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| Glory Daze by Danielle ArceneauxThis fun follow-up to the award-winning Glory Be finds Louisiana bookie Glory Broussard investigating another murder when her ex's second wife shows up saying he has disappeared. Glory finds him murdered and tries to figure out who killed him while keeping tabs on her mourning middle-aged daughter and planning the Red Hat Society's Mardi Gras gala. For fans of: Ellen Byron; Mario Giordano. |
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| Cold as Hell by Kelley ArmstrongHaven's Rock in the Yukon forest, population 67, is the place to be for those who need to disappear in order to stay safe. Or maybe not. Because one woman has been drugged and attacked and another has been killed. As a blizzard threatens, Sheriff Eric Dalton and his pregnant wife, Detective Casey Duncan, need to quickly figure out what's going on in this suspenseful 3rd Haven's Rock novel. Read-alikes: Iris Yamashita's City Under One Roof; Paul Doiron's Mike Bowditch novels. |
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| Saint of the Narrows Street by William BoyleIn this "great, gravely unsettling novel that welcomes repeated readings" (Kirkus Reviews), Risa Franzone and her abusive crook husband, Sav, live in 1986 Brooklyn. When a drunken Sav pulls a gun on Risa, their baby, and her sister, Risa accidentally kills him. The sisters get help hiding the body and say Sav ran off, but years later, people still question what really happened. For fans of: Dennis Lehane; George Pelecanos. |
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| The Crime Brûlée Bake Off by Rebecca ConnollyIn this sweet series starter, school teacher Claire Walker is thrilled she's been selected to compete on the popular British TV show Battle of the Bakers. Arriving at the shooting location of Blackfirth Park, she meets Jonathan Ainsley, the Viscount of Colburn, and they have an instant connection. When a killer stirs up trouble, the duo team up to help the police solve the case. Read-alike: Jessa Maxwell's The Golden Spoon. |
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| The Four Queens of Crime by Rosanne LimoncelliIn 1938 England, mystery writers Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh plan a fundraiser as rumors of war increase. When their aristocratic host is killed, they work with DCI Lilian Wyles to close the case in this debut, a "note-perfect Golden Age pastiche" (Publishers Weekly). Read-alikes: Marie Benedict's The Queens of Crime; Colleen Cambridge's Phyllida Bright mysteries. |
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| The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskeyStill recovering from an on-the-job injury, Glasgow DI Georgina "George" Lennox and her partner Richie Stewart travel to an isolated island off the western coast of Scotland to investigate the death of an 18-year-old. But the case is complicated by hostile locals, a powerful priest, and the strange 1919 disappearance of three lighthouse keepers. Fans of atmospheric, gothic-infused mysteries will enjoy this slow-burn debut. |
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Fear stalks the village
by Ethel Lina White
"Ambling along the lanes of a sleepy village in the Downs, passing cozy Tudor cottages rustling with wisteria, a novelist imagines the sordid truth hidden behind the quaint, rustic facade.
Her musings are confirmed when a spate of anonymous poison pen letters shocks the community, turning neighbor against neighbor and embroiling everyone from the rector and the "queen of the village" Decima Asprey to the high-born Scudamores.
With venom in the air, the perpetrator a mystery, and dark secrets threatening to come to light, a shadow of shame and scandal stretches over the parish, with death and disaster following in its wake. Revelling in the wickedness that lies beneath the idyllic veneer of village life, White's 1932 mystery is inventive and a village mystery classic.
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| Broken Fields by Marcie R. RendonIn her "outstanding" (Booklist) 4th outing, Ojibwe sleuth Cash Blackbear is happy sort-of dating a Vietnam vet and driving a tractor all day. But after she finds her farmer boss fatally shot and a mute Indigenous child hiding nearby, Cash helps mentor Sheriff Wheaton with the case. She also tries to make sure the traumatized girl doesn't suffer in foster care like she did. Try this next: Laurie L. Dove's Mask of the Deer Woman. |
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Kills well with others
by Deanna Raybourn
When a mole in the elite assassin organization the Museum leaks names to an Eastern European gangster who's murdering agents, assassins Billie, Helen, Mary Alice and Natalie?—?senior in status and age?—?must root out the organization's mole and hunt down their new nemesis.
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