Search query: the vanishing season

Product: The Conundrum of the Vanishing Cream: Hugh Kerr Mystery Series: Book XVI (The Hugh Kerr Mystery Series 16)
Description: Racehorses, a miracle cream and murder are inextricably involved as Hugh Kerr is asked to defend the scientist who created a formula capable of healing previously incurable wounds on animals as varied as dogs and thoroughbreds. Although it would appear unlikely that anyone would dispute the value of such a cream, the actual ownership of the formula, its eventual, if any, commercial value, and the wider applications of its use create various factions who find that greed leads to murder as the only solution to the problem. When a prominent thoroughbred breeder who has witnessed the “miracle” demonstrated on one of his prize horses makes the determination to market the cream to his own advantage, he is subsequently found dead at his desk. The obvious finger of guilt points to the original creator, who was cheated out of her discovery by unwittingly signing away her rights as a condition of employment at the research and development arm of a major cosmetics conglomerate. Learning the chemist has means, motive and opportunity, District Attorney B.B. Bond charges her in the unsavory killing. With the evidence stacked against his client, Hugh works with private detective Jack Merrick, the man who inadvertently brought the victim and suspect into contact. Together, they attempt to sort out the various conflicting clues in the hope that solution will implicate the guilty party.
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Product: Deadly Waters
Description: From the bestselling author of The Butterfly Garden comes a suspenseful new series for the #MeToo era about vigilante justice, close friends, and getting away with murder.

Florida journalism undergrad Rebecca Sorley is like any other college student. She tries to keep up with her studies, her friends, and her hot-tempered roommate, Ellie, who regularly courts trouble with the law.

When a male student’s remains are found in alligator-infested waters, the university warns students to stay away from the reptiles. But then a second body shows up, and the link is undeniable. Both men belonged to the same fraternity and had a reputation for preying on and hurting women.

Ellie has previously threatened to kill men who don’t take no for an answer. Rebecca and her friends thought Ellie was kidding. But now a vigilante killer is roaming campus—someone who knows how to dispose of rapists. Someone determined to save female students from horrible crimes.

With each passing day, those who know Ellie become more convinced she’s responsible. But if she is, stopping her might not be in everyone’s best interest…
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Product: The Collector Series - Dot Hutchison - 4 Book Set
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Product: The Vanishing Season (The Collector Book 4)
Description: A recent abduction becomes an unexpected link to a decades-long spree of unspeakable crimes.

Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison’s own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl’s resemblance to Eliza—so uncanny they could be mother and daughter.

With Eddison’s unsettled past rising again with rage and pain, Eliza is determined to solve this case at any cost. But the closer she looks, the more reluctant she is to divulge to her increasingly shaken partner what she finds. Brooklyn isn’t the only girl of her exact description to go missing. She’s just the latest in a frightening pattern going back decades in cities throughout the entire country.

In a race against time, Eliza’s determined to bring Brooklyn home and somehow find the link to the cold case that has haunted Eddison—and the entire Crimes Against Children team—since its inception.
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Product: The Summer Children (The Collector Book 3)
Description: This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything—just not this…

When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe.

His parents weren’t just murdered. It was a slaughter—a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they’re going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she’s far from through.

One by one, more children arrive at Mercedes’s door with the same horror story. Each one a traumatized survivor of an abusive home. Each one chafing at Mercedes’s own scars from the past. And each one taking its toll on her life and career.

Now, as the investigation draws her deeper into the dark, Mercedes is beginning to fear that if this case doesn’t destroy her, her memories might.
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Product: DETECTIVE PENNINGTON WISE - Complete Murder Mystery Series: The Room with the Tassels, The Man Who Fell Through the Earth, In the Onyx Lobby, The Come-Back, ... Face & The Vanishing of Betty Varian
Description: This carefully crafted ebook: "DETECTIVE PENNINGTON WISE - Complete Murder Mystery Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Pennington "Penny" Wise is a young, eccentric detective, but clear cut of brain, mind and intelligence, always on the lookout for an interesting case, for he would engage in no others.
Table of Contents:
The Room with the Tassels
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth
In the Onyx Lobby
The Come-Back
The Luminous Face
The Vanishing of Betty Varian
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. At the beginning of the career she concentrated on poetry, humor and children's books, but later devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories, and Pennington Wise series. She also wrote several Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Product: The Roses of May (The Collector Book 2)
Description: Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.

Priya Sravasti’s sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman’s crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya’s help can the killer be found—but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?
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Product: The Vanishing Season: A Mystery (Ellery Hathaway Book 1)
Description: Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna Schaffhausen’s accomplished debut The Vanishing Season will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion.
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.
When three people disappear from her town in three years—all around her birthday—Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer all those years ago.
Agent Reed Markham made his name and fame on the back of the Coben case, but his fortunes have since turned. His marriage is in shambles, his bosses think he's washed up, and worst of all, he blew a major investigation. When Ellery calls him, he can’t help but wonder: sure, he rescued her, but was she ever truly saved? His greatest triumph is Ellery’s waking nightmare, and now both of them are about to be sucked into the past, back to the case that made them...with a killer who can't let go.
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Product: Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods
Brand: imusti
Booth-Clibborn Editions
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Product: Sahara (Vanishing Cultures Series)
Brand: Lee & Low Books
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Product: The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World (Focal Point Series)
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Product: The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, 1)
Brand: Thomas & Mercer
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Product: The Vanishing (Fogg Lake Series)
Brand: Thorndike Press Large Print
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Product: The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure (Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Series #5)
Brand: Random House
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Product: The Vanishing Season
Brand: Harpercollins
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Product: A Wounded Name
Description: Ophelia Castellan will never be just another girl at Elsinore Academy. Seeing ghosts is not a skill prized in future society wives. Even when she takes her pills, the bean sidhe beckon, reminding her of a promise to her dead mother. Now, in the wake of the Headmaster's sudden death, the whole academy is in turmoil, and Ophelia can no longer ignore the fae. Especially once she starts seeing the Headmaster's ghosts—two of them—on the school grounds. Her only confidante is Dane, the Headmaster's grieving son. Yet even as she gives more of herself to him, Dane spirals toward a tragic fate—dragging Ophelia, and the rest of Elsinore, with him.
You know how this story ends. Yet even in the face of certain death, Ophelia has a choice to make—and a promise to keep.
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