Pinter, Jason
Summary: "On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PINO'Connell, Catherine
Summary: "After drinking too much at her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes to find a stranger in her bed. To make matters worse, a phone call brings the devastating news that her friend Angie was murdered some time after they parted ways the night before. Kelly Delaney, who left the party early, is the first of Maggie's friends to face questions from Chicago homicide detective Ron O'Reilly....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCOHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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Summary: Abraham Lincoln and his best friend, Joshua Speed take up the case of two brothers accused of murder in 1839. But as soon as they begin, Lincoln and Speed find their friendship at grave risk of rupture as they both vie for the hand a beautiful new arrival in town: an ambitious, outspoken young woman named Mary Todd. Can Lincoln and Speed put aside their differences to work together for justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC PUTTurow, Scott
Summary: A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS TURHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: It seems like a hopeless open-and-shut case, but Briley Lester is becoming more and more convinced that her client truly is innocent of killing her abusive husband, the scion of one of the city's wealthiest, most powerful, most dangerous families. A tragic secret, almost too shocking to be believed, could be the key to proving it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNFiffer, Sharon Sloan
Summary: Forced to sell her house and move her antique collection after her divorce is finalized, private investigator Jane Wheel relocates to her Illinois hometown, where she investigates a washed-up comedian's activities against a backdrop of a crewman's suspicious death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIFMcInerny, Ralph M.
Summary: With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHManansala, Mia P.
Summary: "The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCharbonneau, Joelle.
Summary: Rebecca wants to sell the roller rink she inherited from her mother in Indian Falls, Illinois, and get back to Chicago--fast! When she discovers the body of the town's handyman in a rink toilet, potential buyers are scared off, and she begins investigating the murder herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChild, Lee.
Summary: In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion, Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who turns the tables on the captors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Windsor/Paragon 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIKonrath, J. A.
Summary: While attending the funeral of a loved one, Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels receives a phone call from homicidal escapee Alex Kork, who reinitiates their deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KONFletcher, Jessica
Summary: Jessica vacations in Italy, where she joins a tour that takes her to a variety of private homes, restaurants, and rural churches where lesser-known Italian masterworks are displayed. Her idyllic time is interrupted by a pair of young Italian gunmen who steal a painting off a church wall, killing a retired policeman in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crokks, at a later date should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian / New American Library 2011
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Summary: Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREKaminsky, Stuart M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMMacallister, Greer
Summary: Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSchwegel, Theresa
Summary: "In THE LIES WE TELL by Theresa Schwegel, Chicago police detective Gina Simonetti is keeping a secret from the department: she has multiple sclerosis. Raising her young niece on her own, Gina hides her disease; she can't afford to lose her job. Anyway, she is healthier than most of the cops she knows, and greatly appreciates the responsibility of caring for a child. But Gina's secret is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHBalliett, Blue
Summary: On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARDonlea, Charlie
Summary: "The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: While Nuala Anne and her daughter take karate classes to protect themselves from bullies, shy nanny Julie is courted by a new beau, and Dermot examines a famine refugee's memoir for clues about the mysterious fever that killed his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010