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Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCMathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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Summary: A skeleton is discovered by two children and a dog on a beach on Nantucket Island. It is that of their father, or perhaps that of their father's mistress with whom he disappeared eight years earlier? Local detective Merry Folger investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Jeanne.
Summary: Dinah Perlerin joins her extended family in a lodge in Queensland, Australia to witness her wealthy American uncle's rewrite of his will before his assisted suicide and is met with two murders and the discovery that everything she believed true about herfamily is false.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Owen
Summary: "A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine
Summary: "Nantucket Police Chief Meredith Folger is acutely conscious of the strain COVID-19 has placed on the community she loves. Although the island has proved a refuge for many during the pandemic, the cost to Nantucket has been high. Merry hopes that Christmas Stroll, one of Nantucket's favorite traditions, in which Main Street is transformed into a winter wonderland for tourists and locals to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, lady-detective Meredith Folger investigates the slaying of Rusty Mason, a local resident who fled to Brazil after an insider-trading scandal, returning home 10 years later. A debut in fiction for a former intelligence analyst with the CIA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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Summary: With her career and credibility in ruins, Stefani Fogg takes on a deadly mission involving the decades-old disappearance of the man called the Silk King, an odyssey that traps her in a web of betrayal and deceit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATPearl, Matthew.
Summary: In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe's final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Summary: During a stifling summer in Sydney, the body of a chaplain's daughter is found wrapped in black plastic on the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. Is it the work of the killer who's been stalking the privileged neighborhoods along the Parramatta River? Gut instinct tells Detective Sergeant Rose Riley something even more devious might be at play. Eager to find the so-called Blue Moon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Set in Boston in the year 1865, the Dante Club, a small group of literary genuises, prepares the final work on America's first translation of the Divine Comedy. Their plans come to an abrupt halt, however, when a series of murders occur in a form adopted from Dante's Inferno and its unique account of punishment in Hell. With lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAWilliams, Matthew
Summary: Small-town reporter Vince Marshall faces looming deadlines, an over-the-edge boss, a wife he suspects is cheating, and the challenge of balancing his career while raising a toddler. The last thing he needs is for his mother to become the suspect in a mysterious woman's death- a story he's covering for the local newspaper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WilliamsWilliams, Matthew
Summary: Small-town reporter Vince Marshall has a plan to be a better dad--wean himself from his cell phone and a 24/7 work mentality and spend more time with his toddler. But when his daughter discovers the local judge swinging from a noose at the playground and Vince's friend becomes a murder suspect, that plan unravels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: Set in Cornwall in 1820, du Maurier's classic gothic tale of romance, intrigue, and murder on the moors comes to vivid life in this enchanting production that aired on the BBC in 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015