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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection. |
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The Monk: A DS George Cross Mystery by Tim Sullivan In the tradition of P. D. James, this novel follows Detective Sergeant George Cross as he investigates the brutal murder of a respected monk whose hidden wealth and secretive past uncover a tangled web of greed, faith and betrayal - while Cross himself struggles to navigate the emotional upheaval of his estranged mother’s sudden return to his life.
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My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi Set in Tokyo and rich with classic crime references, this thoughtful mystery follows schoolteacher Kaede and her sharp-witted grandfather - a former mystery club member living with dementia - as they unravel puzzling cases ranging from locked-room murders to disappearances, while Kaede’s own troubled past gradually resurfaces, blending gentle family dynamics with clever deduction that will appeal to fans of character-driven international mysteries.
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Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto After her husband leaves her for their private chef, sixty-three-year-old Mabel impulsively enrolls in a culinary school she believes is in France, only to find herself in a small English village outside Oxford, where unexpected friendships, challenging classes and a chance to rediscover her own ambitions gradually lead her to reconsider what happiness, independence and starting over might truly look like later in life.
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The Library after Dark by Ande Pliego On a Valentine’s after‑hours tour of New York’s famously eerie Daedalus Library, a bookseller who once left a body in its maze of themed rooms finds herself locked inside with her new boyfriend and a handful of strangers, then forced to navigate secret passages, old ghosts and a very present killer while deciding which buried truths she can risk revealing if she hopes to get out alive.
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The Fine Art of Lying by Alexandra Andrews Drawn out of her uneasily luxurious Park Avenue life by new art‑world connections, a former PhD student follows the trail of a long‑obsessed‑over painter to a dealer’s brownstone, only to stumble into a brutal murder and a missing masterpiece, forcing her to navigate collectors, crooks, suspicious police and her own carefully hidden insecurities - as every new clue seems to pull her, and her family, deeper into danger.
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How to Cheat Your Own Death by Kristen Perrin A London visit to her artist mother takes a grim turn when she discovers her mother's protégé’s body in an alley, the heart surgically removed in a manner that mirrors a killing described decades earlier in her great‑aunt’s journals, pushing her to trace links between 1960s Soho nightlife and the present‑day gallery scene as mounting threats suggest that her mother may be the murderer’s next target.
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Witch Hunt by Richard O'Rawe On Halloween night in London, a TV medium is murdered on Westminster Bridge in a killing staged to echo the trials of a seventeenth‑century witchfinder, and as a taunting caller claiming that legacy leads Detective Superintendent Grace O’Malley toward further targets, she races through a city dense with surveillance yet thick with misdirection, following threads of history, spectacle and obsession to stop a modern witch hunt before it claims more lives.
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The Violet Hour by James Cahill On the eve of a major London exhibition, a celebrated painter whose public image hides older compromises, the sharp‑eyed dealer who knew him before fame, a voracious billionaire collector, and others in their circle find their carefully curated lives shaken by a young man’s fatal fall from a balcony, a death that forces to the surface buried loyalties, rivalries and desires in the blue‑chip art world.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Woof: A Chet & Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn Hired to track down Miss Kitty, a viral feline whose disappearance has halted the online income of a struggling teen and her mother, canine narrator Chet and PI Bernie find themselves navigating sponsors, agents, a possibly crucial pig witness and a suspect who appears to have died twice, all while a trail of evidence begins to cast unwanted suspicion on Bernie himself.
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Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister On a long‑planned trip to remote Texas with her nearly grown daughter, a mother wakes to find the girl missing and a burner phone in her place, then follows a kidnapper’s instructions into the desert night, where a demand that has nothing to do with money sets off a chain of crimes, split‑second choices and moral compromises that test how far she will go to bring her child home.
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