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Detective and mystery stories Detroit (Mich.) Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Plot-your-own stories Race relations Fiction Racially mixed people Michigan Detroit Fiction Women private investigators Women private investigators FictionDunn, Stephane
Summary: Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNDobyns, Stephen
Summary: "The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular senior citizen. But reading, sitting around the house, and making amateur home repairs is a far cry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOBKelly, Stephen
Summary: "As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
King, Stephen
Summary: When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KINSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow"-- Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn't care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: "READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOKendrick, Stephen
Summary: The murder of a priest in a London church that is hosting a secret meeting of religious leaders leads to the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKing, Stephen
Summary: A novice newspaperwoman gains insight into the nature of mystery itself when her journalism mentors tell her about a 25-year-old unsolved investigation involving a man found dead on an island off the coast of Maine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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Summary: "Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KingSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine, as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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Summary: When an 11-year-old boy is found murdered, forensic evidence and reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach. But the jailed suspect, arrested in a public spectacle, has an alibi, and further research convinces Detective Ralph Anderson that the coach was indeed out of town. So how can he have been in two places at the same time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction King 2018Spotswood, Stephen
Summary: "Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean 'Will' Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for ... To make matters worse the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPOPrice, Steven
Summary: "By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade. William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William is determined to drag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M PRIJones, Stephen Mack
Summary: "Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling--especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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Summary: Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican townnative August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JonesCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITHavill, Steven.
Summary: The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVGiles, Stephen M.
Summary: "Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILJones, Stephen Mack
Summary: "When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexican town to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017