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Summary: "If anything can be said about the endearingly predictable Margo Hemsley, it's that she always serves elaborate desserts at her mystery book club meetings. That's why everyone fears the worst after she doesn't pick up her order from Bernie and Libby and skips out on the monthly gathering. The Simmons sisters can't imagine their acquaintance vanishing like a character from one of her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: "It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family -- though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other -- and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: Ellen's children forget her birthday and her husband forgets their anniversary, but her Mother's Day could not be more surprising as she finds herself in a hotel with a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Crawford 2016Crawford, Isis
Summary: Quiet Longely, New York, is abuzz with excitement over the opening of a revamped art complex--and catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are helping put on an elaborate tea party for the opening night gala fundraiser. But when the billionaire behind the project drops dead, the Simmons sisters find themselves steeped in a whistling kettle of murder . . . Everyone in Longely is talking about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crawford 2016Hill, Susan
Summary: From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCrawford, Isis.
Summary: The gothic old Peabody School will be the perfect place to hold a charity haunted house... until a wealthy socialite is found dead in the gloomy halls. Can the Simmons sisters narrow down the list of suspects, or will they reach a dead end?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: When Darius Witherspoon hires them to cater a costume party in honor of his missing wife, Bernie and Libby arrive at the haunted Berkshire Arms only to find out that murder is on the menu when Darius is found hanging from a noose during the festivities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRASjowall, Maj
Summary: "The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjw̲all and Per Wahl,̲̲ finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2009
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Summary: "When a member of an exclusive book club is poisoned, spunky librarian Trudell Beckett must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is the town's oldest and most exclusive book club. When Trudell Beckett, the town's spunky assistant librarian, is invited to speak to the club about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STJSt. James, Dorothy
Summary: "When a member of an exclusive book club is poisoned, spunky librarian Trudell Beckett must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is the town's oldest and most exclusive book club. When Trudell Beckett, the town's spunky assistant librarian, is invited to speak to the club about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: The Cypress Arete Society is one of the town's oldest and most exclusive clubs. When assistant librarian Trudell Becket is invited to speak to the group about the library, it's modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading public, her friend Flossie invites herself along. Flossie has been on the book club's waiting list for five years, and she's determined to find out why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ST. JAHammer, Lotte
Summary: The skeleton of a young woman is discovered, tied to a stone, in a lake deep in the Danish countryside. The woman's identity is a mystery; no one matching her description has been reported missing... After months of fruitless investigation by the local police force, a media scandal brings the case to nationwide attention and is quickly handed over to Konrad Simonsen and his team from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMTodd, Charles
Summary: After the 1918 Armistice, nurse Bess Crawford is trying to save a former soldier in England from a mysterious killer when she is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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Summary: The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODPenny, Louise.
Summary: Anticipating a wedding anniversary trip to luxurious Menoir Bellechasse, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds his plans interrupted by his fellow guests as well as old secrets that serve as a prelude to murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENRoby, Kinley E.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a prominent community activist in Florida only to discover that the beautiful socialite who hired him was implicated in the death of her husband years earlier, Harry Brock survives an attempt on his life before learning that his first wife is dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBTodd, Charles
Summary: "The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still agonizingly raw. Battlefield Nurse Bess Crawford has been assigned to a clinic for amputees, and the Welsh patients worry her. She does her best to help them, but it's clear that they have nothing to go home to, in a valley where only the fit can work in the coal pits. When they are released, she fears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Todd 2018Todd, Charles.
Summary: While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODTodd, Charles.
Summary: While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TODTodd, Charles
Summary: "Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODLupica, Mike
Summary: "When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim--the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching the man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Woodmere
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Summary: Covering the town's annual Giant Pumpkin Fest during the Halloween season, reporter Lucy Stone follows leads to a local general store-turned-Internet hotspot when her husband, Bill, is framed for a friend's murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meier 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MEIHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. Alan Conway, the late author of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HORDowns, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007