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McGarrity, Michael

Summary: "Retired police chief Kevin Kerney returns--this time as the prime suspect in a brutal cold-case murder. A long-unsolved mystery gets a grim new break when the bones of Kim Ward are unearthed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, forty-five years after her disappearance. Suspicion swiftly falls on her old college boyfriend: none other than retired police chief Kevin Kerney. The chief's hopes of clearing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCG

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCG

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McGarrity 2018

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: "Jessie and Benny are participating in the Great Greenfield Bake-Off, a local baking competition for kids. But ingredients get mixed up during the competition and then the power goes out. Is someone trying to put an end to the contest?"--Provided by the publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Dixon, Franklin W

Summary: While attending an amusement park under the new ownership of their friend Daisy, Joe and Frank investigate the disappearance of a patron who was last seen riding a hit attraction, an event that has threatened Daisy's family's livelihood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 3

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Christie, Agatha

Summary: "At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce--a hostile thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a doubler murderer ..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHR

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

Fowler, Christopher.

Summary: "No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Hillerman, Tony

Summary: Native American policeman Joe Leaphorn probes the murder of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIL

Jackson, Lisa

Summary: The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it's clear this murder isn't random. For Detective Regan Pescoli, news of her sister's death brings grief mixed with guilt....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corporation 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jackson 2019

Hillerman, Tony

Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Muller, Marcia

Summary: On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MUL

George, Elizabeth

Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEO

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Sallis, James

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Summary: Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAL

Simenon, Georges

Summary: "Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower pace of life. When a woman, who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls, is murdered Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local Inspector, a former colleague of Maigret's."--Publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Styles Court, the Essex manor house, scene of master detective Hercule Poirot's first triumph. An air of evil still touches the gracious grounds--and the fierce little Belgian pits his brilliant mind against the vanity of killers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHR

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Gregory, Susanna

Summary: In the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyone with sufficient means has fled the plague-ridden city, its half-deserted streets echoing to the sound of bells tolling the mounting number of deaths. Those who remain clutch doubtful potions to ward off the relentless disease and dart...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Kellerman, Faye

Summary: "Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. --Amazon.com

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kellerman 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KEL

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling story: a woman, accused of being rude to a valued customer, has been wrongly dismissed from her job at an office furniture store. Never one to let an act of injustice go unanswered, Mma Ramotswe begins to investigate, but soon discovers unexpected information that causes her to reluctantly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCall-Smith 2017

Billingham, Mark

Summary: "From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases. While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly spread of a dangerous new drug, Tom Thorne is handed a case that he doesn't take too...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIL

Fossum, Karin

Summary: Ragna Riegel likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she receives a letter with a threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. Facing an unknown enemy, she must use all her means to defend herself. When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer thinks...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOS

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC FOS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fossum 2019

McKinlay, Jenn

Summary: With their impending wedding just around the corner and all going well as the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, Mel and Joe find themselves investigating a murder to clear Oz's name.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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Reichs, Kathy.

Summary: "It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REI

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Reichs 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M REI

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