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An Unfinished Murder by Jude DeverauxA novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder.
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Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine MackBestselling mystery writer Eleanor Dash is on an Italian book tour with other authors, fans, and her greedy ex (whom one of her fictional sleuths is based on). When a murder occurs, Eleanor investigates in this series starter that features funny footnotes addressing the reader. Read-alikes: G.M. Malliet's Augusta Hawke mysteries; V.M. Burns' Mystery Bookshop novels.
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Lightning Strikes the Silence by Iona WhishawA warm June afternoon in King's Cove is interrupted by an explosion. Following the sound, Lane goes to investigate. Up a steep path she discovers a secluded cabin and, hiding nearby, a young Japanese girl injured and mute, but very much alive. At the Nelson Police Station, Inspector Darling and Sergeant Ames, following up on a report of a nighttime heist at the local jeweller's, discover the jeweller himself dead in his office, apparently bludgeoned, and a live wire hanging off the back of the building. As Lane attempts to speed the search for the girl's family with her own lines of inquiry, Darling and his team dig deeper into a local connection between the jeweller and a fellow businessman that leads across the pond to Cornwall and north to a mining interest on the McKenzie River. Away at her police course in Vancouver, Sergeant Terrell's favourite (former) waitress April McAvity is drawn into the case when Darling asks for her help with finding possible relatives in the city for Lane's young charge. Meanwhile offices are being ransacked and someone is following Lane. Through the alleyways of Nelson onto the country roads and woods trails of King's Cove, the latest Winslow mystery is a study in bygone promises and lingering prejudice.
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Miranda Abbott will once again be a star. After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and they want Miranda back. This time to be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week, filming right here in Happy Rock! Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks this all seems a bit fishy. When Miranda's co-star makes a grand entrance by crashing through the atrium window at The Duchess Hotel and being very much dead, things go from bad to worse. The great citizens of Happy Rock, including Police Chief Ned Buckley, grumpy bookstore owner and soon to be ex-husband Edgar Abbott, Bea of Bea's B&B, and the malodorous Owen McCune return to help solve the case in this second Miranda Abbott mystery.
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Mother Of The Bride Murder by Leslie MeierWhen her daughter Elizabeth's impending fairytale wedding in France to Jean-Luc Schoen-Rene is marred by murder, reporter and jet-lagged mother-of-the-bride Lucy Stone, to protect her family, vows to expose a killer among a list of worldly jilted lovers and potential criminal masterminds.
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The Last Dance by Mark BillinghamWorking with a new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, Detective Miller, a man who's unique, unconventional and criminally underestimated, is tasked with investigating the double killings of a gangland family scion and an IT consultant, which could be linked to his wife's murder.
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The Last Murder At The End Of The World : A Novel by Stuart TurtonOn an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered, which triggers a security system, giving the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet.
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| The Last Word by Elly GriffithsA romance writer's daughters think their mother was murdered and hire West Sussex PIs Natalka, a math whiz, and Edwin, an octogenarian, to look into things, which leads to Edwin going undercover at a writing retreat. Though this is the 4th DI Harbinder Kaur mystery, this outing focuses more on Natalka and Edwin, who also appear in The Postscript Murders. Read-alikes: Richard Thorogood's Marlow Murder Club novels; Susan Fletcher's The Night in Question. |
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They Thought I Was Dead : Sandy's Story by Peter JamesSome will know how it begins. Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. But there's more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and an uncertain future. Then she was gone. Some will know how it ends. Her disappearance caused a nationwide search. Even the best detective on the force couldn't find her. They thought she was dead. But nobody knows this... Where did she go? Why did she run? What would cause a woman to leave her whole life behind and simply vanish?
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The 24th hour: Is This the End? by James PattersonWhile celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid… or two.
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