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Cats Fiction Detective and mystery stories Fonesca, Lew (Fictitious character) Fiction Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character) Fiction Pet sitting Fiction Private investigators Florida Sarasota Fiction Sarasota (Fla.) Fiction Singers Fiction Women detectives Florida Fiction Women detectives Florida Sarasota FictionSummary: The Seashell Cake: Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets Leora in the bakery where she is enjoying expressing herself through cake decorating. They are instantly attracted to each other and spend several days bike riding, fishing, playing shuffleboard, and trying local restaurants. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SISClement, Blaize.
Summary: Tired of becoming involved in homicide investigations, Florida pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway does not report stumbling upon the corpse of a mansion gate-keeper, a resolve that is complicated when someone reports her presence at the scene of the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEKaminsky, Stuart M.
Summary: Abandoning his old life after the death of his wife, Lew Fonesca takes a series of odd jobs in Sarasota, Florida, and is enlisted to help locate some missing people, a situation that is complicated by a string of suspicious deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMClement, Blaize.
Summary: When Mame, the elderly dachshund in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund digs up, however, is very surprising. The dead body she uncovers triggers a set of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for a psychopathic killer--a killer who believes Dixie saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEKaminsky, Stuart M.
Summary: Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has killed a fourteen-year-old boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMClement, Blaize.
Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLEKaminsky, Stuart M.
Summary: A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KAMKaminsky, Stuart M.
Summary: Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the man who makes things work in Sarasota, takes on the cases of seventeen-year-old Ronnie Graeill accused of bludgeoning to death a local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding and a semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs who is being blackmailed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMClement, Blaize.
Summary: Hired by a famous football player to pet-sit his cats, Dixie meets a celebrity fashion model who claims to be the athlete's wife, a situation that culminates in Dixie's discovery of a ring of high-fashion counterfeiters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEClement, Blaize.
Summary: Pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway never would have guessed taht her trip tot he veterinarian's office would be anything but ordinary. But when she meets a teenage girl named Jaz in the waiting room, the ordinary is turned on its head, and Dixie is led on a wild-goose chase of epic proportions.--From publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMatturro, Claire Hamner
Summary: Estranged from her extremely dysfunctional mother for years, Sarasota lawyer and health-food nut Lilly Cleary nevertheless returns to her childhood home to investigate when her mother is charged with murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBrockmann, Suzanne.
Summary: After rescuing the son of crime lord Gordon Burns from an assassin, private detective Ric Alvarado and his assistant, Annie Dugan, get the chance to infiltrate Burns's inner sanctum to investigate rumors that he has been smuggling terrorists into the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCKSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002