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Summary: "The rugged coastline, tightknit communities, and ancient landmarks of western Ireland provide the backdrop for this story of two women seeking peace and the love they desparately need."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONBatta, Patricia K.
Summary: Marge Christensen is anticipating her wedding to Detective Pete Peterson in two weeks when her employer is found murdered. In addition to dealing with a less-than-enthusiastic future mother-in-law and purchasing a new home, Marge finds herself in mourning and struggling to maintain distance from the investigation. Adding to the stress are two young foster boys who might be involved in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lillimar Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATBatta, Patricia K.
Summary: Marge Christensen is visiting her mother and sister in Traverse City, Michigan, when several female residents of a nursing home are murdered. Marge's mother is recovering from several small strokes. In Patricia Batta's fifth novel, our heroine expectedly fails at keeping her nose out of the police business.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATBatta, Patricia K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lillimar Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATCollins, Sara
Summary: 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLParetsky, Sara
Summary: This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, 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 PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Private eye V.I. Warshawski, inspecting an empty house as part of a routine case, discovers an intruder and a forty-year-old corpse. Each of these lead her in turn to a McCarthy-era scandal and a modern-era terrorist investigation, both of which pit her against adversaries who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARShepard, Sara
Summary: Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEBlædel, Sara
Summary: Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers. The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should have made the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. As the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, Louise risks involving the media by releasing a photo of the victim, hoping to find someone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLAParetsky, Sara.
Summary: A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Paretsky 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: When V.I. Warshawski returns to her Chicago office, she finds her once tidy work space in ruins. Ripped documents, upended drawers, and framed pictures have been strewn about. The most chilling find, though, is a bracelet belonging to Warshawki's cousin, Petra. With Petra missing, the cops spring into action, labeling the episode as kidnapping, assault, and aggravated burglary. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARShepard, Sara
Summary: When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction SheSheridan, Sara
Summary: In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan takes a job at a debt collection agency, but when she discovers that a pregnant Hungarian refugee who had taken out a routine loan has been reported dead, she decides to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sheridan 2016Blaedel, Sara.
Summary: "A young woman's body is found on the street in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district, her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend, Camilla Lind, calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter on a morning paper, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments. Instead, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAGran, 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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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 PARShepard, Sara
Summary: After high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria think they have seen Ali, their missing and presumed dead friend, they pursue clues from a mysterious stalker, trying to find out if she is still alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEShepard, Sara
Summary: The stalker's identity has finally been revealed but high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria seem condemned to repeat the past as they resume their unrepentant ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHETaylor, Sara
Summary: "A stirring and ambitious debut that traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015