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2015., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 7Summary Note: "Hard on the heels of the return of her mother's body from the frozen reaches of the Himalayas, Flavia, for her indiscretions, is banished from her home at Buckshaw and shipped across the ocean to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Toronto, her mother's alma mater, there to be inducted into a mysterious organization known as the Nide. No sooner does she arrive, however, than a body comes crashing down out of the chimney and into her room, setting off a series of investigations into mysterious disappearances of girls from the school."--Goodreads.
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c2012., General, HarperCollins Canada Call No: MYS Fic Rey Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Josie Marshall deals with the death of her detective husband, Gabe, found naked outside their home on the beach with a bullet in his brain. Everyone calls it suicide. Josie knows it isn't . . . but fears it could be. After all, she had provided Gabe with a motive. The clues are so strong that even Josie begins to believe Gabe shot himself. But when a horrific slaying occurs literally at her feet, she knows Gabe was murdered, and her determination to prove it carries her toward dark corners of the beach strip and exposes the darker sides of its residents. Fending off her fears with humour and outrage, she encounters a drug-crazed drifter, an organized crime boss with romance on his mind, a woman with a murderous past and a pervert who's been frequenting her garden shed. When a chance remark leads Josie to the astonishing truth of Gabe's death, her story takes a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming.
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By Purser, Ann2014., General, Berkley Prime Crime Call No: MYS Fic Pur Edition: Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ivy Beasley Mystery Volume: 5Summary Note: Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy Beasley decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder... Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy's new classes are very close to the widow's farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping.
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2008., Pan Books Call No: MYS Fic Bre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Fethering Mystery Volume: 9Summary Note: "Retiree Carole Seddon must solve a murder at the local betting shop. Jude, Carole's West Sussex neighbor and friend, discovers the body of recent Polish émigré Tadeusz Jankowski at the bookie's office. No one knows why Tadeusz was in Fethering, though his sister, Zofia, guesses he may have been in love. Carole and Jude scope out the local college, where Tadeusz was reportedly seen, and encounter a drama professor lothario who falls for Jude. Help comes from unexpected places, as Carole discovers a new friend in one of the town's habitual gamblers as she and Jude scramble to unmask the killer."--Publisher's Weekly.
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2011., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Bre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Fethering Mystery Volume: 12Summary Note: "The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found beneath the floorboards of one of its beach huts, the community is awash with suspicion and fear. Amateur sleuths Carole Seddon and best friend Jude are drawn into the mystery, and their suspicion quickly falls on attractive Philly Rose, a young Londoner newly arrived in the area, whose boyfriend has recently vanished in mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile, Kelvin Southwest, self-appointed <U+2018>ladies<U+2019> man<U+2019> and caretaker of Smalting<U+2019>s beach huts, seems to be hiding a dark secret beneath his smooth exterior, while Reginald Flowers, pompous President of the Smalting Beach Hut Association, becomes increasingly defensive about his own history. When the bones under the beach hut are identified, the ghosts of the past are painfully reawakened, and long-hidden secrets begin to surface...."--Publisher.
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By Mina, Denise2022., Hachette Book Group Call No: SC MYS Fic Min Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a Scottish seaside town, journalists Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But she may not be the hapless victim everyone thinks she is. The last film she made showed her breaking into an abandoned French chateau and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. The day after Lisa vanishes the casket is listed for auction in Paris, reserve price fifty million euros, with a catalogue entry that challenges the beliefs of a major world religion. On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry. But someone doesn't want them to find the missing girl... and will do anything to stop them.
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2021., 06:14:57, Tantor Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Series Title: Sister Veronica Mystery, Volume: 1Summary Note: An innocent victim. A wicked crime. A killer on the loose. Meet Sister Veronica Angelica, a secret crime fiction writer and lover of custard cream biscuits. When she discovers a dead man in the grounds of the Catholic Youth Hostel, a building next door to her Convent, she can see he's been brutally murdered. What she doesn't know is that Jamie had a secret he'd been about to confess. Being forbidden by the Cardinal to contact the police, the nuns at The Convent of the Christian Heart are instructed to contain news of the murder. As Sister Veronica tries to uncover the truth, another murder takes place, plunging her deeper into the mystery. But when her investigation raises more questions than answers, will Sister Veronica be able to solve the case without attracting the killer's attention?
