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Till Death Do Us Part (British Library Crime Classics)
by John Dickson CarrThis "[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle...Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Who can I trust?" Love-sick Dick Markham is reeling. He's set to marry Lesley Grant—a woman whom he learns is not who she appears to be. She seems to have been associated with three poisonings, all of which were in locked rooms. Another crime has been committed and we will watch the great Dr. Fell investigate through Markham's watchful eyes.That night the enigmatic fortune teller—and chief accuser—is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large.First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
Till Death Do Us Part (Nancy Drew Files #24)
by Carolyn KeeneWhen Nancy turns down Ned's marriage proposal, she is shocked when the very next day he announces his engagement to another girl! Nancy knows the other girl is up to no good and she is determined to find out what she is up to.
Till Death Do Us Port (A Colorado Wine Mystery #4)
by Kate LansingWhen a wedding turns into a crime scene, young vintner Parker Valentine investigates the full-bodied problem in this captivating Colorado-set cozy mystery. It&’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating the happy couple, she&’ll also be providing wine for the reception. But when the fussy wedding planner is found dead midway through the ceremony, Parker knows that to get the weekend back on track, she&’ll need to unveil a murderer. Unfortunately, there&’s no shortage of high tension and hot tempers during a wedding, so Parker has a long list of potential suspects. Even worse, her entire family has fixated on the state of Parker&’s relationship with her boyfriend, Reid. If Parker can manage to impress her relatives with her wine skills and dodge unwanted pointed personal questions, solving a murder will be the icing on the cake.
Till Death Do Us Purl (A Black Sheep Knitting Mystery #4)
by Anne CanadeoThe fourth in the charming knitting mystery series that is “sure to hook cozy fans” (Publishers Weekly) featuring Maggie Messina and her close circle of knitting-club friends, who must unravel another murder in their cozy coastal town of Plum Harbor, Massachusetts. The Black Sheep Knitters new project is helping a bride-to-be knit shawls for her upcoming wedding. Days after the ceremony, the groom dies in a freak accident. As the knitters comfort the family, many secrets and betrayals—both business and romantic—are revealed. When the groom’s body turns up after the funeral in a motel room, dead again, the newlywed widow is the prime suspect, The Black Sheep must prove her innocence and find the real killer among a large circle of family, friends, and foes.
Till Death Do Us Tart: A Bakeshop Mystery (A Bakeshop Mystery #8)
by Ellie AlexanderJules Capshaw has too much on her plate—and she’s feeling the pinch: the whole town of Ashland, Oregon, is in on the surprise Elizabethan-themed wedding she’s planning for her mom and soon-to-be stepdad. But is her secret scheme half-baked? She’s hiding racks overflowing with sweet treats while Torte is topsy-turvy with a major remodel and the return of Jules’s estranged husband, Carlos. And until now, Jules had no clue about the bitter family feud that has her friend Lance frazzled and suspicious. But when a party crasher takes someone out with a serving of poisoned wine and Jules discovers the deadly cup was intended for her, it’s time to turn the tables on a killer.
Till Death Us Do Part
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till Death Us Do Part: a charming and delightfully cosy mystery that will keep you hooked!
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till Death Us Do Part: a charming and delightfully cosy mystery that will keep you hooked!
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till Fish Us Do Part: The Confessions of a Fisherman's Wife
by Beatrice Gray CookBeatrice Cook married a man with an avocation—FISH—Up to then fish were something you cooked in a pan.Born in Chicago, she grew up in Connecticut, returned to Chicago to take her B. S. at the University of Indiana, and then went out to Seattle. It was not until her first sight of the mountain peaks that Beatrice found she had grown up on the wrong coast of the United States, for from the first she delighted in the country of the Pacific Northwest. (She didn't anticipate her future intimate connection with its streams and inlets.)Now, after more than twenty years, Beatrice Cook is qualified as few transplanted Easterners ever are, to tell this story of fishing in the Pacific Northwest. She loves it!As a family, the Cooks have some of their best times fishing for salmon of the beautiful San Juan Islands in the inland waters of Washington. When folks ask Beatrice Cook, "Do you live in the San Juans?" she always answers, "Yes. I LIVE there but unfortunately must spend nine months of the year in Seattle.”
Till Hell Freezes Over (A Dr. Erica Merrill Mystery #1)
by Anne BartonThere is one set of tracks leading to and from the snowbound cabin of Eugene Pettijohn, dead of a gunshot wound.These tracks were made by Herb Shultz, the unpopular deadbeat neighbour who discovered the body. Shultz is arrested but Dr. Erica Merrill, a young veterinarian trying to establish a practice in her hometown, doesn't think Shultz committed the murder. Her boyfriend, deputy sheriff Clay Caldwell, is skeptical; her powerful father interfering; and citizens of the small Northern Idaho county seat, antagonistic. Her fledgling veterinary practice threatened, Dr. Merrill decides that she must solve the mystery herself and win acceptance as a person in her own right.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down (A Sharon McCone Mystery #15)
by Marcia MullerP.I. Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and needs all the clients she can get - even a shady character from her Berkeley days. From the moment T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon whisks her off in his private helicopter, complaining of death threats, her life will never be the same....
