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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Cryptographers Fiction Great Britain Murder Investigation Fiction Mystery and detective stories Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Fiction Women detectivesBilal, Parker
Summary: When the Coptic community of Cairo is implicated in a series of child murders in the summer of 2001, Sudanese private investigator Makana fears an increase in religious tensions and identifies links to a woman with a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILPatterson, James
Summary: FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2013Fforde, 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 FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLBaldacci, David.
Summary: Former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in to investigate a series of murders in Wrightsburg's forest where the victims are found wearing a wrist watch with a strange symbol on it and set to a particular time of day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Colored illustrations on endpapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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Summary: Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stabenow 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M STABaldacci, David.
Summary: A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. When Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called to join the case, they are already investigating a crime involving an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALWinston, Sherri
Summary: "Wednesday's brother's drone went missing in their own backyard. And that can mean only one thing--the thief is one of their friends! Can the neighborhood's newest service dog help Wednesday sniff out the bandit? Or will the case of the missing drone be a doggone disaster?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WINFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOBrown, Dan
Summary: A world-renowned expert in cracking ancient codes deciphers a mind-bending series of clues embedded in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROChilds, Laura.
Summary: New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session--when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ChildCronin, Doreen
Summary: When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her missing house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CROHamilton, Steve
Summary: "When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOBrown, Dan
Summary: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRODunnett, Kaitlyn.
Summary: "As a professional editor, Mikki Lincoln is used to crimes against the English language. As an amateur sleuth, she's finding catching criminals a lot more dangerous than catching typos ... Nestled in the picturesque Catskills, the village of Lenape Hollow prepares to celebrate the 225th anniversary of its founding. Freelance book editor Mikki Lincoln has been drafted to update and correct the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNGrafton, Sue.
Summary: California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up-one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson and a woman brutally slain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAKeene, Carolyn
Summary: "Nancy's Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It's spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2013
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Summary: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been dispatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOBelli, Kate
Summary: "New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes. The dead man is Marcus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Pursuing Kenny Mancuso, who fled after inadvertently shooting his best friend, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes involved in an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons and is pursued by vice cop Joe Morelli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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Summary: Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realizes that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2008