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Summary: The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away. While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRRowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRussell, Craig
Summary: "A novel set in Czechoslovakia in 1935, in which a brilliant young psychiatrist takes his new post at an asylum for the criminally insane that houses only six inmates--the country's most depraved murderers--while, in Prague, a detective struggles to understand a brutal serial killer who has spread fear through the city, and who may have ties to the asylum"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSBenn, James R.
Summary: In his time investigating crimes for both the Boston cops and General Ike's European forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle hasn't encountered a serial killer. But now it looks like he may--a serial killer with a particularly frightening agenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALBunce, 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 BUNMoore, Graham
Summary: When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2010De Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE GHerring, Peg.
Summary: A killer is stalking London, beheading young women and dressing their bodies in nuns' clothes. When one of the princess's own ladies becomes a victim, the 12-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of the now failing Henry VIII, joins with her friends Simon Maldon, a physician's son, and Hugh Bellows, the captain of the king's Welsh Guard, in the hunt for the murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HERPintoff, Stefanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINCorby, Gary.
Summary: Hired by Pericles to investigate the murder of a proxenos to Ephesus, private investigator Nicolaus discovers a sobering plot to invade and destroy Athens and rescues the enslaved daughter of a powerful diplomat and infamous traitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORJohnson, D. E. (Dan E.)
Summary: "Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancee, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company--Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancee and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. Will agrees, and when he arrives there, he finds Cooper dead, crushed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHWortham, Reavis Z.
Summary: Farmer and part-time constable Ned Parker teams with the mythical sheriff John Washington to track down a murderer that may be targeting Ned's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2011
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Summary: "Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson's friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will's hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for nothing except revenge against the people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2011Kerr, Philip
Summary: "New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KERRyan, William
Summary: As Stalin's great terror begins, a killer strikes. Moscow 1936. A young woman's mutilated body is found on an alter in a deconsecrated church. Korolev is asked to investigate. The victim is discovered to be an American citizen, and now one false move will mean exile to the Zone, the frozen camps of the far north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MYS WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery WinFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: In March 1873 aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox undertakes a delicate espionage mission to Egypt, where five British agents have been killed, apparently by the French. But soon after Charles's ship sets sail, the captain calls on him to dust off his deductive skills when a crew member is murdered and left eviscerated on the deck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINPerry, Anne.
Summary: In Victorian London, Supt. Pitt of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three apparently disparate victims: a band leader, a naval officer and a bus conductor. All three were beheaded. The case leaves him stumped, but fortunately there is his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Anne
Summary: In Victorian London, PI William Monk investigates a new game in town, the raping and beating of prostitutes by rich men. The probe leads him to the murder of a solicitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERAshford, Lindsay Jayne.
Summary: Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at least to tell her story -- a story of family intrigues, shocking secrets, forbidden loves, and maybe even murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHPerry, Anne.
Summary: Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2011Winspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord Templeton-Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fiancée at a house party on a Cornish isle owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly. But Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party: What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly's bride...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019