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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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Crown City by Naomi Hirahara In 1903 Pasadena, eighteen‑year‑old Ryunosuke Wada arrives from Yokohama hoping to start over as an art dealer’s apprentice, only to face isolation, anti‑Japanese hostility and the theft of a prized painting from a local artist’s studio; drawn into investigating alongside his photographer roommate, he moves through boarding houses, workshops and city streets where opportunity and resentment coexist, gradually learning how much risk - and responsibility - comes with trying to remake a life in a new country.
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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz When the film adaptation of the first Hawthorne case grinds to a halt after the actor playing the detective is found stabbed on set, suspicion falls on a cast and crew full of grudges and broken deals, yet the possibility that the real Hawthorne was the intended target sends him and his reluctant collaborator from a troubled south‑coast shoot to the Yorkshire village of his childhood, where an old school fire, a dubious car crash, blackmail and a country‑house killing may hold the key to a past mistake and a present motive.
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Wait and See by Iris Johansen Called to London by a cryptic plea from Adam Lynch, the man who has saved her before, investigator Kendra Michaels - whose sharp observational skills were forged during years without sight - joins private investigator Jessie Mercado to track him down, following scattered clues that draw them into a high‑risk pursuit where federal agencies may not be trusted, loyalties are tested and the secret Lynch is protecting could reshape lives far beyond their own.
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Rules for Aging and Larceny by Julia London Widowed and restless in her seventies, Frances Deluca misses the careful planning and shared purpose she once had with Joan, Edie and Irene, a tight‑knit crew whose single youthful heist left them estranged; when a Vegas crypto scam wipes out Edie’s granddaughter’s savings, the women reunite to steal back what was taken, test old loyalties and prove to themselves how much nerve - and experience - they still have.
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A Spy in the Bloodby Paul Warner Once known only to his handlers as a highly skilled Cold War operative, Mark Wolfe now appears to his family as a mild civil servant who quietly shepherds new recruits into the intelligence service, but when his daughter becomes fixated on following his path and then vanishes during a training mission, he is forced out of retirement and into a world of digital surveillance, private security interests and shifting alliances that challenge both his old‑school tradecraft and his instincts as a father.
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A Neighbor's Guide to Murder by Louise Candlish In London’s Columbia Mansions, where neighbors quietly track one another’s lives, solitary Gwen is delighted when a rare vacant flat brings in Pixie, a warm new subletter whose company brightens the building’s formal corridors until Gwen notices odd details about Pixie’s money troubles and her uneasy arrangement with landlord Alec, when concern slides into suspicion, setting off a series of choices and confrontations that draws the whole house into unwanted scrutiny and the shadow of a possible crime.
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The Briars by Sarah Crouch Taking a park ranger job in the small Pacific Northwest town of Lake Lumin to escape a broken relationship, Annie is sent to track a roaming cougar and warn wary residents, but while she is building a tentative connection with Daniel, a guarded carpenter on the town’s edge, the discovery of a young woman’s body near Mount St. Helens puts him under suspicion and draws Annie into an investigation that tests her wilderness skills, her instincts and her fragile place in a close-knit community.
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The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood When a soccer star and a bestselling thriller writer are murdered in the same quiet riverside town, Judith, Suzie and Becks of the Marlow Murder Club start piecing together links of blackmail and buried scandal, but with their usual police contact suddenly sidelined and Judith’s own past stirring uneasily, they must rely on their wits and local knowledge to sift through a swelling cast of suspects before the killer chooses another target.
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Strange Buildings by Uketsu After gathering tips from readers, an occult‑minded writer compiles eleven case files about peculiar buildings - a forest hut, a notorious murder house, a shrine, a burned‑out home, a claustrophobic prison and others - each with a floor plan that hides some unsettling flaw, and as he maps their stories of concealed rooms and trapped occupants, a larger pattern slowly emerges, suggesting that these isolated structures are bound together by a single, disturbing secret.
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Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann When their shepherd is found dead on a hillside outside an Irish village, a small flock - led by sharp‑eyed Miss Maple, with help from a rescued zoo ram, a prodigious sheep with perfect memory and several more skeptical ewes and rams - begin puzzling over humans, sneaking into town and quietly watching the butcher, the priest and a mysterious newcomer, turning their odd mix of innocence and insight into a determined effort to work out who killed the man who read to them each night.
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