Blauner, Peter
Summary: "In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABruen, Ken
Summary: "Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2019
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Summary: At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020
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Summary: "As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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Summary: "Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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Summary: In 1915 Cairo, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her husband brave German submarines and warring Senussi to continue their search for ancient artifacts, until they stumble upon a much-too-recent corpse and try to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2001
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Summary: Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2008
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Summary: While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a lover. Amelia turns sleuth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: "Lucy doesn't know what to expect as she arrives on a private Maine island owned by eccentric billionaire Scott Newman, only that the exclusive experience should make for a very intriguing feature story. An avid environmentalist, Scott has stripped the isolated property of modern conveniences in favor of an extreme eco-friendly lifestyle. A trip to Holiday Island is like traveling back to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: "As Tinker's Cove, Maine, buzzes over a town-wide silver wedding anniversary bash, Lucy is reminded of her nuptials and ponders the whereabouts of Beth Gerard, her strong-willed maid of honor. Lucy never would have made it down the aisle without Beth's help, and although the two friends lost touch over the years, she decides to reach out. It only takes one phone call for Lucy to realize that a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEILovesey, Peter
Summary: "In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old murder. Bath, England: A wrecking crew is demolishing a row of townhouses in order to build a grocery store when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M LOVColt, Peter
Summary: "1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. But for the soldiers who made it back alive, there are other casualties of war--the loss of tenderness, trust, and connection. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Colt 2020Heller, Peter
Summary: Celine specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. She is asked for help by Gabriela, whose father, a photographer, went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling, but his body was never found. Investigating a trail gone cold in Yellowstone National Park, it becomes clear the two women are being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: "London, 1879. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speedwalking race, the "wobble." When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands-to pursue a ruthless murderer. Fifty years ago, Wobble to Death launched the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2020
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Summary: "In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone-cold case--the toughest of the seven he has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYRobinson, Peter
Summary: "In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice's murderer--but his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "Inspector Alan Banks--hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly--must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBLovesey, Peter
Summary: "If there's one thing detective Bath Peter Diamond has no patience for, it's a dumb git trying to get involved in one of his investigations-for example, a Philip Marlowe-wannabee private investigator like the self-styled Johnny Getz (his card claims he Getz results). But fate has saddled Diamond with this trial. A Bath antiques dealer, Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, has disappeared without a trace,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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Summary: "Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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Summary: John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's name before someone else dies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the detective digs deeper into the crime, deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSwanson, Peter
Summary: "Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020