Galbraith, Robert
Summary: Private detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son joined a religious cult, where Strike finds sinister doings and unexplained deaths. Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there and for the toll it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARSands, Kevin
Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANEdwards, Emily J.
Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWSeales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEAWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens visit Grandfather's friend at the Ogopogo Retreat and aided by puzzling clues, embark on a treasure hunt to prevent the retreat from being sold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens head to Ladakh, a territory in northern India, to help save the elusive and critically endangered snow leopard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Jessie and Benny are participating in the Great Greenfield Bake-Off, a local baking competition for kids. But ingredients get mixed up during the competition and then the power goes out. Is someone trying to put an end to the contest?"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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Summary: Lylah's five best friends and roomates at a university begin receiving threatening letters on Valentine's Day before being murdered, one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PRELaCour, Nina
Summary: Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LACWhite, Kiersten
Summary: Following the clues left behind, Theo and Alexander find themselves at Siren's Song Seaside Amusement Park, where they must work together to escape, stop their newfound nemesis Essa, save Wil and their friends, and find their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHICapri, Diane
Summary: A serial killer returns after years of inactivity in this gripping new suspense thriller. The green paint bathtub killer had Reacher Running Blind back in the day. The New York FBI team says Reacher was the serial killer then and is still the serial killer. But FBI Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar believe a copycat may be on the loose. Five powerful players are determined to win at all costs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: AugustBooks 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPSmith, Roland
Summary: Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers--while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins. Now they're in Baja, Mexico--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Summary: When Nancy, Bess and George go searching for the perfect gift for the Drews' housekeeper, Hannah, they choose a vintage apron, which may have belonged to a famous local cook, and discover a recipe in the pocket--but when it disappears they have to follow the clues to find out who stole it, and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: "When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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2 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCMCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction McManusLundy, Trish
Summary: "Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count--the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they'll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria Moreno, Robbie's ex, who mysteriously drowned at the family lake house. Then, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUNLewman, David
Summary: "On the eve of a mayoral event happening at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's best friend Patrick Star goes missing! With no one willing to help find him, SpongeBob and Squidward put on their best detective gear and hit the case themselves. But as their investigation leads them to the darkest corners of Bikini Bottom, secrets about SpongeBob's best friend are quickly revealed."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWBuxbaum, Julie
Summary: When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she never imagines she'll end up in Area 51, a top-secret military base. Sky feels like she's landed in a whole new world, even though she hasn't left the planet. Because guess what? Area 51 is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But something even stranger is happening in Area 51--aliens are going missing. Where could they be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUXCurran-Bauer, Christee
Summary: When a thief steals the prized painting from the Museum of Food Art in the middle of the night, the Pigeon Private Detectives take on the case and break down clues, while still taking time to indulge in a sweet treat from Mama Pigeon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CURSutton, Laurie
Summary: Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to investigate a report that the lost city of Atlantis has been found--and the reader must choose the path their investigation will take, and how they will respond to the dangers that lurk underwater for anyone who seeks to find the lost civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Sutton 2015Nichols, Peter
Summary: "Set in small-town Maine, an English novelist-turned-detective investigates a serial killer preying on the historic town."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NICWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When the Aldens take up the case to investigate if a catastrophic oil spill that affected hundreds of species could have been prevented, they are led on an adventure to help other endangered animals around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARMcNeil, Gretchen
Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCNVan Draanen, Wendelin
Summary: Streetwise stray dog Mr. Whiskers and sisters Misty and Zelda follow clues through the streets of San Francisco in their search for the sibling's kidnapped father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023