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Central - Adult Detective - NEW
D OSMAN
5 available
D OSMAN
5 available
Central - Recently Returned
D OSMAN
1 available
D OSMAN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Detective - NEW
D OSMAN
1 available
D OSMAN
1 available
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28 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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"Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn't stay still long enough for habits or routines. She's currently...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Xavier "Priest" Priestly is a snarky former seminarian turned private investigator. Dusty Queen is a hard-as-nails professional stuntwoman and freelance bodyguard. When Dusty's girlfriend suddenly disappears, a woman in a strange blue wig tries to assassinate Priest, and a twelve-year-old boy shows up claiming to be his son, the two friends are thrown into a maelstrom of intrigue and high-stakes violence that's as convoluted and dangerous as it is...
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Detective Miller novels volume 1
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"Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WRAY
5 available
F WRAY
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WRAY
1 available
F WRAY
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WRAY
1 available
F WRAY
1 available
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"Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, popping up at commemorative events and history festivals all over the country. Despite their age, they're still in great form-perfectly put together, sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next "excitement." This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the...
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Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
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"For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot deck for guidance. Then along comes Marley. Mysterious, worldly, and comfortable in her own skin, Marley takes a job at the mall where Katie peddles Russian tchotchkes. The two just...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
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30 copies, 92 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 148 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 148 people are on the wait list.
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Central - Adult Detective
D JURCZ
2 available
D JURCZ
2 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Detective
D JURCZ
1 available
D JURCZ
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Detective
D JURCZ
1 available
D JURCZ
1 available
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"Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book but is told repeatedly to keep quiet to keep the...
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Killers (Deanna Raybourn) volume 1
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RAYBO
1 available
F RAYBO
1 available
Central - Recently Returned
F RAYBO
2 available
F RAYBO
2 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F RAYBO
1 available
F RAYBO
1 available
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10 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum,...
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Vera Wong mysteries volume 1
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15 copies, 109 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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"Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea...