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(Fictitious character) Spenser Fiction Boston (Mass.) Fiction Massachusetts Boston Missing persons Missing persons Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Organized crime Fiction Police Massachusetts Boston Fiction Private investigators Massachusetts Boston Fiction Women private investigators FictionGerber, Alyson
Summary: "Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GERGardner, Lisa
Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fic GarMullen, Thomas
Summary: "A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Rhodes family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINGaylin, Alison
Summary: Tasked to protect an Instagram influencer, Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media, a glamorous world rife with lies and schemes, where she finds ties to a criminal scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAYLupica, Mike
Summary: Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUPGardner, Lisa
Summary: Recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin has devoted her life to searching for lost and forgotten missing persons. Frankie faces resistance from the police and the victim's family in the case of missing Haitian teen, Angelique Badeau. A recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings, Frankie Elkin spends her life doing what no one else will-- searching for missing people the world has stopped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GARGentill, Sulari
Summary: "The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GENLehane, Dennis
Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHLupica, Mike
Summary: Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation. Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LUPGardner, Lisa
Summary: A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman, Evie Carter, from a case many years back. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARJackson, Kosoko
Summary: After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACNeggers, Carla
Summary: Emma Sharpe is recovering from a shattering loss while her husband, Colin Donovan, is deep into his latest undercover mission. So they’re grateful to enjoy a peaceful autumn weekend together on the southern Maine coast to celebrate Colin’s brother Andy’s wedding. But the peace is short-lived when Kevin Donovan, a marine patrol officer, receives a call to check on suspected food poisoning at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEGSwanson, Peter
Summary: When Joan turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy. Joan wants his help to prove her husband is cheating, but what should be a simple case becomes complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SWATurnbull, Cadwell
Summary: "One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURAtkins, Ace
Summary: Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2022Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKLehane, Dennis
Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEHButcher, James J.
Summary: "In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher's debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTFranklin, Emily
Summary: "A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAAtkins, Ace
Summary: When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKGarwood, Julie
Summary: "A Navy SEAL will need every bit of his extensive skill set when he appoints himself as bodyguard to a woman determined not to need one in this thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Isabel Grace MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn't one of them. It was supposed to just be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanans' anniversary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022