| Blood Grove by Walter MosleyWhat happens: In the summer of 1969, Black Los Angeles PI Easy Rawlins, a World War II vet, agrees to help a traumatized white Vietnam vet, who says that while trying to save a woman, he thinks he killed a Black man -- but the scene of the supposed crime is completely clean.
Why you might like it: Featuring unforgettable characters, this atmospheric 15th Easy Rawlins mystery takes place against the backdrop of the social and political changes of the 1960s. |
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| Knock Knock by Anders RoslundWhat happens: After new murders mimic old ones, Stockholm DS Ewert Grens, who's nearing retirement, looks for the now-adult girl who survived years ago and was put in witness protection...but her records are missing. Meanwhile Hoffman, a police informer, faces an underworld threat to his family and wants Grens' help.
Series alert: Knock Knock, which has also been published as Three Days, is the 8th Grens novel; previous entries were co-written with the late Börge Hellström. All of these suspenseful books can be enjoyed on their own. |
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Saskia was a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She was taken with the Home's charismatic leader Abraham, the North Star to Saskia, and the four other teens who lived there; her best and only friends. Two decades later, Saskia is shuttered in her Connecticut estate, estranged from the others. Her carefully walled life is torn open by threatening letters. Unless she and her former friends return to the land in rural Maine, the terrible thing they did as teenagers -their last-ditch attempt to save Home- will be revealed. From vastly different lives, the five return to confront their blackmailer and reckon with the horror that split them apart. How far will they go to bury their secret forever?
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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: A Novel by Ashley WinsteadJessica Miller plans to triumphantly return to Duquette University for her ten year reunion festivities. She's the most successful out of her entire group of friends, and she's ready to flaunt her achievements...even though her "friend group", known on campus as the East House Seven, doesn't really exist anymore. Ten years ago, Heather, one of their own, was murdered, fracturing the once close knit group. And then another friend was accused of committing the vile act, shattering whatever friendly feelings remained. Jessica thinks she's coming back to campus to bask in a wave of glory. She and her friends have no idea that someone has set an elaborate trap to catch the real killer and close the cold case for good.
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Lizzie and Alice are the best of friends, as close as can be. Until one day when they're out playing by the train tracks, and a childish spat triggers Lizzie's epilepsy. When she comes to, she finds an unimaginable horror: Alice has been killed. Lizzie is devastated, and as she tries to cope with her grief, she is shocked to find herself alienated from Alice's friends and relatives, who are convinced she somehow had a role in her friend's death. Years later, Lizzie has tried to move on. She's engaged to a wonderful man and is starting a new life in London. But someone from her past isn't willing to forgive and forget. They want answers. And they'll do anything to pry them from her. Even if Lizzie doesn't know them herself.
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| Aunt Dimity's Good Deed by Nancy AthertonWhat it's about: When her husband must miss their planned trip to England to visit the charming cottage she's inherited, Lori Shepherd 's father-in-law goes in his place. When the older man goes missing, Lori sets out to find him, guided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity.
Read this next: Carolyn G. Hart's Bailey Ruth mysteries, which star a ghost; Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow mysteries, which also has quirky characters and chronicles family and village life. |
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The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzieA year ago, an explosion forever altered three women's lives, now, despite the marks left by the tragedy, they all seem safe, but as the explosion's anniversary dominates the media, the terrifying memories of that morning become dangerous triggers
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| The Good Detective by John McMahonStarring: rural Georgia detective P.T. Marsh, who's drinking too much after the accidental deaths of his wife and son.
What happens: His troubles culminate the morning after he beats up the abusive boyfriend of a stripper and awakens with little memory of the previous evening -- and learns the man is dead. Did P.T. kill him? Adding to the questions, the boyfriend seems to have taken part in a hate killing hours before his own death.
Why you might like it: It offers a complex mystery that examines grief, race issues, and what it means to be good. |
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| An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten; translated by Marlaine DelargyWhat it is: a dark, slyly humorous collection of five crime stories by Helene Tursten, who writes the Irene Huss police procedurals.
Starring: Maud, a cunning 88-year-old Swedish woman who lives happily alone in her roomy apartment in Gothenburg -- and who has no compunction with dispatching those who bother her.
What happens: Maud handles a local celebrity who covets her apartment, foils the engagement of her long-ago lover, and even meets Inspector Huss after a body is found in Maud's apartment. |
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The Last Good Guy by T. Jefferson ParkerReluctantly accepting a case involving a missing teen, private investigator Roland Ford uncovers a dark conspiracy involving an American Nazi compound and a celebrity evangelist. By the author of Swift Vengeance.
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The Good Daughter: A Novel by Karin SlaughterDecades after a shattering confrontation that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her Atlanta hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting. By the author of the Grant County series.
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