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The frozen people / : A Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
Meet Ali Dawson: a police officer working on crimes so old, the joke goes, that they are frozen. But what her friends--and even her beloved son--don't know is that the cold case team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. Ali has only made short trips to the recent past, so she's surprised when she's asked to investigate a murder in 1850. She arrives in the Victorian era during a mini ice age to find another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. But when her son is arrested, Ali attempts to return home only to find herself trapped. In a race through and against time, can Ali prove her son's innocence and discover the link between the nineteenth-century Collectors and a twenty-first century killing to prevent another death?
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Rage
by Linda Castillo
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of a successful young Amish man, Samuel Eicher. The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found, stuffed into a barrel and dumped in a ravine. The deceased is Samuel's best friend. Just as she begins to fear the case may be hopeless, a mystery woman comes forward and reveals that the young men had recently befriended individuals who may have ties to a larger, more sinister, black market. Will the secrets simmering beneath the surface of Painters Mill take another life before she can expose the truth? Or will Kate be the final victim?
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| The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia GrayCaught up in the whirlwind of the London Season—and in a murderous scheme involving the Bertram family, Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney become entangled in another murder investigation. Mr. Rushworth, former husband of Mr. Bertram's sister, Maria, is discovered dead. In one of the greatest scandals of its day, Maria abandoned her husband for the notorious rake Henry Crawford and, when he wouldn't marry her, was forced to flee to the continent in disgrace. Now Maria is back, with a daughter she claims Mr. Rushworth fathered after their divorce—and who he wrote into his will just before his death. Now Jonathan and Juliet must unmask a killer before the drama surrounding the Rushworth family fortune claims another victim.
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| A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge by Kate KhavariAfter her grandfather's heart attack, botanist Saffron Everleigh returns to the family estate with her new beau and her long-time best friend, Elizabeth. In addition to family tensions, they find a dangerous man, Bill Wyatt, pretending to be a cardiologist, and a medium preying upon Elizabeth's family, who lost a son in the war. As tensions rise at Ellington, Bill demands that Saffron hand over old research documents belonging to her late father. With her relatives under his power as their ‘doctor,’ Saffron fears she may be forced to surrender the files along with her hopes of ever understanding her father’s obscure legacy. Nothing and no one is as they seem at Ellington. It’s through the perfumed haze of the séance’s smoke that Saffron must search for the truth before it’s too late.
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Killer on the First Page
by Ian Ferguson
The Happy Rock bookstore, I Only Read Murder, is hosting an author and murder mystery festival, with six of the biggest names in crime fiction. New bookstore majority co-owner Miranda Abbott loves nothing more than the idea of hosting literary luminaries. Little does she realize the authors are bringing their egos and their personal grudges along with their books. This festival of rivals goes from bad to worse when one of the authors turns up dead in a locked room with no windows. And this death is just the beginning--no one knows which author will be next. Miranda is on the case, along with Edgar, her almost--ex-husband; Andrew, her one-person entourage; Ned, the patient police chief; and the good people of Happy Rock. Together, they'll stop at nothing to solve three murders, in three locked rooms, and three impossible crimes.
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The red queen
by Martha Grimes
One calm night in Twickenham, businessman Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life had differing opinions of him. To complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for the newly dead man. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge in a story that is funny, eccentric, and fueled by Richard Jury's talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places.
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Bodies and battlements
by Elizabeth Penney
Herbalist Nora Asquith is delighted to welcome Ravensea Castle's first guests to the picturesque village of Monkwell, Yorkshire. After a thousand years of ownership, her family has decided to convert the castle into a bed and breakfast. But when Hilda Dibble, a self-appointed local luminary, is found dead in the knot garden the next morning, Nora's business is not only at risk--she's a prime suspect. Nora and her actress sister Tamsyn decide to investigate for themselves. They look into the entangled dealings of their newly arrived guests, while also getting hints from Sir Percival, one of the castle ghosts.
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Dogged pursuit
by David Rosenfelt
After spending three years working as a prosecuter in Paterson, Andy Carpenter leaves to start his own practice as a defense attorney looking out for the little guys. Excited to make a change, he goes to the shelter to adopt a dog, where he meets his beloved golden retriever, Tara. The shelter is crowded and Tara's been sharing space with a dog named Sunny; Andy hates to break them up and so asks to take Sunny, too. Since there's a pending criminal case involving the owner, he'll need to get written permission for temporary possession. Sunny's owner, Frank Tierney, has been arrested for the murder of his ex-boss. Despite this, Andy takes an immediate liking to Frank and his clear dedication to his dog, and ends up with his first case along with the two dogs.
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With a vengeance : a novel
by Riley Sager
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family's downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who've wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna's plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge--and that they won't stop until everyone else is dead.
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