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The Bodies in the Library
by Marty Wingate
Introducing: Hayley Burke, the new curator at the First Edition Society's library in Bath, England, home of the late Lady Fowling’s collection of classic mysteries.
What happens: Hayley encounters resistance in her efforts to modernize the First Edition Society's library, before the murder of a fan-fiction writer threatens everything she has worked to achieve.
For Fans of: Literary-themed romance mysteries, Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library, and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.
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| The Long Call by Ann CleevesIntroducing: introspective DCI Matthew Venn of the Devon police, who grew up in a religious sect and is estranged from his family.
What happens: A murder victim with an interesting tattoo is found on a North Devon beach, and the case seems to be related to Venn's childhood church as well as his husband's job at a community center.
Read this next: William Shaw's Salt Lane or Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway mysteries -- both are evocative English mysteries that prominently feature police officers and are set near the coast. |
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The Art of Theft
by Sherry Thomas
What happens: When Mrs. Watson resolves to uncover long-kept secrets on behalf of a friend, Charlotte Holmes infiltrates a glamorous Yuletide ball to prevent the sale of a priceless work of art.
Read it for: The Victorian setting and the vibrant and intelligent Lady Sherlock.
Series alert: This is the fourth installment of the Lady Sherlock series. The first book is titled A Study in Scarlet Women.
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| Heaven, My Home: A Highway 59 Novel by Attica LockeWhat happens: African American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has a troubled marriage, an estranged mother who's blackmailing him, and a dangerous new case in a small town involving the missing child of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.
Series alert: This is the well-wrought 2nd novel in the Highway 59 series following the Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird.
Read it for: the evocative Caddo Lake setting in East Texas; the compelling look at race and politics. |
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A Cruel Deception
by Charles Todd
What happens: A religious nurse struggles to save a troubled World War I soldier form a mysterious killer while navigating difficult choices about her own future.
Series alert: This is the eleventh in a popular, atmospheric series. The first entry is A Duty to the Dead.
For fans of: Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs novels.
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The Books of the Dead
by Emilia Bernhard
What happens: Parisian summers are for strolls in the park . . . and solving a murder--or two.
When American sleuth Rachel Levis stumbles upon an employee of the French national library strangled in the bathroom of a cafe, she's not surprised to be asked to help with the investigation by her old acquaintance Capitaine Boussicault--after all, she and her best friend Magda solved a tricky murder only eighteen months before.
But right from the start, this case proves to be très difficile. When Rachel goes undercover as a librarian to determine which of his book-loving colleagues loathed the man enough to kill him, the library is rocked by more bad news: a priceless antique book has been mutilated. And the very next day, her favorite suspect for the murder is found dead in the stacks.
Just as the case is heating up, Boussicault pulls Rachel from the investigation. Undeterred, she and Magda decide to forge ahead with their own investigation--even if it could put them at odds with the police and in serious danger. With evidence and suspects piling up, it will be up to them to find the culprit--and stop more innocent books from being harmed--before anyone else checks out for good.
Series alert: This is the second book in the Death in Paris mysteries series. The first book is Death in Paris, a perfect traditional mystery for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet Blackwell.
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If You Like: Deborah Crombie
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The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George
Starring: Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the Earl of Asherton; his prickly sergeant, Barbara Havers; and his forensic scientist friend, Simon St. James.
What happens: In this latest in a long-running series, Inspector Thomas Lynley and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: Elizabeth George's intelligent novels feature similar pacing and a fascinating (though very different) male-female Scotland Yard duo.
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The Stone Circle
by Elly Griffiths
What happens: Forensic anthropologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson receive threatening letters and find the bones of a girl missing since 1981, while Harry's wife gives birth (but is it his child?).
Series alert: This is the eleventh book in the Ruth Galloway series. It does tie in with earlier installments, so it is best to read the series in order. The first book is titled The Crossing Places.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: the strong sense of place; the characters’ complicated personal lives and relationships, which grow and change throughout the series.
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The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes
What it's about: Investigating a double homicide involving a heist at an art gallery and casino, Scotland Yard's Richard Jury teams up with a gang of kids to solve a case with ties to astrophysics, the Tanzanian gem mines, and an act of revenge.
Series alert: This is the cleverly plotted latest entry in the popular Richard Jury series of police procedurals; a new book, The Old Success, is due in November.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: Like Crombie, Martha Grimes is an American Anglophile who writes British police novels that follow a pleasing cast of characters over the course of many books.
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Many Rivers to Cross
by Peter Robinson
What happens: When the body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheely bin on the East Side Estate, Banks and Annie have a homegrown murder case to solve. But Banks's attention is also on Zelda, who in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stonecold Eastern Europea sex traffickers who brought her to the UK.
Series alert: This is the latest book in the award-winning DI Alan Banks series. It is being released this month.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: the well-described British setting and the focus on police detection.Book Annotation
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