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Hambly, Barbara.

Summary: A black American surgeon fights racism as he works alongside whites during a cholera epidemic in 1830s New Orleans. What particularly disturbs the French-trained Benjamin January, a free man of color, is that many other free men are disappearing. Are they victims of cholera or a human hand?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Hambly, Barbara.

Summary: Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Mosley, Walter.

Summary: Easy Rawlins, a private investigator in Vietnam-era Los Angeles, is in need of a source of quick money in order to secure a needed medical treatment for his daughter, so he agrees to take on what he knows is a shady case, trying to track down a storefront attorney who has disappeared along with a case of unspecified documents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOS

Mosley, Walter.

Summary: Easy Rawlins is in need of money for his daughter Feather's expensive medical treatment, so he agrees to find a missing attorney who seems to be more trouble than he's worth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M Mosle

Dexter, Pete

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEX

Mosley, Walter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MOS

Estleman, Loren D.

Summary: After some innocent black men are shot by a white policeman, the Detroit police appoint Officer Charlie Battle, a black policeman, to carry out an investigation, then put every possible obstacle in his way. But were the blacks really innocent? Battle's probe is complicated by the arrival of the FBI, the case involving Black Panthers. The story is set in the early 1970s. By the author of Edsel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EST

Mosley, Walter.

Summary: A collection of six interconnected Easy Rawlins short mysteries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MOS

Bowen, Rhys.

Summary: Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005

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Marston, Edward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

King, Laurie R.

Summary: Returning to her former home of San Francisco in 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, eminent detective Sherlock Holmes, are confronted by dark secrets of the past that continue to haunt Mary's dreams--Novelist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION King

King, Laurie R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KIN

Druett, Joan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRU

Kanon, Joseph.

Summary: In 1946, Europe begins its slow recovery from World War II. Adam, an American soldier, and Claudia, a Jewish woman, two people scarred by their devastating experiences during the war, fall in love, but they are forced to confront a Venice at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M Kanon

Kingsbury, Kate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KIN

Perry, Anne.

Summary: In the years before the American Civil War, a London arms dealer finds his life in danger when two men from opposite sides of the battlefield wish to buy his wares.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PER

Arruda, Suzanne Middendorf

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARR

Benn, James R.

Summary: Billy Boyle is sent by his "Uncle" Ike Eisenhower to Northern Ireland to find stolen weapons and to prevent the Irish Republic from joining the Axis in World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Ellicott, Jessica

Summary: Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, have set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, requires sensitivity and discretion. Lionel Cunningham, a parishioner and treasurer of the local pigeon racing club, has gone missing with all the club's funds and some prize birds belonging to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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Dallas, Sandra.

Summary: Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAL

Dallas, Sandra.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007

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

Airth, Rennie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIR

Harris, C. S.

Summary: The prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose body is left in an ancient church, young aristocrat Sebastian St. Cyr becomes a fugitive and flees a ruthless powerbroker with ties to the Prince Regent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS Harri

Medawar, Mardi Oakley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MED

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