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Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWCasey, Jane (Jane E.)
Summary: A year ago, Leo Stone was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life in prison. Now he's been freed on a technicality, and he's protesting his innocence. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve digs, the less convinced she is that he did it. Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASMoore, Graham
Summary: When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2010Winspear, Jacqueline
Summary: London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: MYS WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery WinStroud, Jonathan
Summary: "Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STRArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCPerry, Anne.
Summary: In Victorian London, Supt. Pitt of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three apparently disparate victims: a band leader, a naval officer and a bus conductor. All three were beheaded. The case leaves him stumped, but fortunately there is his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ARCCleeland, Anne
Summary: In this, the fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highest levels of Scotland Yard's CID. In the process of tracking down the killers, however, she comes to the unsettling conclusion that Chief Inspector...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artemis Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEJewell, Lisa
Summary: "Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to [the banks of the Thames] after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the city, Rachel Rimmer receives shocking news as well. Her husband, away on business in the south of France, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JewellCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JEWCleeland, Anne
Summary: Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they'd ease her way by assigning her to assist DS Isabella Munoz, which was a fate only slightly worse than death. ...[T]he first assignment out of the box was a possible suicide at the housing projects, something that happened with such regularity that it was a wonder the responding officer had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artemis Press 2019
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Summary: Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver, is being held for the crime. The dead man? Their sister's fiance. Lord Peter must clear his brother's name to avoid the death penalty. There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence against the Duke, but Lord Peter firmly believes that his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bourbon Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYFowler, Christopher.
Summary: After a Peculiar Crimes Unit detective is slain, the murderer flees deep underground into the world's oldest subway system, and Bryant and May must follow the madman into the twisted tunnels that snake beneath London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWBlack, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAPerry, Anne
Summary: In Victorian London, PI William Monk investigates a new game in town, the raping and beating of prostitutes by rich men. The probe leads him to the murder of a solicitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M PERJames, P. D.
Summary: In London, the managing director of a stately publishing house is found dead, a stuffed snake in his mouth. The suspects are many: a rejected author, a discarded mistress, a resentful employee, to mention just a few. Commander Adam Dalgliesh sifts through their lives and the company's finances in order to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCrombie, Deborah.
Summary: The disappearance of a young mother, the murder of her Pakistani husband, and a child's life in danger lead Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid into London's legendary East End--a neighborhood where the rich and the poor, the ambitious and the dangerous, collide--to solve one of the most challenging and disturbing cases they've ever faced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINFowler, Christopher.
Summary: Drawn together by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia.
Summary: Rogers was handsome, charming, and rich--until someone killed him in the hallway of his million-plus-pound house. Was he killed for passion, professional jealousy, or plain old money? Slider soon discovers that nothing is as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Followers of the New Temple of God--all well-bred, well-heeled young women--are becoming targets for murder. With Sherlock Holmes at her side, Mary Russell plunges headlong into a dangerous investigation of life behind the sinister temple walls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINTrow, M. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: It's Christmas 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have met with violent deaths--one shot, one stabbed. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, but must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is running for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009