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- A dangerous business [text (large print)] / by Smiley, Jane,author.;
- "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching combination of beauty and danger--as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, 'Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise ... '"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Missing persons; Murder; Prostitutes; Widows; Women detectives;
- Murder inside the beltway : a Capital crimes novel / by Truman, Margaret,1924-2008.;
- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Kidnapping; Presidential candidates; Prostitutes; Hall, Mary (Fictitious character); Hatcher, Walt (Fictitious character);
- © 2008., Ballantine Books,
- Tricks / by Hopkins, Ellen,author.;
- This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, the Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.
- Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels in verse.; Banned book sanctuary.; Dysfunctional families; Prostitution; Teenagers; Family problems; Emotional problems; Prostitution; Teenagers;
- Guilty / by Cole, Martina,author.; Rose, Jacqui,author.;
- Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going. When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pimp Artie Rogers has something to do with it. Steph and Artie go way back, but his reign of terror throughout the Medway towns is out of control and even she can't do anything to stop him. Then another prostitute disappears and it's time to find out who's guilty. Everyone has their secrets -- but one of them is getting away with murder.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Missing persons; Murder; Prostitutes; Single mothers; Women's shelters;
- Buckingham Palace gardens : a novel / by Perry, Anne;
- Subjects: Murder; Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character); Prostitutes; Historical fiction; Mystery fiction;
- © c2008., Ballantine Books,
- East of Eden / by Steinbeck, John,1902-1968;
- Subjects: Classics; Literary; Children of prostitutes; Fathers and sons; Sibling rivalry; Brothers; Historical fiction; Domestic fiction;
- © 2002., Penguin Books,
- The crimson petal and the white [videorecording] / by Anderson, Gillian.; Coxon, Lucinda,1962-; Faber, Michel.Crimson petal and the white.Videorecording.; Garai, Romola,1982-; Hale, Amanda,1982-; Munden, Marc.; O'Dowd, Chris,1980-; Thompson, David M.,1950-; Acorn Media (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Cité-Amérique (Firm); Origin Pictures.;
- Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Hale, Gillian Anderson.Based on Michael Faber's novel, this four-part BBC miniseries follows the fortunes of Sugar, a notorious Victorian-era prostitute who longs for a better life. Sexually adept, ambitious, and clever, she casts a spell on William Rackham, feckless heir to a perfume business and husband to a wife slipping slowly into insanity.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo sound.
- Subjects: Faber, Michel.; Perfumes industry; Prostitutes; Television mini-series.; Young women;
- © c2012., Distributed by Acorn Media,
- The last sinner / by Jackson, Lisa,author.;
- When a victim surfaces bearing the signature of serial killer Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are convinced the monster is back and he will not be stopped until the last sinner has paid the ultimate price.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Bentz, Rick (Fictitious character); Montoya, Reuben (Fictitious character); Police; Prostitutes; Serial murder investigation;
- The last sinner [sound recording] / by Jackson, Lisa,author.; Ross, Natalie,narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Natalie Ross.When a victim surfaces bearing the signature of serial killer Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are convinced the monster is back and he will not be stopped until the last sinner has paid the ultimate price.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Bentz, Rick (Fictitious character); Montoya, Reuben (Fictitious character); Police; Prostitutes; Serial murder investigation;
- Babysitter / by Oates, Joyce Carol,1938-author.;
- "In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery of elite Detroit, who has always been impossible to identify and immune to retribution. As Babysitter continues to strike--sending the city and its surroundings into pandemonium--these characters intersect, jeopardize one another, and are pushed to their limits. Suspenseful, brilliant, and wholly engrossing, Babysitter asks what we would risk for a chance at a new life, and how to protect all we cherish most. A scathing indictment of the corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and sexual predation in America, Babysitter is a thrilling novel and an absolute force"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Adultery; Children; Kidnapping; Male prostitutes; Missing persons; Murder; Nineteen seventies; Serial murderers; Serial murderers;
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