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Strout, Elizabeth.

Summary: In a small town in New England, a girl has an affair with her schoolteacher. Amy Goodrow lives with her protective single mother and the novel examines the way the scandal affects their relationship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION STROUT

King, Laurie R.

Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY KING,

Bront©±, Charlotte

Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BRONTE

Deveraux, Jude

Summary: "An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count -- It's the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar. After solving two murder cases in their hometown of Lachlan, Florida, Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery. Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend of hers in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DEVERAUX

Pitcher, Annabel.

Summary: Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PITCHER

Lamb, Wally.

Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018

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Graham, Heather

Summary: "When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the eighteenth-century monster regarded as America's first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes's memory. And now the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRAHAM 1

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered. Fans of the longtime series will love the many characters from past books who join Lynley and Havers, but readers new to the series will quickly see why Elizabeth George is one of the most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT MYSTERY GEORGE

Patterson, James

Summary: "Rafe Khatchadorian takes his troublemaking ways across the pond and gets lost in London!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Boooks, Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION PATTERSON

Barklem, Jill.

Summary: A well-to-do little mouse, exploring on her own, experiences both pleasant and frightening adventures before she is safely home again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Readers, Call number: READER BARKLEM 2/3

Ward, Rachel

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic 2010

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION WARD bk. 1

Ryan, Jennifer

Summary: As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead 'carry on singing', resurrecting themselves as the Chilbury Ladies Choir.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape.

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1 available in CD, Call number: AUDIO FICTION RYAN

Austen, Jane

Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AUSTEN

Patterson, James

Summary: Dan Carter, head of the London division of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, must join forces with his ex-wife if he is going to save American student Hannah Shapiro from a threat that has stalked her for eight years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSON

Macneal, Elizabeth

Summary: "In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MACNEAL

Truss, Lynne

Summary: 1957. Famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. He intends to tell Constable Twitten the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. Just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead in his seat. As Constable...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY TRUSS

Grimes, Martha

Summary: "When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY GRIMES

Bennett, S. J. (Sophia J.)

Summary: "Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found--but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St. Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BENNETT

Perry, Anne.

Summary: Investigating the poisoning death of a distinguished judge, Inspector Pitt finds himself haunted by a grisly murder committed in desolate Farrier's Lane five years before.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1993

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PERRY

Perry, Anne.

Summary: In the Victorian London stunned by the sensational crimes of a madman named Jack the Ripper, a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate goes unmarked and an innocent woman has died in it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1991

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PERRY

Perry, Anne.

Summary: When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PERRY

Francis, Dick.

Summary: After becoming involved with the Stratton Park racecourse, Lee Morris, a young architect, engineer, and builder, finds himself reluctantly drawn into the deadly infighting among members of the clan that owns the facility.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1993

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY FRANC

Perry, Anne.

Summary: When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992

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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PERRY

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