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Summary: Overseeing her daughter's frantic attempts to identify recipes in time for a cookbook deadline, aging actress Trixie and her companion, Evangeline, investigate claims that the original cookbook author died after eating one of the recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABBenison, C. C.
Summary: When a performer at the annual Burns dinner at Thornford Regis is found dead under suspicious circumstances, town vicar Tom Christmas uncovers generations-old secrets in his quest for the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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Summary: Thornford Regis has never been lovelier: larks on the wing, lilacs in bloom, and the May Fayre in full swing. But inside the empty village hall, the huge Japanese o-daiko drum featured in the festivities has been viciously sliced open-- and curled up inside is a bludgeoned body. Father Tom Christmas, still haunted by the tragedy that has left him a widower and his nine-year-old daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENHewson, David
Summary: Florence 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an English art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired detective who longs to be back in the field. Their investigation leads them into the secret society that underpins the city; an elite underworld of excess violence and desire. The Flood takes the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWHewson, David
Summary: When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day--murder is bad for tourism! The police recruit the help of retired archivist, Arnold Clover. Godolphin had hired his services on arriving in Venice to help sort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWDearman, Lara
Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEABlack, Cara
Summary: Struggling to be happy for René and his new girlfriend in spite of considerable misgivings, Aimée fears her suspicions are correct when the girlfriend disappears at the same time a man with her photograph is found murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BLABlack, Cara
Summary: Aimée Leduc is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimée can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Cara
Summary: When Aimee Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police "commissaire," asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, Aimee finds Xavierre, a "haut bourgeois" matron of Basque origin, strangled in her garden while Aimee waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimee must identify the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABalson, Ronald H.
Summary: Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALRamsay, Caro
Summary: Anderson and Costello discover a body in macabre circumstances, and must figure out what happened to a girl who is found wandering through the West End Festival parade claiming to have been abducted by aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMBerenson, Laurien
Summary: "As Melanie attempts to deck the halls in a house overrun by pampered Poodles, her event planner friend, Claire, is busy playing Santa--beard and belly not included--for the wealthiest clientele on Connecticut's Gold Coast. A personal shopper gig in the affluent town of New Canaan seems like business as usual. Except Claire's stylish stint comes at a higher price than she bargains for when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerenson, Laurien
Summary: When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned a deadly detour. Within three days of her arrival, Ellie Gates has been found dead. Though the police and the family believe the death to be an accident, Aunt Peg is sure they are wrong. Melanie discovers that Miss Ellie was a woman of many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEREason, Lynette
Summary: This inspirational thriller from Eason (Moving Target) nicely mixes crime and romance in rural South Carolina. Childhood friends police officer Izzy St. John and rookie Kevin Marshall are now police partners. One night, acting on a tip from an informant he wasn't supposed to be in contact with, Kevin drags Izzy to an abandoned warehouse to do surveillance on a high-level arms deal. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EASBlack, Cara
Summary: Aimée Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimée's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloé, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimée rushes to get Chloé, annoyed that, yet again, her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2019Black, Cara
Summary: Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost, a Serbian warlord her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Cara
Summary: "Paris, April 1999: Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her--running her detective agency and fighting off sleep-deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (French Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Cara
Summary: "The world knows Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, no-nonsense private investigator the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimee first became a detective. November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M BLAHanson, Hart
Summary: "Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He's spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn't going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago: Troubletroubletrouble....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HANThomas, Kara
Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOBerenson, Laurien.
Summary: Helping a legendary dog breeder pen his autobiography, Melanie is stunned when the man's son turns up dead and the breeder is the main suspect, and she resolves to investigate the death amidst ex-lovers, hoarding, and dead ends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBlaedel, Sara.
Summary: "A young woman's body is found on the street in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district, her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend, Camilla Lind, calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter on a morning paper, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments. Instead, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlædel, Sara
Summary: Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers. The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should have made the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. As the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, Louise risks involving the media by releasing a photo of the victim, hoping to find someone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLAParetsky, Sara.
Summary: A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010