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Springer, Nancy

Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

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Goldberg, Leonard S.

Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOL

Cleeves, Ann

Summary: "Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, in the Two Rivers series, soon to be a major TV series too. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLE

Allen, Nancy Campbell

Summary: "London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALL

Cleeves, Ann

Summary: "North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr. Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr. Yeo is a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLE

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FEL

Brett, Simon

Summary: "Once again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess, so - unusually for her - she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in the 'Great Road Race' in his beloved Lagonda ... so long as he wins. The first prize of 10,000 pre-War sovereigns will help towards repairing the leaky ancestral home.Blotto elects to take chauffeur Corky Froggett as his spare...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Constable 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRE

White, Randy Wayne

Summary: "A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHI
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WHI

Hicks, Deron R.

Summary: "No matter how dangerous his adventures have been, Art has always been able to count on his best friend, Camille. Now that Camille is meeting her estranged father, Art wants to be there for her--which means going to London. But Camille's history professor father, renowned for expertise in British legend, is missing. When they visit his apartment, Art and Camille find a long-missing object that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile, their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband, Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford, requesting that they look into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEL

Goodman, Alison

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Summary: "A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new historical mystery series. Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Barron, Stephanie

Summary: "May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

Bradley, C. Alan

Summary: "Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019

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

Greenwood, Kerry

Summary: "Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2023

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Francis, Felix

Summary: When Miles Pussett discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future, he begins a search for answers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox and Company LLC 2022

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Cleeves, Ann

Summary: In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019

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

Hawkins, Paula

Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

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

Maxwell, Alyssa

Summary: "As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a local case of murder"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAX

Harvey, Jacqueline

Summary: "What would you do if you woke up in a strange place? If your whole life changed in the blink of an eye and you had no idea what was going on? Twins Kensy and Max Grey's lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London, and discover their parents are missing. As the situation unfolds, so many things don't add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2020

Pook, Lizzie

Summary: "In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC POO

Goodman, Alison

Summary: "Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," and her twin sister, Julia, need to rescue their friend's goddaughter, Caroline, from her violent husband. The sisters set out to Caroline's country estate, but their carriage is accosted. In the scuffle, Gus accidentally shoots and injures the ruffian, only to discover he is Lord Evan Belford, who was charged with murder twenty years ago. What follows is a high...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023

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Rous, Emma

Summary: "An addictive, highly commercial suspense novel featuring a grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton, and Lexie Elliot had a love child, Emma Rous and THE AU PAIR would be it. Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother Danny were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rous 2019

Galligan, John

Summary: Rolling into little Black Earth, Wisconsin, intending to go fly fishing, Ned "Dog" Oglivie instead stumbles upon the body of a man trying to save Black Earth Creek, and wonders if by caring about the death of a stranger, he can recover his own life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Binder, Hannes

Summary: "Hunting hat, smoking pipe, coat collar turned up-- that's how we know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective of all time. He usually investigates from London's Baker Street. But Holmes' most spectacular case leads him in a fast-paced chase from the metropolis of London across the continent to the Swiss Alps. At the roaring Reichenbach Falls there is a showdown between Holmes and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BIN

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