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African Americans Fiction Art thefts Fiction Detective and mystery stories FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural Grandmothers Fiction Mothers and daughters Mothers and daughters Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Mères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc Violence FictionJohnson, Varian
Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHSimon, Nina
Summary: The Maid meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1930, when Sylvia Bergstrom Compson was only a child, her mother passed away. Decades later, when several of her mother's hand-stitched heirloom quilts vanish, Sylvia resolves to find them. Traveling far and wide, she uncovers the surprising truth about her mother's romantic and ultimately tragic life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "Allegedly. She didn't say much in the first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACDeaver, Jeffery
Summary: Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons, even those who don't wish to be found, Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: CD FIC DEAEvanovich, Janet
Summary: Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAJones, Darynda
Summary: Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There's her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who's out to singlehandedly become Del Sol's youngest and fiercest investigator....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONFielding, Joy
Summary: Haunted by the kidnapping of her infant fifteen years earlier, Carole Shipley receives a phone call from a young girl claiming to be her lost daughter, an event that plunges Carole back into a world of heartbreak, suspicion, and questions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction FieSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother, Laura. But all that changes when an afternoon trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea sees a totally different side of her.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018