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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds Aboard a vast starship carrying thousands between the stars, a weary private investigator who usually handles minor domestic disputes is drawn into the suspicious death of a passenger from an elite family, only to find himself pulled between two enigmatic clients with conflicting instructions and pushed into a tightening web of secrets, class tensions and threats that suggest the next body left floating in space could be his own.
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Missing Sister by Joshilyn Jackson When her twin sister dies soon after college, a cryptic final voicemail and long-held suspicions fix a young woman’s anger on three men she believes are responsible; years later, as a new Atlanta police officer, she is thrust into a murder investigation that links one of those men to a mysterious, bloodstained woman whose mention of “sisters” draws her into a dangerous pursuit where loyalty, justice and vengeance blur.
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The Final Problem by Arturo Perez-Reverte In June 1960, when a storm strands a handful of travelers at a small hotel on a remote Greek island and a fellow guest is soon found dead in a beach cabana, a faded film star famous for playing a brilliant sleuth reluctantly turns his screen persona into real detective work as further deaths, Holmes‑like clues, and a staged, literary sense of drama suggest that someone in their midst is using classic mysteries as a template for murder.
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The Devil's Bible: A Cotton Malone Novel by Steve Berry When the Swedish king’s younger sister is abducted and her captors demand an 800‑year‑old manuscript long housed in Stockholm, a former U.S. operative and his partner are drawn into an international tangle involving a disputed national treasure, shifting alliances and suspected Russian interference, forcing them from city streets to Baltic waters as old acquaintances resurface and a rescue mission becomes entangled with unfinished business from the past.
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Jigsaw: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman Called in after what seemed an open‑and‑shut case - a young woman dead at her kitchen table, with evidence pointing neatly to an ex‑boyfriend - a psychologist and his detective colleague soon find their assumptions upended, especially once a second victim, an elderly woman the detective once knew, is discovered murdered and hidden in a hoarded house, forcing them to trace unexpected connections, sift buried histories and navigate a cluttered trail of cash and secrets toward a far more intricate culprit.
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Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb When a billionaire is found bludgeoned to death beside a newly uncovered vault of stolen art and jewels once hidden by his father, a New York homicide lieutenant and her former thief-husband must sort out the family’s attempts to quietly return the loot from the possibility of darker motives, probing buried histories, valuable missing pieces and long-held grudges to learn whether past crimes have reached forward to claim a new victim.
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Crown City by Naomi Hirahara In 1903 Pasadena, a young Japanese newcomer trying to rebuild his life as an art dealer’s apprentice contends with homesickness, new friendships and rising anti‑immigrant hostility; when a prized painting is stolen from a prominent local Japanese artist, he and his photographer roommate begin asking questions that draw them into the city’s hidden tensions and force him to test his nerve in a place that is not yet sure he belongs.
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I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig Settling into a plush retirement home after decades in prison, a woman with a hidden past as a serial killer is determined to stay out of trouble and blend in, but when a former police commissioner living down the hall dies suddenly and her history is exposed to a community full of ex–law enforcement and legal professionals, she finds herself an obvious suspect and must clear her name without adding any new bodies to her record.
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A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt Exiled to a remote posting in Nunavut after mishandling a major case, a worn-down police corporal discovers the body of a vulnerable Inuit teenager he once tried to help, and as grief, isolation and an ongoing lawsuit close in, he joins forces with her younger brother to investigate her death, pushing back against local resistance and his own failures in a harsh Arctic landscape that offers few second chances.
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The Hadacol Boogie: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke When a shrouded, disfigured stranger deposits a woman’s body on his Louisiana property, a seasoned lawman teams up with a newly arrived detective facing hostility in the sheriff’s department and his longtime, volatile friend, drawing them into a bayou‑side tangle of hired killers, ominous local figures and lingering ghosts - literal and otherwise - that tests his resolve to protect his family and confront the violence woven through his home ground.
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