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Adoption Fiction Amusement parks Fiction Detectives New York (State) New York Fiction Friendship Fiction Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Mystery and detective stories Physicians Rome Fiction Romans Great Britain Fiction Tourette syndrome FictionDowling, Gregory
Summary: When a young tour guide, Alvise Marangon, offers to help an English Grand Tourist, little does he know that it will lead to his being embroiled in blackmail and conspiracy. To add to his woes, he is then forcibly recruited into the city's powerful secret service to investigate a murder case. A eluctant spy he may be, but he is a gifted one. Amidst the world of gambling dens and courtesans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDowling, Gregory
Summary: "[An] excellent sequel...Dowling's lead's wry sense of humor is a plus." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Tour guide Alvise Marangon thinks he knows Venice better than ever, but now finds himself ensnared by mysteries as obscure as the city and in many cases just as old. Certain that he is finally about to have his guide's license revoked after a tavern brawl, Alvise is instead dragooned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWVerdon, John.
Summary: Consulting with a young documentary producer only to suffer a bizarre series of accidents shortly afterward, decorated NYPD detective Dave Gurney discovers links to a serial killer cold case that pits him against the nation's top law enforcement experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2012
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Summary: Top NYPD homicide detective is pulled out of retirement to solve a gruesome crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John
Summary: "The idyllic community of Larchfield is rocked to its core when Angus Russell, its wealthiest and most powerful man, is found dead in his mansion on Harrow Hill. A preliminary analysis of DNA gathered at the crime scene points to the guilt of Billy Tate,a dangerous local weirdo whose hatred for the victim was well known. However, Tate fell from the roof of a local church and was declared dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John
Summary: "It's always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon's tricky whodunits." -- The New York Times Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The racially polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John
Summary: "Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream-a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVernon, Ursula
Summary: Danny Dragonbreath and his friends try to help the senior reptiles of Sunny Acres find a lost item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VERDownie, Ruth
Summary: Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in Britannia, an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire. After a thirty-six-hour shift at the army hospital, Ruso succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl. But the girl won't talk, can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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Summary: After years of military service, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are summoned away. When a mysterious note consisting only of the words "COME HOME" arrives in the mail, Ruso is forced to give up his career as a doctor and head back home to his family - in Gaul. But all is not well on the home front. Tilla's reception is unexpectedly icy, and no one will admit to having sent for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "A haunting and luminous novel that explores the dark secrets lurking beneath the stunning natural beauty of a dying timber town. A mysterious beachcomber appears one day on the coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville, a place whose best days are long behind it. Who is he, and why has he returned after nearly forty years? Carverville's prodigal son, James, serendipitously finds work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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Summary: Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family, an effort that is complicated by rising tensions between the Britons and Romans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBowling, Dusti
Summary: Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month. But when her teacher's lunch bag is taken and Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing, can this perceptive detective crack two cases at the same time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BOWHerron, Mick.
Summary: "Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, an ex-spook with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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Summary: "London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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Summary: Tom Bettany is an ex-spook with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: "Russo and Tilla's excitement upon arriving in Rome with their baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too may doctors--some skilled, but others positively dangerous. Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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Summary: "What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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Summary: In the far reaches of the Roman Empire, there are three certainties in life for Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso: death, taxes, and angry barbarians. The hero finds himself trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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Summary: The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath). The wife of Ruso's best friend, Valens, has been found dead in the sacred hot spring, stabbed through the heart. Fearing the wrath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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Summary: Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, become embroiled in a family scandal when Severus, the family's chief creditor, winds up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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Summary: Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2013
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Summary: In the spring of the year 118, Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman-occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Ruso needs to get away, volunteering for a posting with the army in Britannia's deepest recesses. These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008