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Brown, Rita Mae. A nose for justice : a novel 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS BROWN-R Owned by: MAIN Country life Nevada Fiction.Nevada Fiction. Date added: Aug 17
Cavender, Chris. Pepperoni pizza can be murder New York : Kensington, 2010. Call Number: MYS CAVEN-C Owned by: FERNHILL S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: After the body of her delivery driver's brother ends up on the floor of her pizzeria, Eleanor Swift enlists the help of her sister Maddy in searching for the real killer, all while trying to keep her pizza business afloat. Women cooks North Carolina Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Church, James, 1947- The man with the Baltic stare 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS CHURC-J Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties. Koreans Fiction.Korea (North) Officials and employees Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Connelly, Michael, 1956- The reversal : a novel 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010. Call Number: MYS CONNE-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. Bosch, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction.Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
Crosby, Ellen, 1953- The Viognier vendetta : a wine country mystery 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2010. Call Number: MYS CROSB-E Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, D.C., she doesn't expect her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also missing: an antique silver wine cooler looted by British soldiers before they burned the White House during the War of 1812. Montgomery, Lucie (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Ewan, Chris, 1976- The good thief's guide to Vegas 1st U.S. ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS EWAN-C Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Charlie is a crime writer, part-time thief-- and an amateur magician. He breaks into a conjurer's hotel room and makes a safe full of casino chips vanish into thin air. When the victim disappears, Charlie is suspected of being his accomplice at cheating the roulette tables. Novelists, English Fiction.Las Vegas (Nev.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Fossum, Karin, 1954- Broken Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, c2008. Call Number: MYS FOSSU-K Owned by: MAIN Summary: Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict. Authors Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Goldberg, Lee, 1962- Mr. Monk is cleaned out : a novel New York : Obsidian, c2010. Call Number: MYS GOLDB-L Owned by: FERNHILL S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: Monk's been swindled out of his savings but now it's payback time, in the latest original mystery featuring everyone's favorite OCD detective. In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who's just been arrested on charges of orchestrating a massive $100 million fraud. All of Sebes' clients including Monk are completely wiped out financially. When the key witness in the government's case against Sebes is killed, Monk is convinced that Sebes did it, but the man has been under house arrest with a horde of paparazzi in front of his building 24/7. Monk may be broke, but he's got plenty of time on his hands to solve this latest mystery. Monk, Adrian (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Grace, Nancy, 1959- Death on the D-list 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2010. Call Number: MYS GRACE-N Owned by: MAIN Women television personalities Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Greenwood, Kerry. Forbidden fruit : a Corinna Chapman mystery 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010. Call Number: MYS GREEN-K Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways. Chapman, Corinna (Fictitious character) Fiction.Melbourne (Vic.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Gruley, Bryan. The hanging tree : a Starvation Lake mystery New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: MYS GRULE-B Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWANCREEK Journalists Fiction.Michigan Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Haddam, Jane, 1951- Wanting Sheila dead 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS HADDA-J Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: When an infamously offensive reality show personality is targeted by a thief who steals millions in jewelry from her home and leaves her unconscious beside the murdered body of a local girl, retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian struggles to identify a culprit among numerous suspects. Demarkian, Gregor (Fictitious character) Fiction.Connecticut Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Jaffarian, Sue Ann, 1952- Murder in vein : a fang-in-cheek mystery 1st ed. Woodbury, Minn. : Midnight Ink, 2010. Call Number: MYS JAFFA-S Owned by: FERNHILL S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Women Crimes against Fiction.Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Kiely, Tracy. Murder on the bride's side 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS KIELY-T Owned by: MAIN Weddings Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Lippman, Laura, 1959- I'd know you anywhere 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2010. Call Number: MYS LIPPM-L Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation. Serial murderers Fiction.Maryland Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
McFarland, Nora, 1973- A bad day's work : a novel New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: MYS MCFAR-N Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: TV camerawoman Lilly Hawkins knows her job at KJAY in Bakersfield, Calif. could hinge on how she covers a middle-of-the-night murder. What she doesn't realize until all the rough stuff starts is that her life might depend on it as well. That the tape she took at the crime scene appears to be blank doesn't deter the bad guys from vying to get their hands on it--or, failing that, Lilly herself. Among them are the pair of crooked cops she suspects may be working for Leland Warner, megabucks owner of the orchard where the victim was found, and Tom Sinclair, Warner's scuzzy son-in-law. Television camera operators California Bakersfield Fiction.Bakersfield (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Moore, Laurie. Deb on arrival--live at five : a debutante detective mystery 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, c2010. Call Number: MYS MOORE-L Owned by: MAIN Summary: When Texas Christian University student Dainty Prescott lands an unpaid internship with WBFD-TV, the station manager, Gordon Pfeiffer, tells her to spy on his wife, Paislee. To Dainty's dismay, Paislee turns out to be having an affair with Dainty's law school boyfriend and date for the Rubanbleu's debutante ball, Strayer Drexel Truett III. Next, a sorority sister asks the pampered princess to investigate her mom's very suspicious fiance, and ditzy Dainty soon realizes being Nancy Drew is a lot more fun than being Diane Sawyer. Debutantes Fiction.Texas Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
O'Donohue, Clare. The double cross : a someday quilts mystery New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, 2010. Call Number: MYS ODONO-C Owned by: MAIN Quilters Fiction. Date added: Aug 28
Riggs, Cynthia. Touch-me-not 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Minotaur Books, 2010. Call Number: MYS RIGGS-C Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: A mathematical knitters group is working on a coral reef quilt for a competition to draw attention to global warming. When a telephone stalker begins preying on their members, they turn to Victoria for help. Knitters (Persons) Fiction.Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 10
Rosenfelt, David. Dog tags 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. Call Number: MYS ROSEN-D Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder. Carpenter, Andy (Fictitious character) Fiction.New Jersey Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Scott, A. D. A small death in the Great Glen : a novel 1st Atria pbk. ed. New York : Atria Paperback, 2010. Call Number: MYS SCOTT-A Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two members of the local newspaper staff set out to investigate the crime. Together, these very different Scots harbor deep and troubling secrets underneath their polished and respectable veneers. Boys Crimes against Scotland Highlands Fiction.Highlands (Scotland) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Webb, Betty. The koala of death 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2010. Call Number: MYS WEBB-B Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: "When zookeeper Theodora 'Teddy' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killer implicate other animal keepers at Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate's Aussie ex-boyfriend; and Robin Chase, the big cat keeper who's got it in for Teddy. Also displaying suspicious behavior are several 'liveaboarders' at the harbor; Speak-To-Souls, a shady 'animal psychic'; and even Caro, Teddy's much-married, ex-beauty queen mother. But murderers aren't all Teddy has to worry about. Her embezzling father is still on the run from the Feds, and the motor on her houseboat is failing. To pay for the repairs, Teddy agrees to appear on a weekly live television broadcast featuring misbehaving animals that range from a cuddly koala to a panicky wallaby--and all hell breaks loose in the TV studio. All the while, the killer is narrowing in on Teddy...."--Dust cover flap. Zoo keepers Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Wolfe, Inger Ash. The taken 1st U.S. ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, c2009. Call Number: MYS WOLFE-I Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Summary: It is summer in Port Dundas, and D.I. Hazel Micallef is recovering from back surgery in the home of her ex and his wife. The Westmuir Record begins to publish its semi-annual, eight-part short story. This time it's a murder story. But after the publication of the third installment, someone commits a murder exactly like the one described in the paper. Suspicion falls on the writer, but he's as horrified as anyone is to learn that someone has modeled a crime on his fiction. Policewomen Fiction.Canada Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
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