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FICTION HARMAN, S.
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FICTION HARMAN, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HARMAN, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HARMAN, S.
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"Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son's bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task...
2) Blood moon
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Blood volume 1
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FICTION BROWN, S.
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FICTION BROWN, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION BROWN, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION BROWN, S.
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"Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting...
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MYSTERY RENDON, M.R.
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MYSTERY RENDON, M.R.
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"Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, is back on the case after two men are found dead on a rural farm in Minnesota in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series. 1970s Minnesota. It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing summer field work for Bud Borgerud, a local farmer-until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The only possible witness to the murder is the young daughter...
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MYSTERY SAMPSON, F.
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MYSTERY SAMPSON, F.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY SAMPSON, F.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY SAMPSON, F.
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"A dysfunctional book club must learn to pull together and solve a murder in this bighearted new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Nosy Neighbors. Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it's a disaster. The five members disagree on everything, and to make matters worse, a significant sum of money is stolen during one of the meetings,...
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FICTION KAZUMI, C.
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FICTION KAZUMI, C.
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"In the aftermath of a shocking breakup, a woman's desperate quest for answers ignites a psychological inferno that will consume her past, present, and future in this hair-raising debut from an exciting new voice in suspense . . . She's been ghosted. But she won't be forgotten"-- Provided by publisher.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SEYBOLT, B.
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FICTION SEYBOLT, B.
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"In this debut that's perfect for fans of Tana French and Gillian Flynn, a true crime writer risks becoming the next chapter of a crumbling orphanage's dark legacy as she unravels the mystery of two deaths, decades apart"-- Provided by publisher.
"On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some say a nun drowned him, others say he ran away. Or maybe...
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FICTION STAVA, S.
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FICTION STAVA, S.
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"Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself - she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl's foot. With this lie, and chance encounter Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged life of Jay and Violet Lockhart. The...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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"From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who's forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless international cartel-and uses his music to fight back. Curtis Wilson is a classical music prodigy. Playing since the age of five, he is that rare performer who, through sheer force of will and phenomenal talent, has clawed his...
9) A dead draw
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Tracy Crosswhite series volume 11
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION DUGONI, R.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION DUGONI, R.
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"More than a game. It's a standoff. Detective Tracy Crosswhite isn't one to lose her cool. Until her interrogation of the taunting and malicious Erik Schmidt, a suspect in two cold case killings. Schmidt also has unnerving ties to the monster who murdered Tracy's sister, stirring memories of the crime that shaped Tracy's life. After a critical mistake during a shooting exercise, Tracy breaks. Haunted by nightmares and flashbacks, Tracy heads to her...
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"Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner. One of them is about to die. A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner. There's Kristján, the mayor reeling from a personal tragedy. Graeme, the ambassador with an agenda to push. Jane, his wife, along for the ride on another one of her husband's many business trips. And several others, from Iceland...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION BOWEN, S.
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FICTION BOWEN, S.
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Rowan Gallagher is a devoted single mother and a talented architect with a high-profile commission restoring an historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, she's a mess. She knows that stalking her ex's avatar all over Portland on her phone isn't the healthiest way to heal from their breakup. But she's out of ice cream and she's sick of romcoms. Watching his every move is both fascinating and infuriating. He's dining out while...
12) Fever beach
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HIAASEN, C.
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FICTION HIAASEN, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HIAASEN, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HIAASEN, C.
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"'The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Falls, Florida. The hitchhiker, who reminded Figgo of Danny DeVito, asked for a lift to the interstate. Figgo said he'd take him there after finishing an errand.' Thus begins Fever Beach, with an errand that leads--in pure Hiaasen-style--into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion...
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MYSTERY COSIMANO, E.
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MYSTERY COSIMANO, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY COSIMANO, E.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY COSIMANO, E.
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"From New York Times bestseller and Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave-the hugely anticipated next installment in the fan-favorite Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet . . . but at least there's not a body in her backyard. Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay's elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty, the community busybody and...
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Smart, wealthy and grounded, Emma has worked hard for her success. When she meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems like the icing on the cake. Initially, Emma's friends are delighted, but as the relationship quickly develops, they worry Emma could be exploited. She's a rich woman, after all. While Emma isn't worried about Matthew having so much less than her, she does have one tiny doubt about her new relationship. If Matthew's wife hadn't...
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Haven thriller volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY HALL, R.H.
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MYSTERY HALL, R.H.
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"She's a new PI in a beautiful seaside town. It's dirtier than it looks-and more dangerous too. After ten years on the force, LAPD cop Sonny Rush relocates with her elderly mother to peaceful Haven, California, to join her godfather's burgeoning PI business. What crimes could possibly happen in a town nicknamed "Mayberry by the Sea"? Sonny's first case: find Figgy, a missing goldendoodle last seen sporting a Versace collar. At least scouting out a...
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FICTION JOUHANNEAU, A.
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FICTION JOUHANNEAU, A.
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"The Paris Apartment meets A Simple Favor in an unputdownable thriller about a honeymoon gone horribly wrong. Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea. This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash. When she catches a glimpse of newlyweds Cassie and Olivier enjoying their happily ever, she can't tear her eyes away. And Cassie makes their antics...
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MYSTERY ANDERSON-WHEELER, C.
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MYSTERY ANDERSON-WHEELER, C.
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"Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby--younger sister to the infamous Jay-is finally free of her dull finishing school, and looking forward to an idyllic summer at the Gatsby Mansion, the jewel of West Egg. From its breathtaking views to its eccentric denizens, Greta is eager to inhale it all--even to the predictable disapproval of Mrs Dantry, Jay's exacting housekeeper. Indeed, nothing could disrupt the blissful time Greta...
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FICTION WEINER, C.
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FICTION WEINER, C.
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"The summer of 1986 in New York City starts off with a model's face getting slashed after rejecting her landlord's advances. It ends with a young woman's half naked body discovered in Central Park, murdered after a night of "rough sex." Nina Jacobs is 18, working a series of boring temp jobs, trying to lose her virginity before she leaves for college at the end of the summer, while also trying to stay out of the way of her mother, who spends her days...
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"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie,...
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY PERRIN, K.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY PERRIN, K.
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Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane crosses her path and shares a cryptic message. When Peony Lane is found dead only hours later inside the locked Gravesdown Estate, Annie quickly realizes that someone is out to make her look guilty while silencing Peony at the same time. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of Castle Knoll in order to find out just what Peony...








