Winner
The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan
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The Wrong Girl (Jane Ryland #2) by Hank Phillippi RyanCall Number: Fiction R988j v.2 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780765332585
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal--reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there?Jane and Jake are soon on a trail full of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. When the threatening phone calls start, Jane knows she is on the right track...but with both a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out....The Wrong Girl is a riveting novel of familial relationships--both known and unknown--vile greed, senseless murder, and the ultimate in deception. What if you didn't know the truth about your own family?
Finalists
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Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming
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Pagan Spring by G. M. Malliet
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How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
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Clammed Up by Barbara Ross
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Through the Evil Days (Clare Fergusson / Russ van Alstyne mystery #8) by Julia Spencer-FlemingCall Number: Fiction S746f v.8 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312606848
Publication Date: 2013-11-05
On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs. Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week in an ice-fishing cabin. The vestry of St. Alban's Church has called for the bishop to investigate Clare's "unpriestly" pregnancy. She has one week to find out if she will be scolded, censured, or suspended from her duties. Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. Her on-again-off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away. As the days and hours tick by, Russ and Clare fight personal and professional battles they've never encountered. In the course of this one tumultuous week the lives of the Millers-Kill residents readers have come to love and cherish change forever.
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How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Gamache #9) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.9 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312655471
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
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Clammed Up (Maine clambake mystery #1) by Barbara RossCall Number: Fiction R8229m v.1 Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780758286864
Publication Date: 2013-09-03
Summer has come to Busman's Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there's something sinister on the boil this season. A killer has crashed a wedding party, adding mystery to the menu at the worst possible moment. . . Julia Snowden returned to her hometown to rescue her family's struggling clambake business--not to solve crimes. But that was before a catered wedding on picturesque Morrow Island turned into a reception for murder. When the best man's corpse is found hanging from the grand staircase in the Snowden family mansion, Julia must put the chowder pot on the back burner and join the search for the killer. And with suspicion falling on her old crush, Chris Durand, the recipe for saving her business and salvaging her love life might be one and the same.
Winner
Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Finalists
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The Good, the Bad and the Emus by Donna Andrews
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A Demon Summer by G. M. Malliet
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Designated Daughters by Margaret Maron
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The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
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The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Meg Lagslow mystery #17) by Donna AndrewsCall Number: Fiction A654m v.17 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250009500
Publication Date: 2014-07-08
Life will never be the same for Meg after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series. Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg's picture--she's a dead ringer for Cordelia--and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive away. He convinces Meg to come with him to meet her, but unfortunately, the woman they meet is Cordelia's cousin--Cordelia died several years ago, and the cousin suspects she was murdered by her long-time neighbor. Stanley and Meg agree to help track down the killer and get justice for Cordelia. Grandfather even has perfect cover--he will come to stage a rescue of the feral emus and ostriches (escaped from an abandoned farm) that infest this town. He dashes off to organize the rescue--which will, of course, involve most of Meg's family and friends in Caerphilly. But then, the evil neighbor is murdered, and not only Cordelia's cousin but also the entire contingent of emu-rescuers, who have had conflict with the neighbor, are suspects. Only Meg and the cousin--who seems to share a lot of telling traits with Meg--can find the real killer and clear the air.
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Designated Daughters (Deborah Knott mystery #19) by Margaret MaronCall Number: Fiction M345k v.19 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781455545285
Publication Date: 2014-08-12
When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel's bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn't passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems like half of Colleton County, a semi-conscious Rachel breaks weeks of pained silence with snippets of stories as randomly pieced together as a well-worn patchwork quilt. But the Knott family's joy quickly gives way to shock: less than an hour later, Aunt Rachel is found dead in her bed, smothered with a pillow. Who would kill a woman on her deathbed? Was it an act of mercy, or murder? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigate they cross paths with an unlikely set of suspects: Rachel's longtime minister; her neighbor, the respected local doctor; the friendly single father who often sought her advice; and perhaps the most puzzling party of all, the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers that Rachel's own daughter belongs to. Soon Deborah and Dwight realize that the key to solving this case is hidden in Rachel's mysterious final words. Her mixed-up memories harbored a dark secret-a secret that someone close to them is determined to bury forever.
