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Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDGreen, Layton
Summary: "Detective Joe "Preach" Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during the investigation of a serial killer who was targeting children. No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M GREPaton Walsh, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATTalton, Jon.
Summary: Private detective David Mapstone's first case goes sour as his client ends up murdered, and he travels from Phoenix to San Diego to investigate, leading him down the trail of a murder spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALCatton, Eleanor
Summary: It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CATTalton, Jon.
Summary: He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
Summary: Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend Cheryl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALPaton Walsh, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATFranklin, Ariana
Summary: Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRALawton, John
Summary: Chasing a draft dodger in the turbulent summer of 1969, private eye Turner Raines is embroiled in the death of his oldest friend, whose demise is overshadowed by unresolved family dynamics and secrets from Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWPaton Walsh, Jill
Summary: Lord Peter and Harriet return to the scene of their literate courtship to resolve an Oxford University dispute that is complicated by the disappearance of several prominent Fellows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBruen, Ken
Summary: In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBrant, Kylie
Summary: Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life. Now another teenage girl has gone missing, ripping open old wounds for the Willards. Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Foster has stumbled on uncanny parallels in the lives of the two missing girls that could unlock clues to a serial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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Summary: Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: PI Jack Taylor is called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K whom he remembers meeting at an airport. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: "When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorchester Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRULawton, John
Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWBruen, Ken
Summary: "Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken
Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRUFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: 1176, King Henry II's daughter is set to marry the king of Sicily. But when several wedding guests are murdered during the procession, Adelia must uncover who is behind the killings and who is the killer's real target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRABruen, Ken
Summary: "As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken
Summary: "In the new novel Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn't about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2015