Smiley, Jane
Summary: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMISmiley, Jane
Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIDallas, Sandra.
Summary: It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murder in the brothel where she was living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALDallas, Sandra.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of True Sisters and Prayers for Sale is at her best with a novel about a woman's search for information surrounding the death of her estranged sister It's the spring of 1885 when wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen first sets foot in a Denver police station. Just days before, she received the terrible news of the death of her estranged younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dallas 2013Jones, J. Sydney.
Summary: In 1901 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen takes on two cases that draw him into a conspiracy of espionage and affairs of the state, the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute and the assault of a controversial playwright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013