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61) Father's Day
Author
Series
Lou Kline novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Louis Kline P.I., ex-cop, gets a job from a woman who wants him to find her missing daughter. The case leads to Philadelphia, where he finds himself in the middle of a Chinese drug operation.
Author
Series
Dr. Andrew Fenimore mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
63) Train: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course. He is managed by Sergeant Miller Packard as Train competes in golf games on a lucrative underground gambling circuit. Packard is also drawn to the beautiful widow at the centre of a case. Packard's oddly personal concern binds the three of them together in an uneasy triangle.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A woman goes on trial in 1886 Philadelphia for the murder of a husband whom she found repulsive. Isabelle Martin, a Frenchwoman, was betrothed to a wealthy shopkeeper who turned out to have bad breath. The story is narrated by her housekeeper and is based on a real murder. By the author of Walking West.
Author
Series
Zoe Hayes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
67) Our Gen: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Gen--short for Sexagenarian--is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen's two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Their camaraderie is exhilarating. But beneath the fun and froth, storms...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the darkest hours rises life in all its glory ... From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone...
Author
Series
Dr. Andrew Fenimore mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Series
Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a construction worker who found a curious metal object while excavating an old privy in the museum's basement is murdered, Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, must unearth a mystery with ties to the past and the present to stop a killer.
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