Till the Cows Come Home: A Stella Crown Mystery (Stella Crown Series #1)
by Judy Clemens"She's smart. She's tough. She's sexy. She's a dairy farmer?"—BooklistStella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own Pennsylvania dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime farmhand Howie who stuck with her after her parents died. She rides her Harley on the weekends, and has just enough friends to suit her fiercely independent nature.But on her 29th birthday, things start to change. A local child dies from a strange and threatening illness, a string of mysterious disasters place Stella and her farm in peril, and her childhood friend Abe shows up with a new woman on his arm. It seems like bad luck run amok, but when her livestock begins turning up dead, Stella knows that something, or someone, is out to get her.Agatha and Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel
Till the Dust Settles
by Pat Young&“An enthralling narrative of shifting identity juxtaposed with New York in crisis…a wickedly unnerving thriller.&”—Caro Ramsay, author of AbsolutionLucie married young. Her husband has become abusive, controlling and violent. Having lost everything as a result of the marriage, Lucie decides it is time to walk away. As she leaves the house on the morning of September 11, heading to a job interview at the World Trade Center and the promise of a new life, the unthinkable happens. On a street in New York, choking on the dust, Lucie stumbles upon an unexpected opportunity to start anew. She thought the grass would be greener, but beginning again is never that simple. And what lies ahead may be even more deadly than what she left behind…
Till the Old Men Die (Jeri Howard #2)
by Janet DawsonTHE PAST NEVER DIES, IT'S JUST COVERED UP. When Dr. Lito Manibusan, a Filipino professor of history at Cal State, is murdered, the police chalk it up to the random urban violence that is no stranger to San Francisco. But four months later, a woman claiming to be the professor's widow demands his personal effects—which have already been dispersed. No one in the history department believes her, but private investigator Jeri Howard is hired by her father, a former colleague of the dead man's, to find his next of kin and learn the truth. Jeri is no stranger to hard work. Sometimes the breaks come and sometimes they don't. Unfortunately, this time, the truth about old feuds and politics has died with the murdered man—until a mysterious audiocassette reappears and quickly vanishes. Then Jeri finds herself on the same path that the professor had been on, searching for information shrouded in secrecy and locked in the past. It's the trail of treachery that cost him his life....
Tilling the Truth (A Garden Squad Mystery #2)
by Julia HenryIt’s August in Goosebush, Massachusetts, and go-getter retiree Lilly Jayne and her youthful senior pals show no sign of slowing down during the lazy days of summer. But when murder mows over a pesky local, could a Garden Squad member be nurturing a deadly second act? While Lilly digs into a town beautification project, her friend Tamara O’Connor has greater concerns than well-pruned geraniums. The real-estate firm owner hasn’t been shy about blaming perennial grouch Gladys Preston for thwarting her many attempts to sell off a beautiful beachside property. But accusations fly when Gladys is suddenly found dead—and Tamara is caught standing over the body with a bloody weapon in her hand . . . As Tamara becomes the prime murder suspect, Lilly and the Garden Squad ladies set out to prove that someone planted the evidence. With a potpourri of alarming clues scattered around Goosebush, cracking this case means confronting a calculating culprit with a penchant for cutting down anyone who gets in the way . . .
Tillmon County Fire
by Pamela EhrenbergAn act of arson committed as an anti-gay hate crime affects the lives of several teenagers from a small town.
Tilly (The Ladies In Love Series #3)
by M. C. BeatonA twisting tale featuring a calculating marquess, a marriage of convenience, and a touch of mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.Why would the Marquess of Heppleford marry someone like Tilly—plump, penniless, and paid companion to a deeply unpleasant duchess? Why, to insure his inheritance of course, by following the demands of his late father’s will. Once they’re wed, he can simply return to his rakish adventures in France.Tilly, unfortunately, is unaware of the real reason this highly eligible bachelor wants her as a wife—and is heartbroken when she learns the truth. But when he comes back from Paris, he will be shocked to discover that his plain bride has made herself over into a seductive, sophisticated beauty bent on revenge—all while danger lurks in the shadows . . .“A romance writer who deftly blends humor and adventure.”—Booklist
Tilt a Whirl
by Chris GrabensteinA first rate mystery starting a new series featuring Officer Ceepak. It is a fun and intriguing murder mystery.
