Critchley, Emily
Summary: ""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CritchleyChild, Lee
Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body, the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window, generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHIRobinson, Steve
Summary: In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past - and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROBKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORMusso, Guillaume
Summary: Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante. Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un écrivain misanthrope venu des États-Unis pour écrire dans la solitude. Ces deux écorchés vifs sont contraints de cohabiter quelques jours. L'atelier a appartenu au célèbre peintre Sean Lorenz et...
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Publisher / Publication Date: XO Editions 2017
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 MUS FRENCHBurt, Jake
Summary: "Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURWest, Jacqueline
Summary: Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WESLewman, David
Summary: "On the eve of a mayoral event happening at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's best friend Patrick Star goes missing! With no one willing to help find him, SpongeBob and Squidward put on their best detective gear and hit the case themselves. But as their investigation leads them to the darkest corners of Bikini Bottom, secrets about SpongeBob's best friend are quickly revealed."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWDave, Laura
Summary: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVDave, Laura
Summary: "Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVPatterson, James
Summary: Carter von Oehson posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. When no body turns up, Carter's father knows he's still alive. He only trusts Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Elizabeth Needham with the secret to how he knows this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.West, Jacqueline
Summary: Eleven-year-old Fiona finds a mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a disappearance. Soon Fiona begins to notice strange similarities that blur the lines between the novel and her new town. With a little help from a few odd Lost Lake locals, Fiona uncovers the book's strange history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WESLapena, Shari
Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAPSetterfield, Diane
Summary: When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SETSwanson, Peter
Summary: There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: he knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy. Now Joan needs his help in proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SWABarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions, including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they've learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She's recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family's historic bookshop with her elder sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLAPinter, Jason
Summary: "On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PINCarlson, David
Summary: A teenage girl has vanished in Santa Fe. Nearby, in the Trappist monastery of St. Mary of the Snows, a beautiful young nun is stabbed to death. Father Nicholas Fortis is on sabbatical at St. Mary's, and when Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department is flown in to help find the missing teenager, the Orthodox monk asks his friend to delve into the nun's murder as well. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffeetown Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARReichs, Kathy
Summary: A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past. On the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REICoben, Harlan
Summary: The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COBLippman, Laura
Summary: New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPReynolds, Allie
Summary: "In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm. When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. Yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020