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The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Gamache #10) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.10 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250022066
Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache's help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There's power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.
Winner
Long Upon the Land by Margaret Maron
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Long upon the Land (Deborah Knott mystery #20) by Margaret MaronCall Number: Fiction M354k v.20 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781455545322
Publication Date: 2015-08-11
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 husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute. The local newspaper implies that Deborah's family may have had something to do with the murder-and that Dwight is dragging his feet on the case. Meanwhile, Deborah is given a cigarette lighter that once belonged to her mother. The cryptic inscription inside rekindles Deborah's curiosity about her parents' past, and how they met. For years she has wondered how the daughter of a wealthy attorney could have married a widowed, semi-illiterate bootlegger, and this time she's determined to find the answer. But why are Deborah's brothers so reluctant to talk about the dead man? Is the murder linked to Kezzie's illegal whiskey business? And could his courtship of Deborah's mother have something to do with the bad blood between the two families? Despite Deborah's promise not to interfere in Dwight's work, she cannot stop herself from doing everything she can to help clear her brothers and her father from suspicion.
Finalists
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Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy
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The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson
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Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
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What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan
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The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Gamache #11) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.11 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250022080
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet. And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here. A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back. Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.
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What You See (Jane Ryland #4) by Hank Phillippi RyanCall Number: Fiction R988j v.4 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780765374950
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
Why would a father abduct his own child? A wedding is planned in Jane Ryland's family, but there's a disaster instead. Nine-year-old Gracie-supposed to be the flower girl-has been taken by her stepdad. Where are they? Is the girl in danger? Reporter Jane Ryland learns there's a limit to the bonds of family-and learns to her peril what happens when loved ones are pushed too far. Meanwhile, Detective Jake Brogan's got a doozy of a case. At Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, a man is stabbed to death in front of a crowd of tourists snapping photos of the murder on their cell phones. Solving the case should be easy, but the pictures and surveillance video lead him to a dark conspiracy of extortion and stolen lives. Jane and Jake must explore where their loyalties lie-to each other? To their families? To their careers? If they make the wrong decision, the consequences could be fatal
Winner
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
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A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Gamache #12) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.12 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250022134
Publication Date: 2016-08-30
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 to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the SuÌ‚reteÌ du QueÌbec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the SuÌ‚reteÌ academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A proteÌgeÌe of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.
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Finalists
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Body on the Bayou by Ellen Byron
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Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson
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Fogged Inn by Barbara Ross
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Say No More by Hank Phillipp Ryan
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Body on the Bayou [E-Book] (Cajun country mystery #2) by Ellen ByronCall Number: Fiction B996c v.2 Ebook (OverDrive
ISBN: 9781629537894
Publication Date: 2016
The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they've managed to survive the scandal. Now there's a trés bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer. When everyone else refuses the job of being Vanessa's Maid of Honor, Maggie reluctantly takes up the title and finds herself tasked with a long list of duties—the most important of which is entertaining Vanessa's cousin, Ginger Fleer-Starke. But just days before the wedding, Ginger's lifeless body is found on the bayou and the Pelican PD, as well as the Crozats, have another murder mystery on their hands. There's a gumbo-potful of suspects, including an ex-Marine with PTSD, an annoying local newspaper reporter, and Vanessa's own sparkplug of a mother. But when it looks like the investigation is zeroing in on Vanessa as the prime suspect, Maggie reluctantly adds keeping the bride-to-be out of jail to her list of Maid of Honor responsibilities
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Say No More (Jane Ryland #5) by Hank Phillippi RyanCall Number: Fiction R988j v.5 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780765385352
Publication Date: 2016-11-01
Discovering that she has witnessed the collapse of an alibi after reporting a hit and run, Boston reporter Jane Ryland convinces a date rape victim to come forward as part of an exposé on college campus sexual assaults, an assignment that is complicated by an ominous threat.
