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Mystery March 2020: the Hoopla Edition
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I Could Be You
by Sheila Bugler
On a stifling hot day, former journalist Dee Doran finds the crumpled body of her friend at the roadside. Katie and her little boy, Jake, have been a light in Dee's otherwise desolate life – now a woman is dead and a child is missing.
Katie has been keeping secrets for a long time. Years earlier, she fell for the wrong person. But he was in love with someone else; who he couldn't have but couldn't keep away from. When jealousy and desire spilled over into murder Katie hid the truth, and has been pretending ever since.
As Dee assists the police with their enquiries she's compelled to investigate too. She realises Katie wasn't who she claimed to be. Lies are catching up. Stories are unravelling. Revenge is demanded and someone must pay the price. The question is: who?
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Coconut Layer Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
When bakry owner Hannah Swenson learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she rushes home to Minnesota to help.
Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and gave a woman a place to sleep. When he went to the bedroom to check on her, he was shocked to discover she was dead.
Before everything comes crashing down on Lonnie like a heaping slice of coconut layer cake, it'll be up to Hannah to rack up enough clues to toast a flaky killer ...
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Trace Elements
by Donna Leon
When a dying hospice patient gasps that her husband was murdered over "bad money," Commissario Brunetti softly promises he and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that the man had worked in the field, collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply, and that he had recently died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Piecing together the tangled threads, Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when he reads Aeschylus's classic play The Eumenides.
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| The Hocus Girl by Chris NicksonFeaturing: thief-taker Simon Barstow, who finds stolen goods for owners and resides in Leeds with his wife and two sons, and Jane, Simon's capable assistant, who lives with the family, carries a knife, and has secrets.
1822 England: During a time of unrest, an old friend who sheltered Simon when he was young is falsely charged with sedition by an ambitious magistrate. Simon and Jane work to free the man while investigating a "hocus girl," who drugs people to steal from them.
Reviewers say: a "historical tour de force" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Panda of Death : a Gunn Zoo mystery
by Betty Webb
While celebrating the arrival of a red panda, California zookeeper Theodora Bentley must help her husband Joe solve a murder involving the son he never knew he had—an investigation during which they learn the true meaning of family.
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| Dying in the Wool by Frances BrodyIntroducing: Kate Shackleton, a cop's daughter and war widow with a talent for finding the missing.
What it's about: Wealthy mill owner Joshua Braithwaite mysteriously disappeared five years ago from the peaceful town of Bridgestead, near Leeds. Now it's 1922, and his daughter hires Kate, whom she knew during the war, to find him before her upcoming wedding -- but Kate uncovers dangerous secrets that cause a killer to act.
Series alert: Evocative and cleverly plotted, this 1st in series that now numbers 11 should please fans of post-World War I mysteries, like Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs, as well as cozy readers. |
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Death at Wentwater Court
by Carola Dunn
This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly discovers a corpse.
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Strong Spirits
by Alice Duncan
Con artist and "spiritualist" Daisy Gumm Majesty, a medium to the rich and famous, engages in a passionate battle of wits with Sam Rotondo, an infuriating detective who exposes her clever scam and blackmails her into spying on her wealthy employer, in a delightful romance sent in the 1920s.
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| The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie HannahWhat happens: Hercule Poirot, the legendary Belgian sleuth, investigates a triple homicide in 1929 London.
Did you know? This 1st Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah marked the first time that Agatha Christie's estate authorized someone to write an entirely new book using her characters. The 4th in the series, The Killings at Kingfisher Hall, comes out later this year.
Further reading: other Golden Age writers (Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, etc.); Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series, which features a clever girl detective in 1950s England. |
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A Test of Wills
by Charles Todd
Back home after serving in World War I, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to work and must solve the murder of a retired military officer, a crime in which the main suspect is a highly decorated war hero.
The first Inspector Ian Rutledge novel.
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