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The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
by Karin Smirnoff
In the frozen northern town of Gasskas, tensions flare as a ruthless corporation clashes with locals, a bombing shatters a bridge, and a journalist turns up dead. Drawn back from Stockholm when her fellow hacker is kidnapped and her niece appears on her doorstep, Lisbeth Salander—joined by Mikael Blomkvist—must navigate a lawless community where allies and enemies blur. As Blomkvist takes charge of the local paper and Lisbeth searches for the missing, including her niece, they uncover a legacy of violence that threatens to consume them both in Karin Smirnoff’s chilling reinvention of Stieg Larsson’s iconic series.
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Murder on the Marlow Belle
by Robert Thorogood
When Oliver Beresford goes missing after a party on a private pleasure cruiser, his body soon washes up on the Thames with two bullet wounds, and the Marlow Murder Club springs into action. Known for his abrasive personality and tendency to make enemies—even among children in nativity rehearsals—Oliver leaves a long list of suspects. Amateur sleuth Judith Potts and her friends must navigate the tangled intrigues of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society to uncover the truth before a killer slips away.
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The Hallmarked Man
by Robert Galbraith
When a dismembered body is found in a silver shop vault, private detective Cormoran Strike is drawn into a complex case after Decima Mullins insists the corpse is her missing boyfriend, the father of her newborn. As Strike and Robin Ellacott investigate, they uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the shop, its Masonic connections, and other missing men, while Strike wrestles with his growing feelings for Robin as her relationship with a policeman deepens.
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The Girl in the Green Dress
by Mariah Fredericks
At the dawn of the Jazz Age, writer Morris Markey arrives in New York, drawn to the city’s chaos but struggling to find his first big story—until Joseph Elwell, a notorious socialite, is found shot in his locked house. Teaming up with the newly famous Zelda Fitzgerald, Markey uncovers a web of intrigue surrounding Elwell and others with motives for murder. As a second man is killed in the same mysterious fashion, Markey realizes the truth is far more dangerous than he imagined—so perilous that decades later, he meets the same fate, a single bullet ending his life.
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Gray Dawn
by Walter Mosley
Easy Rawlins has built a successful detective agency and a life atop the hills of Los Angeles, but trouble is never far behind. When powerful figures hire him to track down the elusive and dangerous Lutisha James—known to him by another name—Easy is drawn into the city’s volatile underworld. As he hunts her through 1970s L.A., he discovers a secret that strikes dangerously close to home, threatening everything he holds dear.
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Apostle's Cove
by William Kent Krueger
A few nights before Halloween, Cork O’Connor is drawn back into a decades-old murder case when his son insists that an Ojibwe man he once sent to prison was innocent. As Cork reinvestigates, he faces a community willing to kill to keep the truth buried, while his seven-year-old grandson becomes convinced that the mythic Windigo has returned to Tamarack County, hungry for human blood.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jónasson
One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir disappears without a trace, and young detective Helgi must solve the case before it reaches the press. As he questions those closest to her—a publisher, an accountant, and a retired judge—Helgi discovers that Elín’s life is far stranger than her novels, and the deeper he digs, the more mysterious and unexpected her past becomes.
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A Particularly Nasty Case
by Adam Kay
When his toxic medical director dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does, though, including some quite crucial players like the police and the medical examiner. So Eitan vows to uncover the truth himself.
But Eitan's own past and reputation are far from spotless, despite his budding relationship with Cole, a handsome hospital porter, and reluctant camaraderie with his office mate, Margaret-with-the-cats. As his colleagues become increasingly concerned about his mental health, Eitan's investigation spirals out of control. Could a killer really be stalking the wards? Or is Eitan making a catastrophic mistake?
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