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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAKenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENGunn, Elizabeth
Summary: When a family feud between Minnesota farmers ends up with one of them dead, Detective Jake Hines must find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNGunnis, Emily
Summary: Read her letter. Remember her story ... Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever. In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNGuinn, Matthew.
Summary: Investigating a series of murders targeting post-Civil War Atlanta's wealthiest black entrepreneurs, a disgraced former detective partners with the city's first African-American officer in a case marked by fierce racial, political, and personal tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIGuinn, Matthew.
Summary: A medical student faces an ethical difficulty when he is asked to be part of a cover-up after a remodeling project on campus literally digs up bones of dissected African American slaves, once used for anatomy training.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUINunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNDanna, Jen J.
Summary: At Halloween, Salem, Massachusetts, is a hot spot for Witch and tourist alike. But when a murder spree begins, a cop and scientist must team up to find the killer before a media circus unleashes, panic ensues, and more victims are killed. Forensic anthropologist Matt Lowell and Massachusetts State Police Trooper Leigh Abbott are called in to investigate burned remains following a fire in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANNunn, Malla.
Summary: "Jacob's Rest is a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect. When an Afrikaner police officer is murdered, the powerful police Security Branch, dedicated to flushing out black communist radicals, preempts Detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation. But Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNLuna, Louisa
Summary: ""Alice Vega is sensational-I want to see lots more of her."-Lee Child A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNDanna, Jen J.
Summary: Homicide detective Leigh Abbott has something to prove both to herself and to the men in her department. She s been assigned a difficult challenge: solve a murder where the only evidence is a single bone. To identify the victim and find the killer she must join forces with forensic anthropologist Matt Lowell. Matt s initial refusal is only the first in a series of setbacks. Matt and Leigh s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANDanna, Jen J.
Summary: Prohibition was a time of clandestine excess--short skirts, drinking, dancing . . . and death. But a murder committed so many years ago still has the power to reverberate decades later with deadly consequences. It's a double surprise for Trooper Leigh Abbott as she investigates a cold case and discovers two murder victims in a historic nineteenth-century building. Together with forensic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANDunn, Carola.
Summary: "In the late 1920's in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar--i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out who would be the heir to the viscountcy. With the help of the family lawyer, who advertises Empire-wide, they have come up with four potential claimants. For his fiftieth birthday, Edgar invites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunn, Carola.
Summary: "In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of thegeneration of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunn, Carola.
Summary: Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunn, 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 DUNDunn, 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 DUNDunn, 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 DUNSummary: With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MYSAndrews, Donna
Summary: "A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ANDAndrews, Donna
Summary: "It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia--invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: M ANDAndrews, Donna
Summary: "Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019