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With secrets around every corner and violent weather trapping the finite list of suspects together on the island, this locked-room mystery by internationally bestselling author Eliza Reid brings Agatha Christie and Nordic noir together in a brand-new twist. Read this next: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. |
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| No Roast for the Weary by Cleo CoyleNew York City's Village Blend coffee shop has been around for decades but business after COVID hasn't been too hot. To draw in customers, master roaster and co-owner Clare encourages writers to hang out, which they do...but that brews up a murder with ties to the past. This cozy 21st outing for Clare features fun characters and an assortment of culinary tips and recipes. |
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| Easeful Death by Cynthia Harrod-EaglesDCI Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of an 18-year-old girl, who was killed one bright afternoon at her middle-class London home. But the team soon learns the girl had secrets, several romantic connections, and tension at home. Though this witty, intricately plotted novel is the 25th Inspector Bill Slider mystery, new readers can start here. For fans of: British police procedurals; Louise Penny. |
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| Marble Hall Murders by Anthony HorowitzAfter breaking up with her Greek boyfriend, Susan Ryeland is back in London, editing a novel by the late Alan Conway that's been completed by Eliot Crace. But troubled Crace has laced the plot with references to his well-known grandmother's suspicious death, and this leads to murder. Fine for newcomers and featuring a book-within-a-book, this 3rd Magpie Murders novel "dazzles" (Publishers Weekly). Read-alikes: Sulari Gentill's The Woman in the Library; Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code. |
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| Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess KiddIn 1954, after letters from former novice Frieda abruptly stop, Sister Agnes leaves the order she's been a part of for decades. Now known as Nora Breen, she goes to Frieda's last address, the Gulls Nest boarding house in Kent, and finds an eccentric group. When murder occurs, Nora works with an intriguing police inspector to solve the cases. Read-alike: Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House. |
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Skin and Bonesby Paul DoironAn Edgar-award nominated author offers a collection of eight short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series, including one brand new story. Critically acclaimed for his brilliant crime novels, Paul Doiron proves he is also the master of short story in Skin and Bones. Read alike: Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country by C. J. Box.
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| This Is Not a Game by Kelly MullenOn Michigan's Mackinac Island, septuagenarian Mimi invites her granddaughter Addie to a socialite's charity auction with an ulterior motive. Mimi is being blackmailed by the host and wants Addie, cocreator of a murder mystery video game, to help find a solution. But then the guests are snowed in and the host is murdered in this atmospheric, well-plotted debut. Read-alikes: Ally Condie's The Unwedding; Louise Hegarty's Fair Play. |
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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