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Actresses Crimes against Fiction Detective and mystery stories Girls England Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Large type books Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Motion pictures Production and direction Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators FictionLittle, Elizabeth
Summary: Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary--and legendarily demanding--director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline. Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same. She'll spend her days in the editing room, doing what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LITPatterson, James
Summary: When a glitzy movie premier is the scene of a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD Red gets the call. Traversing the city's highs and lows, from celebrity penthouses to the depths of Manhattan's criminal underworld, Zach and Kylie have to find a cold-blooded killer - before he strikes again. Print run 500,000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston's friend Paul Rogers dies unexpectedly in a locked room at the American Library in Paris. The police conclude that Rogers died of natural causes, but Hugo is certain mischief is afoot. As he pokes around the library, Hugo discovers that rumors are swirling around some recently donated letters from American actress Isabelle Severin. The reason: they indicate that the actress had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYBradley, C. Alan
Summary: When Colonel de Luce, needing funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company at Christmastime, the company begins its scenes with a famous and reclusive star who is widely despised; when the star turns up murdered, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce must negotiate with the suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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Summary: "Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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Summary: It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving, is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRACrane, Cheryl
Summary: When Ryan Melton, husband of television star Diara Elliot, is found murdered, realtor and amateur detective Nikki Harper sorts through a tangled web of lies to find the truth before she becomes the next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAWright, Erica
Summary: "When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something of an outsider, and his wife's death hasn't exactly improved his reputation. In fact, the local gossipmongers think he might be losing his mind. Their bless-your-heart manners can't disguise their distrust, which makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTWoods, Stuart.
Summary: Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M WOOFinder, Joseph
Summary: Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PRECarl, JoAnna
Summary: "The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee and her aunt Nettie need all the help they can get to make their famous chocolate bunnies and eggs. Unfortunately, new hire Bunny Birdsong is a klutzy basket case, dropping everything she picks up. But to Lee's surprise, she's a wiz with computers and fixing the store's Web site so they decide to keep her. However,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016