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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANBlock, Lawrence
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOSansom, C. J
Summary: "As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical Protestants are burned at the stake, the Catholic party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSansom, C. J.
Summary: It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved--their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSansom, C. J
Summary: When a distant relative of Princess Elizabeth is found dead, Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate the murder, which may have connections reaching to a peasant rebellion sweeping the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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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 RYAAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's friends and family are urging her to get some rest-and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops-while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AlbCarl, JoAnna
Summary: "The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee and her aunt Nettie need all the help they can get to make their famous chocolate bunnies and eggs. Unfortunately, new hire Bunny Birdsong is a klutzy basket case, dropping everything she picks up. But to Lee's surprise, she's a wiz with computers and fixing the store's Web site so they decide to keep her. However,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCavender, Chris.
Summary: After the body of her delivery driver's brother ends up on the floor of her pizzeria, Eleanor Swift enlists the help of her sister Maddy in searching for the real killer, all while trying to keep her pizza business afloat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVChilds, Laura.
Summary: "An evening's work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities , the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela's night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet --and into her arms. While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CHIClark, Tracy
Summary: While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Tracy P.
Summary: Sitting in cold cars for hours, serving lowlifes with summonses . . . being a P.I. means riding out a lot of slow patches. But sometimes the most familiar paths can lead straight to danger--like at Cass's go-to diner, where new delivery guy Jung Byson wants to enlist her expertise. Jung's friend, Tim Ayers, scion of a wealthy Chicago family, has been found dead, floating in Lake Michigan near...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACotterill, Colin.
Summary: Missing her former life after moving to rural Southern Thailand, Jimm Juree catches the eye of a successful European writer against a backdrop of a serial murder case, an imminent major storm, and her ex-cop grandfather's disapproval.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTDeveraux, Jude
Summary: Sara Medlar's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling a grand old mansion. Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan, and accepts immediately. She'll have to approach her aunt for a place to stay while she gets herself settled. When she arrives, she finds that Jackson Wyatt already has his own room. When two skeletons are uncovered in town, this unlikely trio is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEVDoss, James D.
Summary: Contacted by a frantic Wanda Naranjo to track down her missing sixteen-year-old, eight-months-pregnant daughter, Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon races against time to save the girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSFreed, David
Summary: Moments before he is executed, the killer of Hub Walker's daughter makes a startling allegation; the real murderer is Walker's close friend, a prominent U.S. defense contractor. Now Hub Walker, a famous Vietnam War hero, wants to hire somebody willing to spend a few days hunting up information that will refute the convicted killer's groundless but widely reported claims, and help restore his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFreed, David
Summary: When flight instructor and former military assassin Cordell Logan gets a request from his ex-wife to help the police with their investigation of her current husband's murder, he gets caught up in a dangerous, far-flung investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: Someone has been tampering with the chocolates at Heavenly Pleasures. Corinna needs to find out who wants her friend's business to fail, even though she's sworn off investigative work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJohnson, Craig
Summary: Sheriff Walt Longmire has maintained order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years. Walt is asked to transport a dangerous sociopath who has confessed to murdering a boy ten years earlier and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. The transport becomes personal when Walt learns the body is buried in his jurisdiction and the victim's last name is White Buffalo, a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M JOHPeden, Peggy O'Neal
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Nashville is an aspiring country music star. Campbell Hall, for one, just wants to get her travel agency off the ground and move on from a break-up. But when she gets the opportunity to visit the mansion of mysterious country icon Jake Miller, she jumps at the chance. After all, who knows what clues are lurking around the long-dead star's last home?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEDPepper, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEPPhillips, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIQuigley, Jeanne.
Summary: "Synopsis:Emmy-winning actress Veronica Walsh is accustomed to role-playing. Over her thirty-two-year career on the soap opera Days and Nights, her character has been a businesswoman, wife (multiple times), mother, prison inmate, and fugitive. None of that prepared her for the role of a real-life sleuth.When Veronica cannot land a new part after the soap's cancellation, she returns to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014