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Summary: When a lurid expose mysteriously appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light and causes a business tycoon to commit suicide in his garage, private investigator Tess Monaghan takes on the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPLippman, Laura
Summary: Taking a case that challenges her busy schedule, Tess Monaghan and new partner, Sandy Sanchez, assess the security needs of an imperious Baltimore woman whose family reunion is overshadowed by a violent stalker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lippman 2015Lippman, Laura
Summary: On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIPLippman, Laura
Summary: A Hollywoood-based TV production company filming a new miniseries in Baltimore is hitting a steady stream of unexpected snags. With unions grumbling and less than favorable press, the staff also finds itself beset by vandalism and a growing number of accidents on set. Worried for the safety of his cast, Flip Tumulty hires Tess Monaghan to keep an eye on the show's saucy 20-year-old starlet,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LIPHartman, Rachel
Summary: Tess is a girl on a mission to save a friend. Spira is a dragon seeking a new identity. Marga is a woman staking her claim on a man's world. Jacomo is a priest searching for his soul. There are those who would give their lives to keep it hidden. And those who would destroy it. The only people who will truly find the Serpent are those who have awakened to the world around them-- with eyes open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARKuhns, Eleanor
Summary: "Will Rees is back home on his farm in 1796 Maine with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farm work under the blistering summer sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised, and where he's always felt at home. Until now. When a man is found dead - murdered - after getting into a public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHSummary: Mayor Tome Kane's grip on Chicago is as powerful as ever. With high doses of medication, he's able to beat back the physical symptoms of his debilitating brain disease, but it comes at a cost. Committed to his unorthodox agenda, Kane cuts out the cancers within the political machine he helped build. As corrupt heads roll and his list of enemies grows, Kane's virtuous actions begin to erode the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSKuhns, Eleanor
Summary: "A peaceful Shaker community is rocked by a series of bizarre accidents, but is there more to them than first appears? Fresh from facing allegations of witchcraft and murder, travelling weaver Will Rees, his heavily pregnant wife Lydia and six adopted children take refuge in Zion, a Shaker community in rural Maine. Shortly after their arrival, screams in the night reveal a drowned body ... but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHKuhns, Eleanor.
Summary: "It's 1796, and traveling weaver Will Rees is visiting Salem, Massachusetts. He's in town to buy a luxurious gift for his pregnant wife, a few yards of well-made fabric from the traders at the famed Salem harbor. While traveling through Salem, however, Rees comes upon a funeral procession for the deceased Mrs. Antiss Boothe. When Rees happens upon Twig, a friend who fought alongside him in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHCopperman, E. J.
Summary: Mystery author Rachel Goldman is getting used to the idea that her fictional creation Duffy Madison has somehow taken flesh-and-blood form and is investigating missing person cases not far from where Rachel lives. Wait. No. She's not getting used to it at all, and the presence of this real-life Duffy is making her current manuscript--what's the word?--lousy. So she doesn't want to see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPStewart, Trenton Lee.
Summary: Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SteCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION STEDunnett, Kaitlyn
Summary: Halloween is approaching and newlywed Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is tapped by the Moosetookalook Small Business Association to organize a community fundraiser. Liss throws herself into plans to turn an abandoned mansion into a "haunted house." And then, to Liss' horror, the fake skeleton she's acquired for a special effect is replaced with a real body -- and it's someone she knows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNBlack, Cara
Summary: "October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAMartin, Kat
Summary: "When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after--the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil's Gold has claimed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARYang, Kelly
Summary: Mia Tang's sixth grade year complicated by a hard-to-please teacher, financial setbacks at her parents' motel, and a looming immigration law that threatens to derail her entire life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANMeade, Amy Patricia
Summary: "Literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon is preparing her English Secret Garden-themed luncheon for Coleton Creek's annual garden club awards, but when she is taken on a tour of some of the top contenders with the garden club's president, Jim Ainsley, Tish is surprised at how seriously the residents take the awards - and how desperate they are to win. Wealthy, retired businessman Sloane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEAMartin, Kat.
Summary: When her young son is kidnapped, Megan O'Brien turns to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds, with whom she had a brief affair, for help, and sees a different side of him as together they enter a dark world of international crime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARLondon, C. Alexander
Summary: As American troops are being pulled out of Vietnam, young soldier Chuck goes AWOL when he learns that the Army intends to euthanize his companion, military working dog Ajax.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DT 2Toyne, Simon
Summary: Adele Friar knows better than most that something dangerous lurks in the forest. So when her sister Maddie goes missing, she fears that the woods may hold the answers. After all, Maddie isn't the only one who has disappeared recently. Locals put the unusually high number of missing persons in the area down to inexperienced hikers getting lost in the forest's depths, or girls abandoning their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOYJohnson, Christine (Christine Elizabeth)
Summary: After the death of her parents, Prosperity Jones moves from Nantucket to Key West to be with her beloved David, only to find that he has married another, but she soon gains the attention of a kind local doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: Following his divorce and the loss of his job as a homicide detective with the LAPD, Jesse Stone travels across the country to Paradise, Massachusetts where he is recruited by the town's board of selectmen to become the new Chief of Police. But things are not quite so heavenly in Paradise, as Stone starts off his first day on the job investigating a domestic abuse case that leads to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2007Boyer, Crispin
Summary: Zeus the hamster and his cohorts escape their cages at Mount Olympus Pet Center in Athens, Georgia, to solve the mystery of the labyrinth--the center's duct system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Boyer 2020Childs, Laura.
Summary: New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session--when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ChildHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: As a favor to a friend, Henriette O'Swyer Collins, a widow and retired Missouri journalist, sets out to clear the name of a young man accused of murdering his wife. A dangerous investigation and she has to use mace to save herself. By the author of Dead Man's Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994