Let There Be Suspects

Let There Be Suspects
Author: Emilie Richards
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440624429

By the USA Today bestselling author of Blessed Is the Busybody Now that a chalk outline no longer marks their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband can turn their attention back to the living . . . ’Tis the season in bucolic Emerald Springs, Ohio. As a gift to her daughters, Aggie’s mom has invited their former foster sister, Ginger, to join their Christmas reunion. A potential candidate for Sociopaths Anonymous, Ginger could make Aggie nostalgic for the chalk line. But when Ginger turns up deader than a drumstick, Aggie’s sister is the logical suspect because she always resented her mother’s attachment to Ginger. Aggie knows her sister is incapable of murder. But that won’t convince the police. Now Aggie has to find the murderer—someone who's decided there's a loophole in thou shalt not kill. Praise for Blessed Is the Busybody “A delightful cozy.”—Midwest Book Review (five-star review) “Any new book by this gifted author is cause for celebration.”—The Mystery Reader “If you are a fan of Dorothy Bodoin and Jan Karon, or an avid Murder She Wrote viewer, then Blessed Is the Busybody is just the book for you!”—Roundtable Reviews

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects
Author: Maurice Broaddus
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006279633X

Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from writer and educator Maurice Broaddus. Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. He’s in special ed, separated from the “normal” kids at school who don’t have any “issues.” That’s enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts at school, but a criminal? T isn’t about to let that label stick.

The Suspect

The Suspect
Author: Fiona Barton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101990538

The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare... When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth—and this time is no exception. But she can’t help but think of her own son, whom she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think...

Let There Be Suspects

Let There Be Suspects
Author: Emilie Richards
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425213072

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Blessed is the Busybody comes a Christmas-themed Ministry is Murder Mystery. Now that a chalk outline no longer marks their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband can turn their attention back to the living. ’Tis the season in bucolic Emerald Springs, Ohio. As a gift to her daughters, Aggie’s mom has invited their former foster sister, Ginger, to join their Christmas reunion. A potential candidate for Sociopaths Anonymous, Ginger could make Aggie nostalgic for the chalk line. But when Ginger turns up deader than a drumstick, Aggie’s sister is the logical suspect because she always resented her mother’s attachment to Ginger. Aggie knows her sister is incapable of murder. But that won’t convince the police. Now Aggie has to find the murderer—someone who's decided there's a loophole in thou shalt not kill.

The Little Friend

The Little Friend
Author: Donna Tartt
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2011-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030787348X

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Confessions of a Murder Suspect
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: jimmy patterson
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-09-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316207012

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a #1 New York Times bestselling teen detective novel about the mysterious Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another. On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family's dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?

Suspect

Suspect
Author: Kristin Wolden Nitz
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1561457205

Spending her summer helping Grandma Kay run the Schoenhaus, a Victorian bed and breakfast, seventeen-year-old Jen soon finds that her Grandma's plans also include solving an old mystery: the disappearance of Jen's mother. Jen's mother Ellen disappeared without a trace when her daughter was still young. Even so, Jen received holiday gifts in the mail and letters signed by her mother for years. But then the communication abruptly stopped. Now, Grandma Kay is convinced the letters were forged and that her daughter-in-law was murdered. The stage is set for an elaborate Mystery Weekend at the inn. Family members and friends—including Jen's very recent ex-boyfriend, her old childhood crush and his insufferable girlfriend—assemble and are assigned roles to play. But as the drama unfolds, Jen makes an important off-stage discovery in the Schoenhaus library. Soon her worst suspicions are aroused: Could a member of her own close-knit community be responsible for her mother's disappearance? Kristin Wolden Nitz has penned a story that artfully combines all the necessary elements of a great mystery, sweeping readers along Jen's path to discovery.

Natural Suspect

Natural Suspect
Author: William Bernhardt
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345437691

Eleven bestselling mystery authors--including William Bernhardt, Leslie Glass, John Lescroat, and Phillip Margolin--each have written a chapter of this clever whodunit, passing it on to the next author. After an oil tycoon decides to disinherit his wife and children, he turns up dead. His wife is charged with murder, and her sensational trial puts New York in a frenzy while a curious cast of characters face off in and out of the courtroom. (August)