Wilding, Rose
Summary: "Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect each other in this electrifying debut thriller. New Year's Eve, 1999. Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect each other, they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Now ex-lawyer and current herbalist, China Bayles must stop a killer who is burning through Texas. Set to solve the mystery-homicide case, China must find the reporter assigned to the case before Jessica Nelson becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: When the Texas Star herself--aviatrix Miss Lily Dare, the fastest woman in the world--is threatened and her plane sabotaged, the Darling Dahlias must weed through the rumors to find the truth to take down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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Summary: Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square-if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter. Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseveto Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "The omnibus edition of the Crystal Cave Trilogy, from NYT bestselling author, Susan Wittig Albert. NoBODY: Ruby Wilcox has always known that she has a rare gift for seeing things that others can't. But she tries to downplay her psychic gift--until she experiences a horrifying nightmare that just won't stop. Again and again, she dreams that a woman is abducted on the hike-and-bike trail and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, "Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard," which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: China's friends and family are urging her to get some rest-and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops-while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AlbAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: "This Thanksgiving, be grateful for China Bayles who teams up with an old friend to solve a complex case of theft and murder in a South Texas ranching community. It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2015
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Summary: The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom. But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade. When local blond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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Summary: "When China's and Ruby's friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend's death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBEngel, Amy
Summary: "A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Sometimes it's better not to know. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small-town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder in the town's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGPease, Amy
Summary: Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2024
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Summary: Jess Kendall wants to make a good impression on her new boss at Canada's Dominion Archives and thinks she's hit the jackpot when she finds some mysterious letters from the First World War. Setting out to unravel their story, she starts researching in the Archive's art vault. There, however, she stumbles across the body of a colleague. When Jess makes the connection between the letters, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company 2022
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Summary: "What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Chua, Amy
Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Sometimes it's better not to know. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small-town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder. Eve Taggert, desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ENGMyers, Amy
Summary: "When Jack Colby hears a rumour that Old Herne's, the club for aviation and classic car veterans, is closing, he is appalled, and attends its annual event with foreboding. His instinct is right. He has been commissioned to investigate the theft of the Porsche car belonging to its manager, the popular Mike Nelson, but now far worse problems threaten the club when brutal murder proves to be on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYEAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out not only to identify the stranger's remains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKWillberg, Tess Amy
Summary: "Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant at Miss Brickett's receives a letter of warning, detailing a name, a time, and a place. She goes to investigate but finds the room empty. At the stroke of midnight, she is murdered by a killer she can't see--her death the only sign she wasn't alone. It becomes chillingly clear that the person responsible must also work for Miss Brickett's,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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Summary: Days after a young pageant queen named Jenny is found murdered, her small town grieves the loss alongside her picture-perfect parents. At first glance, Jenny's tragic death appears clear-cut for investigators. The most obvious suspect is one of her fans, an older man who may have gotten too close for comfort. But Jenny's half-sister, Virginia--the sarcastic black sheep of the family--isn't so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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Summary: An unidentified woman is found in a park. Examination shows that she had borne a child. Chief Inspector Erik Winter and his team are unable to find out who she is for quite a long time. Meanwhile, the child is in danger and may have been killed as well. It turns out that the child is experiencing a repeat of the mother's childhood history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010