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Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Presents three novels featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone, including "D is for Deadbeat," in which she looks into the death of an ex-con who turned up dead shortly after hiring her; "E is for Evidence," in which Kinsey's inflated bank balance leads her to unravel a frame-up; and "F is for Fugitive," in which Kinsey is hired to right a seventeen-year-old wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wings Books, an imprint of Random House Value Publishing, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAPatterson, James
Summary: In The 4th of July, after losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. While awaiting trial, Lindsay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATJames, Sarah
Summary: "Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMPhillips, Gary
Summary: "Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIHechtman, Betty
Summary: "When a charismatic life coach and his devoted followers descend on Vista Del Mar, Casey Feldstein and the yarn retreat group she's hosting literally get pushed aside. But Casey can't help overhearing the rancorous argument between two members of the guru's staff, and when one of them turns up dead, Casey finds herself tangled up in a murder investigation helplessly. And when another staff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HECNadelson, Reggie.
Summary: A former KGB general is murdered in New York and the case is given to officer Artie Cohen, a Russian immigrant. Suspected are Russian mafiosi dealing in arms and the probe takes Cohen to Moscow, into the arms of lovely Svetlana. A look at life in Moscow today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NADBennett, S. J. (Sophia J.)
Summary: Spring, 2016. Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. When a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms, the scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. Unhappy at the handling of the case and concerned for her staff's morale, the monarch-- with help from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENKeene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEQuick, Amanda
Summary: A romance set in Burning Cove, California, an idyllic small town on the coast that has become a refuge for Hollywood moguls and stars seeking privacy for scandalous trysts and wild parties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIConnelly, Michael
Summary: A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CONMaitland, Barry.
Summary: ""Brock and Kolla's meticulous, psychologically astute sleuthing fascinates." --Entertainment Weekly on No Trace The annual Chelsea Flower Show is one of the tourist highlights of London. But this year, the event is tainted by the murder of an American tourist in a random act of violence. But when DCI David Brock's Serious Crime division of Scotland Yard investigates, they quickly discover that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAICollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, private investigator Nate Heller discovers a conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead. Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLIronside, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony and Mayhem Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROConnelly, Michael
Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONPochoda, Ivy
Summary: "In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M POCCameron, Josephine
Summary: As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of the famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of similar crimes in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, which soon join the ranks of countless other unsolved cases quickly dismissed by law enforcement. In a town where too many injustices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MULBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2024
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Summary: When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUILescroart, John T.
Summary: His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lescroart 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS LESMuller, Marcia
Summary: On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MULWhitaker, Chris
Summary: Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. At school the other kids make fun of her torn clothes and messy hair. But let them throw their sticks, because she'll throw stones. Duchess might be tough, but she's really just trying to survive. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin. She is the parent to her mother, Star, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI 9 DiscsLaam, Jennifer.
Summary: "A compelling alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter--smuggled out of Russia before the revolution--continues the royal lineage to dramatic consequences. In her riveting debut novel, The Secret Daughter of the Tsar, Jennifer Laam seamlessly braids together the stories of three women: Veronica, Lena, and Charlotte. Veronica is an aspiring historian living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013