Grimes, Martha.
Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffiths, Elly
Summary: The new decade is going well for Edgar Stephens and his good friend the magician Max Mephisto. Edgar is happily married, with children, and promoted to Superintendent. Max has found fame and stardom in America, though is now back in England for a funeral, and a prospective movie job. Edgar’s new wife, though—former detective Emma—is restless and frustrated at home, knowing she was the best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRIMaitland, Barry.
Summary: Brock and Kathy are summoned to Cabot's, an honored stamp dealer, to investigate a kidnapping, and the only clue to the crime lies in the unusual ransom notes, which are decorated with the valuable Chalon Head stamp of a young Queen Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIHill, Susan
Summary: When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing 20 years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILRendell, Ruth
Summary: Anita Margolis, young, beautiful, carefree, has vanished into thin air. She left her home to attend a party one wet evening, but has not been seen since. She is reported missing soon after by her brother, whom she shared a flat with, the acclaimed but eccentric artist Rupert Margolis. Inspector Burden quickly forms an impression of a wanton young girl simply gone off somewhere with a boyfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RENScragg, Robert
Summary: Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed? When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her? It seems that Natasha’s family are the people who can least be trusted. Delving into the details...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCRRobinson, Peter
Summary: "In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice's murderer--but his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Unable to forgive himself for his possible role in the disappearance of a childhood friend, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds himself confronting the unsolved case thirty-five years later when his friend's body is discovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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Summary: On a summer night, an attractive woman hurtles north in a blue Peugeot with an address in her pocket, while, back in London, a desperate man leaves a late-night phone message on his brother's answering machine. By sunrise, the woman is found in her car, shot, execution-style, through the head. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot arrives on the scene and discovers a slip of paper in the dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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Summary: "If there's one thing detective Bath Peter Diamond has no patience for, it's a dumb git trying to get involved in one of his investigations-for example, a Philip Marlowe-wannabee private investigator like the self-styled Johnny Getz (his card claims he Getz results). But fate has saddled Diamond with this trial. A Bath antiques dealer, Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, has disappeared without a trace,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVRobinson, Peter
Summary: Two executions send Inspector Banks reeling. One victim is a stranger: a young woman shot in her car. In her pocket is a slip of paper with Banks' name scrawled on it. The other victim is his brother Roy, a London entrepreneur. Staying in Roy's posh apartment during the investigation, Banks realizes Roy was always mysterious. But now he is about the discover the truth about his brother--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: Haunted by the thought that he could possibly have caused the disappearance and presumed death of his best friend over thirty-five years before, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is now consumed by a job that threatens to send him over the edge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003