Marsham, Liz
Summary: Explains the back story of Harley Quinn, a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who became obsessed with the Joker and turned into his demented sidekick to battle against Batman and Robin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MARMailman, Erika
Summary: Bram Stoker Award finalist Erika Mailman brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative. The Murderer's Maid interweaves the stories of two women: one, the servant of infamous Lizzie Borden, and the other a modern-day barista fleeing from an attempt on her life. Trapped by servitude and afraid for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bonhomie Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIStroby, Wallace.
Summary: "It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy--and low on funds--she agrees to act as a thief-for-hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRDeveraux, Jude.
Summary: In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man who Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVBledsoe, Erin
Summary: In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLEEdvardsson, M.T.
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDVOverholser, Wayne D.
Summary: Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith's Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of a hung jury was to be tried again in late summer. His editor thought Susie was being framed and wanted Norberg to clear here name, but Bob didn't expect what he found. Susie Bowman was quite a character. To the small ranchers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Overholser 2019Love, Melissa Scrivner
Summary: "An astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White. The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVBiaggio, Maryka
Summary: Standing trial for extortion in 1917, beautiful con artist May Dugas recounts her version of the events that led to her arrest, from her reluctant residence in a famous Chicago bordello and her insinuation into high society to her world travels as a seductress and blackmailer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIACulliton, Emily
Summary: "A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULDugdall, R. E
Summary: A psychological thriller that explores the morality of euthanasia traces the high-profile case of probation officer Cate Austin, who confronts an impossible choice when she must recommend the sentence of a woman charged with assisted suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUGWallace, Stone
Summary: When the remnants of a ruthless outlaw gang invade the peaceful desert setting Montana Dawn shares with her gentleman husband, little does the girl suspect that her long-dormant spirit for a life far removed from her domestic existence will be passionately re-ignited and that circumstances will soon brand her as the most wanted female criminal in the Southwest. With a bounty on their head and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALScherm, Rebecca.
Summary: After a heist she planned lands two men she loves in prison, a woman flees Paris and assumes a new identity, furtively checking news from her hometown as her web of deception unravels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SCHCornwell, Betsy
Summary: "Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENReyes, Sonora
Summary: "Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023