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Summary: The woman's body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong, like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBChristie, Agatha
Summary: Detective Hercule Poirot is on a journey to Egypt, where the tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that a stylish young woman has been shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHRDoiron, Paul.
Summary: "When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness--the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian Trail--Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DOISlaughter, Karin
Summary: GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SLAEllis, Robert
Summary: Punished by her superiors following the explosive end to her previous case, Detective Lena Gamble realizes that she has been set up for another fall when she is assigned the case of an unidentified victim whose body has been dismembered and tossed into adumpster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLShepherd, Lynn
Summary: Shepherd puts a new twist on Austen's work. When Fanny Price is brutally killed on the grounds of Mansfield Park, Mary Crawford teams up with a thief-taker from London, to deal with romance, intrigue, and crimes of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYNRock, Judith.
Summary: During the 1686 Christmas season in Paris, rhetoric teacher Charles du Luc meets a young woman named Martine who claims the same inheritance and is trying to locate the documents proving her identity, but when Martine is found murdered, accusations begin to form and Charles becomes determined to find her killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCDoiron, Paul.
Summary: Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: After the police falter in their investigation, a retired college professor vows to track down a young woman he witnessed being snatched off the street, kidnapped by a sadistic couple who put their victim's slow torture up for public display on the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATBlackstock, Terri
Summary: Struggling to make her mark on the Nashville music scene, talented singer/songwriter Parker James finds the competition can be fierce--even deadly--when a young woman is murdered at the studio where Parker works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASefton, Maggie.
Summary: Shortly after learning her niece is having an affair with a congressional chief of staff, Molly Malone finds her niece shot dead, and soon finds herself entangled in the web of a shady political group that is willing to kill its opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEFWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINParrish, P. J.
Summary: Kincaid, a former cop turned private investigator, is hired by a woman who fears that her father, Frank Woods, a middle-aged, nondescript librarian with murky connections to several missing women dating back as far as 35 years, may be the killer. Although all signs point to Woods's guilt, his confession and apparent suicide never sit well with Kincaid. He reluctantly teams up with Mel Landeta,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBBernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERSmiley, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMILeon, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LEOHoag, Tami.
Summary: Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer whose latest victim is a bullied adolescent who desperately sought a normal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOAMcDermid, Val
Summary: "Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MCDLeon, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOBurke, James Lee
Summary: Seven young women in Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn't fit: she is not the kind of marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BURAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom. But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade. When local blond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AlbPatterson, James
Summary: Dan Carter, head of the London division of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, must join forces with his ex-wife if he is going to save American student Hannah Shapiro from a threat that has stalked her for eight years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. When Emily is found strangled in Washington, DC, only Bennett knows her well enough to find the perpetrator, or so he thinks. At every turn, Bennett discovers that she was a woman as adept at keeping secrets as she was at forging powerful connections. And that those closest to her had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022