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Summary: "Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINBlack, Benjamin
Summary: "Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career"It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACarlisle, Kate
Summary: "San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series. Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma's first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn's mom Rebecca is taking charge. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCrais, Robert.
Summary: To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRADouglas, Carole Nelson.
Summary: Irene Adler, accompanied by her faithful chronicler Nell, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly, and master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, works to outmaneuver her enemies and learn the truth about her secret birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Presents three novels featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone, including "D is for Deadbeat," in which she looks into the death of an ex-con who turned up dead shortly after hiring her; "E is for Evidence," in which Kinsey's inflated bank balance leads her to unravel a frame-up; and "F is for Fugitive," in which Kinsey is hired to right a seventeen-year-old wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wings Books, an imprint of Random House Value Publishing, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KELFowler, Earlene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to solve the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWGrafton, Sue
Summary: Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grafton 2015Grafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey Millhone, a gutsy P.I., to find the real killer of Laurence Fife. The trail is cold but Kinsey finds a lead. It brings her face-to-face with the murderer!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1993
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Summary: "J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead for five years. Or so it seemed until he's spotted in the bar of a dusty resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. Having just paid his wife $500,000, Jaffe's insurance company wants the truth and is willing to hire a private investigator to dig it up. As Kinsey Millhone pushes deeper into the mystery, she explores her own past. In family matters as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRAGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey's on the case when the seemingly small task of helping a neighbor, Bucky, obtain burial fees for his deceased veteran grandfather turns into an all-out treasure hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRAGrafton, Sue.
Summary: PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: FIC GraftGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRAGrafton, Sue.
Summary: PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by three brothers to find a fourth who, it appears from their father's will, was not disinherited after all when he walked out on the family, and is entitled to $5 million. Kinsey finds him working as a janitor in a church, but no is he sooner found, than he is killed. Kinsey has more work to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1996
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRAHechtman, Betty
Summary: "There's never a dull moment for amateur sleuth Molly Pink. Without warning, her infant granddaughter has been dumped in her lap for babysitting duties, her son has reluctantly enlisted her help investigating a potential investor in his business, and now she has to manage a high-profile bookstore event for a former Hollywood columnist who's dishing the dirt in a juicy tell-all. And when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOOMuller, Marcia
Summary: "Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MULMuller, Marcia.
Summary: When she is hired to investigate devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, private detective Sharon McCone discovers what her clients are really up to and goes undercover to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Beware of the cat striking back. On a lovely moonlit night, Joe Grey is minding his own business, carrying a gift of mice to a litter of kittens, when he stumbles upon a murder scene. Behind an empty house lies a swimming pool, its bottom covered with mud. There is also blood, the smell of human death, and drag marks. But there is no victim. Without a body, it's a crime that will be hard to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MURWoods, Stuart.
Summary: When an actor's wife is abducted in Hollywood, the husband turns for help to lawyer Stone Barrington, the wife's ex-boyfriend. For Barrington, it is a dangerous assignment as the Mafia is involved, but he knows danger, having been a New York policeman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOOArcher, Winnie
Summary: "Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husband-to-be in the California beach town of Santa Sofia-but the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home. It's not just a place to work, but a community. And now one member of the community has been murdered . . . A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her.A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022