Fletcher, Jessica
Summary: "Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason to worry about her longtime publisher, Lane Barfield, who also happens to be a trusted friend. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure--one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEBarron, 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, Call number: FIC BARLauren, Christina
Summary: Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, shes got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when shes asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasnt been practicing what shes preached. Fizzy hasnt ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, cant-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached. Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUFerrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016
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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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Summary: "Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe-Berlin. Zoe, rudderless, relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star. On Craigslist, Hailey unknowingly stumbles on an apartment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENArmas, Elena
Summary: "Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria paperback 2022
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Summary: Widow and novelist Octavia Frost is reunited with her estranged son Milo after he is arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Octavia then embarks on a troubling quest to root out the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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Summary: "A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Romance writer Dakota Laurens attends a writers⁰́₉ conference as a scheduled lecturer but gets more than she anticipated when she meets the handsome doctor Walt Eddy, who is presenting at his own convention on emergency medicine in disaster areas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa has had ominous discomfort, the feeling of being watched. Who is behind CASA? Is Clarissa right to be wary or does she too easily give in to paranoia, falling victim to an overly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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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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Summary: "What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery/Scout Press 2015
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Summary: "Gabby Langdon has always tried to make people happy. She even went to law school to please her father, and now she's a highly successful-albeit bored-attorney. But Gabby secretly dreams of being a writer, so for once she does something for herself--she signs up for a writing class taught by best-selling novelist Caden Marshall. There's only one problem: her brooding, sexy professor is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIAFlynn, Kathleen
Summary: "Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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Summary: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021