Macallister, Greer
Summary: Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacallister, Greer
Summary: "Electrifying ... a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."--Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's times of crisis, bringing to life a fiercely independent woman whose forgotten triumphs helped sway the fate of the country. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACPhillips, Susan Elizabeth
Summary: Piper Dove is a woman with a dream to become the best detective in the city of Chicago. First job? Trail former Chicago Stars quarterback, Cooper Graham. Problem? Graham's spotted her, and he's not happy. Piper soon finds herself working for Graham himself, although not as the bodyguard he refuses to admit he so desperately needs. Instead, he's hired her to keep an eye on the employees at his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PHIQuill, Monica
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIParetsky, Sara.
Summary: PI V. I. Warshawski of Chicago experiences the harrowing world of women's prisons when she is incarcerated after being falsely arrested. It happens while she is probing the murder of an illegal immigrant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARSchwegel, Theresa
Summary: "In THE LIES WE TELL by Theresa Schwegel, Chicago police detective Gina Simonetti is keeping a secret from the department: she has multiple sclerosis. Raising her young niece on her own, Gina hides her disease; she can't afford to lose her job. Anyway, she is healthier than most of the cops she knows, and greatly appreciates the responsibility of caring for a child. But Gina's secret is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHD'Amato, Barbara.
Summary: Reporter Cat Marsala of Chicago is spending Thanksgiving with a family on a Christmas-tree farm when the body of the foreman is discovered in a tree-baling machine. Cat puts her investigative talents to work and discovers a family's secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMChurchill, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUPelayo, Cynthia
Summary: "When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: Talented singer and psychic sleuth Nuala Anne McGrail finds herself in over her head when she tries to save potential murder victim Seamus Costelloe, a sinister Chicago tough guy, from his fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: A woman born, like her mother, with visions of a mysterious shipwreck, becomes a famous singer and attempts to unravel the mystery of her life, despite attacks from a vicious media and the Balkan mafia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000
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Summary: While Nuala Anne and her daughter take karate classes to protect themselves from bullies, shy nanny Julie is courted by a new beau, and Dermot examines a famine refugee's memoir for clues about the mysterious fever that killed his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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Summary: Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Summary: On a visit to the grave of grandparents Nuala Anne McGrail, who has psychic vision, notices the coffin in a nearby grave is empty. The grave is that of Jimmy Sullivan, a 1920s Chicago gangster. As Nuala's fiance, Dermot Coyne proceeds to investigate, he runs into lethal opposition. By the author of Irish Lace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREChurchill, Jill
Summary: Encumbered by her overbearing future mother-in-law's schemes for her wedding, Jane Jeffry signs up for a self-defense class but finds herself enmeshed in a dangerous investigation when one of her classmates is murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUFiffer, Sharon Sloan
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FIFFiffer, Sharon Sloan
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIFGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREChurchill, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUFiffer, Sharon Sloan
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004