Nunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: "Jacob's Rest is a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect. When an Afrikaner police officer is murdered, the powerful police Security Branch, dedicated to flushing out black communist radicals, preempts Detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation. But Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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Summary: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNWelsh, Kaite
Summary: "Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELKayode, Femi
Summary: When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in remote Port Harcourt, he has no idea that he's about to be enveloped by a perilous case that is far from cold. Philip is not a detective. He's an investigative psychologist, an academic more interested in figuring out the why of a crime than actually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Comany 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAYGunn, Elizabeth
Summary: When a family feud between Minnesota farmers ends up with one of them dead, Detective Jake Hines must find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNDunn, Carola.
Summary: "In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of thegeneration of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNDunn, Carola.
Summary: Elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn, who volunteers at the charity shop that occupies the first floor of her cottage, discovers the dead body of a long-haired, scruffy youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNKeyse-Walker, John
Summary: "After barely surviving the first criminal investigation in living memory on the sun-drenched British Virgin island of Anegada, Constable Teddy Creque has spent the past six months trying to weather the aftermath and move on with his life. Now, with a promotion and a medal of honor, he's newly committed to the job. So when a young woman dies in a shark attack off the coast of a neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEYHolahan, Cate
Summary: "The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town - and desperate for some kid-free conversation - she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband.Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and lips. The three couples begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLDunn, Carola
Summary: "After many years working around the world for an international charity in the late 1960s, Eleanor Trewynn has retired to the relative quiet of a small town in Cornwall. But her quiet life is short-lived when, due to her experience, the Commonwealth Relations Office reaches out to her to assist in a secret conference that is to take place in a small hotel outside the historical village of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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Summary: "A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dunn 2018Dunn, Carola.
Summary: In the spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London, Called in to lead the investigation, DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard is under urgent orders from his supervisor at the Yark to accomplish two things: solve the mystery quickly, and keep his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher far away from the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunn, Matthew
Summary: "Former intelligence agent Will Cochrane must evade US authorities hunting him down for a murder he didn't commit in this captivating sixth entry in the acclaimed action-thriller series. Former operative Will Cochrane wakes up in New York's Waldorf Astoria and is horrified to see blood on his hands--something he remembers absolutely nothing about. When he then finds a woman murdered in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNGrimes, Kenn
Summary: Edwin Thatcher was stabbed to death. That much was obvious. The question, though, is not only who did it but what kind of weapon was used.Enter Myrtle Tully, head librarian at the local college library and amateur sleuth whose efforts over the past three years helped expose the perpetrators of five murders in the small town of Booker Falls, tucked away in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGrimes, Kenn
Summary: "In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2016
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Summary: It’s New Year’s Day, 1921. The small town of Booker Falls, located in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, which less than four months earlier was rocked by a triple homicide, once again finds itself with a murder on its hands when the lifeless body of Frank Mitchell, amateur artist and head librarian at Adelaide College’s library, is discovered on the sawdust covered floor of his studio. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRILuna, Louisa
Summary: On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing, for help in finding out who the Janes were—and finding the others who are missing. Alice Vega is a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNMcDorman, Dann
Summary: "An irresistible murder mystery set at a genteel private club where everyone is a suspect, including the erratic detective on the scene-a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules of the genre and marks the arrival of a major new talent "The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth." A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMcKinlay, Jenn
Summary: "Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found. Ms.Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is shocked when she opens her trunk to discover a murder victim who just so happens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McKinlay 2022McKinlay, Jenn
Summary: "It's no-holds-barred murder, in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Hitting the Books. Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019