Harnetiaux, Trish
Summary: "There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: 1) Everyone brings a wrapped, unmarked gift. 2) Numbers are drawn to decide who picks first. 3) Gifts don't need to be pricey--and often they're downright tacky.But things are a little different in Aspen, Colorado, at the office holiday party for the real estate firm owned by Henry Calhoun and his wife Claudine. Each Christmas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGrafton, Sue
Summary: Kinsey Millhone monitors the release from prison of a sociopath who is determined to exact revenge on a fellow perpetrator who went missing after they sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old classmate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCRobb, J. D.
Summary: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced. The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's exactly what happens one cold February evening. The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robb 2017Wan, Michelle
Summary: Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANOlson, Jessica S.
Summary: She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLSParker, Robert B.
Summary: Elizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn up murdered one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: "Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced. The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's exactly what happens one cold February evening. The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBBailey, Robert
Summary: "Now that attorney Jason Rich has returned home to Guntersville, Alabama, the "In an accident? Get rich!" lawyer is anxious to leave his checkered past behind. Jason hopes this next chapter in his life will be a chance to confront his personal troubles while making amends with his family. But when a former high school football star stands accused of killing a police officer, Jason is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIReed, Graham
Summary: After Jake quits the drug business, his realtor/ex-wife, Nina, gets him a job as a housesitter for her wealthy clients. Jake celebrates by throwing a party in the mansion he was hired to look after. Unfortunately, the guest list gets out of hand, leaving Jake to contend with a hallucinogenic-vitamin-dispensing yogi, a dead guy in the bathroom, and The Norwegian - a criminal force of nature with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REEDonlay, Philip S.
Summary: "Donovan Nash has a secret he'll do anything to keep. But he's the prime suspect after someone steals a fifty million dollar executive jet, and FBI agent Veronica Montero put him squarely in the crosshairs. As she digs, she discovers Nash's secret--a revelation that, if made public, would stun the world. Operating on her own agenda, Montero blackmails Nash into helping her hunt down a man she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONRoker, Al
Summary: "After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New York,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKThomas, Sherry (Sherry M.)
Summary: "As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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Summary: "Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise--that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Pictures' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Woods 2018Youers, Rio
Summary: "Brody Ellis is down on his luck. His mom walked out when he was a kid, his father recently committed suicide, he's behind on his rent, and now he needs medication for his sister, Molly, who has cerebral palsy. In a desperate bid for some fast cash, Brody robs a convenience store, but he bumps into a young woman as he makes his escape, and realizes too late that he dropped his wallet at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC YOUKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: "When Mike and Kate visit Detroit, someone is blackmailing the Tigers' famous slugger, Tony Maloney"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAGrafton, Sue
Summary: "The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRAHousewright, David
Summary: Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.I. who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when his girlfriend's daughter asks him to help her father Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of McKenzie's girlfriend, and a man in serious trouble. En route from St. Paul to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: "Return to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this mysterious town. Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "Jo's job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles - handsy Hollywood producers, adulterous actors, corrupt cops. Sure, she likes the money she's making, which comes in handy for the debt she is paying off, but it's also a chance to take back power for the women of the city. Eager to prove herself to her coworker Lou and their enigmatic boss, known only as the Lady Upstairs, Jo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMuller, Marcia
Summary: For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017