Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina.

Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GAR

Seales, Julia

Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...

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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 SEA

Gardner, Lisa

Summary: "No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M GAR

Knecht, Rosalie

Summary: "It's spring 1971 and P.I. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing--her father is already engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no indication of return. Max, who hasn't seen her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KNE

Turow, Scott

Summary: "For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation-until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Turow

Soloski, Alexis

Summary: "A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance. Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SOL

Edwards, Emily J.

Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDW

Spotswood, Stephen

Summary: "In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SPO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPO

Bowen, Rhys

Summary: "Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer-and warmer-in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn't want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she's expecting. So she heads north with the children...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Clark, Carol Higgins.

Summary: Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, hop from one Jersey shore resort town to the next in hopes of solving a tough case, one which is complicated when Regan bumps into an old friend she hardly recognizes.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Deveraux, Jude

Summary: "Sara Medlar's home is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. But when Kate stumbles upon a dead body, the Medlar Three are back in the sleuthing game. Kate also has a charming new real estate client with a mysterious past. It...

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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 DEV

Capri, Diane

Summary: A serial killer returns after years of inactivity in this gripping new suspense thriller. The green paint bathtub killer had Reacher Running Blind back in the day. The New York FBI team says Reacher was the serial killer then and is still the serial killer. But FBI Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar believe a copycat may be on the loose. Five powerful players are determined to win at all costs....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AugustBooks 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

King, Stephen

Summary: When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KIN

Paretsky, Sara

Summary: While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Baldacci, David

Summary: "When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAL