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Summary: A collection of the twenty best mystery short stories of 2022 as selected by Sara Paretsky.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Coleman, Reed Farrel

Summary: Nick Ryan is the mayor's private cop, the fixer, with conflicted loyalties and a divided soul. But what happens when the man who knows all the city's secrets becomes a threat to both sides of the law?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Karp, Marshall

Summary: Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Only it's not snow. It's cocaine. Four thousand pounds of it. Uncut. Blanketing meadows and treetops. Knocking birds from the sky, dropping carriage horses to the pavement, and cutting a swath of death through the thousands of unsuspecting joggers, cyclists, and picnickers enjoying a summer afternoon in Central Park. So begins the war between...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Millington, Allie

Summary: Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Steele, Michael Anthony

Summary: When an ancient Greek crypt at the Gotham City Museum of Natural History is opened unleashing mythological monsters, the Mystery Inc. gang team up with Batman and Batwoman to battle the creatures and uncover the super-criminal behind the mayhem.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Detective Grace Makutsi has domestic troubles involving her husband's furniture store and a friend's troubled son. She must turn to Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani to set it right.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Styles, Walker

Summary: After breaking out of prison, tricky magician Labra-Cadabra-Dor puts canine detective Rider Woofson under a evil spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE STY

Leon, Donna

Summary: While trying to unlock the secrets around the death of an undocumented immigrant, Commissario Brunetti discovers that a connection to own past might just be the key.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018

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Leon, Donna

Summary: "What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,  2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Edwards, Emily J.

Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Jance, J. A. (Judith A.)

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Summary: With Sheriff Joanna Brady's help, a field officer from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People's Task Force wants to reopen a cold case, as he feels a personal obligation to capture this killer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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McKinlay, Jenn

Summary: Life is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell the flours. But things start to crumble one night when an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. Though the bullets miss their mark, the cupcake crew goes on high alert to figure out who would want to kill a small-town baker, and why. When more business owners are attacked, things turn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Delany, Vicki

Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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King, Laurie R.

Summary: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2024

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Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIN

Howell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)

Summary: "Abbey Chandler has barely arrived in Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. Through it all, she keeps looking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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Larsen, Samantha

Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023

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Galbraith, Robert

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Summary: Private detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son joined a religious cult, where Strike finds sinister doings and unexplained deaths. Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there and for the toll it will...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Edwards, Emily J.

Summary: "Viviana Valentine--Girl Friday turned partner to New York's top investigator, Tommy Fortuna--is drawn into a sordid new case when Buster Beacon, a wealthy man of science, beckons them to a party at his mansion north of the city. There, Buster entertains blue-blooded friends as well as investors keen to make a dollar on the many advancements made in his home laboratory, but he's been hearing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC EDW

Black, Cara

Summary: "November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and heightened ethnic tension. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father's death and her daughter's third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory-and Boris Viard, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

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