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Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: Working in a country club complaint department to deal with the griping of the rich and spoiled, Helen Hawthorne's ex-husband arrives back in her life aboard the yacht of his new lady, Marcella, known as the Black Widow for her string of dead spouses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2008
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Summary: "From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, PI Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale's famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer.... STILL LIFE The art world is a happening place--but a brush with death shouldn't be in the picture. Unfortunately, that's just what happens to Helen Hawthorne and her friend Margery. While touring gorgeous Bonnet House, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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Summary: When all are gathered at Marguerite Dumaney Ladson's gala combination Xmas/birthday bash, she announces that she's leaving her fortune to Dr. Emory Swanson and his Evermore Foundation. The subsequent murder is attributed to Annie Darling's errant father who's just shown up after a twenty-five year absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARMehl, Nancy
Summary: Des Moines. When multiple corpses of young women are found-- strangled, hands and feet bound with red ribbon, and a wire angel in their hand-- it fits the MO of The Raggedy Man. But Ed Oliphant-- Kaely Quinn's father-- has been in prison for over twenty years. Did Ed train someone to be a copycat killer? In order to prevent more deaths, Kaely must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: AnnaLise returns to North Carolina to take care of her ailing mother, but a man from her past, Benjamin Rosewood, shows up in town with his family and AnnaLise must confront some difficult questions that need answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSpencer, Sally
Summary: "He was going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but there it was... The body has lain buried for years, and has no face and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads, but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESmith, Barbara Burnett.
Summary: Meet Kitzi Camden, former stateswoman. When she retired, Kitzi dreamed of doing what she loves best--beading. She certainly didn't plan to try her hand at amateur sleuthing. But lately, trouble seems to find her wherever she goes--even deep into the woods. When a young beader is killed at a beading retreat, Kitzi is faced with almost as many suspects as there are beads in her bag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMICoulter, Catherine.
Summary: While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device. Returning to the civilian's home to continue their interrogation, they discover the tipster, and the FBI team left to guard him; dead. While Nicholas calls in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M COUBeaton, M. C.
Summary: A visit to the local village fete turns into a nightmare when Agatha Raisin discovers a body, and becomes the prime murder suspect. Determined to clear her name, she launches her own investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: Deciding that the PennDutch Inn needs to go more upmarket, Magdalena Yoder is delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honored guests, looking forward to the challenge of introducing English nobility to traditional American culture. But, as Magdalena is about to find out, the Grimsley-Snodgrasses are by no means the easiest of guests, and at the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MYEKingsbury, Kate
Summary: Melanie West and her grandmother Liza buy a purportedly haunted mansion with plans to turn it into a Bed and Breakfast, but they find a very real skeleton in their closet. In addition to dealing with the police, their own amateur investigation, the closed-mouthed town, their renovation, and a friendly ghost playing tricks, they find a new body that looks chillingly similar to Melanie herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsbury 2017Burns, V. M.
Summary: Sam's mother can't wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they're going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold's snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse. But their beacon of hope quickly sends everyone into a blind rage, most of all the groom-to-be. So when the maddening micromanager is strangled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: Something nasty is afoot in Emily Kincaid's northern Michigan town. She and her friend Deputy Dolly set out to solve the murder mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BuzzelliCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P BUZHerring, Peg.
Summary: Recent murder victim Tori can't make peace with the afterlife until she finds out who killed her and why. With the help of a Portal Detective named Seamus, Tori returns to the world of the living to seek answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2011
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC HERWhite, Elle Brooke
Summary: "Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIViets, Elaine
Summary: "To catch a jewel smuggler on a luxury yacht, Helen needs to pose as the ship's new stewardess--but between serving drinks to the snobs, scrubbing floors, and cleaning up after seasick passengers, she's starting to miss dry land almost as much as she misses Phil. While Helen's cruising to the Bahamas, Phil's got his own job--trying to catch a sexy gold digger who may have killed her elderly new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: After the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she's angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman who is under scrutiny by the new Vampire King because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the Shifters coming out are beginning to be felt, Sookie's connection to the Shreveport pack draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARRankin, Ian
Summary: "Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. THE BEAT GOES ON collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection. From his beginnings as a young Detective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: Former big-city detective Jane Bunker has an unexpected encounter with the dark underworld of her sleepy Maine coastal community when a dark secret from the past strikes close to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
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Summary: Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse contends with the outcome of the Fae War, her feelings for vampire Eric Northman, and the Shifter community going public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Summary: Mara is celebrating the christening of her son in April of 1511 when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning one of them is found dead, and the other two, along with an important legal document, are missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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Summary: "Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013