Summary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMDolan, Harry.
Summary: The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's hoping to escape a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets--and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife. When Tom offers him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DOLArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Jeffrey Archer's Hidden in Plain Sight is the second novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Archer 2020Paris, Harper
Summary: "In Paris, France, twins Ethan and Ella must find a stolen painting and a secret bakery without giving themselves away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWLehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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Summary: From the beginning Jack thinks there is something sinister about the old Dareville Community Theater, where his father is the new caretaker--and that is before the ghost of the actor Victor Dare tells him he must solve the mystery of the actor's disappearance or be haunted forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE FIEArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ARCChilds, Laura.
Summary: After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CHIMosley, Walter.
Summary: Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Beatrix and William's impending nuptials are delayed when the remodeling of their future home, Castle Cottage, causes more problems than anticipated in the latest installment of a series that incorporates events from the life of Beatrix Potter and her beloved characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBBradbury, Ray
Summary: In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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Summary: Cam Jansen battles a famous children's mystery writer to see who can solve the case of the stolen car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLDunn, Carola.
Summary: Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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Summary: A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the Lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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Summary: 1912. The peace of the Lake District is interrupted by the noisy test flights of a new flying machine: the hydroplane-- and Beatrix's friend Grace is receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBBarnard, Robert.
Summary: When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace finds himself investigating suspects among a group of talented actors and an assortment of extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARClark, Mary Jane Behrends.
Summary: Frustrated actress Piper Donovan returns to her New Jersey hometown to work with her mother at the family bakery, where her first job preparing a wedding cake for a soap star is shattered by a murder that is investigated by a handsome FBI agent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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Summary: "Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quick 2020Rosenfelt, David.
Summary: Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter takes on a cold case when the suspected murderer turns out to be the man who saved his beloved dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: When Tom Kristoll, mystery magazine publisher, is murdered, David Loogan, a friend to Tom and a lover to Tom's wife, teams up with Ann Arbor's finest detective, Elizabeth Waishkey, to find the culprit. Loogan, a recluse with a broken past, believes Tom's death is just one piece in a grand puzzle. And as the body count rises, his theory proves right. As suspicions fall on everyone including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOLPerry, Anne.
Summary: Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2010Jance, Judith A.
Summary: When Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali's old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiancé, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. The man posing as Brenda's fiancé is revealed to be Richard Lowensdale, a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is viciously murdered, the police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011