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Agatha Awards
The Agatha Awards honor the "traditional mystery." That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others.
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Rhys Bowen
Series:
Royal Spyness Mysteries - #14
(6,545)
Summary: Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts, and Granddad is busy helping wayward youths avoid lives of crime. So when Georgie's friend Belinda inherits an old cottage in Cornwall she jump...
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Call #: F BOWEN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Ann Cleeves
Series:
Two Rivers - #1
(23,901)
Summary: In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left...
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Call #: F CLEEVES
Location: Adult Fiction
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Sujata Massey
Series:
Perveen Mistry Novels - #1
(21,296)
Summary: "Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law...
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Call #: F MASSEY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Rhys Bowen (read by Gemma Dawson)
(63,559)
Summary: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and...
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Call #: CD BOOK F BOWEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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Rhys Bowen
(63,559)
Summary: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and...
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Call #: F BOWEN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Louise Penny
Series:
Armand Gamache Three Pines Series - #12
(55,239)
Summary: "When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given...
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Call #: F PENNY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Margaret Maron
Series:
Deborah Knott Series
(2,424)
Summary: "On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's...
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Call #: F MARON
Location: Adult Fiction
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Jacqueline Winspear (read by Rita Barrington )
Series:
Maisie Dobbs Series - #1
(97,314)
Summary: Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche,...
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Call #: CD BOOK F WINSPEAR
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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Rhys Bowen
Series:
Royal Spyness Series - #8
(9,738)
Summary: "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk...
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Call #: F BOWEN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Charles Todd
Series:
Bess Crawford Series
(5,985)
Summary: While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to...
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Call #: F TODD
Location: Adult Fiction
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Daniel Stashower
(1,385)
Summary: Two-time Edgar award-winning author Daniel Stashower uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.
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Call #: 973.7 STA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Susan M Boyer
Series:
Liz Talbot Series - #1
(6,002)
Summary: "Private investigator Liz Talbot is a modern Southern belle: she blesses hearts and takes names. She carries her Sig 9 in her Kate Spade handbag, and her golden retriever, Rhett, rides shotgun in her...
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Call #: F BOYER
Location: Adult Fiction
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Rhys Bowen
Series:
Royal Spyness Series
(13,289)
Summary: In Nice to recover the Queen's stolen snuff box, Lady Georgiana Rannoch participates in a Coco Chanel fashion show where a necklace also belonging to the Queen goes missing, forcing her to search for both priceless items and solve a murder.
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Call #: F BOWEN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Margaret Maron
Series:
Deborah Knott Series
(2,737)
Summary: While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they...
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Call #: F MARON
Location: Adult Fiction
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Sara J Henry
Series:
Troy Chance Novels
(7,841)
Summary: Witnessing a small boy being thrown into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.
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Call #: F HENRY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Avery Aames
Series:
Cheese Shop Series - #1
(3,299)
Summary: Charlotte Bessette finds the grand opening of her new cheese shop, Fromagerie Bessette, marred by a crime of passion that causes her to become the prime suspect in the murder investigation.
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Call #: PB AAM
Location: Adult Paperbacks
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Louise Penny
Series:
Armand Gamache Three Pines Series
(65,434)
Summary: An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone...
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Call #: F PENNY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Louise Penny
Series:
Armand Gamache Three Pines Series - #5
(62,936)
Summary: A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to...
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Call #: F PENNY
Location: Adult Fiction
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C. Alan Bradley
Series:
Flavia De Luce Series
(158,583)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and...
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Call #: F BRADLEY
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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G. M Malliet
Series:
St. Just Series - #1
(3,035)
Summary: Winner of the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four...
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Call #: F MALLIET
Location: Adult Fiction
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Louise Penny
Series:
Armand Gamache Three Pines Series - # 2
(95,904)
Summary: Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel!Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is...
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Call #: F PENNY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Melanie Rehak
(2,848)
Summary: A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a...
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Call #: 813.52 REH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Nancy Pickard
(6,744)
Summary: Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a...
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Call #: F PICKARD
Location: Adult Fiction
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Peter Abrahams
Series:
Echo Falls Series - #1
(6,452)
Summary: Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
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Call #: YA F ABRAHAMS
Location: YA Fiction
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Katherine Hall Page
Series:
Faith Fairchild Series
(719)
Summary: Award-winning author Katherine Hall Page is one of the reigning queens of the traditional mystery. Now, in this fifteenth mystery in her much-beloved Faith Fairchild series, she takes us to the...
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Call #: F PAGE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Blue Balliett
Series:
Hyde Park Series
(29,762)
Summary: When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
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Call #: J F BALLIETT
Location: Junior Fiction
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Jacqueline Winspear
Series:
Maisie Dobbs Series
(38,362)
Summary: Praise for Maisie Dobbs: "Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers's Harriet Vane...
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Call #: F WINSPEAR
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Harley Jane Kozak
Series:
Wollie Shelley Series
(1,967)
Summary: Wollie Shelley, a greeting card artist and small business owner, is dating forty men in sixty days as a participant in a social science research project when she stumbles over a dead body. Wollie...
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Call #: F KOZAK
Location: Adult Fiction
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Elizabeth George
Series:
Inspector Lynley Series - #1
(45,495)
Summary: "To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in...
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Call #: PB GEO
Location: Adult Paperbacks
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Jacqueline Winspear
Series:
Maisie Dobbs Series
(97,314)
Summary: Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship's Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her...
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Call #: F WINSPEAR
Location: Adult Fiction
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Elizabeth Peters
Series:
Amelia Peabody Mysteries
(1,312)
Summary: The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity....
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Call #: 813.54 AME
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Donna Andrews
Series:
Turing Hopper Series
(1,672)
Summary: When a workaholic techie misses work for several days, his friend, Turing, does the only neighborly thing and checks in on Zack. She checks to see if he's logged in from home. No luck. Then she...
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
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Margaret Maron
Series:
Deborah Knott Series
(2,098)
Summary: Judge Deborah Knott blows the lid off a murder investigation with gale force winds in this newest entry in the award-winning series. As Hurricane Fran strikes the North Carolina coast, Judge Knott...
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Call #: F MARON
Location: Adult Fiction
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