Kenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENClare, Alys
Summary: "London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: "In Irish Coffee Murder by Leslie Meier, reporter Lucy Stone is writing about four Irish-step-dancing students. But the story becomes headline news when one girl's mother is found dead in her bathtub. In Death of an Irish Coffee Drinker by Lee Hollis, Hayley Powell caters the after-party for comedian Jefferson O'Keefe. But Jefferson keels over after gulping down his Irish coffee, leaving Hayley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC IRIBrody, Frances
Summary: "1929, London. In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubted skills at winkling out information will produce the results they need. 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROHeller, Peter
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, spine-tingling novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HELFox, Candice
Summary: "Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time-- that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man-- and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fox 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY FOXChilds, 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: Fiction Childs 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHIJones, Darynda
Summary: Part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister's hair before she wakes up? But, "How do I trap not one god, but three?" was never among them. Until now. And since those gods are on earth to kill her daughter, she has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JONEllicott, Jessica
Summary: "Neither Beryl nor Edwina are the least bit interested in attending events at their alma mater, Miss Dupont's Finishing School for Young Ladies. However, when a letter arrives from Miss Dupont herself requesting their help, they pack their bags. Upon arrival, they learn that students have reported items missing, damaged possessions, and strange noises in the night. Then a mother of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLLupica, Mike
Summary: Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation. Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LUPSeales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEAGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Heir to the throne of Faerie, Private Investigator Meredith Gentry faces unforeseen enemies and must summon magical powers to battle the evil that threatens to devour her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMHilton, Matt
Summary: "Ex-con Nicolas 'Po' Villere has no love for the mother who abandoned him as a child. Yet when she asks to see him on her deathbed, he returns home to Louisiana with his partner Tess Grey to try to reconcile their troubled past. But Po is not prepared for the news his mother gives him: that he is not the last of the Villere family line. He has a younger sister, Emilia, whom he's never met. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILMerrill, Robin
Summary: When she finds a murder victim at her local Goodwill, Gertrude tries to tell the sheriff's department everything she knows. Of course, they don't listen. So of course, she must solve the mystery herself. And the only way she can figure to do so is to go undercover as the Mattawooptock Goodwill's newest team member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Creation Publishing 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MERMerrill, Robin
Summary: Gertrude has been called a lot of things but she's never been called a gumshoe until now. When her neighbor goes missing, she can't help but get involved not matter how many people ask her not to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MERSaunders, Kate
Summary: It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAUWolfe, Jennifer
Summary: "I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed. Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense. SOMEONE IS WATCHING Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLHaines, Carolyn
Summary: "Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIJohansen, Iris
Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful--able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJones, Darynda
Summary: Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones' New York Times bestselling paranormal series! Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed . She's been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity -which is exactly the amount of time it takes to make a person stark, raving mad. But someone's looking out for her, and she's allowed to return after a mere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M FIC JONHarrison, Mette Ivie
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARJohansen, Iris
Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: "Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2017