Bain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUBain, Donald
Summary: David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAILand, Jon
Summary: "2002: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes without a trace. The present: A mass shooting on the steps of the Capitol nearly claims the life of Robert Brixton's grandson. No stranger to high-stakes investigations, Brixton embarks on a trail to uncover the motive behind the shooting. On the way he finds himself probing the attempted murder of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANNeal, Toby (Toby Wilson)
Summary: "Lieutenant Michael Stevens investigates a murder in a fine dining restaurant on Maui that's a feast of possible motives, with jealousy, passion and revenge topping the menu. A host of familiar characters, from Jared Stevens to Dr. Wilson, chime in from their perspectives, each contributing essential information to one of the most complex cases Stevens has encountered--but that's nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Neal 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEAIsaacs, Susan
Summary: "When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISAFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, battle internal politics while uncovering a plot involving money laundering, bullion smuggling, and asylum-seeking titans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOPeterfreund, Diana
Summary: "In the aftermath of Headmaster Boddy's murder, Blackbrook Academy has been thrown into complete disarray. Half the student body hasn't bothered to return to campus--but those who have include Orchid, Vaughn, Scarlett, Peacock, Plum, and Mustard, now warily referred to by the other students as the Murder Crew. When another staff member is found dead and an anonymous threat begins to target the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETHooper, Kay
Summary: "An SCU team investigates an inexplicable string of murders committed by men and women with no memory of their crimes in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series. Madness has taken ahold of Prosperity, North Carolina. Residents are killing one another, as if in a dream, and waking up with no memory of the monstrous acts they've committed--or why. As the death toll climbs, the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hooper 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HOOLovesey, Peter
Summary: "London, 1879. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speedwalking race, the "wobble." When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands-to pursue a ruthless murderer. Fifty years ago, Wobble to Death launched the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOOHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring Continental Op, the hardworking private eye with an unyielding personal code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMWeisel, Frederick
Summary: "A middle school teacher leaves home one morning and never arrives at his job. He leaves behind his briefcase and his phone, along with photographs of some of his female students. Across town, a detective on Santa Rosa's Violent Crimes Investigations team joins a colleague from the narcotics division as they investigate the killing of a dealer and local heroin smuggling operation. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIPeterfreund, Diana
Summary: "When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETBrackston, Paula
Summary: Working as a private investigator in eighteenth-century Bavaria, Gretel looks into the mysterious disappearance of sailors off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein and rumors of mermaids and sea creatures with the help of her brother, Hansel, and the captain of the ship Arabella.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrackstonBrackston, Paula
Summary: Gretel (yes, that Gretel) is now 35, very large, still living with her brother Hans, and working as a private investigator. The small, sleepy town of Gesternstadt is shaken to its pretty foundations when the workshop of the local cart maker is burnt to the ground, and a body is discovered in the ashes. It is Gretel who notices that the cadaver is missing a finger. At first she does not see this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015Kestrel, James
Summary: "December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESRedmond, Heather
Summary: With the help of his boss' attractive, vivacious daughter, young journalist Charles Dickens investigates the death of a young woman that bears unsettling similarities to a murder that occurred a year ago to the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDHooper, Kay
Summary: The disappearance of three strangers brings the FBI's Special Crimes Unit to Salem, and when Grayson Sheridan arrives to find his partner has vanished, he knows that whatever is hiding in the town is deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hooper 2020Redmond, Heather
Summary: When his initiation into the Lightning Club takes a murderous turn, Charles Dickens is accused of the crime and is locked away in Newgate Prison where he must rely on his fiancé and her sleuthing skills to save him from the hangman's noose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDChilds, Laura
Summary: "A murder in the local hospital is raising everyone's temperature in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series. Suzanne Dietz co-owner of the Cackleberry Club Café is visiting her fiancée, Dr. Sam Hazelet when a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would probably have done more damage had Suzanne not brained him with a thermos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIDiSilverio, Laura A. H.
Summary: Amy-Faye Johnson has her hands full coordinating the Celebration of Gothic Novels in Heaven, Colorado. The festivities start off smoothly, but the weekend is soon cursed with large egos, old resentments, and uninvited guests. Matters become truly grave when a dead body is found at the gothic-themed costume party. The out-of-town authors claim not to know the victim, but Amy-Faye has doubts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DISMartin, Ann M.
Summary: Convinced there is a ghost in her house, Dawn sets out to investigate the spooky noises and happenings in her home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MARMcAllister, Gillian
Summary: From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McAllisterOsman, Richard
Summary: . It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. To make matters worse, a new nemesis pays Elizabeth a visit, presenting her with a deadly mission: kill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022