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Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMayhew, Margaret
Summary: The British town of Frog End is preparing for its annual Christmas pantomime. Local busybody Marjorie Cuthbertson is on the hunt for her leading lady - and who better that beautiful new resident,ex-model Joan Dryden. Mystery is about to engulf the village, however, when a cast member collapses and dies at the Christmas party at the Manor, having consumed a rogue mince pie. Was the death and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYMathews, Francine
Summary: "After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young man was discovered in the Sound the weekend of the annual Christmas Stroll. Although a simple drowning is suspected--the water is hardly above freezing, after all--the death isn't sitting well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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Summary: On Nantucket Island, detective Meredith Folger investigates the drowning of a man who worked the scallop boats. A tale of drugs and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMathews, Francine
Summary: "As a violent nor'easter bears down on New England over the final weekend in September, a luxury yacht grounds on the shoals surrounding a deserted barrier island off the western end of Nantucket. When the Coast Guard responds, they find two people shot in the boat's cabin, one of whom dies before reaching the hospital. Nantucket Police Detective Meredith Folger is called in to investigate -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry Folger spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and experienced, but this time one of her friends is involved. Del Duarte has returned to Nantucket with a baby, but she's keeping quiet about her daughter's parentage. When her own father, Joe, an experienced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, lady-detective Meredith Folger investigates the slaying of Rusty Mason, a local resident who fled to Brazil after an insider-trading scandal, returning home 10 years later. A debut in fiction for a former intelligence analyst with the CIA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMontgomery, Jess
Summary: A novel inspired by the true story of Ohio's first female sheriff. When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town sheriff, is killed, she vows to avenge his death. But then a widow arrives at her door, unaware that Daniel has been killed, inquiring about her missing daughter. Soon they realize Daniel was not the man they believed him to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONMatthews, Jeanne.
Summary: Anthropologist Dinah Pelerin travels from Hawaii to Norway, where she unexpectedly finds herself learning about the politics of genetic engineering and the Doomsday Seed Vault, involved in the marital troubles of and American presidential candidate and his Norwegian-born wife, and trying to figure out why a dead body fell out of a hotel sauna into her arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Owen
Summary: "A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCody, Matthew.
Summary: Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CODGuinn, Matthew.
Summary: Investigating a series of murders targeting post-Civil War Atlanta's wealthiest black entrepreneurs, a disgraced former detective partners with the city's first African-American officer in a case marked by fierce racial, political, and personal tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIPearl, Matthew.
Summary: In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe's final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEAPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEAGuinn, Matthew.
Summary: A medical student faces an ethical difficulty when he is asked to be part of a cover-up after a remodeling project on campus literally digs up bones of dissected African American slaves, once used for anatomy training.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUICarr, Matthew
Summary: "In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCody, Matthew.
Summary: Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2011
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Cody 2011Pearl, Matthew
Summary: "The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAReilly, Matthew
Summary: When the feared sultan of the mid-16th-century Ottoman Empire issues a chess tournament challenge to European royals, a young Elizabeth I accompanies England's champion, only to witness a brutal murder amid dangerous court machinations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Reilly 2015Pearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens' untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens' unfinished novel. Then Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PEAWilliams, Matthew
Summary: Earl Parsons is a champion musher with a notorious past; he left Apostle Bay as a pariah, and his return for a sled dog race opens both old and new wounds in the community. Ex-FBI agent Steve Olsen is obsessed by the one case he couldn't close, spending his retirement stalking the prime suspect and seeking redemptin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang investigate the creepy Mayhew Mansion--and what they find will depend on the choices the reader makes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Manning 2016Picoult, Jodi
Summary: For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has searched for her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared after a tragic accident. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. Serenity Jones is a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons. Virgil Stanhope is a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice's case. As they work together to uncover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PicPatterson, James
Summary: "The city is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023