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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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The Secret Sharers by Qiu XiaolongIn modern Shanghai, former Chief Inspector Chen - caught between loyalty and conscience - joins an old friend to uncover why a man known only as X has mysteriously disappeared, a search that leads him through the city’s political shadows and toward a reckoning with his own past - in this quietly suspenseful and elegantly written literary mystery.
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Silent Bones by Val McDermidIn rain-swept Scotland, a motorway landslide exposes the long-buried skeleton of a vanished journalist once accused of murder, drawing DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases team into a tangle of political secrets and unexpected connections that link the discovery to a recent suspicious death and challenge their notions of truth and justice.
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A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss When a leading actress is shockingly killed on stage during a sold-out performance, barrister Charles Konig is reluctantly drawn into defending her famous ex-husband, uncovering a labyrinth of motives, secrets and theatrical deception where truth and illusion blur and the key to the case may lie hidden within the play itself.
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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done by Sophie HannahWhen a police officer arrives at her door with devastating news, Sally Lambert is forced into an impossible choice that upends her family’s quiet life, as a single accusation and a neighbor’s vendetta drive her to protect the one being she cannot abandon - their dog Champ - in a tense story of loyalty, fear and the lengths love can push us to go.
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Illusion of Truth: Volume 3 by James L'EtoileWhen a church bombing leaves Detective Emily Hunter’s partner and boyfriend gravely injured, she and her colleague Javier Medina uncover a disturbing link between the victims - a shared past that has made them targets for revenge - forcing Emily to pursue a ruthless enemy while struggling with personal loss, moral resolve and the weight of justice in a case that cuts dangerously close to home.
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How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigleyIn the summer of 1986, twelve-year-old Georgie Ayyar matter-of-factly confesses that she and her sister killed their uncle, a claim that unfolds into a sharp, darkly funny account of family tensions, cultural identity and buried history as an Indian American family navigates love, memory and rebellion in a Wyoming household where truth proves as slippery as adolescence itself.
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The Rush by Beth LewisIn Dawson City at the height of the 1898 Yukon Gold Rush, three women - a journalist searching for her endangered sister, a hotelkeeper fighting to save her business, and a prospector’s wife watching her hopes fade - find their fates entwined after a murder shocks the lawless town, forcing them to confront peril, greed and the fragile bonds that hold them to hope on the frontier’s edge.
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The Birdwatcher by Jacquelyn MitchardWhen her childhood friend Felicity Wild is sentenced to life for a double murder she swears she did not commit, journalist Reenie Bigelow begins a determined search for the truth, uncovering buried secrets about ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a story that tests the limits of friendship and the moral cost of believing in someone you love.
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The Burning Grounds by Abir MukherjeeWhen a revered philanthropist is found murdered on Calcutta’s burning ghats, Detective Sam Wyndham is drawn from disgrace back into a case that leads through the glittering early world of Indian cinema, even as his former partner Surendranath Banerjee searches for a missing woman whose trail intersects with the crime, forcing the two men to reunite against a backdrop of intrigue, art and colonial tensions.
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A Deadly Clue: A Hunter and Clewe Mystery by Victoria GilbertWhile cataloging a rare book collection for a wealthy family, Jane Hunter and Cameron Clewe uncover a hidden note suggesting a past “suicide” was murder, and when a second Stewart heir dies under suspicious circumstances, the pair must untangle buried motives and family secrets before another life and their own safety are at risk - in this literary mystery of privilege and deception.
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