Birney, Betty G.
Summary: After learning about Sherlock Holmes, Humphrey the classroom hamster follows clues to try and discover why Mrs. Brisbane is gone and Mr. E, a fun but not very educational substitute, is taking her place in Room 26 at Longfellow School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BIRBerney, Louis
Summary: Frank Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello is turning up dead. Guidry was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. He hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate who might help him vanish....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEThornton, Betsy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHechtman, Betty
Summary: "Casey runs into a few difficulties when she plans a yarn retreat for some of her college classmates. Old grudges emerge as the group interacts, and everything goes downhill when one of them dies. Secrets abound and slowly come to light as Casey persues the person responsible. Astute readers will likely zero in on the killer before Casey does, but the mystery is still a good one. The continuing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2019
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Summary: "At the urging of Vista Del Mar's owner, Casey Feldstein takes on the job of combining a murder mystery game with her next weekend yarn retreat. Enlisting the help of the hotel's staff, she lays out a plot. As her intrigued guests watch the murder play out and the clues unfold, Casey is certain she's pulled off the perfect make-believe murder--until a real murder intrudes and everyone at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Molly Pink's excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel's new cable talk show "Creating with Crochet" has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she's there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It's a win-win...or so it "seams." The situation gets a bit knotted when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HECHechtman, Betty
Summary: "Maeve Winslow hires Veronica Blackstone to help write her memoirs. Maeve is the wife of a famous artist, and claims there's a surprise at the conclusion of the book that may be about his work. Before Maeve can reveal the truth to anyone, she's found dead. Can Veronica unravel the clues hidden within the memoir to discover who the killer is?."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECHechtman, Betty
Summary: Betty Hechtman knits up murder and mayhem in the latest in the national bestselling Yarn Retreat Mystery series. Casey Feldstein has her hands full with preparations at the Vista Del Mar hotel on the scenic Monterey Peninsula as another yarn retreat begins. The retreaters will be thrown for a loop this time, learning the trendy art of arm knitting and finger crocheting. But not everyone is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HECHechtman, Betty
Summary: "When a charismatic life coach and his devoted followers descend on Vista Del Mar, Casey Feldstein and the yarn retreat group she's hosting literally get pushed aside. But Casey can't help overhearing the rancorous argument between two members of the guru's staff, and when one of them turns up dead, Casey finds herself tangled up in a murder investigation helplessly. And when another staff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HECHechtman, Betty
Summary: As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing advertising copy for local businesses, and love letters for those needing romantic help. Tony Richards needs the latter. Debonair, charismatic, handsome, Tony seems like the last person who'd need help with love letters, but help him Veronica does... only, Tony owes her money and won't tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBatta, Patricia K.
Summary: Marge Christensen is visiting her mother and sister in Traverse City, Michigan, when several female residents of a nursing home are murdered. Marge's mother is recovering from several small strokes. In Patricia Batta's fifth novel, our heroine expectedly fails at keeping her nose out of the police business.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATBatta, Patricia K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lillimar Pub. 2010
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Summary: Marge Christensen is anticipating her wedding to Detective Pete Peterson in two weeks when her employer is found murdered. In addition to dealing with a less-than-enthusiastic future mother-in-law and purchasing a new home, Marge finds herself in mourning and struggling to maintain distance from the investigation. Adding to the stress are two young foster boys who might be involved in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lillimar Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "Linda Wallheim finds herself once again ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBerne, Suzanne
Summary: "A satirical social commentary with an element of suspense that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns and picket fences of suburban America. Littlefield, Massachusetts is named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, but someone is poisoning the town's dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCitra, Becky
Summary: "A YA novel about discovering family secrets. Rachel and her little sister, Jane, are spending the summer with strangers: their grandparents. Up until their mom's death a few months ago, she didn't even know they existed. When their last remaining uncle decides they can't spend the summer in Vancouver, they are packed off to the family ranch in the BC interior. But her new-found family isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CITBarnes, Linda.
Summary: Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARClark, Becky
Summary: Mystery author Charlemagne "Charlee" Russo thinks the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books are only the product of her imagination-- until her agent is found dead exactly as described in Charlee's new, unpublished manuscript. Suspicion now swirls around her and her critique group, and the police care more about Charlee's feeble alibi and financial problems than they do her panicky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMasterman, Becky.
Summary: "Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn, now happily settled in Tucson, doesn't visit her family in Florida much. But her former partner on the force, Laura Coleman--a woman whose life she has saved and who has saved her life in turn--is living there now. So when Laura calls about a case that is not going well, Brigid doesn't hesitate to get on a plane. On leave from the Bureau, Laura has been volunteering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASByrne, M. V.
Summary: "Isabel is living life on her terms as summer stirs the peaceful shores of Lake Michigan. Only slowing down to meet her oldest friend for daily coffee, the newly licensed PI has found herself chipping away at the college degree she never completed--and, to her surprise, eagerly awaiting letters from her pen pal, an admired British mystery writer. But when her latest client turns out to be an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRBarnes, Linda.
Summary: Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But her dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job. Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013