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| Five Found Dead by Sulari GentillAuthor Joe Penvale celebrates finishing cancer treatment by taking his twin sister on the Orient Express. Fellow travelers include a retired French detective, true crime podcasters, travel bloggers, and two elderly women. When a blood-soaked cabin is discovered and the train is quarantined after a new COVID variant, the group investigates. But who can be trusted? Read-alikes: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express; Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect. |
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| Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing by Nicholas MeyerThe game's afoot for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in this latest cleverly plotted pastiche by Nicholas Meyer. In a blizzard-stricken 1890s London, Lady Glendenning hires Holmes to find her painter tenant, who's disappeared without paying the rent and left a bloody room behind. On the way to a surprising finale, the book examines art, ambition, forgery, and love. For other Victorian London mysteries, try: Charles Finch's Charles Lenox chronicles or Will Thomas' Barker and Llewelyn mysteries. |
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| Gray Dawn by Walter MosleyIn an evocative 1970s Los Angeles, 50-something PI Easy Rawlins runs a successful detective agency, lately letting his associates take most of the work. But he takes the lead in a case involving a dangerous woman who's gone missing. Meanwhile, he helps his secretary and his adopted son, who each have their own troubles, in this 17th entry in the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series. Try this next: Gary Phillips’ One-Shot Harry. |
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| Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert ThorogoodThough DI Tanika Malik asks them not to investigate, elderly crossword creator Judith, DJ and dogwalker Suzie, and vicar's wife and mom Becks can't help but look into things when a cruise chartered by the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society includes a seemingly impossible murder. This fun 4th outing for the Marlow Murder Club will please fans of earlier books as well as the TV series based on them. Try this next: Simon Brett's Fethering mysteries. |
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Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
by Allison Brennan
Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Now, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, she finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself -- for a little while, anyway. Or she can curl up with a good book on the beach. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure.
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The Dark Library
by Mary Anna Evans
Dr. Estella Ecker is the second-ever female professor in her department at the local university where her late father used to teach. After the department chair's suicide, Estella notices her colleagues have begun treating her differently, with more respect and with her father's name often on their lips. Why do the men in her department still seem to fear him? How could he possibly be connected to the recent suicide? Once she finds out the truth, she'll know what to do. But will she be able to live with herself after she does it? She is, after all, her father's daughter.
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This House of Burning Bones
by Stuart MacBride
It's not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave has been cancelled, someone has firebombed a migrant hostel and there's a massive climate change protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers - aka DS Steel's team - until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions. But, as bad as everything seems, there's something far more sinister lurking in the heat haze of this sweltering Aberdeen summer: something that's been building for years. Something that longs to sing its horrible song... And it's clear that things are going to get much, much worse before this is over.
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Bridal Shower Murder
by Leslie Meier
Lucy Stone is thrilled about her youngest daughter Zoe's engagement to Chad, a rising minor league baseball player with dreamy eyes and plenty of Southern charm. Yet there’s no denying the whirlwind romance has turned Lucy’s life upside down in more ways than one -- especially when she learns about Chad’s complicated background and close ties to Tinker’s Cove. The secrets and rumors are enough to send her investigative reporting instincts into overdrive. But the real shock comes when Zoe's bridal shower guest Hetty Furness, the head of the Tinker’s Cove Historical Society, goes missing—only to be found dead, the victim of a brutal murder...
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Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger -- before it is too late.
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The Hallmarked Man
by Robert Galbraith
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
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Apostle's Cove
by William Kent Krueger
Just days before Halloween and his sixtieth birthday, Cork O’Connor gets a call from his son Stephen, who’s working to free the wrongly imprisoned. Stephen believes Cork sent an innocent man -- Ojibwe inmate Axel Boshey -- to prison for murder twenty years ago. Haunted by doubt, Cork reopens the case, but Axel refuses to cooperate, and powerful forces in Tamarack County will do anything to keep the truth buried. As danger closes in, Cork’s young grandson offers a chilling theory of his own: the Windigo -- a legendary, bloodthirsty creature -- has returned... and it’s not done killing.
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Don't Say a Word
by Allison Brennan
The police ruled Elijah Martinez's death an accidental drug overdose, but the teen's grieving mother isn't convinced. With the case officially closed, Angelhart Investigations is the only one who can help her find the truth. Margo Angelhart's sure this will be an easy solve -- she'll talk to Elijah's friends and employer, retrace his steps, and figure out what happened in his final hours. Except none of his friends believe he did drugs, and the teacher who's been vocal about the police mishandling the case turns up dead. Every thread Margo pulls leads back to a dangerous drug ring that once ran through the school.
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Other People's Houses
by Clare Mackintosh
DC Ffion Morgan realizes the death of an estate agent in a kayak on Mirror Lake was no accident, while in Cheshire, DS Leo Brady investigates multiple break-ins, and Ffion and Leo are about to learn that people will pay a high price to hide their secrets.
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Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
by Amanda Chapman
After closing Manhattan's Mystery Guild Library for the day, book conservator Tory Van Dyne discovers a woman who says she's Agatha Christie...which does appear to be the case, despite Christie being dead. So when Tory's actress cousin Nic is linked to a suspicious death, Tory works with Christie to solve the crime.
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Them Bones
by David Housewright
Rushmore McKenzie, a retired millionaire and former homicide detective, can't resist a friend's request or a challenge. Angela Bjork seeks his help after a rare dinosaur skull is stolen from her dig site in Montana. McKenzie, who occasionally does private detective work for friends, takes on the case. The skull, worth millions on the black market, is becoming harder to recover, and those behind the theft will do anything to keep it.
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