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Summary: "When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2017Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin--only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Set in New Orleans in 1836.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMChristie, Agatha
Summary: Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. When he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's 'private collection.' Three of the other players turn out to be Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRPatterson, James
Summary: "An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy. On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Century 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATHare, 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 HARSandford, John
Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANClements, Andrew
Summary: As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLEBox, C. J.
Summary: Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more--Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway--alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren't sure if she'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOXCamilleri, Andrea.
Summary: Before leaving for vacation, Inspector Montalbano witnesses a seagull doing an odd dance on the beach outside his home, when the bird suddenly drops dead. Stopping in at his office for a quick check before heading off, he notices that his right-hand man, Fazio, is nowhere to be found. Montalbano sets out to find him and discovers that the seagull's dance of death may provide the key to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "Brooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail from Scotland. The book is a rare British first edition of Rebecca, and there's no return address on the package. The day after the book arrives, Claire Quinn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARConnolly, John
Summary: "Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CONEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS EVAHarris, C. S.
Summary: "Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder. It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARKrueger, William Kent
Summary: Cork O'Connor has always considered November to be the cruelest of months, yet his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry. When a man camping in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing, Cork is asked by the man's family to stay on the case. The wedding is fast approaching, the weather looks threatening, but Cork doesn't return from the search....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRUKrueger, William Kent
Summary: ""One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series ... thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016