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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While delivering comforting reads to the citizens of Chilson, Michigan, librarian Minnie and her rescue cat Eddie, encounter Ryan Anderson, who, on the run from the police for crimes he didn't commit, needs her help in proving his innocence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a fatal turn of events plagues the town, librarian witch Josie Way asks the spellbound books for help, seeking the aid of Sherlock Holmes, but when strange things continue to happen, she wonders if she is dealing with her own Moriarty as she tries to solve this mystery.
43) Paws and effect
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When her old beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, is accused of murder, resourceful librarian Kathleen and her magical felines must paw through the clues to discover who is trying to frame him for murder.
Author
Series
Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aurora Teagarden islaunching a new career in real estate. Unfortunately, at Roe's first showing of a house, a corpse is the star attraction. Worse still, the body belongs to a rival realtor.
45) Death threads
Author
Series
Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Tori Sinclair, the new librarian in town, looks to her sewing circle to help her find Colby Calhoun, a local author, and solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is mis behavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost? In winter, the Haunted Library is a refuge for homeless townspeople. When a group purchases a vacant house to establish a daytime haven for the homeless, Carrie offers the library as a meeting place for the Haven House committee, but quickly learns that it may be used for illegal...
47) Seven-year witch
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While Josie develops her witchcraft with the help of letters left by her grandmother, there are other changes happening in her new hometown. A retreat center is being built at the old mill site, and rumor has it that the location is cursed. That piques Josie's interest almost as much as Sam Wilfred, handsome FBI agent and descendant of the town's founder...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Minnie loses a grant that was supposed to keep the bookmobile running, she's worried her pet project could come to its final page. But she's determined to keep her patrons -- and Eddie's fans --happy and well read. She just needs her boss, Stephen, to see things her way, and make sure he doesn't see Eddie. The library director doesn't exactly know about the bookmobile's furry co-pilot.
49) Watch her
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Harvard librarian Hester Thursby returns in Edwin Hill's complex psychological thriller about a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their darkest secrets from coming to light. While attending a gala at Prescott University's lavish new campus, Hester Thursby and fellow guest, Detective Angela White, are called to the home of the college's owners, Tucker and Jennifer Matson. Jennifer claims that someone broke into Pinebank, their secluded mansion...
50) Little comfort
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby--and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder . . . Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she's hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, Published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library's popular Reading Buddies program. She has her hands full hosting the event. And when a guest at the gala drops dead, her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, will have their paws full helping her solve a murder.
Author
Series
India Hayes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On the cusp of Halloween, her bossy sister has roped small-town college librarian India into working a crafts fair on campus. When Tess, a fellow vendor, is bludgeoned to death in her booth after hours, India stumbles over her body. Derek, Tess's clingy undergrad son, begs India to find the killer. Demonstrating her research prowess, India digs into Tess's past and finds unexpected connections to an older, unsolved case. Danger escalates when another...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines. When murder interrupts Mayville's Wild Rose Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. More stunning...
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker's nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive--to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband's murder, a crime for which she believes an innocent man went to prison. Her plans come to a shuddering halt when a wedding guest goes missing...
55) The undateable
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Melissa 'Bernie' Bernard isn't familiar with fame. After all, she works at a college library with hardly any visitors. But when a video of a marriage proposal in her stacks goes viral, it's not the bride and groom who capture the Internet's attention. It's Bernie--caught rolling her eyes. Now, just as she's ready to go into hiding and permanently bury her nose in a book, a handsome reporter appears with a proposal of his own"--Back cover.
56) Belle Greene
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a secret. Although she looks white, she is African American,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Dark deeds in the Lighthouse Library threaten to send Lucy Richardson's soon-to-be-wed cousin Josie to an early til-death-do-us-part. Winter falls on North Carolina's Outer Banks as Lucy Richardson and her friends joyfully help her favorite cousin, Josie O'Malley, plan her wedding. The owner and head baker of Josie's Cozy Bakery and her fiancé, chef Jake Greenblatt, want a small, simple wedding. But to their horror, Josie's imperious grandmother,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to her pet project. Still, she has to put her personal worries aside when she and Eddie are out on their regular route and one of their favorite customers doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After a successful party at Bodie Island's Lighthouse Library, librarian Lucy Richardson is ready to curl up with her cat, Charles, and a good book. But her R and R is cut short when she notices some mysterious lights leading a small boat to crash into the coast. The two shipwrecked seafarers survive the ordeal--but one of them shows up dead ashore a few days later. Lucy finds herself again roped into a murder investigation and navigating a sea of...
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