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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEG

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Prest

Leon, Donna

Summary: "In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LEO

Leon, Donna.

Summary: Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti investigates when a Romanian housekeeper is falsely accused of murdering her employer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

DeMille, Nelson

Summary: Detective John Corey has been forced into retirement, but he's restless and looking for action. So when his former lover, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has some decisions to make. He takes the job and finds himself on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered at least nine prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEM

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEM

Adam, Paul

Summary: A Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after a Paganini concert. In his wallet is a scrap of sheet music, torn from a page that belongs to the competition's winner. But how did the dead man get hold of it? And why? Detective Antonio Guastafeste asks violin maker Gianni Castiglione to help him navigate the curious world of classical musicians, their priceless instruments,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010

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Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CHI

Leon, Donna

Summary: Commissario Guido Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. Two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

Smiley, Jane

Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

George, Elizabeth

Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEO

Black, Ingrid.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Harris, C. S.

Summary: London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor -- and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HAR

McDermid, Val.

Summary: Devastated after the vicious assault she suffered in The Last Temptation, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan has returned to Bradfield to resume her career. But she is surprised to discover that clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has followed her there to take up a post in a high security mental hospital. When she is assigned a case involving the grotesque murder of a prostitute, she turns...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005

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Cameron, Kenneth M.

Summary: London, 1900. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says he is being pursued by Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as a lunatic. When the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute is found, Denton decides to pursue the murderer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

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Summary: When a philanthropist's involvement in the rescue of a prostitute leads to murder, Sarah Brandt's significant other, Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy, can't prevent her from investigating. Set at the end of the 19th century in New York City.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

DD'Andrea, Luca

Summary: New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salinger's left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew up, the Alto Adige. Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction D'Andrea 2018

De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: "A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE G

Leotta, Allison.

Summary: Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Truman, Margaret

Summary: President Burton Pyle and candidate Robert Colgate are seeking the presidency in a coming election; two crimes begin to connect with the presidential race, the death of Rosalie Curzon, a Washington call girl, and the kidnapping of the daughter of Robert Colgate's close friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TRU

Smith, B. J. (Brad J.)

Summary: The hunter becomes the hunted: Carl Burns pursues the ruthless gang who targeted him in this fast-paced, suspenseful thriller. Happily ensconced at River Road Farm and planning to start their own maple syrup business, life is good for Carl Burns and his partner Frances, who also stars in her own TV show. But, unwittingly, Frances's TV exposure has attracted unwelcome attention. Targeted by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Leon, Donna.

Summary: Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of an animal lover whose decomposed body was found in a Venice canal.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

Goodwin, Jason

Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOO

Benn, James R.

Summary: In his time investigating crimes for both the Boston cops and General Ike's European forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle hasn't encountered a serial killer. But now it looks like he may--a serial killer with a particularly frightening agenda.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Leon, Donna.

Summary: Commissario Guido Brunetti, with the help of Inspector Lorenzo Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra Zorzi, investigates the death of a Venetian widow in a Spartan apartment on Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

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