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Summary: "Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient, elderly widow Nora Selleck, who seems increasingly confused. When Florence visits Nora's house she's surprised when she encounters Ben Evans, a mysterious young stranger who's befriended Nora. Florence doesn't trust him, but no one else shares her concern. Until Nora suddenly disappears . . ."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASNesbø, Jo
Summary: "From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESHiggins, Jack
Summary: "Katherine Johnson was a couple of feet under dark green water. Her arms floated to each side, her legs were open, the eyes stared into eternity. There was a look of surprise on her face and she was achingly beautiful in death." Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox--but Fox made the mistake of killing her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGMcCafferty, Keith
Summary: The seventh novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series: Scarecrows are appearing in the cliffs above the Smith River in Montana, and state investigator Harold Little Feather, is trying to discover the culprit leaving the hay figures in the cliffs, with signs painted that read "No Smith River Mine-Not on My Watch." The event is related to a copper mine project that threatens the river,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCChilds, Laura
Summary: It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M CHIChilds, Laura.
Summary: Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHITracy, P. J.
Summary: "Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life, down to the last detail. By the time the police realize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRAChilds, Laura.
Summary: "Social darling Delaine Dish is throwing a lavish Candlelight Concert to raise funds for a run-down Victorian home donated to the Heritage Society - and Theodosia Browning is more than happy to help out with tea and tasty treats from the Indigo Tea Shop. The partygoers are a "who's who" of Charleston politics, industry, and high society, and Delaine plans to hit them all up for money to restore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIFlower, Amanda
Summary: "With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohio's Amish Country's most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King is determined to do everything in her power to make the event a sweet success. Except midsummer heat waves and outdoor ceremonies don't mix, and an exasperated Bailey soon finds herself struggling to fulfill bridesmaid duties and keep her stunning marshmallow-frosted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FLODe Castrique, Mark.
Summary: "Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam not only brought the guilty to justice but found meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DECLövestam, Sara
Summary: When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVLewis, Beverly
Summary: Dunkum follows a trail of secret coded messages to find his missing autographed basketball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LEWFletcher, Jessica
Summary: Jessica Fletcher's scenic cruise to Alaska is transformed into a search for a killer when she is joined by her old friend Kathy, who asks her to help locate her missing sister Wilimena, who vanished from the same ship during a previous cruise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2007
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Summary: "In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague. While we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder... Young Jessica Fletcher's life couldn't be more ordinary. She teaches at the local high school while she and her loving husband, Frank, are raising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M FLESandford, John
Summary: Mr. Kidd tries to stay one step ahead of mysterious characters and the feds as he deals with a corporate spy who stole the plans for a fighter plane target system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SANClare, Alys.
Summary: In the wake of a young nun's death in 1157 rural Kent, soldier-of-fortune Josse d'Acquin sets out to protect the reputation of the king, who had released the prime suspect, and is aided by the Abbess of Hawkenlye in uncovering secrets surrounding the convent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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Summary: With two cops shot dead in a heat wave, Detective Steve Carella is scouring town for a man with a record, a grudge and a colt 45.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Armchair Detective Library 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to help people with problems in their lives. Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MCCRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Newly married and about to be a father, Tres gives up the dangerous life of a private detective. But while honeymooning on Rebel Island, he discovers a dead body that triggers memories of his own shady past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M RIOCleeves, Ann.
Summary: When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: Three individuals--forty-two-year-old Deputy Chief Virginia West, Police Chief Judy Hammer, and twenty-two-year-old journalist Andy Brazil--search for a serial killer, exploring the seedy underbelly of Charlotte, North Carolina, while trudging through their own personal struggles, from unhappy marriages to obsessions with their jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYS COREdwards, 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 EDWEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: When her not-so-bright brother Wild Bill, a boat captain, goes missing in Florida, Barney takes up the search. Apart from the sunburn and humidity-induced bad hair, Barney also has to deal with Sam Hooker, whose missing boat might lead to Wild Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004