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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical London (England) Fiction Man-woman relationships Missing persons Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators Fiction Women private investigators FictionSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow"-- Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn't care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOBunce, Elizabeth C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BUNHarrison, Cora
Summary: Cork, Ireland, 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel, she immediately sends for one of her former pupils, Police Sergeant Patrick Cashman, to investigate. Dead bodies ar not unusual in the poverty-stricken slums of Cork, but this one is dressed in evening finery; in her handbag is a dance program for the exclusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPerry, Anne
Summary: "In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover's final, urgent message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Perry 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PERRowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: "Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence. Teamed with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M ROWTruss, Lynne
Summary: 1957. Famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. He intends to tell Constable Twitten the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. Just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead in his seat. As Constable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: In 1929, Maisie Dobbs hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations. She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of wounded World War I veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015Ellis, Bella
Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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Summary: When evidence of sabotage is uncovered, Boston Navy Yard secretary Mary Stirling and Navy officer Jim Avery work together to discover the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNSzymiczkowa, Maryla
Summary: Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotyńska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SZYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SzymiczkowaThomson, E. S.
Summary: After uncovering six tiny coffins at St. Saviour's Infirmary, apprentice apothecary Jem Flockhart seeks answers, following a trail that leads from the dissecting room to Newgate prison and the gallows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOConnealy, Mary
Summary: "After his father's death, Kevin Hunt inherits a ranch in Wyoming-the only catch is it also belongs to a half brother he never knew existed. But danger follows Kevin, and he suspects his half brother is behind it. The only one willing to stand between them is Winona Martin-putting her in the cross hairs of a perilous plot and a risk at love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONArlen, Tessa.
Summary: "Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARLChance, Maia
Summary: In this Prohibition-era caper, society matron Lola Woodby agrees to recover a stolen film reel for its rightful owner, but before she can retrieve it, the man in possession of the reel is killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAKhavari, Kate
Summary: Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars forever. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber, Kate Khavari's debut historical mystery is a fast paced, fearless adventure. London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh attends a dinner party for the University College of London. While she expects to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAMarch, Nev
Summary: "In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lays in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MARO'Donovan, Gerard
Summary: "February, 1922. Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish-American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved. But Normand has gone missing. And, as Collins discovers, there's a growing list of suspects. His quest leads him through the brutal heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODOPerry, Anne.
Summary: His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPryor, Mark
Summary: "Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting mystery series set in Paris during World War II, where a detective is forced to solve a murder while protecting his own secrets. Summer 1940: In German-occupied Paris, Inspector Henri Lefort has been given just five days to solve the murder of a German major that took place in the Louvre Musuem. Blocked from the crime scene but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PryorCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRYStabenow, Dana
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
Copies Available at Kingsley
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 STAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Winspear 2003Connell, John A.
Summary: "In the winter of 1945, seven months after the Nazi defeat, Munich is in ruins. Mason Collins--a former Chicago homicide detective, U.S. soldier, and prisoner of war--is now a U.S. Army criminal investigator in the American Zone of Occupation. It's his job to enforce the law in a place where order has been obliterated. And his job just became much more dangerous. A killer is stalking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Hardcover 2015