Barry, Ava
Summary: Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARJanuary, Ava
Summary: "London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband who doesn't exist, which allows her far more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AVDParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARDisher, Garry
Summary: "The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISNonami, Asa
Summary: New bride Noriko is adjusting to her new life as a member of her husband Kazuhito Shito's large family, when she's accosted by a merchant who rents property from the Shitos. The merchant makes an oblique comment before fleeing. The brief, if unsettling, encounter achieves more prominence for Noriko after she learns that the man and his family died in a propane explosion, and she eavesdrops on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NONLarsson, Asa
Summary: It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Oak 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARDisher, Garry.
Summary: Drugging his former police officer girlfriend and fleeing with a cache of stolen gems he subsequently discovers are fakes, enduring thief Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with his estranged nephew to engineer a complicated heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry.
Summary: "The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry.
Summary: Hoping for a straightforward jewel heist, Wyatt is forced to partner with Eddie Oberin and Eddie's intelligent ex-wife, Lydia, who possesses critical inside information, in a plot that proves unexpectedly complicated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISParry, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTorch 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARBaart, Nicole
Summary: "Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer romance when Cal and Beth Murphy, a childless couple who lived on a neighboring farm, were brutally murdered. When her younger brother became the prime suspect, June's world collapsed and everything she loved that summer fell away. She left, promising never to return to tiny Jericho, Iowa. Until now....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaartBarsa, Michael
Summary: The adult son of an acclaimed horror writer is forced to confront his family's past after the "accidental" death of his parents. When his father, a critically acclaimed horror writer, dies in a car accident, Milo is free. No more nightmarish readings, spooky animal rites, or moonlit visions of his father in the woods with a notebook and vampire make-up. Milo settles into a quiet life and begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underland Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKava, Alex.
Summary: Maggie O'Dell leads an investigation into the bombing of the nation's largest shopping center, uncovering paranoia, racism and a sinister secret agenda that extends to the highest ranks of a white-collar lobby group. As retailers count down to Christmas Eve, Maggie knows that infiltration is the only option--even though the cost could be huge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVKava, Alex.
Summary: When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work immediately, but the scene is rife with danger: continued rainfall prevents the rescue teams from stabilizing the land; toxic household substances spread by the crushing slide fill the...
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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 KAVEarly, Barbara
Summary: "Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland, but it was never her dream to settle in her small, albeit charming, hometown. When her father sinks his entire police pension into a vintage toy shop, however, someone needs to help him turn his dreams into reality--and keep him from sneaking out of retirement and off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY. The mood goes from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EAREarly, Hank
Summary: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARBarr, Nevada
Summary: Taking a temporary post as ranger in Dry Tortugas National Park to escape dealing with a marriage proposal, Anna Pigeon investigates a mysterious boating accident that leads her to uncover sinister local crimes from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BARBarr, Nevada.
Summary: Anna and Sheriff Paul Davidson are married only three days before Anna moves from Mississippi to Colorado. Her mettle is immediately tested as the new district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. Three young girls have gone missing, and when only two return a month later--wearing filthy undergarments and bearing deep psychological scars--the signs point to a mysterious religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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Summary: "The lives of a middle-aged doctor and a love-struck young woman intersect across time in Sleeping in Eden, Nicole Baart's haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the boundaries between loyalty and truth.On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town ofBlackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAAKava, Alex
Summary: Receiving attention after intercepting drug deals with his canine assistants, K9 search and rescue trainer Ryder Creed teams up with FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell to stop a human smuggling operation and halt a series of brutal murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KAVKava, Alex.
Summary: On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane. Patrolling the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew opens this cooler, they're shocked to find body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010