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by Anne Perry
It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons—so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queen’s confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majesty’s request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems to have had an undue amount of influence on her son, the Prince of Wales. Now Commander Pitt must navigate the corridors of power with the utmost discretion and stealth, for it seems certain that Sir John’s killer is a member of the upper classes. Aided by his wife, Charlotte, and her social contacts, Pitt seeks out the hidden motives behind the polite façade of those to the manner born—and uncovers a threat to the throne that could topple the monarchy.
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In This Grave Hourby Jacqueline Winspear Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war," a new kind of refugee — an evacuee from London — appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie’s home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the “Operation Pied Piper” evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie’s search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come.
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Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes he must find out who she was and how she died.Cold Earth is the seventh book in the beloved Shetland series, which is now a major success for the BBC.
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Fallout by Sara Paretsky Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. Warshawski. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star. Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks her quarry through a university town, across fields where missile silos once flourished — and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions, a past that holds the key to the crimes of the present. But as the mysteries stack up, so does the body count. And in this, her toughest case, not even V.I. is safe.
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Celine by Peter HellerWorking out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman, Gabriela, asks for her help, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela's father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling, but his body was never found. Now, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park, investigating a trail gone cold, it becomes clear that they are being followed--that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed. Inspired by the life of Heller’s own remarkable mother, a chic and iconoclastic private eye, Celine is a deeply personal novel, a wildly engrossing story of family, privilege, and childhood loss.
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Man Overboard by Judith A JanceWhen cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary falls from the balcony of his suite on an all-expenses-paid cruise, the police quickly dismiss it as “death by misadventure.” Unsatisfied, Roger’s tough-as-nails aunt, Julia Miller, is determined to find answers and closure. By contacting Roger’s childhood friend Stuart Ramey to help her solve the mystery of his fate, Julia unwittingly sets up a collision course with a serial killer. Stuart, his sidekick Cami Lee, and journalist turned amateur sleuth Ali Reynolds put the full resources of cutting edge online security firm High Noon Enterprises into learning the truth about Roger’s death. With Cami on the high seas investigating the ship from which Roger disappeared, Stuart stays tied to his computer, locked in a battle of wits and technology against an unusually twisted adversary. Aided by Frigg, an artificial intelligence companion of his own creation, the killer targets victims who have lost parents to suicide and attempts to drive them to the same tragic end.
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Friday, June 2 The Vinyl Dialogues with Mike Morsch 6:30 p.m. Mike Morsch will discuss his three-volume set The Vinyl Dialogs. The books include interviews with Steven Van Zandt, Hall & Oates, The Doobie Bros., David Knopfler, Billy Joel, and Art Garfunkel. Thursday, June 8 Photo Editing with Your Tablet 1:00 p.m. Learn how to edit and enhance your photos using available apps on your tablet. Wednesday, June 14 Bald Eagles in Cranbury 6:30 p.m. Local resident Bob Kane will explain how he uses a unique recycling process to entice bald eagles onto his property for photographs.
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Monday, June 19 Beyond Standing Rock: Energy, Environment and Tribal Control 7:00 p.m. Former Cranbury resident Leigh Paterson, a reporter for Inside Energy, produced and narrated the film, and will be on hand to answer questions after the presentation in the Cranbury School Large Group Room. Thursday, July 6 Google Apps - Drive and Beyond 1:00 p.m. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Wednesday, July 19 Tiny Desserts with Pam Parseghian 6:30 p.m. Pam will demonstrate different methods of creating small desserts with big impact!
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