Hechtman, Betty
Summary: "Asked to write a celebration of life book for the funeral of a former client, writer for hire Veronica Blackstone finds herself questioning the death. No one quite knows what happened and the prominent family are more concerned with their image than the truth. While celebrating her client's life, Veronica searches for the truth about her death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECDrakeford, Scott
Summary: "Scott Drakeford's epic fantasy debut, Rise of the Mages combines gripping, personal vengeance with compelling characters for an action packed first book in a trilogy. Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAWinters, Mary
Summary: "When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WINEdwards, Emily J.
Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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Summary: After her grandfather is assassinated, Ikenna, bent on revenge, pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials where she subjects herself to racism to hide the power that--if found out--would lead to her execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVLee, Lyla
Summary: "Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEEPohl, Laura
Summary: Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. After the mysterious death of their best friend Ariane, the police ruled it a suicide. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POHSymes-Smith, Esme
Summary: Trapped in a rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, twelve-year-old nonbinary Callie, who dreams of becoming a knight, and their new friends find themselves embedded in an ancient war, but in order to defeat the threats outside the kingdom they must first defeat the bigotry within.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SYMPreston, Lisa
Summary: "Clinching is the technique used to bend a driven horseshoe nail to hold the shoe to a hoof. Rainy Dale is The Clincher, a twenty-something high school-dropout turned farrier (horseshoer) who is haunted by a secret she carries. Estranged from her California d-list actress momma and her ranch hand Texas daddy, she tracked down her childhood horse in small-town Oregon--a land full of cowboys and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY PRERedmond, Heather
Summary: "London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEVFlower, Amanda
Summary: "Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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Summary: "Phoebe Winchester's beloved Aunt Eudora has a taste for adventure--and a knack for making magical tea. It's even rumored that she just might be a witch. So when Eudora passes away and leaves everything to her niece--her Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store, The Earl's Study, and one very chubby orange cat named Bob--Phoebe gets more than she bargained for. And she knows she's in deep when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUECambridge, Colleen
Summary: The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowan's guests. Devon. Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930. The manor is home to archaeologist Max...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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Summary: Set in Ireland's striking, rugged countryside, a dark, atmospheric new crime fiction series follows an Irish veterinarian grappling with life, death, family dynamics, and the secrets at the heart of her small community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCORue, Gretchen
Summary: "Este March runs the family-owned Lucky Pie Diner on Split Pine Island in Northern Michigan. The pies at Lucky Pie aren't just good, they're magical, with a family recipe that grants certain customers their greatest hopes and dreams when they eat the pie. The remote island is closed to outsiders over the winter months, but on the last day of the season, the unpopular new produce vendor, Jeff,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADanvers, Holly
Summary: In this series debut perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Miranda James, Rain Wilmont must discover the killer, before the book closes on her life. "Rain Wilmot must dicover the killer, before the book closes on her life. Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family's waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin, after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANGeorge, Emily
Summary: After a scathing food review and a messy breakup, a formally trained pastry chef returns home to California to launch a cannabis bakery with her quirky Aunt Dawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEOHarrier, Ash
Summary: "While the kids at school taunt her and call her “Alice in Zombieland," Alice England finds refuge at her father’s funeral home, where the dead tell her stories. As she arranges the deceased’s personal mementos, an item will hum with meaning–resonance–and Alice will see the story of their life. When she "meets" George Devenish, a man who died of a rare sunlight allergy, Alice knows George was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In a near future where controversial longevity treatments are available only to the very rich, Jen Lu, a detective in the Elder Abuse department, and her partner, Chandler--a SIM implant in her brain--investigate bizarre cases of people aging overnight that may be caused by an illegal version of a longevity drug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUMarts, Jennie
Summary: "As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold--which is why she drops everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPandian, Gigi
Summary: After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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Summary: "The emperor is dead; long live the emperors! The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2021