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Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Detective and mystery stories England Great Britain Inspectrices de police Angleterre Romans, nouvelles, etc London (England) Fiction Murder Investigation Women detectives Women detectives England Fiction Women detectives FictionGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOKeene, Carolyn
Summary: After capsizing her rowboat on Twin Lakes, Nancy Drew sets out to help the girl who saved her life investigate the mysterious events surrounding a deserted bungalow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1988
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KEEGeorge, Elizabeth
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 GEOKing, Laurie R.
Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague. While we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder... Young Jessica Fletcher's life couldn't be more ordinary. She teaches at the local high school while she and her loving husband, Frank, are raising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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Summary: When several patients with dementia, including her father-in-law, disappear and later turn up dead, Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce conducts an investigation that leads her to a strange place resembling a poor man's Disneyland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been dispatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOPatterson, James
Summary: The Moores are missing: In a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPerry, Anne.
Summary: It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom caband; not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? A doctor insists that Lord Augustus's death was natural. But as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: For Mrs. Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's unfinished business. Amongst the many bequests he made to her, perhaps the most valuable is his little black book, in which he listed all the people who ever worked for him, with details of their particular skill sets. This means that whenever Mrs. P has a crime to solve she can readily contact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Créme de la Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, lady-detective Meredith Folger investigates the slaying of Rusty Mason, a local resident who fled to Brazil after an insider-trading scandal, returning home 10 years later. A debut in fiction for a former intelligence analyst with the CIA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: "After a busy morning dispatching emissaries from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to those in need, Bailey Ruth Raeburn is feeling flush with success. So when an urgent call for help comes through from her old hometown, she can't resist taking on the mission herself. After all, what could go wrong? With the shouted warning of her boss, Wiggins - Irregular! Problematic! - ringing in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATParrish, P. J.
Summary: The bones found in the woods of Echo Bay were the first clue to a string of brutal murders of young women. Plunged into a heated inquiry to find a dangerous predator, rookie cop Joe Frye finds herself battling both the killer and the bureaucracy. Worse still, the killer's sights are now firmly fixed on Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2008
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Summary: The unsuspicious death of fast-living Roger O'Bannon at the Wrecker's Ball turns into a murder mystery when a second body is discovered, a situation that prompts "Harry" Haristeen and her feline sleuth, Mrs. Murphy, to find a connection between the two victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BROKahn, Michael A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAHBalzo, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BalzoCastle, Richard.
Summary: Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CASPatterson, James
Summary: A horrifying burst of gunfire on a crowded ferry leaves several people dead- -and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man who tried to kill her friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION PattersonBuckley, Fiona
Summary: March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCPaton 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 PATHenry, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004