Grann, David
Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOBDeighton, Len
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Pub. 1992
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Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom-naked, covered in strange tattoos-to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall-along with all of Europe-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
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Summary: Amy Greenberg, who inherits Ian Fleming's long-hidden account of spying during World War II, which reveals mysteries going back to King Edward VIII and his sudden departure from the British throne, fights off the villains who want to steal the material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SILEgan, Timothy.
Summary: Breaking Blue is what Sheriff Tony Bamonte did when he disregarded the blue code that forbids investigating a fellow police officer. While preparing his master's thesis, Bamonte discovered new evidence linking a local officer to the 1935 murder of town marshal George Conniff. This is a gripping story of cop against cop and a collision between two generations of lawmen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
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Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Inheriting the local B & B--and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney--in Beaumont, South Carolina, Annie Fortenberry finds her life complicated by rumors of a prank-playing ghost, millionaire Max Holt's upcoming wedding, enigmatic stranger Wes Bridges, and her murdered ex-husband, a crime in which Annie has become the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OATRyan, W. C. (William Charles)
Summary: Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front. Among the guests, two have been secretly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAShalvis, Jill
Summary: Most people wouldn't think of a bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn't most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she's been having since spending the night with her very secret crush, Lucas Knight. Nothing happened, not that Lucas knows that - but Molly just wants to enjoy being a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHASummary: "Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top names in crime fiction."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEAConnelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: After her very wealthy--and very old--husband dies, Faith Duffy inherits a pile of money and a pro hockey team. Sexy player Ty Savage dreams of winning the Stanley Cup. Faith loathes Ty at first, but soon she begins to see there's more to him than sex appeal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GISGoldsmith, Olivia.
Summary: Kate Jameson has a plan to get Billy Nolan to date and dump Bina, causing Bina's wayward fiance to come back to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOLKaplan, Janice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: When the pregnant and scared wife of a migrant worker claims to be visited by the ghost of a young girl who warns her to flee the Harcourt estate, family counselor Elizabeth Conner convinces Zach Harcourt to look into the history of the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Martin 2006O'Shaughnessy, Perri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M OSHPatterson, James
Summary: "Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023