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Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"What makes Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard novels stand out among traditional cozy mysteries is the decidedly noirish spin she puts on the seemingly typical charming southern town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, and on her heroine. Lily Bard, a karate devotee by choice and a cleaning woman by trade, is a woman with a dark past; she's fiercely protective of her independence and reserved about herself. In short, Lily makes a refreshing, compelling amateur sleuth."--BOOK...
2) Indelicacy
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"--
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
Author
Description
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of...
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When his wife is found murdered just before Christmas, Callahan Garrity's brother disappears, leaving her with the daughter he has kidnapped and the hope of clearing his name.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In Shakespeare, Arkansas, a body builder is found dead in a gym, a barbell across his throat. Lily Bard, who pumps iron in the same gym, sets out to find the killer, her profession--cleaning lady-- giving her access to many homes.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris' fourth entry from her Lily Bard mystery series is a critically acclaimed gem. Trying to keep a low profile as a cleaning lady, Lily gets sucked into a murder investigation when one of her clients is killed in an apparent tryst gone bad.
8) Homemade sin
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020?], c1994
Description
Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.
9) Irish eyes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"When Callahan Garrity gets caught in a liquour store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy's Day party, one of her best friends is shot. Callahan and her House Mouse cleaning crew dive into the investigation -- only to discover that her old friend might have been working both sides of the law as an accomplice in a string of robberies. It will take every trick they've got to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding an Irish police organization and...
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Welcome back to the sleepy little town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where secrets come to hide. Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. But who was the message meant for? Why? And who's next to fall victim to a killer's head games?
Author
Description
In 1940s New York, a rich man's daughter from Cuba falls in love with a waiter. They marry, have children and when he falls ill and is unable to work, she becomes the sole breadwinner, working as a cleaning woman. But one day her cleaning job will bring luck. By the author of Mr. Ives' Christmas.
12) A midnight clear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Part-time sleuth and professional house cleaner Callahan Garrity is just congratulating herself on having everything under control for the holidays when her brother Brian, who she has not seen in over ten years, walks in and out of her life, leaving his two-year-old daughter and a murder charge in his wake.
13) Good deeds
Description
A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiance, Natalie. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a down-on-her-luck single mother who works as a cleaning person in his office building. Outspoken, impulsive and proud,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An offbeat, darkly clever debut novel about a night cleaner who discovers a toxic secret about her company's CEO--and decides to take matters into her own handsEvery night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best--sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. None of them know her, but she knows everything about them: Sad Intern's dreams to get promoted, Résumé...
15) Strange brew
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2013,
Description
As gentrification overtakes Callahan's funky neighborhood, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. When the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovers, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
The winds of change are blowing, bringing gentrification to Callahan Garrity's funky Atlanta neighborhood. Though it probably won't harm her House Mouse housecleaning service, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. And when the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovered in the aftermath of a furious Halloween gale, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business.
A former cop, Callahan isn't as quick to condemn...
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When hired to find the controversial and valuable diary of a Civil War madame, Callahan Garrity—a former Atlantic cop, now cleaning lady-cum-sleuth—runs afoul of radicals of every kind as well as a murderous antique collector.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to...