Downie, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: After years of military service, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are summoned away. When a mysterious note consisting only of the words "COME HOME" arrives in the mail, Ruso is forced to give up his career as a doctor and head back home to his family - in Gaul. But all is not well on the home front. Tilla's reception is unexpectedly icy, and no one will admit to having sent for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath). The wife of Ruso's best friend, Valens, has been found dead in the sacred hot spring, stabbed through the heart. Fearing the wrath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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Summary: Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, become embroiled in a family scandal when Severus, the family's chief creditor, winds up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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Summary: In the spring of the year 118, Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman-occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Ruso needs to get away, volunteering for a posting with the army in Britannia's deepest recesses. These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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Summary: In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: In a latest Grantchester mystery set in 1960s Cambridge, a man seeks sanctuary after killing his wife, a friend is pursued by a mysterious stranger, a man is accidentally crushed by a piano and Sydney is wrongly accused of theft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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Summary: "Beloved Mexican bakery Yeast of Eden has scored the catering deal at the annual Santa Sofia, California, art car parade and ball. But when a contestant turns up dead, making bread will be the yeast of their problems . . . Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns. Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia's annual spring event, she's the official...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: It's the summer of love in the late 1960s. The Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing to land on the moon, the war in Biafra dominates the news and Basil D'Oliveira has just been dropped from the England cricket team before a test series in apartheid South Africa. In the midst of all this change, Sidney Chambers, the loveable English clergyman, continues his amateur sleuthing investigations. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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Summary: When murder interrupts the filming at their Yeast of Eden bakery, which is reality TV bound, Ivy Culpepper, with the town craving answers, must move quickly to solve the crime before her business collapses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Just as Ivy's brother Billy is about to get engaged to his beloved, a tragedy interrupts the happy moment. The body of longtime Santa Sofia resident Marisol Ruiz washes up on the beach-and it's even more heartbreaking since Marisol's father also recently died. But Marisol was a strong competitive swimmer. It seems unlikely there's even a grain of truth to the theory that she accidentally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: In 1950s Cambridge, loveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers, accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, investigates the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel ; a case of arson at a glamour photographer's studio; and a poisoning in the middle of a crucial game of cricket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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Summary: "It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in the woods with his daughter Anna and their aging Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so it is that Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRuncie, James
Summary: "Our favorite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer with a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an "accidental" drowning on a film shoot may have been something more sinister;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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Summary: "As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold--which is why she drops everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: "Kate Hamilton...[is] assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium...But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art. Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn...At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Connie
Summary: When a body turns up during the annual May Fair and a valuable Chinese pottery jar is stolen, antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is convinced that both crimes are connected to the town's Anglo-Saxon history and a generations-old pattern of betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: After witnessing a dramatic death in the Gorge, Jamaica Wild examines a secret, ancient religious group that reenacts Jesus' crucifixion and practices excessive penance, but is warned not to investigate too closely when someone makes an attempt on her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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Summary: Piper Prescott, proprietor of Spice It Up!, has persuaded Doug Winters, the mild-mannered vet she's been dating, to demonstrate Indian cuisine at her shop. But before Doug's presentation of classic chicken curry is completed, Ned Feeney, local handyman, bursts in with news of a murder. Sandy Granger, the director of a local production of Steel Magnolias, was found strangled in the third-floor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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Summary: "Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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Summary: While tracking a wounded mountain lion on a desolate canyon rim, Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild and her wolf, Mountain, discover the desecrated body of an old Anglo woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "Two detectives hunt a killer amidst the lawless streets and high society of 1930's Glasgow in this "brilliant" (Times UK) mystery that "serves up a delicious slice of thirties gangster noir" (Adrian McKinty)--inspired by the true story of the Scottish Untouchables. Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORNatt och Dag, Niklas
Summary: In 1794 Stockholm, Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman, investigates the death of Eric Three Roses' beautiful wife on their wedding night at the behest of the girl's mother, who is desperate for justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATSolomon, Burt
Summary: "Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017