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Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEARamsay, Caro
Summary: Anderson and Costello discover a body in macabre circumstances, and must figure out what happened to a girl who is found wandering through the West End Festival parade claiming to have been abducted by aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMBlack, Cara
Summary: Aimée Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimée's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloé, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimée rushes to get Chloé, annoyed that, yet again, her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2019Black, Cara
Summary: Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost, a Serbian warlord her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAThomas, Kara
Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOBlaedel, Sara
Summary: "A woman's murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind--before she becomes the next victim." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlædel, Sara
Summary: "A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl, but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide too when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLADavis, Sara
Summary: "N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father - unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission, a site...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARShepard, Sara
Summary: "New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars Series. When the principal of an elite California preschool is attacked, three moms--who feel like outsiders among the school's manicured and ultra-wealthy community--must work together to uncover her secrets, and figure out who is trying to blame them for the attempt on her life. Amanda, Ronnie, and Lauren all arrive at the Silver Swans preschool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEBlack, Cara
Summary: Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost--a Serbian warlord she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLAParetsky, Sara
Summary: In "Miss Bianca," a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat," embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARBlædel, Sara
Summary: A woman is haunted by a heartwrenching decision she made as a teenager in this darkly atmospheric, deeply emotional thriller from #1 internationally bestselling global superstar Sara Blaedel. Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAParetsky, Sara
Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Paretsky 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARGran, Sara
Summary: Acclaimed detective Claire DeWitt navigates three cases from different turning points in her life, including the disappearance of a childhood friend, the cold-case double murder that shaped her PI license, and a near-fatal attack by a homicidal driver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRAParetsky, Sara
Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARKim, Ŏn-su
Summary: In an alternate-reality Seoul, South Korea, where assassination guilds compete for dominance, Reseng uncovers a scheme set into motion by a trio of young women, forcing him to decide if he will remain a pawn of the plotters who control the city's criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMPaul, Bart
Summary: "Tommy Smith, Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra wilderness guide, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call to help find him. What he learns is that his love for Dave's daughter, his old flame Sarah Cathcart, never died, but the country where he grew up is undergoing change. When Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUBarr, Nevada
Summary: Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. When she overhears one of the administrators saying that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking her medication, putting on a show for the aides,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Barr 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: When Nick Stranahan--a 42-year-old private investigator with an unusual record of marital failure--murders a would-be assailant by skewering him with the razor-sharp bill of a stuffed marlin, he sets off a roller coaster ride of events that will drop-kick him into the deep slime of Miami's prosperous and sleazy plastic surgery industry.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIAGraves, Sarah
Summary: "When a pirate festival blows into their small town, bakeshop owners Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they'll be busy baking up a storm, but instead they find themselves marooned in a new murder investigation after someone kills a well-known food writer and TV personality . . ." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAJames, Sarah
Summary: "Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMSchulman, Sarah
Summary: "Post-rehab, Maggie Terry is single-mindedly trying to keep her head down in New York City. There's a madman in the White House, the subways are constantly delayed, summer is relentless, and neighborhoods all seem to blend together. Against this absurd backdrop, Maggie wants nothing more than to slowly re-build her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day on the job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press 2018