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Armstrong, Lori, 1965- No mercy : a mystery 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: MYS ARMST-L Owned by: MAIN KING MOORE Snipers Fiction. Date added: Jan 11
Clinch, Wendy. Double black : a ski diva mystery 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS CLINC-W Owned by: SWASEY Women skiers Vermont Fiction.Vermont Fiction. Date added: Jan 21
Dobson, Joanne, 1942- Death without tenure 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010. Call Number: MYS DOBSO-J Owned by: WHEELOCK Pelletier, Karen (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Jan 29
Hale, Rebecca M. How to wash a cat Berkley Prime Crime mass market ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2010, c2008. Call Number: MYS HALE-R Owned by: MAIN Summary: "Uncle Oscar was one of a kind. His dusty antiques shop, the Green Vase--nestled in San Francisco's historic Jackson Square neighborhood--was like his own personal museum to the Gold Rush era. Needless to say, I was shocked when he was found dead in his shop, and even more surprised to discover he'd left the venerable establishment to me...Before long, I learned my inheritance included all sorts of clues Uncle Oscar has left behind--a peculiar key, a trap door, a puzzling map..."--p.[4] of cover. Treasure troves Fiction.San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Feb 02
Herring, Peg. Her highness' first murder : a Simon & Elizabeth mystery 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2010. Call Number: MYS HERRI-P Owned by: MAIN Murder victims Fiction. Date added: Jan 11
Hime, James L. Where armadillos go to die 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009. Call Number: MYS HIME-J Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Sylvester Bradshaw owns the Bouree restaurant, home of the best catfish within a hundred miles of Brenham, Texas. Besides being known for his cooking and for being one of the town's nastiest residents, he also happens to have invented a machine that several venture capitalists and one former NFL star would like to invest in at almost any cost. But Bradshaw---stubborn and miserly---cannot be enticed. Nobody gets a look and nobody gets to know how the device works, not even his family. When the restaurant is ransacked and he goes missing, the only person willing to take his disappearance seriously is Jeremiah Spur. The retired Texas Ranger and rancher is a dedicated customer, if not a friend, which makes him the only man on whom the Bradshaws can pin their hopes. Spur, Jeremiah (Fictitious character) Fiction.Brenham (Tex.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 29
Knopf, Chris. Short squeeze 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS KNOPF-C Owned by: FERNHILL MOTTET WHEELOCK Women lawyers Fiction.Southampton (N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 26
Malliet, G. M., 1951- Death at the alma mater 1st ed. Woodbury, Minn. : Midnight Ink, 2010. Call Number: MYS MALLI-G Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: St. Michael's College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately, and in frightful disrepair. To replenish the college's dwindling coffers, the Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums. But all goes awry when Lexy Laurant is found viciously strangled to death. Gorgeous and successful, Lexy inspired jealousy, envy, and spite in everyone. There's a lengthy list of likely suspects: Lexy's debt-ridden Latino lover, her novelist ex-husband who jilted her, and a hot-tempered Texan once rejected by the victim, among others. As Detective Chief Inspector St. Just weighs clashing egos, he discovers unsavory secrets, and a most shocking twist. Murder Investigation Fiction.Cambridge (England) Fiction. Date added: Jan 20
May, Peter, 1951- The runner : a fifth China thriller 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010. Call Number: MYS MAY-P Owned by: MAIN Summary: In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics. Li, Yan (Fictitious character) Fiction.Beijing (China) Fiction. Date added: Jan 26
May, Peter, 1951- Virtually dead 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010. Call Number: MYS MAY-P Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Staggering under the grief and financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky enters a virtual world called Second Life to participate in a new kind of group therapy, but once there, his persona, Chas Chesnokov, uncovers a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting a murderer millions of dollars. Virtual reality Fiction.Newport Beach (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 27
McCarthy, Keith, 1960- Corpus delicti 1st world ed. Sutton : Severn House, 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS MCCAR-K Owned by: MAIN MOORE MOTTET WHEELOCK Eisenmenger, John (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Feb 06
Rees, Matt, 1967- The fourth assassin : an Omar Yussef mystery New York : Soho, c2010. Call Number: MYS REES-M Owned by: MOORE SWASEY Summary: Arriving to visit his son in a heavily Palestinian area of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates. When his son is arrested as a suspect, Omar Yussef must prove his innocence. Yussef, Omar (Fictitious character) Fiction.Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 27
Sansom, Ian. The bad book affair : a mobile library mystery 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper, 2010. Call Number: MYS SANSO-I Owned by: FERNHILL MOORE Summary: Israel Armstrong lends the library's copy of American Pastoral to a troubled teenage girl and soon she disappears. Israel thinks there may be a connection, but he needs to figure out what it is and find the girl, all while dealing with the trauma of a breakup and his impending 30th birthday. Librarians Fiction.Northern Ireland Fiction. Date added: Jan 20
Siger, Jeffrey. Assassins of Athens 1st. U.S. ed. Scottsdale, Ariz. : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS SIGER-J Owned by: MOORE SWASEY Summary: When the body of a boy from one of Greece's prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the special crimes division is certain there's a message in the murder. But who sent it and why? Detective and mystery stories.Athens (Greece) Fiction. Date added: Jan 29
Tierney, Ronald. Death in North Beach 1st world ed. Sutton : Severn House, 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS TIERN-R Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH WHEELOCK Summary: An upscale gigolo believes the only way he won't be the prime suspect in the murder of a famous novelist is for the real murderer to be found. At least that's what his handsome and secretive fellow tells San Francisco private investigator Carly Paladino. She takes the case. Did she believe him or fall under his spell? Her new client also provides a handy list of "suspects" he says he received from the victim himself. Carly and her streetwise and skeptical partner, Noah Lang, stir up serious trouble when they try to find the victim's as yet unpublished tell-all manuscript. Much like Noah Beach itself, the suspects are trying to preserve the image they want the world to see. And it seems one death is not enough to conceal some inconvenient truths--Publisher's description. Novelists Crimes against Fiction.North Beach (San Francisco, Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 20
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