Hechtman, Betty
Summary: As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing advertising copy for local businesses, and love letters for those needing romantic help. Tony Richards needs the latter. Debonair, charismatic, handsome, Tony seems like the last person who'd need help with love letters, but help him Veronica does... only, Tony owes her money and won't tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECHechtman, Betty
Summary: "Maeve Winslow hires Veronica Blackstone to help write her memoirs. Maeve is the wife of a famous artist, and claims there's a surprise at the conclusion of the book that may be about his work. Before Maeve can reveal the truth to anyone, she's found dead. Can Veronica unravel the clues hidden within the memoir to discover who the killer is?."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECKrentz, Jayne Ann
Summary: "Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers co-host a podcast, The Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases. After receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum when she's stopped by the women's mysterious tipster. Ambrose Drake is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Pallas and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KREBurton, Mary (Mary T.)
Summary: "At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum's past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley's old flame, is Shield Security's newest member. He's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURAquilina, Rosemarie
Summary: Have you ever wondered what really happens to Santa Claus letters? In Detroit and Sarasota some children's letters are diverted and reviewed by Nick Archer, a religiously obsessed, narcissist. Nick responds, leaving a trail of devastation in the two cities. In Detroit, co-ed partners and wise-cracking lovers, detectives Jaq McSween and David Maxwell, team up with Sarasota detectives Abel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fiery Seas Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AQUGolden, S. K.
Summary: "It's 1958, and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what's more, it's her father's hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyn's always been good at finding things; she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now she's finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLHughes, Mary Ellen
Summary: Callie Reed makes a long overdue visit to her aunt Melodie in quaint Keepsake Cove, home to a bevy of unique collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When Callie discovers her aunt's body on the floor of her music box shop, she can't accept Melodie's death being called accidental. And why was she there in the middle of the night? Signs seem to come from her late aunt through a favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "From USA Today and internationally bestselling author Leonard Goldberg comes a new thrilling tale of Sherlock Holmes' daughter and her companion Dr. John Watson, Jr. as they investigate a murder at the highest levels of British society. 1910. Joanna Blalock's keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GOLNesbø, Jo
Summary: Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he has ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M NESCarlisle, Kate
Summary: Someone's been slayed! If contractor Shannon Hammer can't nail the real culprit in the St. Nick of time, her dad will wind up in the clink....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: M CARWashburn, L. J.
Summary: Going back to school can be a killer! Phyllis Newsom and Sam Fletcher come out of retirement to take substitute teacher jobs as a favor for some friends, but they soon realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same. That means getting up early, dealing with students and other teachers, and helping out with extracurricular activities. The problem is, for Phyllis, stumbling over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WASWashburn, L. J.
Summary: The chili in Texas is red-hot ... and so is murder! Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians, and media. Raucous excitement fills the air, but so does chili when a sabotaged propane cooker explodes, killing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WASJames, Steven
Summary: FBI special agent Patrick Bowers grapples with a baffling series of murders in Detroit--and discovers a terror plot with roots that stretch back centuries. Called in by an ex-girlfriend to consult on a case, Patrick encounters the work of a killer who displays a stunning degree of ruthlessness. Bowers is shocked to find that the slayings are linked not just to his own history with a known...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMNesbø, Jo
Summary: Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESDonati, Sara
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DONCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "Shannon could not be happier that her hunky thriller-writing boyfriend, Mac, has moved in, and it is a good thing they are living together because they are both busier than ever. Mac is hosting writing retreats at his now vacant lighthouse mansion, while Shannon and her crew build Homefront, a quaint Victorian village of tiny homes for veterans in need. Mac's latest guests are proving to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "Shannon Hammer can't wait to start on her next renovation project in Lighthouse Cove: a quaint Victorian church that has seen better days. But on the first day of demolition, work comes to a screeching halt when she stumbles on the body of a beautiful young woman in one of the chapels. Suspects crawl out of the woodwork as fast as Shannon can restore it. The church is hiding a century of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARKallentoft, Mons
Summary: "Autumn rains are pouring down on the Swedish countryside, but it's the discovery of a brutally stabbed body floating facedown in the moat of Skogså Castle that chills one town to the bone. Jerry Petersson, the castle's new owner and a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur, is now, shall we say, permanently out of business. Meanwhile, Malin Fors, the brilliant but flawed star of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2014