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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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A Good Person by Kirsten King When Henry abruptly ends the casual relationship she had convinced herself was headed toward commitment, Lillian performs a petty “hex” meant to make him suffer, only to learn he has actually died and that she is suddenly a central suspect, sending her on a frantic, often darkly comic search for what really happened and how far she will go to be seen as his grieving partner rather than his possible killer.
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The Oxford Affair by Lynne Kaufman Arriving in Oxford to run an elite summer program, Susan expects bookish debates rather than a bursar’s body in the Thames, but soon finds herself teamed with a visiting Southern restaurateur and potential donor whose near‑fatal “accidents” seem to echo the plots of the detective‑fiction course he is taking, drawing them through libraries, quads and secretive corners of the university in a joint attempt to unmask a killer before one of them becomes the next victim.
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An Ordinary Sort of Evil: A Rip Through Time Novel by Kelley Armstrong Summoned late at night to the home of a patron, a former modern homicide detective, now settled into her unlikely role assisting forensic-minded Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie in Victorian Scotland - walks into a séance where a long-missing maid’s ghost demands Gray investigate her supposed murder, drawing them into a case that blurs trickery and truth as they search for the young woman, dead or alive, and face dangers well beyond a parlor performance.
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Witch Hunt by Richard O'Rawe When a London Detective Superintendent is tipped off by a caller styling himself after a seventeenth‑century witchfinder, she races to stop a Halloween‑night killing that plays out live on Westminster Bridge, and as more threats surface against supposed “witches,” her investigation into the murdered TV medium pulls her into a layered tangle of surveillance footage, old grievances and calculated spectacle that suggests the hunt has only begun.
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Ode to the Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery by Carolyn Haines Back home in the Mississippi Delta, a private investigator hopes quiet drives and time with her dogs will settle her restlessness, but a fleeting vision of a woman in white on the Tallahatchie Bridge and a new case involving a missing farmer facing foreclosure, rumors of an affair and a mysterious land buyer pulling vulnerable farms into their orbit send her and her partner into a tangle of secrets, ghost stories and river‑borne clues that may turn deadly.
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The Anniversary: A Thriller by Alex Finlay On May 1, 1992, small‑town golden girl Jules Delaney survives an attack by the elusive “May Day Killer”, while the same night, Quinn Riley is sent to juvenile detention after a violent incident, and over the next decade their lives intersect each May 1 as Jules wrestles with why she was spared, Quinn searches for answers about his mother’s unsolved murder, and long‑buried secrets draw them closer to the truth before the killer’s next return.
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Last Seen by Lucy Clarke Seven years after a boating accident off a remote stretch of coast left one boy rescued and the other lost, Sarah’s surviving son vanishes on the anniversary of the tragedy, and as she scours the Sandbank’s scattered beach huts and wary community, old tensions, buried eyewitness accounts and long-guarded lies rise to the surface, forcing her to question everyone around her before the tide of secrecy closes in again.
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Artifacts by Natalie Lemle When a repatriation case draws her into a dispute over a rare Roman glass cup, an attorney must revisit the study‑abroad summer she once tried to forget, retracing her time on an Italian Alpine dig where her mentor vanished, her first serious romance unraveled and a villa now hailed as a heritage site may have been quietly looted - as past choices and present claims converge around the same shimmering artifact.
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The Brothers McKay: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson When a widely disliked rancher is killed during a family gathering at his Crazy Woman Canyon lodge, Sheriff Walt Longmire turns to the four very different sons assembled that night - a slick charmer, a globe‑trotting journalist, a withdrawn monk and the half‑Native ranch hand - and as a second body is found and a wildfire traps him in the canyon, he must untangle old grudges and buried loyalties while simply trying to stay alive.
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The Lost Soldiers by Andrey Kurkov In war‑torn Kyiv, detective Kolechko is ordered to explain how an entire troop of Red Army soldiers could enter a neighborhood bathhouse and simply vanish, their uniforms and boots left behind, and as he follows odd clues - from overheard conversations to bones discovered in the stoves and whispers of a fervent religious sect - he and his quick‑thinking wife must unravel a case that exposes both everyday absurdity and the growing dangers of a city sliding toward civil war.
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