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Summary: A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but socially awkward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Constable 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAMoody, Susan.
Summary: Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. On Alice's 12th birthday, Nicola disappears. Her body is found days later, battered and bruised. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOClare, Alys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New English Library 2001
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Summary: Late autumn, 1196. A stranger arrives at New Winnowlands but disappears. A body is found in the forest, and three Knights Hospitallers arrive on the trail of a runaway monk. Josse realizes the mysterious guest brought a terrible secret- and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAStarr, Melvin R.
Summary: Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, is called in when a valuable stolen book is turns up alongside the drowned body of a poor Oxford scholar. The investigation leads him to Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch 2010
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Summary: Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuth Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry--with his current wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants--has outstayed his welcome at Bampton. The next morning, Sir Henry is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Fiction 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMStarr, Melvin R.
Summary: It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds, an ancient, corroded coin is found in the man's mouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAFforde, Jasper.
Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOJames, Bill
Summary: When a journalist is murdered for digging too deeply into the affairs of drug kingpin Adrian Pelotte, Detective Chief Superintendent Esther Davidson comes under pressure to find the killer quickly and prevent a drug war between Pelotte and his rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMTurnbull, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURGrimes, Martha
Summary: Superintendent Richard Jury investigates two murders in the hope of clearing the woman he loves. She is Lady Jennifer Kennington, a suspect in the deaths of an actress and a maid. A British mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIEdwards, 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 EDWGardner, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARMcPherson, Catriona
Summary: "It's the breezy Scottish summer of 1936 and aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver, along with trusted colleague Alec Osborne, has been called to solve the strange case of the Cramond Ferrywoman, on the Firth of Forth. From their cheerless digs in a local stately home, Dandy and Alec track Vesper Kemp, the ferrywoman, to a tiny tidal island. She seems to have lost her mind, roaming the beaches in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPLeitch, Fiona
Summary: Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie 'Nosey' Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer. But there's nothing like having your first job back at home to be catering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIGriffith, Nicola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIMorrison, Robbie
Summary: "Two detectives hunt a killer amidst the lawless streets and high society of 1930's Glasgow in this "brilliant" (Times UK) mystery that "serves up a delicious slice of thirties gangster noir" (Adrian McKinty)--inspired by the true story of the Scottish Untouchables. Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBeaufort, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAPurser, Ann.
Summary: House cleaner Lois Meade helps the police find the killer when spinster Gloria Hathaway is found dead in the village hall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PURRowe, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWJanes, Diane
Summary: Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? And while Fran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018