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Grimes, Martha.

Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Monir, Alexandra.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and strange occurrences.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2014

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MON

Rader-Day, Lori

Summary: "Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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King, Laurie R.

Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997

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Galbraith, Robert

Summary: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAL

Galbraith, Robert

Summary: Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020

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

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

McDermid, Val

Summary: "In the northern England, psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are on the hunt for a serial killer who picks up women at weddings without a date, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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Cleeves, Ann

Summary: "On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cleeves 2020

Harris, C. S.

Summary: "It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over, Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAR

Malliet, G. M.

Summary: Something sinister is stirring at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the English village of Nether Monkslip. Usually, the Lord and Lady of the manor are absent - high tax rates, it is murmured with more than a trace of envy, force them to live on the continent for most of the year. But Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Deveraux, Jude

Summary: Old friends gather at a country estate in England to solve a twenty-five year old mystery. But the festive murder-mystery weekend takes a dangerous turn when the remains of someone who'd been thought to have run off with valuable jewelry are found and the victim has clearly met with foul play.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Tudor, C. J.

Summary: 1986: Eddie and his friends spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages. When a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, nothing is ever the same. 2016: Eddie thinks he's put his past behind him. But then...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TUD

Nevill, Adam L. G.

Summary: "When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she's just happy to find an affordable room for rent that's large enough not to deserve her previous room's nickname: 'the cell.' The eccentric--albeit slightly overly-friendly-- landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren't great,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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Hill, Susan

Summary: From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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