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Contemplation of a Crime
by Susan Juby
Butler Helen Thorpe is not one to judge, but the participants in Close Encounters for Global Healing are astonishingly unpleasant. The five-day program brings together people from across the political spectrum...Helen and her employer, Mr. Levine, have come to Side Island to assist David, his youngest son, who is facilitating the course...No one seems interested in a civil conversation, much less global healing, and each person has shown up with their own secret agenda. No rapprochement between the warring, or at least endlessly bickering, parties seems possible. But when something deadly happens, they must learn to work together. First, they have to figure out who among them can be trusted.
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The Last Exile
by Sam Wiebe
PI Dave Wakeland returns to Vancouver for his most perilous case yet. Maggie Zito, a volatile single mother, stands accused of murdering a former Exiles biker boss and his wife on their luxury houseboat. With a mystery witness placing her at the scene and the gang out for revenge, Maggie may not live to see trial. Her lawyer, Shuzhen Chen, turns to Wakeland for help. To clear Maggie’s name, they must navigate a city changed by violence, confront the Exiles' warring factions, and unearth why Maggie was framed. As Wakeland’s business teeters and his partner goes missing, trust becomes as scarce as the truth.
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The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
by Alison Goodman
In Regency England, 42-year-old twin sisters and amateur sleuths Augusta and Julia Colebrook have never married, each for her own reasons. Their compelling 2nd adventure combines mystery and romantic elements as the two try to clear an innocent man's name, hide a woman from her controlling brother, and push against the restrictions society places on women.
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A Brush With Death
by J. M. Hall
Retired schoolteachers Pat, Liz and Thelma don't know what to think. The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that's what the autopsy shows. But his ex-wife isn't convinced. She's sure the current Mrs Hilton is involved - maybe she wasn't at some horse event, as she told police. And so the three friends step away from their slices of cake to investigate. As the trio delve into the village's secrets, they uncover more than they bargained for - angry residents with old grudges and the echoes of a damning report that ruined lives all those years ago...
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No One Was Supposed to Die at this Wedding
by Catherine Mack
For Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series - murder seems to follow her every time she goes on vacation - and that includes attending her best friend's Emma's wedding. Emma is starring in the movie adaptation of When in Rome, Eleanor’s first novel. Emma is also marrying her co-star Fred Winters, who just happens to be playing Connor Smith, Eleanor’s ex and leading man of the series. After filming wraps, they invite the cast and crew to their wedding at nearby Catalina Island. There may be a storm headed their way, but nothing will stop their nuptials… that is until Emma receives a note that says “Someone is going to die at the wedding".
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Red Water
by Jurica Pavicic
In 1989, beautiful Silva doesn't come home. Young cop Gorki Sain discovers that she isn't what she seemed -- she dabbled in drugs and dealt in heroin. But Gorki soon finds himself out of a job as Yugoslavia plunges into a fratricidal war. Silva's brother stubbornly continues the search amid the upheavals of Croatian society, from the fall of communism through the 1991-1995 war. The former cop returns to solve the 30-year-old mystery in a different role, one less than ethically tied to toxic land speculation and corruption that comes with the tourist boom on the Dalmatian Coast.
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The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
When a businessman is gunned down in a quiet Twickenham pub, superintendent Richard Jury uncovers a web of conflicting accounts, a mysterious lookalike in America, and a parallel case involving his partner's missing sister that soon complicates both investigations in unexpected ways.
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An Enemy in the Village
by Martin Walker
When a local businesswoman is found dead with a suicide note, Chief Bruno suspects foul play, but as village gossip threatens his job and reputation, he must uncover the truth.
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Murder in Pitigliano
by Camilla Trinchieri
Ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle finds himself unwittingly stepping into the role of a PI to investigate a murder that has torn a young family apart, in a rustic mystery set in the beautiful Medieval village of Pitigliano, Italy.
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A Terribly Nasty Business
by Julia Seales
Newly arrived in Regency London, ostensibly to enjoy society with her chaperone, Beatrice Steele pursues private detective work alongside her friend Inspector Drake. She quickly adapts to life outside her small village, and when an actor is accused of a gentleman's murder, Beatrice and Drake take the case. This fun cozy is the 2nd in the Beatrice Steele mysteries. Try this next: Alison Goodman's Ill-Mannered Ladies series.
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Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse
by Simon Brett
Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House...In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there...But now the Major has retired and has come home for good...and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown. The circus is in Stunston Peveril for the annual village fair, yet none of their quota of clowns is missing--or at least, nobody is saying. Could the body be that of an unfortunate early guest at the village's highlight of the social calendar, the Fincham Abbey Costume Ball?
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Killer on the First Page
by Ian Ferguson
The Happy Rock bookstore, with its new majority owner Miranda Abbott, hosts a murder mystery festival. Six archetypal mystery authors arrive, along with a frazzled publicist, a pair of "super fans," and a self-invited Lachlan Todd. (That would be Luckless Lachlan, Miranda's almost-ex-husband Edgar's nemesis from his Pastor Fran days.) Three murders. Three locked rooms. Three impossible crimes.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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5851 Cavendish Blvd.
Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8
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