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Adventure stories Austen, Jaine (Fictitious character) Fiction Detective and mystery stories Family secrets Fiction Great Britain History 14th century Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Paranormal fiction Secret societies Juvenile fiction Violence Fiction Women private investigators California Los Angeles FictionHearne, Kevin
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Kevin Hearne returns to the world of his beloved Iron Druid Chronicles in book two of a spin-off series about an eccentric master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in Scotland. Charming and unconventional Scottish detective Al MacBharrais returns in the second installment of the magical murder mystery series Ink & Sigil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAHearn, Sam
Summary: While on a school trip to the British Arts & Antiquities Museum, John Watson and his friends from the Baker Street Academy get involved in a mystery when the Alpine Star, a famous diamond, is stolen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAPearse, Sarah
Summary: "A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PeaCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Pearse 2021Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PEALevien, David.
Summary: Feeling out of place in a new job working for an exclusive investigation company, Frank Behr protects his prominent client from an assassination attempt that raises his suspicions when the Indianapolis police force tries to cover up the incident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVTursten, Helene
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tursten 2018Tursten, Helene
Summary: Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURTursten, Helene
Summary: "One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TurGavin, Rick.
Summary: "The nastiest meth lord in three states is out for revenge on repo-man Nick Reid in the next riotously funny Delta noir novel from Rick Gavin The last time Nick Reid and his pal Desmond tangled with that crazy meth-dealer Boudrot, Boudrot landed in jail and Nick and Desmond helped themselves to the several hundred grand in cash hidden in his trailer. Now Boudrot's made a jailbreak and escaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAVWignall, Kevin
Summary: When fifteen-year-old American Hailey Portman goes missing in Switzerland, her desperate parents seek the help of their neighbor, Finn Harrington, a seemingly quiet historian rumored to be a former spy. Sensing the story runs deeper than anyone yet knows, Finn reluctantly agrees to make some enquiries. He has little to go on other than his instincts, and his instincts have been wrong in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGSands, Kevin
Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANDahl, Arne
Summary: Detective Paul Hjelm is placed into an elite team of officers and sent on a mission to track down a killer who has been systematically targeting business leaders, a case that pits them against the Russian Mafia and Sweden's secret wealthy societies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHBerne, Suzanne
Summary: "A satirical social commentary with an element of suspense that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns and picket fences of suburban America. Littlefield, Massachusetts is named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, but someone is poisoning the town's dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERDahl, Arne
Summary: Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of the Swedish Intercrime unit investigate the torturing death of a literary critic whose murderer escaped to Stockholm, a case with sinister ties to a presumed-dead serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHHare, Louise
Summary: "A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARMatthews, Jeanne.
Summary: Anthropologist Dinah Pelerin travels from Hawaii to Norway, where she unexpectedly finds herself learning about the politics of genetic engineering and the Doomsday Seed Vault, involved in the marital troubles of and American presidential candidate and his Norwegian-born wife, and trying to figure out why a dead body fell out of a hotel sauna into her arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATStarr, Melvin R.
Summary: Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, is called in when a valuable stolen book is turns up alongside the drowned body of a poor Oxford scholar. The investigation leads him to Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STALevine, Laura
Summary: When her abusive professional-matchmaker boss ends up dead, Jaine Austen is on the long list of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVFossum, Karin
Summary: Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFossum, Karin
Summary: "A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is nosign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Sara Linton, her police chief ex-husband, and detective Lena Adams delve into the heart of a quagmire surrounding the death of a young girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLASlaughter, Karin
Summary: "The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all. ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLALevine, Laura
Summary: Jaine's life has been a royal pain since she started penning dialogue for Some Day My Prince Will Come - a cheesy dating show that features bachelorettes competing for the heart of Spencer Dalworth VII, a very distant heir to the British throne. As if fending off golf ball-sized bugs on a sweltering island wasn't tough enough, Jaine must test her patience against an irritable production crew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVLevine, Laura
Summary: When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY LEVKellogg, Marne Davis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007