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Detective and mystery stories. Large type books. Mystery fiction. Pastoral fiction.Collins, Kate
Summary: Abby Knight loves her hometown's corny annual Pickle Fest, where she's hoping to drum up business for her flower shop, Bloomers. Abby has been dating Marco - ex-cop, bartender, and all-around hunk - for several months when the Pickle Fest starts. After he disappears for a day, she's stunned by the headline: EX-COP QUESTIONED IN MAN'S DEATH. It seems the authorities have found Snuggles the Clown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M COLDunn, Carola.
Summary: Daisy Dalrymple and her Scotland Yard detective husband, Alec Fletcher, are delighted to move into a home on the outskirts of London they have inherited from Alec's late uncle, until a corpse turns up in their garden bushes amid rumors of a liquor smuggling ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: Town cop Russ Van Alstyne and Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson are separated by guilt and grief over Russ's wife's death; when a Latino man is murdered, Clare is drawn into Russ's investigation through her good works in the migrant community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPEDunn, Carola.
Summary: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London; after spending the night at the Tower, she is ready to leave when she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNFerris, Monica.
Summary: As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. But when one of her regulars unwittingly becomes involved in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities, Betsy fears something is seriously warped. On a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine agreed to deliver a small statue to an antiques shop in St. Paul. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FERDouglas, Carole Nelson.
Summary: When Aunt Kit's fianc ǎnd Temple Barr's boyfriend Matt are kidnapped from a bachelor party and taken to a Nevada ranch, Matt discovers a murdered young woman, while feline sleuth Louie, who managed to attend the kidnapping, endeavors to bail out his human friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DOUDouglas, Carole Nelson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DOUFluke, Joanne
Summary: Hannah Swensen, Lake Eden, Minnesota's finest bakery owner and amateur sleuth, discovers a body floating in a health club jacuzzi. When her part-time flame, Detective Mike Kingston, becomes the prime suspect, he recruits Hannah to find out whodunit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FLUClement, Blaize.
Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLELakin, Rita.
Summary: Gladdy Gold's detective agency in Florida receives a personal challenge from the notorious "Grandpa Bandit"and a hurricane uncovers a fifty-year-old skeleton yielding few clues except that the victim was murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LAKDaheim, Mary.
Summary: When Alpine's newspaper, "The Advocate," narrowly escapes a potential hostile takeover, Emma Lord finds herself on the top of the suspect list when the person behind the bid turns up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DAHEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ESTHaddam, Jane
Summary: Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, fleeing from his own wedding preparations, is hired to review a case--one that he finds has little evidence--in what may be the most compelling case of his entire career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HADWashburn, L. J.
Summary: Delilah Dickinson, owner of a literary travel agency in Atlanta, plans her first tour with a "Gone With the Wind" theme, and her son-in-law Luke becomes the prime suspect when the actor playing Rhett Butler is found dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WASMeier, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MEIDunn, Carola.
Summary: In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately Appsworth Hall, reputed to have the best grotto in England. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan a productive weekend researching and photographing it. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple. When the grotto explodes with the abominable Lord...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREMyers, Tamar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MYEBeaton, M. C.
Summary: The Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to roast a pig in the town square. Agatha has arrived with her current rival in the private detection racket, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes that things are not as they seem....the pig, in fact, is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved by the good people of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAMayle, Peter.
Summary: After inviting the Los Angeles Times to his impressive wine cellar to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth's insurance company, Sam follows his leads - first to Bordeaux's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MAYKaminsky, Stuart M.
Summary: A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KAMDunn, Carola.
Summary: Elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn, who volunteers at the charity shop that occupies the first floor of her cottage, discovers the dead body of a long-haired, scruffy youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNGreeley, Andrew M.
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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREMayor, Archer.
Summary: Joe Gunther, the head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, is called in to find the killer of a fellow officer and to shut down a major drug-running operation that has close ties to the murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009