...