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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Klarke Ascher has a singular goal: to become an Ascenditure, a member of the kingdom's elite climbing team who scale the treacherous peaks of Miter's Backbone in search of an elusive medicine to treat the lung sickness that ails the populace. However, in a kingdom governed by centuries of tradition, where women are legally bound to home and hearth, owned by the men they are forced to marry, the Ascenditures have always been male. As the strongest...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel ; 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young white woman has been bludgeoned to death in a rural church on Cicada Road, just outside the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina—a state that has been roiling with racial tenson since the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer. Sam Jenkins, who is Black, was found covered in blood and kneeling over her. Zach Stander, a down-and-out lawyer, is convinced to take Sam’s case by his detective girlfriend, Addie, while...
5) La camarera
Author
Series
Publisher
Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.
Author
Publisher
MACMILLAN
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world's most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in His Majesty's government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England. When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene - but one crucial detail doesn't fit. The man's body was discovered...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"A Ernie Cunningham nunca le han gustado las reuniones familiares. Aunque algo tiene que ver el hecho de que hace tres años viera a su hermano, Michael, matar a alguien y lo denunciara a la policía, un ultraje que la familia nunca le ha perdonado. Ahora han decidido reunirse para una ocasión especial: pasarán un fin de semana en un hotel en la montaña para celebrar el reencuentro con Michael. Pero los Cunningham no son una familia que se pase...
8) Home fires
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Branson Sheriff Hank Worth is one of the first on the scene of a mass casualty incident - a local fireworks warehouse has exploded, killing everyone inside. As over a dozen victims are pulled from the smoldering ruins, the painstaking identification process begins. Chief Deputy Sheila Turley returns early from medical leave to assist in the office, while Hank delves deeper into the increasingly complicated situation at the morgue. He discovers that...
Author
Series
Storytella ; 153
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Jasmine, the housekeeper, lives alone in the world. She Xi used to being ignored while working at the Regent Hotel, Xi to loosen pillows, and Xi to wipe away dirt, dust, and secrets of the bustling guests. She's just a housekeeper -- why should anyone else pay attention to her? But one day, the corpse of the rich Blake is in the room she is about to clean. After the police intervened in the investigation, Jasmine's unsociable and misunderstanding-prone...
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