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New MysteriesJanuary 2020
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When old midnight comes along
by Loren D Estleman
Hired to prove the death of an influential politician’s missing wife, Amos Walker is embroiled in a case involving questions about the woman’s disappearance, the death of an investigating officer and his client’s upcoming nuptials.
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The bone fire by S. D. SykesDuring a resurgence of the plague in 1361 London, Oswald de Lacy moves his family into his friend’s island-fortress where he must uncover a murderer living among them - by the author of City of Masks.
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Nine elms : a Kate Marshall thriller by Robert BryndzaKate Marshall, a lecturer at a small coastal English university and former promising young detective whose career ended in scandal after she captured a cannibalistic serial killer, must overcome her past when a copycat killer emerges determined to finish what he successor started.
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Beating about the bush by M. C BeatonDiscovering evidence of a gruesome murder in a roadside hedge, private detective Agatha Raisin is embroiled in a case involving industrial espionage, a bad-tempered donkey and her own growing fame - by the best-selling author of the Hamish Macbeth series.
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Death brings a shadow
by Rosemary Simpson
Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia.
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The angels' share
by Ellen Crosby
Attending a Thanksgiving weekend party at a newspaper family’s castle estate, Lucie Montgomery learns of her nonagenarian host’s aspirations about a rare Prohibition-era Madeira before he is found dead in his wine cellar amid rumors of his Freemason connections.
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Thin iceby Paige SheltonThe best-selling author of the Scottish Bookshop Mysteries presents a first entry in a new series that finds a best-selling writer escaping from an obsessed fan by hiding in Alaska, where she is embroiled in a local murder case.
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Trace of evil by Alice BlanchardA rookie detective in a small New York community investigates the whereabouts of nine missing transients while navigating painful memories about her sister’s unsolved murder years earlier - by the award-winning author of Darkness Peering.
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Winter grave by Helene TurstenWhen a mentally disabled boy is wrongly targeted with suspicion in the wake of a child’s disappearance, Detective Inspector Embla uncovers suspicious links to an unsolved missing-persons case from her childhood - by the author of the Irene Huss series.
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Laetitia Rodd and the case of the wandering scholar by Kate SaundersA sequel to The Secrets of Wishtide finds Victorian detective Laetitia Rodd assisting a terminally ill gentleman in a search for his long-missing Oxford academic brother, before uncovering a formidable adversary lurking in the English countryside.
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Now you see them by Elly GriffithsDetermined to get back into the game, former detective Emma launches an investigation into a string of disappearances, a case that is complicated by an unexpected rival and Max’s own mysterious search.
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Bryant & May : the lonely hour
by Christopher Fowler
Tangled in a cat-and-mouse hunt with a killer who has been performing ritual murders at 4 A.M., Bryant and May explore technological and academic leads that are bizarrely connected by arson, kidnapping and blackmail.
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Penny for your secrets by Anna Lee HuberA former Secret Service agent investigates two murders in post-World War I England: the first of a friend’s husband and the other the sister of a colleague in this latest Verity Kent Mystery.
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Bad Day at the Vulture Club
by Vaseem Khan
Despite being uneasy at entering the world of power and privilege, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick agree to investigate the murder of a prominent industrialist, whose body was found where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures, which has ramifications for Mumbai’s poorest citizens.
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