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Friendship Juvenile fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Mystery and detective stories San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Sexual harassment Investigation Fiction Teenage girls Juvenile fiction Women private investigators Women private investigators Fiction Young adult fictionHall, Rachel Howzell
Summary: "After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable--heatwave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn't make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALBradley, Patricia
Summary: Bailey Adams broke off her engagement to Danny Maxwell two years ago, and fled Logan Point for the mission field in Chihuahua, Mexico. Now she's on the run-- she just doesn't know from whom. To make matters worse, people who help her along the way find themselves in danger too-- including Danny. In the midst of the chaos, can Bailey keep herself from falling in love with her rescuer all over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BRAChazin, Suzanne
Summary: Detective Jimmy Vega has his hands full when the disappearance of a teenage girl in upstate New York sets off a powder keg of accusations, bigotry and fear--with deadly results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAThornton, Marshall.
Summary: Finalist for the Lambda Award in Gay Mystery, Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries takes place in Chicago during the early 1980s. Haunted by his abrupt departure from the Chicago Police Department and the end of his relationship with librarian Daniel Laverty, Nick Nowak is a beat cop-turned-dogged private investigator. In this first book of the series, Nick works through three cases: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kenmore Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOTurow, Scott
Summary: "For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation--until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TURTurow, Scott
Summary: "For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation-until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TurowTurow, Scott
Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2017
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Summary: In October, 1922, Kiki Button returns to Montparnasse, where she drinks with friends, takes handsome lovers, and mingles with artists, communists, and anyone interesting. But 1920s Paris is not all enchantment, and Kiki is on another spy mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNFreeman, Brian
Summary: Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFreeman, Brian
Summary: When a friend becomes the latest victim in a string of murders linked by bizarre crime-scene snake paintings, San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the most formidable adversary of his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECarrier, Michael
Summary: "The two women were at Whitefish Point in order to watch the migrating birds. But what they saw scared one of them to death. The author tells this story like Stephen King would. This book is not to be read if you want to sleep. It is also recommended that the reader not be alone when reading it."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich Village Ink, an imprint of Alistair Rapids Publishing 2017
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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 JOCBrennan, Allison
Summary: "US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case, and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BREHall, Rachel Howzell
Summary: "On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in. Chanita was interested in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALConroy, Vivian
Summary: "The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists--but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean.Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder--and now, she's left the bustle of Victorian London to recuperate in the fresh air of Dartmoor with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONAncrum, K. (Kayla)
Summary: "When Tig Torres first moved back to her hometown of Hollow Falls, she solved the infamous Lit Killer case--and cleared her late Aunt Beth's name in the process. Tig's work on the case brought her to the attention of Hollow Falls's local armchair detective group, the Murder of Crows. The eccentric group is obsessed with their town's dark past--but their interests extend far beyond the Lit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANCClark, Carol Higgins.
Summary: Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, hop from one Jersey shore resort town to the next in hopes of solving a tough case, one which is complicated when Regan bumps into an old friend she hardly recognizes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011