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By Beaton, M. Cc2011., General, Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 22Summary Note: "An irresistible new adventure for the bossy, vain, and endearing Agatha Raisin, from New York Times bestselling M.C. Beaton, "the reigning queen of the cozies" (Booklist). The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the winter months after the holidays by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha, always one for a good roasting, has arrived with her former protege;e and current rival in the private detection racket, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the rotary spit is placed over a bed of fiery charcoals and the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes that things are not as they seem.... "Stop!" she screams suddenly. The "pig," in fact, is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved by the good people of the village. Although Agatha has every intention of leaving matters to the police, everything changes when Gary's ex-wife hires Toni to investigate. With that provocation, how could any sleuth as obviously vain and competitive (and secretly insecure) as Agatha could do anything other than solve the case herself?"--Publisher.
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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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By Beaton, M. Cc2014., General, Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 25Summary Note: The latest Agatha Raisin Mystery, following SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMEONE DEAD. Stifling a yawn at a local theatre production, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on the stage, until a trapdoor opens...followed by a scream and then silence. Surely this isn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the popular baker has been murdered, Agatha puts her team of private detectives on the case. They soon discover more feuds and temperamental behaviour in amateur theatrics than in a professional stage show - and face more and more danger as the team gets too close to the killer.
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By Beaton, M. C2010., Adult, Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 21Summary Note: When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
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2010., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Thea Osborne embarks on her second housesitting assignment with very few worries, after her first disastrous venture during which she became entangled in a murder case. But the Phillips are obviously a laid back family, and there is little to do but tend and ailing pony and feed various furry pets and farmyard birds. However, it seems Thea is jinxed as an apparent suicide takes place in one of the barns. DI Phil Hollis is more than a little surprised to find Thea at the center of this second police investigation, and realizes that she can be more of a hindrance that a help, but they find themselves working closely together to solve the mystery once again.
![A Cotswold ordeal [eBook] : Thea Osborne Series, Book 2](/Library/images/~imageCT77271.JPG "A Cotswold ordeal [eBook] : Thea Osborne Series, Book 2")
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2005., Penguin Call No: Fic Gas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. The novel's narrator (a young woman who periodically visits Cranford) describes the small adventures in the lives of two sisters in reduced circumstances who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the village.
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By Granger, Ann2015., General, Headline Call No: MYS Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Campbell & Carter Volume: 4Summary Note: It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the rivers burst their banks and the farmers' fields lie under several feet of water. In the village of Weston Saint Ambrose, a young girl's body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer's home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder...
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2013., Accent Press Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Falconer files Volume: 1Summary Note: In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of the crime. DI Falconer and Acting DS Carmichael are summoned from the police headquarters in the nearby town of Market Darley and begin to uncover a web of grudges against the old man and a sea of familial connections between those who knew him. As the heat of July continues relentlessly, tempers flare, disturbing the usual rural calm of the village, and the normally imperturbable Harry Falconer. Faced with a crime with no obvious prime suspect and the idiosyncrasies of his new partner,Carmichael, he feels that he is gradually losing his grip on the case as the body count rises. Undecided whether he has one or two murderers to bring to justice, only a moment of serendipity will show him how events actually unfolded, and allow him to close his File on Castle Farthing, still smarting from the hideous twist with which events finally came to a head.
![Death of an old git [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76470.JPG "Death of an old git [eBook]")
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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 Beaton, M. C2015., General, Minotaur Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 26Summary Note: "When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha's ex-husband but she dug up details of Agatha's not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woman, Gwen Simple, that Agatha firmly believes assisted her son in some grisly murders, although there is no proof. Not one to keep her feelings to herself, Agatha tells anyone that would listen that Jill is a charlatan and better off dead. Agatha could only sigh with relief when the therapist took an office in Mircester. When Agatha learns that Jill had hired a private detective to investigate her background, she barges into Jill's office and gives her a piece of her mind, yelling "I could kill you!" So when Jill is found strangled to death in her office two days later, Agatha becomes the prime suspect. But Agatha, along with her team of private detectives, is determined to prove her innocence and find the real culprit. This time Agatha must use her skills to save her own skin. With Dishing the Dirt, MC Beaton proves that "once you meet Agatha Raisin, you'll keep coming back."(New York Journal of Books)"--Publisher.
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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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By Beaton, M. C2016., Adult, Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 27Summary Note: "Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds Hills, she was heartily welcomed. She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she had a nasty habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, just small things, a teapot here, a set of silverware there. So it's quite the shock when she is found dead, murdered by a poisoned bottle of elderberry wine. Afraid the murder will be a blight on the small town, Parish councillor, Jerry Tarrant, hires private detective Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer. But the village is secretive and the residents resent Agatha's investigation. Of course that doesn't stop the ever-persistent Agatha from investigating and sticking her nose where no one wants it--especially as the suspect list grows. And, as if it isn't enough that Agatha's ex has reentered the picture, the murderer is now targeting Agatha! With M.C. Beaton's Something Borrowed, Someone Dead the bossy, vain, and absolutely irresistible, Agatha Raisin continues to be a fan favorite"--From publisher.
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2013., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 5Summary Note: Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
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2013., General, Random House Audio Call No: CD Fic Bra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Flavia de Luce Volume: 5Summary Note: Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
![Speaking from among the bones [CD] : a Flavia de Luce novel](/Library/images/~imageCT75389.JPG "Speaking from among the bones [CD] : a Flavia de Luce novel")
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2011., Adult, Minotaur Boooks Call No: MYS Fic Pen Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 7Summary Note: Investigating a murder at a solo artist's Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts.
