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Summary: The abrupt disappearance of the renters at the Sleuth Sisters’ family farm presents Faye with the chance to do something she’s always dreamed of: start a draft horse rescue. The circumstances surrounding the move are strange, though, and Faye, Barb, and Retta begin to suspect that at least some of the family members didn’t leave voluntarily. Balancing a menagerie of animals with tracking down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILByrne, M. V.
Summary: "Isabel is living life on her terms as summer stirs the peaceful shores of Lake Michigan. Only slowing down to meet her oldest friend for daily coffee, the newly licensed PI has found herself chipping away at the college degree she never completed--and, to her surprise, eagerly awaiting letters from her pen pal, an admired British mystery writer. But when her latest client turns out to be an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRMacy, Meg
Summary: "Sasha and her sister Maddie are thrilled that the Silver Bear Shop and Factory has won the Teddy Bear Keepsake Contest, which means they get to produce a holiday specialty toy, a wizard bear named "Beary Potter." Promising to be just as magical is Silver Hollow's annual tree-lighting ceremony and village parade. Only one hitch- the parade's mascot, Santa Bear-played by Mayor Cal Bloom-is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEOGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOGardner, Lisa
Summary: Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited ... prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked -- salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFODornbush, Jennifer
Summary: "July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad, Nina Laramie, heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest.The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight knit community when the case goes cold.Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ally Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 364.1 DorConnelly, Michael
Summary: A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CONMiller, Derek B.
Summary: "A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid--the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night--from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother ... Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård could be basking in the success of her recent mission to save an innocent child who'd gone missing in Oslo, but instead she is reeling from the deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2018Fletcher, Jessica
Summary: Sleuth Jessica Fletcher investigates a series of "accidents" that befall figure skating hopeful Christine Allen and her pairs partner and coach, after one of the trio is found dead at the arena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEFluke, Joanne
Summary: After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town . . . and made throngs of enemies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fluke 2017Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FLUWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINCastillo, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CASGerritsen, Tess
Summary: "Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GerritsenEvanovich, Janet
Summary: Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC EVAPatterson, James
Summary: "Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing person but a wayward wife--until a gruesome piece of evidence turns the investigation criminal. ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATFanning, Diane.
Summary: When several patients with dementia, including her father-in-law, disappear and later turn up dead, Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce conducts an investigation that leads her to a strange place resembling a poor man's Disneyland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANBlanchard, Alice
Summary: "Someone is playing deadly games. Lieutenant Luke Pittman lies in the hospital in a coma after being attacked by one of their own. Veronica Manes, Burning Lake's most respected modern-day witch, is dead, her murder left unsolved. Natalie Lockhart has become embroiled in a case with threads that become increasingly difficult to untangle. Now, a new horror is uncovered, one that shocks the town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATKeene, Carolyn.
Summary: Asked to locate a stolen necklace of unusual value, Nancy soon discovers that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEGraves, Sarah
Summary: Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: "Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon--and former Broward's Rock resident--Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, "Don't Go Home." But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the real-life inspirations behind his characters, perhaps the author should take his own advice. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMathews, Francine
Summary: "After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young man was discovered in the Sound the weekend of the annual Christmas Stroll. Although a simple drowning is suspected--the water is hardly above freezing, after all--the death isn't sitting well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017