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Summary: "Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in a desperate search for a detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant. Bailey sees her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEHolt, Anne
Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of 1222, called the "godmother of modern Norwegian crime" by Jo Nesbo, the next book in the Edgar Award-nominated mystery series: Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case when someone murders the prime minister of Norway. Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLRobb, J. D.
Summary: New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who had been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who had hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBMorris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle)
Summary: "Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBurke, Alafair
Summary: When a student is murdered following a series of threatening messages posted on a college gossip site, Ellie Hatcher and J. J. Rogan discover there were more victims, and the killer isn't finished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOPatterson, James
Summary: "To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATDelany, Vicki
Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...
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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 DELThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOJance, J. A. (Judith A.)
Summary: With Sheriff Joanna Brady's help, a field officer from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People's Task Force wants to reopen a cold case, as he feels a personal obligation to capture this killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene ... My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BOWFerris, Monica.
Summary: "Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punchneedle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERSalvalaggio, Karin
Summary: "When Detective Macy Greeley is called to Wilmington Creek, a sleepy ranching community in northern Montana, she expects an open-and-shut, if high-profile, murder case. What greets her is anything but. John Dalton, a soldier returned home from serving in Afghanistan, has been shot dead in an alleyway outside a local bar. Macy can't see any obvious motive for the attack, but John's closest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALBlack, Cara
Summary: "June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimee Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments, and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAHaynes, Elizabeth
Summary: DCI Louisa Smith and her team discover a shocking link between the brutal murder of a young woman and the apparent suicide of another woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYBolton, S. J.
Summary: "In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged woman living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M BOLChilds, Laura
Summary: "The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club cafe is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series. Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type. He's not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you'd have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Childs 2018Barbieri, Maggie.
Summary: "Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity for Maeve that's absolutely infuriating. Her father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARCoonts, Deborah.
Summary: "Lucky O'Toole--head of customer relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip--thinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. Her employer is hosting a big car show, supposed to be a fun event with her honey. But Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in her carotid artery is found on the hood of the featured red Ferrari...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOOust, Gail
Summary: "Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in the South, has got her sass back. She might be down, but don't count her out. "Change of life?" she asks. Bring it on. Recently divorced, Piper decides to pursue a dream she's secretly harbored: owning herown business, Spice it Up!, a spice shop in her adopted hometown, Brandywine Creek, Georgia. But Piper's grand opening goes awry when the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OUSMasterman, Becky.
Summary: "Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep that secret, she can't keep yours. I'm fifty-nine." Brigid Quinn's experiences in hunting sexual predators for the FBI have left her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASWilhelm, Kate.
Summary: A small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILOust, Gail
Summary: "Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OUSCastillo, Linda
Summary: A deadly fire resulting in the death of an Amish teen exposes the dark side of the community to which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder once belonged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018