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Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he's shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; before he finds her he will be entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal and outlaw motorcyclists.
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Mean Moms
by Emma Rosenblum
When a new mom at private school Atherton Seminary, beautiful Sofia, integrates herself into the clique of wealthy moms Frost, Nell, and Morgan, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women, and they wonder if someone is out to get them. Part satire of upper-crust mom-ing and part mystery, Mean Moms asks what happens when you walk the line between friendship and jealousy?
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The Retirement Plan
by Sue Hincenbergs
Three middle-aged best friends turn to murder in order to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies...but are unaware that their husbands have a devious plan of their own, in this darkly funny debut perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.
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| Murder at the Wham Bam Club by Carolyn Marie WilkinsIn 1922, young Nola Ann Jackson, whose Harlem Hellfighter husband died in the war, lives with her psychic Aunt Sarah in her fast-growing Illinois hometown. Nola, who’s been embracing her own psychic talents, helps investigate when a murder occurs that’s related to a local girls' school she once attended. For fans of: historical mysteries with a strong sense of place and paranormal elements.
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New Titles in Favourite Series
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The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
As wedding plans unfold and personal struggles linger, the Thursday Murder Club reunites when a guest vanishes and a suspicious partner hints at something valuable—and deadly—leading Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim into a tangled case of coded secrets and high-stakes deception.
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In the Time of Five Pumpkins
by Alexander McCall Smith
Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe solves a new case with the help of her loyal associate and proves again that compassion and wisdom are the greatest tools for justice in the twenty-sixth novel of the series following The Great Hippopotamus Hotel.
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A Slowly Dying Cause
by Elizabeth George
Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. But it doesn’t take long for Detective Beatrice Hannaford to unearth the layers of estrangement that surrounded Michael in his final days, pointing suspicions elsewhere.
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The Solitary Friend
by Gail Bowen
Amateur sleuth Joanne Shreve finds herself caught in the middle when her friend Vera Wang, the owner of a discreet escort service, The Right Woman, calls in a favor.
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