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Summary: "It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana, Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from Parkinson's. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of being the only Black person in every meeting. When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie takes the chance to get out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEOWalters, Minette.
Summary: A young woman, having come upon her neighbor, known as "Mad Annie" lying in a gutter seconds from death one rainy evening, becomes obsessed with proving Annie was murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALBello, A. (Abiola)
Summary: Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BELDunn, Carola.
Summary: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London; after spending the night at the Tower, she is ready to leave when she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNSmith, Zadie
Summary: "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2016Maguire, Gregory.
Summary: In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMaitland, Barry.
Summary: Called in to investigate after human bones are discovered in a poor area of south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard discover that the victims had died more than two decades earlier, and follow a dangerous trail in search of Brock's nemesis, Spider Roach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIAllen, Nancy Campbell
Summary: "London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLSteel, Danielle
Summary: Sabrina Brooks is a successful author of gripping thrillers living a peaceful life, hiding a painful past. When she inherits an estate outside London, she plans to sell it. Why upset her stability? But a tour with handsome estate attorney Grayson Abbot makes her reconsider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEMaitland, Barry.
Summary: Beautiful and mysterious student Marion Summers goes into a seizure at the Reading Room of the London Library slips into a coma and dies shortly thereafter. The autopsy reveals the cause as acute arsenic poisoning - and there's no reason for Summers to have been exposed to this once-common now-rare poison. With the help of her superior DCI David Brock newly promoted DI Kathy Kolla of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMaitland, Barry.
Summary: Tracking down his long-time nemesis "Upper" North, Detective Chief Inspector Brock, aided by Kathy Kolla, takes on a seemingly unrelated case at a new shopping mall involving a string of missing girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIBowman, R. V.
Summary: Stuck at an exclusive boarding school year round, Andromeda "Rommy" Cavendish counts down the days to her seafaring father's twice-yearly visits. Every year, she hopes this will be the summer her father takes her with him on his travels. But he always says she is too young, and it's too dangerous. But this summer is going to be different. As the newest and youngest member of her school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosanne Bowman 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWPaton Walsh, Jill
Summary: Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCohn, Rachel
Summary: "Dash and Lily were feeling closer than ever...it's just too bad they're now an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won't be coming home for Christmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, [an imprint of Random House Children's Book, a division of Penguin Random House LLC] 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COHHay, Alex
Summary: "Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAYRothschild, Hannah
Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCleeton, Chanel
Summary: When Maggie Carpenter moves to London, she meets Hugh and is soon riding around in a Ferrari, living the high life. But there's Samir. Now she's torn between her dream guy and the one always in her thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CLESteel, Danielle
Summary: After losing his job heading a movie studio, Andy Westfield rents a cottage on the English coast and hires a local woman as an assistant. When she accidently leaves the manuscript of her unfinished novel behind after work one day, Andy lets his curiosity get the best of him and is captivated by a story that begs to be adapted for the big screen. Could this be the miracle they've both been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: "As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury: a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. The son of Hollywood royalty, Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023