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Summary: Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARAlexander, Tasha
Summary: "After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead? As Emily and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Tasha
Summary: "Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEEdwards, 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 EDWNeville, Stuart
Summary: "In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy. Rea Carlisle--daughter of influential Stormont politician Graham Carlisle--has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Neville 2014Winspear, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINChua, Amy
Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUWingate, Marty
Summary: 1922. Amateur sleuth Mabel Canning is surrounded by the bright lights of London as she chaperones a young American woman to a dance. But when someone is murdered, a deadly tango begins…Meet plucky woman-about-town Mabel Canning, leader of the London Ladies’ Murder Club and trusted assistant to gentlewomen. When she is tasked with accompanying Roxy, a fun-loving heiress, on a glamorous night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture 2024