Winner
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
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Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Gamache mystery #13) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.13 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250066190
Publication Date: 2017-08-29
Ashlyn Bryant has been accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, but swears she is innocent. Mercer Hennessey is writing a book about the case, hoping it will help her overcome her own grief about the car accident that killed her own daughter and husband. After the verdict comes in, Mercer discovers that there are three sides to every story: yours, mine... and the truth
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Finalists
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Death Overdue by Allison Brook
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A Cajun Christmas Killing by Ellen Byron
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No Way Home by Annette Dashofy
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Take Out by Margaret Maron
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Death Overdue (Haunted library mystery #1) by Allison BrookCall Number: Fiction B8715h v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781683313861
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. Then she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the local library-- which comes complete with its own ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by retired homicide detective Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies. He was poisoned-- and Carrie feels responsible. She's convinced he was murdered by the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side.
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A Cajun Christmas killing [E-Book] (Cajun country mystery #3) by Ellen ByronCall Number: Fiction B9967c v.3 Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781683313069
Publication Date: 2017
Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B. When he floods travel websites with vicious reviews, Maggie thinks she's identified him as rival businessman Donald Baxter. That is, until he's found stabbed to death at Maggie's workplace. And Maggie and her loved ones become top suspects. The Crozats quickly establish alibis, but Maggie's boyfriend, Detective Bo Durand, remains under suspicion. With Bo sidelined during the investigation, Maggie finds herself forced to work with an unlikely ally: longtime family enemy Rufus Durand. Her sleuthing uncovers more suspects than drummers drumming, and lands her in the crosshairs of the murderer. The sleigh bells are jingling, and the clock is ticking for Maggie and Rufus, who must catch the killer, or it will be the opposite of a Joyeux Noël.
Winner
Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron
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Mardi Gras Murder [E-Book] (Cajun country mystery #4) by Ellen ByronCall Number: Fiction B996c v.4 Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781683317067
Publication Date: 2018
It’s Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana—and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B&B—the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. The citizens of Pelican are ready to Laissez les bon temps rouler—but there’s beaucoup bad blood on hand this Mardi Gras. Maggie Crozat is determined to give the stranger a name and find out why he was murdered. The post-flood recovery has delayed the opening of a controversial exhibit about the little-known Louisiana Orphan Train. And when a judge for the Miss Pelican Mardi Gras Gumbo Queen pageant is shot, Maggie’s convinced the murder is connected to the body on the bayou. Does someone covet the pageant queen crown enough to kill for it? Could the deaths be related to the Orphan Train, which delivered its last charges to Louisiana in 1929? The leads are thin on this Fat Tuesday—and until the killer is unmasked, no one in Pelican is safe.
Finalists
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Beyond the Truth by Bruce Robert Coffin
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Cry Wolf by Annette Dashofy
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Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
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Trust Me by Hank Phillipi Ryan
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Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache mystery #14) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.14 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250066206
Publication Date: 2018-11-27
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing. But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing. The investigation into what happened six months ago—the events that led to his suspension—has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers. As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.
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Trust Me by Hank Phillippi RyanCall Number: Fiction R988t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780765393081
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Ashlyn Bryant has been accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, but swears she is innocent. Mercer Hennessey is writing a book about the case, hoping it will help her overcome her own grief about the car accident that killed her own daughter and husband. After the verdict comes in, Mercer discovers that there are three sides to every story: yours, mine... and the truth
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
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The Long Call (Two Rivers Series #1) by Ann CleevesCall Number: Fiction C6243L Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781250204462
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.
