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By Smiley, Jane2022., Adults, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC SMI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching combination of beauty and danger--as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, 'Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise...'"
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-- Sable Hill[2015]., Adults, Zondervan Call No: FIC GRA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chicago World's Fair mystery Volume: #2Summary Note: When Gilded Age Chicago debutante Eloisa Carstairs meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high society ball, she trusts him with a dark secret and turns to him for protection against a killer on the loose, but their disparate social standing complicates the feelings growing between them.
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2006., Ages 4-8, Little, Brown Call No: FIC CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2004., Adult, Atria Books Call No: FIC MAC Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nina Avery, having stood by her father after he was convicted of killing her mother, continues to believe in his innocence after he is released on parole, but a second tragedy has her searching for answers within her own family and the neighborhood where she grew up.
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[2005], p1996., Adults, 060000., Random House Audio Call No: AUD STE Edition: Abridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The tale of a woman who attracts sexual abuse. She is Grace Adams and the story begins as she kills her abusive father. In jail she undergoes abuse, out of jail she undergoes abuse, only when she finds a man and love does it end.
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By Doiron, Paul2015., Adults, Minotaur Books Call No: FIC DOI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Series Title: Mike Bowditch mysteries Volume: 6Summary Note: "When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness--the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian Trail--Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Evangelical parents in Georgia. When two corpses are discovered--the bones picked clean by coyotes--rumors spread that the women were stalked and killed by the increasingly aggressive canines. Faced with a statewide panic, Maine's governor places an emergency bounty on every dead coyote, and wildlife officials are tasked with collecting the carcasses. Despite some misgivings, Bowditch does his grisly job. But he finds his complacency challenged by his new girlfriend, the brilliant but volatile biologist Stacey Stevens, who insists coyotes merely scavenged the bodies after the women were murdered. When Stacey herself disappears on the outskirts of the Hundred Mile Wilderness, Bowditch realizes that locating her means he must also discover the truth behind what happened to the two hikers. Were the young women really killed by coyotes or, as Stacey insisted, were they murdered by the most dangerous animal in the North Woods?"--
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c2010., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC ROB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.