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Bonner, Brynn

Summary: "When a professional genealogist who teaches classes in family history scrapbooking is implicated in the murder of her client, she starts her own investigation to clear her name--and avoid jail!Genealogist Sophie McClure spends much of her time researching the histories of families. With the help of her business partner and medium, Esme Sabatier, she is able to achieve extraordinary results in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BON

Groff, Lauren.

Summary: "In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audiobooks 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRO

Groff, Lauren.

Summary: Returning in disgrace to her mother's home after an affair with her professor, temperamental Willie arrives at the same time the remains of a prehistoric creature are discovered in the town's lake, a finding that leads to painful revelations about Willie's family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRO

MacPherson, Rett.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Griffin, Laura

Summary: "Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she's shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents. Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Anderson, Catherine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AND

Staub, Wendy Corsi

Summary: Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help a silent little boy who is unable, or unwilling, to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs, until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STA

Perkins, S. C. (Stephanie C.)

Summary: S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients' long-dead ancestors, and her job has never been so exciting as when she discovers a daguerreotype...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M PER

Swierczynski, Duane

4 holds on 3 copies

Summary: A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SWI

Lowell, Elizabeth

Summary: Carolina May--Carly to her friends--never knew her biological family. Ironic, considering she is a successful famil historian. Recently hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire Governor Quintrell, the future looks bright. Until things start going wrong... and Carly begins to learn the true meaning of fear.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M Lowel

Sampson, Fay

Summary: Suzie Fewings and her family are on a family-history trip when they hear a gunshot, and encounter a local farmer and his wife, who seem strangely agitated. Two days later, the wife is dead. Suzie is convinced there's more to this than meets the eye, but the police don't seem interested, and Suzie soon feels like she's being watched.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAM

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