Timber Line: Number 42 in Series (The Destroyer #42)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirTulsa Torrent, America's biggest lumber company, is stunned and horrified when two of its key scientists are brutally murdered. It seems the deceased were part of a team developing an oil-producing tree, and a lot of interested parties were looking to grease their palms. Before anyone else is pulped, top-secret government agents Remo and Chiun are sent in to observe the project. But danger lies at every turn, and when an environmentalist group enters the picture, determined to kick Tulsa Torrent out, things go from bad to worse. Remo and Chiun must get to the root of the matter before the unknown hatchet man ruins America's energy future for ever . . . Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Timberhill
by Samantha HarteIn the midst of an epidemic, a woman retreats to her family estate where a dark mystery and a promise of love await her in this historical romance. Philadelphia, 1793. As Yellow Fever brings death and despair to Philadelphia, Carolyn Adams Clure returns to her remote family estate, Timberhill. But Carolyn is not merely seeking an escape from the pandemic. She's there to face her nightmares and solve a mystery long buried in the past. Almost upon arrival, however, Carolyn is swept up into a maelstrom of fear, intrigue, and, most alarmingly, love. Determined to discover what happened the night her father&’s surgery burned—and to clear his name of vicious rumors—Carolyn is soon lured into a dangerous web of intrigue. She&’ relieved to be assisted by the capable and handsome attorney Evan Burck. But as cult-like events begin to unfold in their midst, Carolyn finds both her life and her heart at stake.
Time & Tide: A Hew Cullan Mystery (The Hew Cullan Mysteries #3)
by Shirley McKayA shipwreck brings excitement—and tragedy—to a sixteenth-century town, and a reluctant lawyer is drawn into the mystery behind it . . . In the swell of a storm, a ship is wrecked in Scotland&’s St Andrews harbor. A young Flemish sailor, the last man aboard, collapses and dies at the inn. The cargo of the ship appears a welcome windfall—but soon brings devastation to the town as petty squabbling turns to rage and tragedy. Now Hew Cullen must trace the ship to its source in Ghent, where he uncovers a strange secret. Unwilling to allow the law to take its course, he will return once more to the bitter role of advocate, to find his deepest principles are tested to the core, in this suspenseful mystery by a Dagger Award finalist.
Time 2 Die (A Codi Sanders Thriller)
by Brent LaddTime 2 Die is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that goes from turn of the century New York to a modern day race against the clock with millions of lives at stake.
Time After Time (Time After Time Ser.)
by Karl AlexanderNow an ABC television series available on streaming platforms!In 1979 Karl Alexander's Time After Time burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine. When H.G. Wells showed his friends his fantastic time machine he never suspected that his college friend, Leslie John Stevenson, was in truth the Jack the Ripper.But, when Scotland Yard detectives show up at Wells's house looking for Stevenson, he steals the machine and flees to the future—1979 San Francisco. Knowing that he was responsible for the infamous murderer’s escape, Wells pursues the Ripper into the future. Once in San Francisco, Wells realizes that he must now save a city, and a particular lovely young woman, from a new reign of terror at the hands of the feared Terror of Whitechapel.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Time Bomb
by Joelle CharbonneauSeven students trapped in their school after a bomb goes off must fight to survive while also discovering who among them is the bomber in this provocative new thriller from the author of the New York Times bestselling Testing Trilogy. Perfect for fans of This Is Where It Ends. <P><P> A congressman's daughter who has to be perfect. A star quarterback with a secret. A guy who's tired of being ignored. A clarinet player who's done trying to fit in. An orphaned rebel who wants to teach someone a lesson. A guy who wants people to see him, not his religion. <P>They couldn't be more different, but before the morning's over, they'll all be trapped in a school that's been rocked by a bombing. <P>When they hear that someone inside is the bomber, they'll also be looking to one another for answers. <P>Told from multiple perspectives, Time Bomb will keep readers guessing about who the bomber could be—and what motivated such drastic action.
Time Bomb (Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller #1)
by Franklin W. DixonFrom the back of the book: TIME BOMB A TWIST IN TIME...A TWISTED MIND... A TERRIFYING TWIST OF FATE FOR FRANK AND JOE AND TOM! A dream that has long fired the human imagination has become a reality: time travel. But as Tom Swift and the Hardy boys are about to discover, the dream can become a nightmare in the blink of an eye. An attack force of techno-thugs, under the command of the evil genius the Black Dragon, have seized control of a top-secret time-warp trigger! Frank and Joe and Tom leap into battle-shock troops in a war that stretches across the aeons to the edge of time. But whether chasing asteroids or dodging dinosaurs, they know they haven't a moment to lose. They must stop the Dragon before he carries out his final threat: turning the time machine into the ultimate doomsday device! =============== From inside the book: PURPLE HAZE The battle between Swift security forces and the Black Dragon's robots raged, with Tom Swift and the Hardys caught in the middle. "Don't think you've won!" the Black Dragon snarled at them. At the same instant a column of blinding purple light erupted. Frank saw one of the robot attackers hit and incinerated. The pulsing column of light was expanding. Security people and the intruders they'd been fighting moments before now all raced away from the underground complex. As Tom pulled Frank, Joe, and Sandra to shelter, the ground seemed to ripple under their feet. A deafening roar flung them face-first onto the grassy lawn. The air around them seemed to glow purple, then went black. Sandra gasped. "What's going on back there?" "Laws of nature were broken, and anyone too close is being punished for it," Tom said. "Punished with certain death."