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Series
Booktown mystery volume 12
Language
English
Description
Bookstore owner Tricia Miles throws a housewarming cocktail party in her new apartment. She even cooks all the food herself, which is quite a feat for someone who previously could not boil water. When one of her guests is fatally poisoned is her cooking is to blame, or is something more sinister at play? Either way, she is once again in hot water with her ex-lover Chief Baker. Meanwhile, Stoneham is being disrupted by a vandalism crime wave. It becomes...
4) Nunsense
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are trying to raise money to bury a group of nuns accidentally poisoned by their own convent chef. You'll join the live audience watching the Sisters display their divine talents in a zany benefit revue.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
St. Mary Mead is abuzz with the news that Hollywood star Marina Gregg has moved inot Gossington Hall. When Marina and her dashing young husband host a party for the village, a garrulous fan drops dead after drinking a poisoned cocktail. But was the drink meant for her or for Marina? Miss Marple ponders a cast of suspicious characters.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive--and a terrifying weapon. Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body--and killed him. After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team--and...
9) Toxin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just how safe is America's meat supply? Recent health scares and new public awareness have made this one of today's most controversial subjects --- and the basis of Robin Cook's most startling, and important novel. When a doctor's daughter becomes infected with E. coli, the widespread dangers of bacterial contamination are no longer a subject for debate, but a grim reality. In desperation, he is forced to follow a trail of ignorance and corruption...
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 18
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a Rat Tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ten people--eight strangers and two married domestics--attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. Each has unwittingly been invited to his or her own murder. A familiar nursery rhyme of ten Indian figurines is affixed to a serving plate at the castle. After the fatal poisoning of a guest, one figurine goes missing. One down, nine to go.
12) D.O.A
Publisher
Roan Group
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
O'Brien stars as a man who is poisoned on a trip to San Francisco. He races with time to discover his murderer before he succumbs to the drug.
13) The poison waves
Author
Series
Secrets of the sky volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kiya and Kinjal have succeeded in their first quest in the magical world of the Kingdom Beyond, but whatever good they achieved might not be enough. Their faithful flying horses Snowy and Raat reappear and whisk them back to the Kingdom to help the . . . winged merpeople who are slowly being poisoned by the very water in which they live. It is up to the twins to figure it out and put a stop to it. Fortunately, Kiya has the know-how to solve this mystery...
14) 3 days to live
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies in this heart-pounding collection of 3 brand-new thrillers from the master of suspense. 3 Days to Live: A CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge (with Duane Swierczynski). Women and Children First: When a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into...
Author
Series
Club CSI volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When their school suffers from an outbreak of food poisoning, Hannah and Ben must uncover the problem before anyone else gets sick.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. Lana Lee is back at her family's restaurant after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out. Lana figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together, even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news when the restaurant's property manager,...
18) Nothing sacred
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He's an unscrupulous newspaperman eager to exploit the story of a young woman's death by radium poisoning. She knows she's not really dying but can't pass up a free trip to New York with all the trimmings. Legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht's sharply satirical screenplay, depicting the morbid nature of the scandal-hungry public, is more relevant today than ever.
Author
Series
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to solve: the dreadful poisoning of the scoundrel Willoughby's new wife. Catherine and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder--which Juliet...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When his niece dies of the same mysterious symptoms that killed her father, no one suspects the little girl may have been poisoned. No one except her uncle, Whitney Cameron. He believes the child's stepmother may be her killer. Discovering that she intends to inherit her husband's estate by eliminating both her stepchildren, Whitney proceeds with a perilous plan to prevent his greedy sister-in-law from getting away with murder.
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