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The Ex-girlfriend Murder Club
by Gloria Chao
The body in the closet was going to be a problem, and Kathryn Hu knew it. Kathryn agreed to meet Olivia and Elle, the other girlfriends of cheating scumbag Tucker Jones, to exact revenge for all he'd put them through. But then they found him dead. To clear their names, Kat, Olivia, and Elle team up to find the real killer. But as they go undercover and lie to everyone, they realize that every person in their ex's life had a reason to want him dead. Will they uncover the truth before they go down for a murder they didn't commit?
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Etiquette for Lovers and Killers
by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
Set in 1960s Maine, a Nancy Drew for the contemporary adult reader, this deliciously witty and twisty murder mystery follows a young woman who just wishes something interesting would happen for once. Then, she stumbles upon a stranger-than-fiction mystery that even the local police can't handle.
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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. Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Who will you interview next? Who will be your prime suspect? Remember that every decision you make has consequences, and some of them will prove fatal. Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?"
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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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| 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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All the Words We Know
by Bruce Nash
Rose may be in her eighties and suffering from dementia, but she's not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack and spectacularly forgetful, she spends her days roaming the corridors of her assisted living facility, musing on the staff and residents, and enduring visits form her emotionally distant children and granddaughters. But when her friend is found dead after an apparent fall from a window, Rose embarks on an eccentric and determined investigation to discover the truth and uncover all manner of secrets, even some from her own past.
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The White Crow
by Michael Robotham
Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father and her uncles being notorious London gangsters. On patrol one night, Philomena finds a barefoot child, covered in blood, who says she can't wake her mother. Meanwhile, three miles away, a London jeweler has a bomb strapped to his chest in his ransacked store and millions are missing. These two events collide and threaten Philomena's career, her new marriage, and her life. Phil must decide who she can trust and on what side of the thin blue line she wants to live. Told in real time from multiple points of view, The White Crow is filled with almost unbearable suspense-a page-turning tour de force that shows Robotham at the top of his game.
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The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
by Liza Tully
Olivia Blunt doesn't want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She's determined to learn everything she can from her mentor, renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt--but the latter is no easy grader. After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties pining for the celebrated detective's help, a case comes across Olivia's desk that just might be worthy of Merritt's skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth, a happy, rich, beloved, and in-love matriarch, somehow fell to her death over her balcony railing on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter, Haley, thinks it was murder. Merritt is ever the skeptic, but Olivia believes Haley. Plus, she's desperate to prove her investigative skills to her aloof boss. But the Summersworth family drama is complicated, and Olivia realizes she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing.
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