Nominees
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Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron
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Fair Game by Annette Dashofy
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The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill
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A Better Man by Louise Penny
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The Murder List by Hank Phillipp Ryan
Fatal Cajun Festival
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Fatal Cajun Festival (Cajun country mystery #5) by Byron, EllenCall Number: FIC BYRON ELL C5 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781643851297
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Grab your tickets for Cajun Country Live!, the pickers' and crooners' answer to the legendary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation B&B, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls. The festival's headliner, native daughter Tammy Barker, rocketed to stardom on a TV singing competition. She has the voice of an angel...and the personality of a devilish diva. But Maggie learns that this tiny terror carries a grudge against Gaynell. She's already sabotaged the Gator Girls' JazzFest audition. When a member of Tammy's entourage is murdered at the festival, Tammy makes sure Gaynell is number one on the suspect list. Gaynell has plenty of company on that list--including every one of Tammy's musicians. Posing as a groupie, Maggie infiltrates Tammy's band and will have to hit all the right notes to clear her friend's name.
Fair Game
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Fair Game (Zoe Chambers mystery #8) by Dashofy, AnnetteCall Number: FIC DASHO ANN C8 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781635115024
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
The games people play. Paramedic Zoe Chambers hoped for a week at the Monongahela County Fair, showing her horse and manning the ambulance, would provide a much-needed diversion from recent events that continue to haunt her. An old friend, a bossy nemesis, and a teenage crush from her 4-H days fail to offer the distraction she had in mind. But ever the caregiver, she soon bonds with a troubled teen and a grieving father. Back in Vance Township, a missing woman turns up dead, leading Police Chief Pete Adams into a journey through her mysterious final hours. With each new clue, the tragic circumstances of her death grow increasingly muddied. A cryptic phone call leads Pete to join Zoe for an evening at the fairgrounds where the annual school bus demolition derby concludes with a gruesome discovery and a new case that may or may not be connected to the first
The Missing Ones
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The Missing Ones (Hester Thursby Mystery #2) by Edwin HillCall Number: Fiction H545h v.2 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781496719331
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote - the kind of place tourists love to visit, though rarely for long. But a dilapidated Victorian house has become home to a group of squatters and junkies. A young boy disappeared during the summer, and though he was found safely, the incident stirred suspicion among locals. Now another child is missing. Summoned to the island, Hester discovers a community cleaning up from a devastating storm - and uncovers a murder. Soon Hester begins to connect the crime and the missing children. And as she untangles the secrets at the center of the small community, she finds grudges and loyalties that run deep.
A Better Man
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A Better Man (Chief Inspector Gamache #15) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.15 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250066213
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
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The Murder List
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The Murder List by Ryan, Hank PhillippiCall Number: FIC RYAN HANP M (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250197214
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Law student Rachel North is the ultimate reliable narrator--she will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right thing. She's successfully married to a faithful and devoted husband, a lion of Boston's defense bar. And her internship with the District Attorney's office is her ticket to a successful future. Problem is--she's wrong. Rachel. Jack. Martha. Who is next on The Murder List? And in this cat and mouse game--the battle for justice becomes a battle for survival.
The Wrong Girl (Jane Ryland #2) by 
Through the Evil Days (Clare Fergusson / Russ van Alstyne mystery #8) by 
How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Gamache #9) by 
Clammed Up (Maine clambake mystery #1) by 
Designated Daughters (Deborah Knott mystery #19) by 
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Gamache #10) by 
The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Gamache #11) by 
What You See (Jane Ryland #4) by 
A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Gamache #12) by 
A Great Reckoning [Streaming Audio] (Chief Inspector Gamache #12) by 
Body on the Bayou [E-Book] (Cajun country mystery #2) by 
Say No More (Jane Ryland #5) by 
Glass Houses [E-Book] (Chief Inspector Gamache mystery #13) by 
Death Overdue [E-Book] (Haunted library mystery #1) by 
Death Overdue [Streaming Audiobook] (Haunted library mystery #1) by 
Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache mystery #14) by 
Kingdom of the Blind [E-Book] (Chief Inspector Gamache #14) by 
Trust Me by 
Fatal Cajun Festival (Cajun country mystery #5) by 
Fair Game (Zoe Chambers mystery #8) by 
A Better Man [E-Book] (Chief Inspector Gamache #15) by 
The Murder List by 
All the Devils Are Here [E-Book] by 
The Gift of the Magpie [E-Book] (Meg Langslow #28) by