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| The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan BradleyFeaturing: delightful 12-year-old chemist and sleuth Flavia de Luce.
Series alert: This 9th entry in a charming series set in 1950s England finds Flavia and her two older sisters at a crossroads even as Flavia once again sets out to solve a murder. Newcomer? Start with the 1st book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
You might also like: For another mystery series with a village setting, eccentric characters, and an intelligent, likable detective (though one older than Flavia), try Louise Penny's Armand Gamache mysteries. |
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Force of Nature
by Jane Harper
COMING SOON! When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.
Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?
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| The Mitford Murders by Jessica FellowesIntroducing: Louisa Cannon, a down-on-her-luck young Londoner who finds work as a nursemaid to the (real-life) Mitford family.
What it's about: When a retired military nurse is killed on a train, Louisa, teenage Nancy Mitford, and a handsome railway cop investigate.
For fans of: Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mysteries, which are also set in the inter-war period and examine the upstairs-downstairs dynamic, or Downton Abbey (author Jessica Fellowes is the niece of its creator and has written several nonfiction books about the show). |
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I've Got My Eyes on You
by Mary Higgins Clark
COMING SOON! A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark.
After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn’t invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar?
Kerry’s older sister Aline, a twenty-eight-year-old guidance counselor, is determined to assist the Prosecutor's Office in learning the truth. She does not realize that now she is putting her own life in danger...
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If You Like: Charles Finch
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| The Cater Street Hangman by Anne PerryWhat it is: bestselling author Anne Perry's debut, the 1st in a series now numbering 32, and the richly detailed story of Inspector Thomas Pitt's investigation into a series of 1881 London killings of young women.
Is it for you? If you like the leisurely pacing, Victorian England setting, and touch of romance in Charles Finch's books, try the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries, though they have a slightly bleaker tone.
Don't miss: Anne Perry's latest, Twenty-One Days, will be out this spring; it's the 1st in a new series starring Daniel Pitt, son of Thomas and Charlotte. |
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| A Curious Beginning by Deanna RaybournIntroducing: Veronica Speedwell, a smart, unorthodox young woman who was orphaned as a child and raised by two spinster "aunts"; after almost being abducted, she partners with mysterious Revelstoke "Stoker" Templeton-Vane to sort out why.
Why you might like it: You enjoy witty prose, intricate plots, romantic elements, and lush depictions of Victorian England.
Series alert: This is the 1st of three books (so far) in the Veronica Speedwell series; Deanna Raybourn also writes the similarly pleasing Lady Julia Grey mysteries. |
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| Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery by Dorothy L. SayersWhat it's about: First published in 1923, this 1st in the classic Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries has Wimsey working with Inspector Charles Parker to sort out where a millionaire has disappeared to while also dealing with Inspector Sugg to uncover how and why another man's corpse was deposited in an architect's bathtub.
For fans of: witty, charming aristocratic sleuths who clean up crime in a bygone England and find romance in unexpected places. |
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