If it Were True

If it Were True
Author: Florence Blackburn White Schoeffel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1894
Genre:
ISBN:

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
Author: Leonie Swann
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1641294345

A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and gluttonous grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith). It seems the answer to their little problem with Lillith may have fallen right into their laps. All they have to do is find out who murdered their neighbor, so they can pin Lillith’s death on them, thus killing two (old) birds with one stone (cold killer). With their plan sorted, Agnes and her geriatric gang spring into action. After all, everybody likes a good mystery. Besides, the more suspicion they can cast about, surely the less will land on them. To investigate, they will step out of their comfort zone and tangle with sinister bakers, broken stairlifts, inept criminals, the local authorities, and their own dark secrets.

Land of Shadows

Land of Shadows
Author: Rachel Howzell Hall
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765336359

A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.