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Summary: High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price, and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOSansom, C. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANRyan, Annelise.
Summary: After discovering the dead body of Shannon Tolliver on Halloween night, Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss, Izzy, use their razor sharp medical skills to catch a clever killer who is trying to frame Shannon's ex-husband for the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYARyan, Annelise.
Summary: Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAAlvtegen, Karin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVBailey, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Her charm and cajolery may fool the unwary. Ingenious and cunning, as dauntless as she is resolute, the incomparable "Lady Fan" is as ruthless as the killer she is tracking in... The Deathly Portent. A violent murder has left the village of Witherley aghast. The locals are convinced that a witch doing the devil's work is to blame--a young woman believed to have second sight. The new vicar,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAICarl, JoAnna
Summary: "In this eighteenth mystery in the national bestselling Chocoholic series, a gang of crooks with a wicked sweet tooth wreaks havoc on the resort town of Warner Pier, and it's up to Lee Woodyard to rout the hungry rascals. A frantic late-night phone call from her right-hand woman Dolly Jolly brings Lee Woodyard to the scene of a break-in at the Warner Pier jewelry store next door to TenHuis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARConant-Park, Jessica.
Summary: When a trendy club owner is found bludgeoned to death at a food-sampling fund raiser, Chloe Carter helps her chef boyfriend prepare for the opening of his new restaurant in Boston and investigates an unsettlingly long list of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONDeveraux, Jude
Summary: Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Deveraux 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEVIzner, Claude.
Summary: "The coast of Normandy, 1894: A mysterious young woman is rescued by an anonymous man after a deadly shipwreck. Paris, a few months later: The body of a well-dressed woman in a velvet mask is found in the abattoir district of La Villette in Paris. Next to the brutally strangled corpse, the drunk watchman--who witnessed the crime but was too terrified to intervene--finds a pendant featuring a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IZNMaron, Margaret.
Summary: When Judge Deborah Knott travels to Wrightsville Beach for a conference for North Carolina District Court Judges, she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. When another judge is found murdered at the conference, it becomes evident that Deborah may be the killer's next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARTodd, Charles.
Summary: A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODAshford, Jeffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHBowen, Rhys.
Summary: Before the wedding bells can ring for PI Molly Murphy, a wealthy Chinese immigrant wants her to find his missing bride, and Molly--sure she isn't getting the whole story--suspects that his bride ran off. Set in early-twentieth-century New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWBowen, Rhys.
Summary: The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCamilleri, Andrea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCamilleri, Andrea.
Summary: "In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn" -- from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCarl, JoAnna.
Summary: Tenhuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall with chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day. But owner Lee McKinney Woodyard is getting no love from private detective Derrick Valentine. He's looking for one of their new employees - a woman Lee and her aunt Nettie have been harboring for an organization that aids abused women in escaping their tormentors. Luckily they manage to not spill the cocoa beans. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CARClark, Tracy
Summary: Cops can make mistakes, even when they're not rookies. If anyone knows that it's Cass Raines, who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now she's the head of a one-woman private investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLARFluke, Joanne
Summary: When someone shoots visiting Lutheran minister Matthew Walters, Hannah Swenson and cronies investigate Matthew's background, especially his relationship to his creepy, paroled convict cousin, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver search for answers to the disappearance of Harper's older sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARHarris, Gregory
Summary: In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: "Grady Service, detective for Michigan Upper Peninsula's DNR, investigates a case on the shores of Lake Superior involving "bleeding sand" and a centuries-old mystery surrounding a Native American archaeological site...not to mention an enormous forest fire"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heywood 2011Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI MYSTERY HEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: Savannah is more than happy to help her good friend, Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter investigate the death of the wife of Dr. Robert Wellman, owner of a popular weightloss clinic. She was found dead at the bottom of a cliff outside the Wellman's seaside estate--and it's clear she didn't go down without a fight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010