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Nesbet, Anne

Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES
1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J FIC NES

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NES

Van Draanen, Wendelin

Summary: Streetwise stray dog Mr. Whiskers and sisters Misty and Zelda follow clues through the streets of San Francisco in their search for the sibling's kidnapped father.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VAN

Pullman, Philip

Summary: Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PUL

Gardner, Lisa

Summary: Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited ... prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked -- salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

Johansen, Iris

Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful--able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOH

Johansen, Iris

Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Singleton, Linda Joy

Summary: "The Curious Cat Spy Club investigates the disappearance of Kelsey's mother and discovers an illegal puppy mill"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Singleton

Perry, Anne

Summary: "In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance. When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PER

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2018

Quick, Amanda

Summary: Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work--until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. But Prudence, a master at reinvention, finds a new job and home as far away as possible and is finally able to relax--which turns out to be a big mistake. Letting her guard down means being...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Perry, Anne

Summary: When Kate Exeter is kidnapped on the shore of the Thames, Commander William Monk is enlisted by her desperate husband to save her. Kate's captors are demanding a ransom for her safe return and Monk and his most trusted men must arrange a secret handover in the dark slums of Jacob's Island. But on the night someone betrays them and a brutal skirmish breaks out, leaving death and destruction in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PER

Evanovich, Janet

Summary: "Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M EVA

Lovesey, Peter

Summary: John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's name before someone else dies.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOV

McHugh, Laura.

Summary: Arrowood is the most ornate and beautiful of the grand historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. It has its own secrets and ghostly presence: It's where Arden's young twin sisters were abducted nearly twenty years ago, never to be seen again. Now, Arden has inherited Arrowood, and she returns to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCH

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: When we last saw Nancy Harmon, tragedy had struck her family as she suffered through the heartbreak of her first marriage, the ghastly deaths of her two children, hostile media coverage, and the harsh criminal charges against her. Nancy was forced to relocate across the country, change her name and appearance, anything that could be used to identify her controversial past. Years later, after a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

Summary: "When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Conrath, Richard

Summary: "In a dark and brooding voice, Cooper, philosophy prof turned PI, guides readers as he searches for his abducted young son as well as other people's children caught in the hellish business of human trafficking. Searching for his missing son is a constant in the life of Cooper, professor, homicide detective and private eye. The murky Everglades sets the scene for the dark challenges that face...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Conrath

Rao, Nilima

Summary: "1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023

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Card, Orson Scott

Summary: What good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, if when you return them to their owners they think you must have stolen them in the first place? Ezekial Blast's friend Beth thinks there must be some way to use his "micropower" for good. And so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl. When tragedy strikes, it's up to Ezekiel to use his talent to find what...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Playaway, Call number: JT PA Fiction Card 2019

Kellerman, Faye

Summary: Peter Decker and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in Upstate New York, in the very woods where a man previously went missing. Meanwhile Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and Rina's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two other children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEL

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: "Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLA

Merrill, Robin.

Summary: Samantha Cooper is missing and her boyfriend is desperate to find her. Desperate enough to hire Gertrude, Gumshoe. Thrilled to have her first real client, Gertrude gets right to work. But is she really ready for a real case? Can she catch a kidnapper without getting herself kidnapped?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MER

Perry, Anne

Summary: "In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

Shelton, Paige

Summary: "Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHE

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