![The convent [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT103561.JPG "The convent [eAudiobook]")
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2011., Adult, William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Har Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Death on Demand Volume: 21Summary Note: "Solving puzzles comes naturally to Annie Darling, cheerful owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore on the lovely sea island of Broward's Rock. Annie is aided and abetted by her admiring husband, Max, who runs an unusual business that offers help to people in trouble. A recent death appears to be suicide, but Annie suspects murder. To solve the case, she unravels the mystery of a towel hidden at midnight in a gazebo, the lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a teenager's blue shirt, and the secret of a lovers' tryst. Annie believes she has set the perfect trap for a merciless killer until her cell phone rings and Death whispers in her ear."--Publisher.
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2014., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 6Summary Note: Bishop's Lacey is never short of two things: mysteries to solve and pre-adolescent detectives to solve them. Young chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve the most dastardly crimes the English countryside has to offer, and in the process, she comes closer than ever to solving her life's greatest mystery--her mother's disappearance.
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c2011., General, Allison & Busby Call No: MYS Fic Top Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cotswold mysteries Volume: 9Summary Note: Thea Osborne is house-sitting for transatlantic reptile breeder Harriet Young. However, she soon discovers a dark side to the village of Cranham when she is thrust once more into the heart of a Cotswolds mystery.
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By Purser, Ann2011., General, Berkley Prime Crime Call No: MYS Fic Pur Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lois Meade mystery Volume: 11Summary Note: Lois Meade has worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But sleuthing is rarely a spotless endeavor... A series of robberies have begun to plague Long Farnden, and Lois's own daughter, Josie, is shaken when a thief makes off with a hundred pounds from the till in her grocery shop. But before her policeman fiancé can crack the case, someone cracks Lois's husband on the head when he interrupts a burglary in progress. Now Lois-and the besotted Inspector Cowgill-must determine who's cleaning out Long Farnden, and clean up after an increasingly violent crime spree...
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c2013., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Bow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Joanne Kilbourn Volume: 14Summary Note: Proud parents Joanne Kilbourn and Zack Shreve, become concerned when a young male model who posed for a painting by their daughter, Taylor, seems to be having a negative influence on her.
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2018., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 9Summary Note: "In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder; although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave."--From publisher.
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c2012., Adult, Dundurn Call No: MYS Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Meg Harris mysteries Volume: 5Summary Note: After returning home from a trip, Meg Harris discovers that a friend's daughter has been missing from the Migiskan Reserve for more than two months. The police are indifferent, so she takes on the investigation herself, only to discover that her friend's daughter is not the only woman to go missing.
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2011., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 4Summary Note: "Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects. But Flavia de Luce is more than ready to solve the wintry country-house murder. She'll have to be quick-witted, though, to negotiate the volatile chemicals of a cast and crew starting to crack--and locked in a house with a murderer!"--Publisher.
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c2010., Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: BLK MYS Fic Rok Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Billy Blessing novels Volume: 2Summary Note: Sequel to the author's mystery debut, "The Morning show murders." Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water, when a brutal killing cancels a TV show -- and its host -- during it debut. -- Dust jacket.
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c2013., Adult, Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Dun Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Penny Brannigan Volume: 5Summary Note: "Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, marital and financial infidelity, a sham marriage scam, blackmail for beginners, and someone bent on murder. When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. At Penny's suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny's adopted hometown, is invited to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer."--From publisher.
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Penguin Random House Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . You know who I am. She’s going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There’s not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence—and preserve his sanity—as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story . . .
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Ã2017., Adult, TouchWood Editions Call No: MYS Fic Whi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lane Winslow mystery Volume: 3Summary Note: "It's early spring of 1947 in idyllic King's Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mere et fille, are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for the winter. But while cleaning up after the roof of their root cellar has caved in slightly, they are horrified to discover a small skeletal hand embedded in the mess. Panicked, they call Lane Winslow, the ex-British secret service agent, and, not without some misgivings about the state of their tense relationship, Lane calls Inspector Darling. Before long the police crew discover the body of a young child buried almost 40 years before. Who is the child, and why has it not been buried in the local cemetery? Inspector Darling, already busy dealing with a teenage girl who has gone on a destructive rampage at a local mill, asks Lane for help in unearthing the long-forgotten secrets of the early life of the tiny town, and the identity of the long-forgotten child. This delightful new historical mystery series will appeal to fans of Maisie Dobbs and Bess Crawford."--From publisher.
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2011., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 3Summary Note: 'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's dead mother, Harriet.
