Detective and mystery stories
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Cabin 12, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_elsea_katherine.pdf
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"Chris and his best friends, single-man Westley and settled-father Shawn, prepare of [sic] a weekend away from the daily humdrum of suburb life in celebration of Chris's upcoming nuptials. His future brother-in-law Asher makes a last-minute addition, and brings with him a disdain for the outdoors and for the three friends. Once they are alone in the woods, however, they begin to realize that someone means them harm, and they much [sic] decide who amongst them can be trusted. Screams in the...
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2024
Drown, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_gaffney_tom.pdf
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"One year after Eddie King vanished in the cursed reservoir at Upper Merion State, Romana Jackson and her friends attend a bonfire at the same park. When one of Romana's close friends also goes missing in the reservoir, she befriends the only witness to Eddie's disappearance, Norie Atwood. Together they work with Detective Hopkinson of Upper Merion Missing Persons to uncover the truth and history of the reservoir. With a construction project looming that could expand the reservoir and...
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2024
From Everywhere to Here, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_darkwa-anto_ashley.pdf
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"To the public, Diana Hastings pretends she has the perfect husband. At home, her marriage is barely scraping by. While trying to salvage what's left of her relationship through couple's therapy, Diana must deal with more than just her failing marriage—fourteen-year-old Jessica Anderson's body is found, and her husband may somehow be connected to it all. When those around her seem to know more than they're letting on, Diana realizes she only has herself to rely on to find the truth. But...
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2024
Have You Seen Me?, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_tate_maron.pdf
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"Lucy Brownstein is beautiful and mysterious, but we already knew that, because like all stories about women like Lucy, she disappears. The only thing she leaves behind is security footage from the laundromat a Sunday morning in which she can be seen folding laundry, taking a phone call, and then leaving it all behind. John Doherty, who knows Lucy from spending mornings together at her bus stop, told her a dark secret of his own the morning of her disappearance. When John starts digging into...
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2021
Heads, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_diem_nguyen.pdf
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"Ever since he could hold a crayon, Robbie has drawn the people around him in a peculiar way - they appear more as misshapen, macabre supernatural creatures rather than human. Although unsettled, Robbie's father David dismisses everything as Robbie's childish imagination. These drawings are no real sources of concern, that is, until Robbie's grade school class has a new homeroom teacher, Mr. Percy. Robbie starts making drawings of a man with children's heads growing out of his back. Shortly...
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2024
Hysteria, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_cordes_hope.pdf
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"Hysteria is a young adult novel about a teenage girl named Emma who witnessed her granmother being kidnapped by something inexplicable when she is young. Now a decade later, strange things are once again occuring and Emma is determined to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance once and for all. One evening she finds an injured boy in an alley and they are transported into Emma's favorite novel, Hysteria. She discovers the not so fictional world is much richer and more...
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2022
I Think He Did It, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_purtell_brigid.pdf
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"I Think He Did It is a cozy mystery set in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains. Walker, a Sheriff's Deputy in a small town, is trying to help his former fiancée, Vera, track down what may have happened to their best friend three years earlier. Walker is determined to do whatever he can to keep Vera safe in a town that has only just emerged from a major corruption scandal, while Vera is determined to cause as much chaos as she can until her friend is found, safety be damned." --...
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2023
I Was Going to Lie: A Novel in Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_chupak_ashling.pdf
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"I Was Going to Lie is a novel-in-stories told from a range of perspectives following Catherine, a woman born in 1990 Brooklyn, New York, struggling with the disappearance of her father and seeking answers to the slew of partial-truths reported to her about him. But her pious mother, Joyce—sworn to secrecy by her locally-famous ex-in-laws— needs no excuse to estrange her daughter from the man who has betrayed her by revealing his truth: a decade-long affair with another man. When Catherine's...
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2024
Night Shift, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_shen_maxine.pdf
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"This thesis is the first act of an urban fantasy mystery novel set in modern day New York City, at a time when where vampires and humans live, play, and work side-by-side with each other. These pages set up how Morgana Lux, a vampire and journalist at a tabloid newspaper, is drawn into an NYPD Paranormal Crimes Division investigation involving the appearance of dismembered body parts and partners up with Detective Edward Sterling to help identify and stop a killer whose victims are humans...
