Buried in the past An unsolved murder closed the Bell's Creek campground 25 years ago, and now, despite rumors that the land is haunted, the camp is about to be reopened. Final preparations are underway when a woman's bloodstained dress is found in a tattered old suitcase. The discovery means that Sheriff Sharyn Howard will have to solve the murder that confounded her grandfather, the sheriff who first investigated the crime. At the time, there were no clues, no motive and no witnesses. The new evidence leads Sharyn to consider a shocking possibility---a double murder. But digging into the past does more than reopen old wounds, it lures a killer out of hiding...A killer who's still desperate, still depraved---and more determined than ever to eliminate any chances of getting caught.

For the Last Time

Joyce and Jim Lavene

World Wide

As the mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae is playing host to twenty North Carolina elected officials attending her first Mayors' Conference Weekend at the Blue Whale Inn. When the body of Mayor Sandi Foxx is discovered the morning after a severe storm, Dae receives a vision through the mayor's ring; that there's a killer among the guests who's as deadly as any hurricane.

A Spirited Gift (A Missing Pieces Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

BERKLEY

This time the mystery for Sheriff Sharyn Howard and her Diamond Springs deputies hits a little bit closer to home. After a speeding boat flies up over the pier and onto the street, the sheriff's department investigates. They become personally involved when the pocketbook of Sharyn's assistant, Trudy Robinson, is found on the boat--along with a lot of blood. Trudy has been missing for days, and things don't look promising. 
 While combing the crime scene at the boat a dead body washes up beside the pier. Upon discovering that the dead man was the head mechanic for a local racecar driver, Sharyn's investigation turns to the speedway. Could legendary driver Duke Beatty be the one behind it all? Sharyn has her suspicions. 
 Trudy is found unharmed at the speedway at the same time that Duke is shot and killed, and it appears that she may be the murderer. Trudy's husband, Ed, one of Sharyn's deputies who also happened to be on the scene at the time, tries to protect his wife by claiming that he is guilty of shooting Duke. 
 Now Sharyn must prove that Ed is innocent while also trying to find the real culprit.

Before the Last Lap (Avalon Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Thomas & Mercer

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