Martha Grimes
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Series
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English
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"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink...
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Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series—now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....
4) Belle Ruin
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Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, a waitress at her mother's decaying resort hotel and now the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte's Conservative newspaper, discovers the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake. She never imagines that the mysteries it holds will bring her one step closer to solving a forty-year-old crime --and force a new transgression to light. The sumptuous Belle Rouen,...
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Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
8) Foul matter
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Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing. And the praise is pouring in:
"A hilarious and wicked caper-adventure on the evils of the book business."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Does laughing uncontrollably on a subway train constitute legitimate literary criticism? If it does, then Foul Matter...gets a great review from me." New
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Emma Graham mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emma Graham continues her investigation into the disappearance of the Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than 20 years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father makes her even more determined to learn the truth.
11) Hotel Paradise
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Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Maud Chadwick sits at the end of the pier, watching the party across the water. Sometimes she is joined by Sheriff Sam DeGheyn, who finds her quiet company a refuge from the problems of his own marriage and from his increasing professional concerns. For the town's sleepy atmosphere is deceptive: three local women have been murdered and Sam suspects the wrong man has been convicted and that the real killer is readying himself to strike again.