Adams, Jane
Summary: In the midst of a tranquil summer in Frantham, Rina is called upon to investigate the discovery of excavated skeletal remains at an airfield and the murder of man outside a local pub.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADASjowall, Maj
Summary: "The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjw̲all and Per Wahl,̲̲ finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SJOAndrew, Sally
Summary: The first volume of a delicious new crime series set in rural South Africa--a flavorful blend of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Goldy Schulz, full of humor, romance, and recipes, and featuring a charming cast of characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: "Sophie is busy handling the first ever convention of the Association of Ghost Kitchens--restaurants that do delivery only--but she's taking a little time out for a lunch meeting organized by A Healthy Meal. The group is dedicated to providing meals for children in need, and as a bonus, it'll give Sophie the perfect opportunity to ogle the lavish Old Town home of socialite Geraldine Stansfield....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAWebb, Betty.
Summary: When P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to an infamous Arizona polygamy cult, she goes on a hunt to find the dead woman's missing son, one of the many teenaged boys the cult rejects from its ranks to prevent competition for wives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WEBRowson, Pauline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fathom 2006
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Summary: "The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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Summary: Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters will still be the Wallheims' in-laws once Kenneth and Naomi are married. Stephen Carter, Naomi's father and the patriarch of the Carter clan, invites the Wallheims over to the Carter family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: For young widow Bria Bartolucci, running a B&B in the sun-soaked village of Positano, Italy, was supposed to be like going on a permanent vacation. But it’s hardly la bella vita when her first guest is a dead body… On the surface, Bria’s Mediterranean life radiates beauty—the kind her late husband, Carlo, dreamed about when he concocted the romantic idea to start a bed and breakfast on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Summary: April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises--for example,the fact that every witness Anne Marie interviews grills her about when she's going to get remarried. She is only just starting to investigate the increasingly suspicious suicide of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: "The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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Summary: "When a trendy, underground dinner club leaves some guests six-feet-under the table, entertaining professional and amateur sleuth Sophie Winston hopes she has all the right ingredients to put a murderer on ice in New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis's new Domestic Diva mystery" --amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DAVBalzo, Sandra
Summary: AnnaLise Griggs discovers that her biological father might be notorious womanizer Dickens Hart, but when Hart invites his former loves and their offspring to his White Tail Lodge a body is discovered and AnnaLise must identify the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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Summary: "Los Angeles, 1908. In Chinatown, the most dangerous beat in Los Angeles, police matron Anna Blanc and her former boyfriend, Detective Joe Singer, discover the body of a white missionary woman, stuffed in a trunk in the apartment of her Chinese lover. Her lover has fled. If news gets out that a white woman was murdered in Chinatown, there will be a violent backlash against the Chinese. Joe and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "Linda Wallheim finds herself once again ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's friends and family are urging her to get some rest-and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops-while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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Summary: "Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIDavis, Krista
Summary: Domestic diva Sophie Winston can whip up an elaborate event in her sleep, but as the hippest hostess she rarely gets to enjoy the full guest treatment. Which is why her best friend Nina Reid Norwood loops her in to the latest culinary craze: a pop-up gourmet dinner party. The celebrity chef, the epicurean menu, and the high-profile attendees are all a surprise, turning the decadent dining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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Summary: Sophie Winston takes on ghostwriting a cookbook for Tilly Stratford, an interesting diversion until it leads Sophie into investigating a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: Rick van Lam is bui doi , "a child of dust," as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky-in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD. Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
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Summary: "London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense. Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead. Ruled a suicide, the police investigation was closed. Then a young man, awaiting trial for armed robbery, tells his guards that Reynolds was murdered, and that he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bourbon Street Books, An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: Investigating the suspicious shooting death of one of the beautiful Le sisters, half-Vietnamese private investigator Rick Van Lam immerses himself in a hostile community where he uncovers dark secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2014
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Summary: When the body of Marta Kowalski, a simple woman who cleaned houses for a living, is found under the Farmington River Bridge, the police write it off as a suicide. But Marta's niece thinks otherwise and hires Rick Van Lam to dig deeper into the affluent Farmington community for evidence of murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015