Pawns
After her mother's death and her father's suicide, fourteen-year-old Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted next door neighbor--until the arrival of a woman claiming to be the pregnant wife of Mamie's son who recently died in a plane crash.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: orphans, death, swindlers and swindling [X], mystery and detective stories, young adult fiction, detective and mystery fiction, fiction [X]
The Nurse's Secret
The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: swindlers and swindling [X], nursing, bellevue hospital, historical fiction, novels, fiction [X], new york (state)
The Last Devil To Die
"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: clubs, murder, older people, retirement communities, swindlers and swindling [X], lost articles, fiction / mystery & detective / amateur sleuth, homicide, theft, antiques business, england, detective and mystery stories, detective and mystery fiction, fiction [X], mystery fiction, novels