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| The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers with Alex KiesterHaunted by her sister's unexplained disappearance seven years ago, 24-year-old Nicole "Nic" Monroe lives with her grief-stricken dad in her Indiana hometown and struggles to move forward. When Jenna Connor, whose sister vanished in similar circumstances, asks Nic to team up, they risk everything to uncover the truth in this fast-paced debut by "Crime Junkie" podcaster Ashley Flowers. Try this next: Julia Heaberlin's Night Will Find You; Jessica Strawser's Catch You Later. |
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| Detective Aunty by Uzma JalaluddinWidowed Kausar Khan returns to the Toronto suburb where she raised her kids after her daughter becomes the prime suspect in a murder. The place has changed, so Kausar gets local help from her teenage granddaughter while putting her years of reading Agatha Christie novels to good use. For fans of: Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers; Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night. |
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| Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura LippmanAfter winning the lottery, 68-year-old widow Mrs. Blossom goes on her first international trip, which finds her facing deceptive fellow travelers and a deadly mystery. Using skills she learned from working for PI Tess Monaghan, Mrs. Blossom sets things right while seeing Paris and going on a European river cruise. This cozyish tale by bestselling author Laura Lippman will interest fans of Nicholas George's A Deadly Walk in Devon. |
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Welcome to Murder Week
by Karen Dukess
When 34-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. When she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself - and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
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Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
by Allison Brennan
Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Now, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, she finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure.
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Can You Solve the Murder? An Interactive Crime Novel
by Antony Johnston
Step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career. There's been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn - with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect...
"A choose-your-own-adventure for grown-ups, and it’s a lot of fun." -Booklist
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| A Death on Corfu by Emily SullivanThough her husband died four years ago, British expat Minnie Harper continues to raise her children, 14-year-old Juliet and 8-year-old Tommy, in 1898 Corfu, embracing the laid-back atmosphere of the Greek island. But her life livens up when a handsome mystery writer moves in next door and they team up to investigate the murder of a maid. Try this next: Erica Ruth Neubauer's Jane Wunderly Mysteries.
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| Murder Runs in the Family by Tamara BerryAdrift and unwilling to move back home with her disapproving parents, 31-year-old trainee private detective Amber Winslow heads to Arizona, and the grandmother she's never met. Jade, a free-spirited true crime podcast producer, embraces Amber with open arms, and soon they are investigating a murder with help from Jade's retirement community friends in this "knockout series debut" (Kirkus Reviews).
Available as an eBook from Hoopla only.
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