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Series
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mystery writer and dabbling recreational sleuth Sophie Katz is head over heels in love - with a three-bedroom Victorian. She's just got to have it, despite a few drawbacks. Her slimy ex is the Realtor. The rich, creepy seller wants her to join San Francisco's spirited Specter Society. And her first tour of the house reveals, well, a lifeless body clutching a cameo with a disturbing history of its own. There's no way Sophie is going to give up the...
62) The Immigrants
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga "A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does." -Los Angeles Times In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise and fall of a family of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick...
Author
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
I’m Sam, the werewolf book nerd owner of The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore & Bar. Clive, Fergus, and I are moving into our new home, the business is going well, and our folly is taking shape. The problem? Clive’s maker Garyn is coming to San Francisco for a visit, and this reunion has been a thousand years in the making. Back then, Garyn was rather put out when Clive accepted the dark kiss and then took off to avenge his sister’s murder. She was...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A San Francisco student's about to discover law school can be murderous in this comic mystery series opener. Willa Jansson picked the wrong time to quit smoking. Exams are four weeks away. And if she's not sitting in class, studying, or sipping innumerable cups of coffee, then she's toiling away as the senior articles editor at the Malhousie Law Review. This job, and being in the top 10 percent of her class, means she'll be able to land her dream...
65) Line of Darkness
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Post-war darkness may be the darkest of them all-Nazi-hunters reach deep into 1979 San Francisco
When a German businesswoman in 1979 San Francisco hires ex-con PI Colleen Hayes to find a missing relative, supposedly in town to visit, she thinks it's a simple job. But she soon discovers that the "nephew" is linked to an international vigilante group hunting down ex-Nazis. Then the body of a mysterious woman turns up on San Francisco's Municipal...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author, Peter Duluth deals with a case of mistaken identities and murder in World War II San Francisco.
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The "suspense that never stops" in this thriller trilogy set in San Francisco by the Edgar Award and Hammett Prize--nominated author (James Patterson). The Poison Artist After a fleeting encounter with a seductive woman, toxicologist Caleb Maddox becomes obsessed with finding her again. Meanwhile, he begins helping with a serial-murder investigation. Soon the search for the killer entwines with Caleb's hunt for the woman in "a wicked mix of Poe,...
69) Must Love Books
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Language
English
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Description
"A heartfelt and exciting debut... a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising The Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Younger in a heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she'll have to ditch the "dream job" and write her own story to find her happy ending. Meet Nora Hughes -- the overworked,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Part historical fiction, part heartbreaking romance, part bildungsroman, this book takes readers on a journey rich with detail and darkness" ( Seattle Book Review ). Henry Plageman is a master secret-keeper. A former Lutheran minister, he lost his faith after losing his infant son, Jack, many years ago; his wife, Marilyn, remains consumed by grief. But Henry has another life -- another woman and another child -- unknown to Marilyn. His lover, Lucy,...
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