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New MysteriesSeptember 2025 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne FreemanFrances is asked by friend Alicia to investigate Carlson, a wealthy American with a murdered wife who is courting Alicia's daughter - and when stage icon Sarah Bernhardt receives jewelry stolen from the victim, Frances and husband George must infiltrate elite Parisian society to find the murderer.
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There Will Be Bodies by Lindsey DavisTen years after Vesuvius's eruption, Roman investigator Flavia Albia uncovers a suspicious death while excavating an ash-covered villa, revealing buried secrets, disputed inheritance and dangerous visitors that suggest the disaster may have concealed an unnatural tragedy - in this 13th installment in the Flavia Albia series.
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The Red Queen by Martha GrimesA murder in Twickenham's village pub launches the 26th novel of the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, who is called in to investigate and quickly realizes that everyone in the victim's life had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a newspaper photo of a man in the states who is a dead ringer for the dead man - in this funny and eccentric return to a classic character and magical series.
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The White Crow by Michael RobothamPhilomena McCarthy, who has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father and her uncles being notorious London gangsters, must decide whom to trust - her family or her colleagues - when events conspire to threaten her career, her new marriage and her life.
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Murder on Sex Island by Jo FirestoneWhen a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don't know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex-social worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye - who learns too much about Sex Island's dark underbelly.
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A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally SmithIn 1901 London, barrister Gabriel Ward must navigate the secretive world of the Inner Temple when he investigates a baffling murder after the Lord Chief Justice is found dead on his doorstep with a carving knife embedded in his chest.
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Detective Auntyby Uzma JalaluddinAfter her husband's unexpected death, Kausar Khan receives a heartbreaking phone call from her thirty-something daughter, who has been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her child, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years, where she discovers that the thriving neighborhood she remembered is crime-ridden and where secrets, lies and betrayals await.
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A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel PennantFrom 1960s Jamaica to suburban Birmingham, fearless retired nurse, avid gardener and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense had been unceremoniously ousted from the Black investors group she helped found, severing her ties to the majority of her friends and community - until an unidentified man is found dead in the home of one of the group's members, reviving secrets behind a decades-old unsolved crime and catapulting Miss Hortense into mystery sleuthing that will see her and the community she loves pushed to their limits.
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The Good Liar by Denise MinaEveryone believed that the murderer of a father and his fiancée had been put behind bars by the testimony of blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O'Sheil - until she learns that her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it, causing Claudia to face a devastating choice: protect her children and career or blow the whole conspiracy apart by revealing the truth.
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Happy Wifeby Meredith LavenderNora's whirlwind romance and marriage to wealthy lawyer Will in exclusive Winter Park, Florida takes a dark turn when he vanishes the morning after his birthday party, leaving Nora to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.
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