Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2023 - November 2023
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By MacDonald, John D Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M Ex-cop Cliff Bartells works for an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry, but when a rich Boston tourist with a jewelry collection is murdered, Cliff is determined to solve the case and the victim's niece, Melody Chance, is resolved to be his partner. |
By MacDonald, John D. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M "A television star wilting under the limelight. An adman with a stiff upper lip. A rising New York artist. A desperate housewife. All are victims of a cruel puppet master--and one of them is a killer. The head of a global cosmetics empire, Wilma Ferris became a self-made success by taking everything people had to give--and more. Mixing business with pleasure is her standard operating procedure. And she's playing the same game when she invites eight of her closest friends--all of whom owe their livelihoods to Wilma--to a weekend party at her lake house. After a late-night skinny-dipping session turns into a frantic search for the missing host, it becomes apparent that one of the guests had seen enough. Wilma's body is pulled from the cold water, but the cause of death isn't drowning--it's a blow to the head. Was it a crime of passion or premeditated murder? Neither would surprise any of Wilma's guests. Each of them has a motive--or two. In the end, all will be condemned."--Page 4 of cover. |
By MacDonald, John D. Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: M Call Number: M Sam Bowden's teenage daughter becomes the target of Max Cady's obsessive scheme to destroy the man who sent him to prison for rape. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: M Call Number: M He was a son who hadn t known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder his father s murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: M Call Number: M A dying hitchhiker leads Lew Archer into the dark side of the small town of Las Cruces, California. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2010, ©1981 Classification: M Call Number: M "Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle?a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved." --Publisher. |
The Archer files: the complete short stories of Lew Archer, private investigator By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: M Call Number: M "No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on--a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person--the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles. Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished "case notes" and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald's signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is both a perfect introduction for the newcomer and a must-have for the Macdonald aficionado."--Page [4] of cover. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: M Call Number: M "In The chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer."--Page [4] of cover. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: M Call Number: M Lew Archer investigates the death of a wealthy matriarch found floating in her pool. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: M Call Number: M As Lew Archer investigates the kidnapping of Southern California millionaire Ralph Sampson, he is drawn from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to the casual violence of seedy jazz joints. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: M Call Number: M Lieutenant Bret Taylor sets out to find the man who killed his wife, Lorraine, before his grief leads to his own destruction. |
By Macdonald, Ross Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: M Call Number: M Hired by Mrs. Samuel Lawrence to find her wandering daughter, Galatea, who had been last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, P.I. Lew Archer follows a trail of death and mayhem that takes him from the slum alleys of Southern California to the luxury of Palm Springs. |
By O'Connor, Carlene Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: M Call Number: M Putting their wedding on hold due to the discovery of a human skeleton at a farmhouse near the church, garda Siobhán and Macdara must solve a fifty-year-old cold case of a missing groom, which heats up when a fresh corpse appears. |
By Stabenow, Dana Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: M Call Number: M Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell--the heroes of "New York Times" bestseller Stabenow's most beloved series--team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur |
A game of fear: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery By Todd, Charles Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: M Call Number: M "Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost"-- |
Marion Lane and the midnight murder By Willberg, T. A. Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: M Call Number: M "Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant at Miss Brickett's receives a letter of warning, detailing a name, a time, and a place. She goes to investigate but finds the room empty. At the stroke of midnight, she is murdered by a killer she can't see--her death the only sign she wasn't alone. It becomes chillingly clear that the person responsible must also work for Miss Brickett's, making everyone a suspect. Marion Lane, a first-year Inquirer-in-training, finds herself drawn ever deeper into the investigation. When her friend and colleague is framed for the crime, to clear his name she must sort through the hidden alliances at Miss Brickett's and secrets dating back to WWII."--Publisher's description. |
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