New Arrivals: Mystery Fiction at the Tacoma Public LibraryNew Mystery Fiction titles added to the Tacoma Public Library since 8/25/2008A catered Halloween : a mystery with recipes Isis Crawford.- August 28, 2008 New York : Kensington, 2008. Call Number: MYS CRAWF-I Owned by: MAIN KING SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: The Simmons sisters, Libby and Bernie, owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, are ecstatic to cater the Halloween festivities at the Peabody School, a place rumored to be haunted. Businessman Mark Kane is going all out to include construction of a haunted house with high tech special effects that a Hollywood horror movie would envy. The event promises to be absolutely stunning--that is until...http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn233573259 The book stops here : a mobile library mystery Ian Sansom.- August 28, 2008 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper, c2008. Call Number: MYS SANSO-I Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE S_TACOMA Summary: When mobile librarian Israel Armstrong's library-on-wheels is stolen at an annual library convention in London, he sets out with his irascible companion Ted Carson to find it. Their search leads them to a suspicious convoy of New Age travelers. Subjects: Northern Ireland Fiction., Librarians Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn232550487 Forsaken soul : a medieval mystery Priscilla Royal.- August 28, 2008 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. Call Number: MYS ROYAL-P Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders England 13th century Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn191808443 Phoenix John Connor.- August 28, 2008 Ann Arbor : Bloody Brits Press, 2008, c2003. Call Number: MYS CONNO-J Owned by: WHEELOCK Subjects: Women detectives England West Yorkshire Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn244090833 Legally dead Edna Buchanan.- August 28, 2008 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008. Call Number: MYS BUCHA-E Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are tragic. To make amends Venturi leaves the Marshals Service..http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn180756009 Skeleton Lake : a Nik Kane Alaska mystery Mike Doogan.- August 26, 2008 New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008. Call Number: MYS DOOGA-M Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Subjects: Alaska Fiction., Kane, Nik (Fictitious character) Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn226911675 Santa clawed : a Mrs. Murphy mystery Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellatly.- August 26, 2008 New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 2008. Call Number: MYS BROWN-R Owned by: MAIN Subjects: Crozet (Va.) Fiction., Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn223891415 A mortal curiosity Ann Granger.- August 26, 2008 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. Call Number: MYS GRANG-A Owned by: MAIN MOORE MOTTET WHEELOCK Subjects: England Fiction., Teenage mothers Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn213466412 Stranger room Frederick Ramsay.- August 26, 2008 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. Call Number: MYS RAMSA-F Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH WHEELOCK Summary: Elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history and his house, which he is committed to restoring to its antebellum configuration, complete with a stranger room. Found in many family homes in the 1800s, an attached room with its own entrance, separately locked and kept for use by unknown travelers, it was intended to protect the family from unsavory guests. Nearly.http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn191808447 Blood alone : a Billy Boyle World War II mystery James R. Benn.- August 26, 2008 New York : Soho, c2008. Call Number: MYS BENN-J Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Subjects: Italy History Allied occupation, 1943-1947 Fiction., Americans Italy Sicily Fiction.Cover art:http://topcat.tacomapubliclibrary.org/searchtopcat.php?searchdata1=ocn213765975 |