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2021
Out of Time, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_bordelove_emily.pdf
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"This young adult murder mystery follows Veda, a time traveler from another realm who was born to lessen the death and destruction caused by humans throughout their history. When her sister is murdered at her graduation ceremony and the leaders make little progress, Veda takes the situation in her own hands to find out who killed her sister and why. While dealing with grief as well as worsening obsessions and compulsions, she, her best friend and crush, Nazem, and her brother, Elijah, travel...
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2022
Sambatra police, 2010
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A detective novel about a city where the police force is run like an HMO. Only one detective - Nolan Cobb - doesn't frame innocent people. Cobb catches a high-profile case, and falls for a frame-up job that someone carefully orchestrated for him. He conti
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2010
T-Shirt in Winter, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_cushing_christie.pdf
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"T-Shirt in Winter, a mystery and suspense novel written in screenplay format, tells the story of a stranger who enters a small southern town centered around a cemetery. A literary blend of southern gothic and film noir, the book examines identity, individuality, authority, and oppression, while probing society’s propensity for snap judgements and stereotyping." -- Abstract
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2023
The Bone Maker, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_cliff_tanya.pdf
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"When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...
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2023
The Cartographer's Apprentice, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_smith_alanna.pdf
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"On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...
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2021
The Malice, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hauth_tyler.pdf
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"The Malice is a completed novel that explores the fictional town of Harrow, Arkansas, where two young boys go missing every summer, and nobody—not the Sheriff, not the teachers, not even the missing kids' parents—seem to give a lick. It's only the boys in Harrow who know something is amiss, and when they grow up, they somehow forget, too. Fortunately for the boy who goes missing at the beginning of this book (Michael), his friends Doug, Floyd, Toni, and Jay haven't finished growing up yet,...
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2024
The Mayan Vagabond, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_piken_emily.pdf
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"Esmeralda Lopez's biggest concern is choosing a "responsible" career path, until she gets an email from her mother's kidnapper. To save her mother's life, Esme must travel to her birthplace—Tegucigalpa, Honduras— to an archeological dig site she didn't know her mother had, and find the third in a collection of mysterious runes, all in ten days. Once there, Esme is stuck in close quarters with her mother's mysterious partner, handsome Brit, Daniel Pentwood, and the Tia she hasn't seen in...
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2024
The Testaments of Rosaceae, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_zhao_wei.pdf
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"In the summer of 2012, a sculpture major student, Bai Zhao, brought his half- sibling sister, Qi Suisui, to work as a part-time summer teacher at an art school. They accidentally uncovered a missing persons case that had remained unsolved for decades. The dusty past, secrets, and the truth about the death of Bai Zhao's biological father are slowly revealed. Just when everyone believed the killer had been caught and there would be no more victims, another student went missing. Then the...
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2024
Timbre Waves of Violent Hues, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_cruz_cardalda_dorielys.pdf
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"Declan Colón Mayhew desperately needs divine intervention. It's not because he's a junior without a real plan for life after college. It has nothing to do with the fact that he's not over his secret ex, a boy whose gentle love Declan doesn't think he deserves. It might not even be because he's not sure what happened last summer, with his mother's broken body and the murder weapon in his hand. Rather, it's because of the death-drenched reoccurring nightmares that lead to him waking up...
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2021
Wrath: A Sins of Man Novel, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_drewry_stephanie_pennington.pdf
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"Maria Ramirez and Cameron Darcy's worlds collide when a missing person entagles them in a web of lies and tragedy forcing them to lean on each other to find their way to the truth. Maria, a journalist, tries to leave her small town life and secrets behind when she moves to the city of Baton Rouge. But the past soon catches up to her and she'll have a choice to make if she wants to reclaim herself. P.I. Cameron Darcy is about finding his target, moving in, so he can move on. Always looking...
Dates:
2020