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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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Lit by Tim Sandlin In a quiet Wyoming town, a solitary coffee-stand owner who prefers library books to drama stumbles into a pastor’s book-burning gone wrong, pulling a drunk author from the flames and setting off a chain of events involving a podcaster, a bear, a determined rancher and a murder that won’t leave him alone.
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Bloodlust by Sandra Brown Still reeling from his wife’s murder and convinced a hidden drug kingpin and his meticulous enforcer are responsible, a self-destructive detective is ordered into therapy, where his wary connection with a psychologist intertwines with his investigation and puts them both in the sights of the criminals he is hunting.
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The Midnight Carousel by Fiza Saeed McLynn In 1920s Chicago, a British immigrant determined to reinvent herself by opening an amusement park becomes captivated by an ornate old carousel, unaware it is tied to a string of inexplicable disappearances that once haunted Paris and are now drawing a wary French detective back into a case he thought he had closed.
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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson Trapped inside a locked-down bank when a heist goes sideways and a customer turns up dead, crime writer Ernest Cunningham finds himself among ten uneasy suspects - from robber to priest to film producer - and must untangle overlapping schemes and motives before the standoff ends and the real killer walks free.
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The Tree of Light and Flowers by Thomas Perry After a crash that brings her baby early and ends her brief domestic calm, a former underground guide who once specialized in helping people disappear finds hunters and desperate fugitives converging on her upstate New York home, forcing her to run routes, forge identities and protect her own family with the skills she hoped to retire.
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Vengeance in Venice by Erica Ruth Neubauer On their 1927 Venetian honeymoon, Jane and Redvers accept an invitation to a masked ball at a Grand Canal palazzo, only to see their hostess’s ex-husband strangled in the garden and a tarot reader friend blamed, drawing them into a maze of affairs, blackmail and false identities behind the city’s glittering façade.
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A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn When a young aristocrat is found mysteriously drained of blood near Highgate Cemetery and a second supposed suicide follows, Veronica and Stoker trace both men to an obscure gentleman’s society, only to uncover a cultlike circle led by a charismatic “creature of the night” and his occult partner who soon turn the hunters into prey.
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Wildwood by Amy Pease A year into sobriety and trying to steady his life, a Wisconsin deputy sheriff joins his mother, the county sheriff and an unexpectedly involved FBI agent to investigate a missing informant, uncovering a criminal network whose reach and ruthlessness test their loyalties, resilience and ideas about justice.
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The Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery On a remote Cornish island in 1910, as a nervous viscount seals his manor against the supposed apocalypse of Halley’s Comet, he’s found shot with an ancestral crossbow inside his locked study, leaving a newly hired under-butler and the family’s sharp-tongued octogenarian matriarch to pick through secret passages, old grudges and household fears to uncover the killer.
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The Writing in the Water: A Thriller by John Ajvide Lindqvist A former cop turned bestselling crime novelist retreats to her island cottage to escape publicity and consult a brilliant, haunted hacker, but when a billionaire childhood friend is killed on a nearby pier, she’s drawn back into investigation, tracing money and corruption that shadow even those she once trusted.
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