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Chicago (Ill.) Fiction Ghana Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Missing persons Fiction Missing persons Investigation Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Police Australia Sydney (N.S.W.) Fiction Widows Fiction Women private investigators Women private investigators FictionSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow"-- Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn't care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOMerrill, Robin
Summary: Gertrude has been called a lot of things but she's never been called a gumshoe until now. When her neighbor goes missing, she can't help but get involved not matter how many people ask her not to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MERBrackston, Paula
Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015Szymiczkowa, Maryla
Summary: Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotyńska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SzymiczkowaFox, Candice
Summary: "Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time-- that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man-- and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fox 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY FOXBlackstock, Terri
Summary: Three sisters investigate to try and clear their brother's name after he is accused of murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Blackstock 2013Clark, Tracy
Summary: Cops can make mistakes, even when they're not rookies. If anyone knows that it's Cass Raines, who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now she's the head of a one-woman private investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLARQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons, thefts, and marital infidelities. It's not the future she imagined, but it's her best option. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quartey 2020Saunders, Kate
Summary: "Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighboring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016