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Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
by Catherine Mack
Bestselling mystery writer Eleanor Dash is on an Italian book tour with other authors, fans, and her greedy ex (whom one of her fictional sleuths is based on). When a murder occurs, Eleanor investigates in this series starter that features funny footnotes addressing the reader. Read-alikes: G.M. Malliet's Augusta Hawke mysteries; V.M. Burns' Mystery Bookshop novels.
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| Fire Must Burn by Allison MontclairThis witty, well-plotted 8th Sparks & Bainbridge novel finds Iris Sparks recovering from events in the previous book with help from Gwen Bainbridge, her partner in a matchmaking business in 1947 London. But when MI6 suspects a friend from Iris's Cambridge days of working for the Soviets, Iris and Gwen are compelled to help. To see relationships develop, start with the 1st book, The Right Sort of Man. For fans of: Ashley Weaver's Electra McDonnell novels; Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope mysteries.
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Whispers at Painswick Court
by Julie Klassen
Surgeon's daughter Anne Loveday serves as sickroom nurse to a lady at a Cotswolds manor. While navigating the other residents--including potential suitors--a series of mishaps befalls her patient, and Anne realizes there may be a murderer in their midst. With her reputation and heart on the line, can she discover who's guilty before it's too late?
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord
by Celeste Connally
In this banter-filled Regency-era series starter, independent-minded Lady Petra Forsyth announces she'll remain unmarried after the death of her fiancé. This shocks the ton but frees Petra to look into the disappearance of a friend (whose husband seems unconcerned) and, later, find a murderer. Read-alikes: Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley; The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman.
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A traitor in Whitehall
by Julia Kelly
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister's aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
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Just another missing person / : An Addictive Thriller
by Gillian McAllister
"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn't a gun, or a knife: it's a secret. Her worst one. And her family's safety depends on one thing: Julia must not find out what happened to Olivia--and must frame somebody else for her murder"
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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
by Rhys Bowen
Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband's appeal for divorce. It's Ellie's opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She's taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora--each needing escape--impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France. With the Rhãone surging beside them, they have nowhere to be and everywhere to go. Until the Bentley breaks down in the inviting fishing hamlet of Saint Benet. Here, Ellie rents an abandoned villa in the hills, makes wonderful friends among the villagers, and finds herself drawn to Nico, a handsome and enigmatic fisherman. As for unexpected destinations, the simple paradis of Saint Benet is perfect. But fates soon change when the threat of war encroaches. Ellie's second act in life is just beginning--and becoming an adventure she never expected--
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Locked in / : A Department Q Novel
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
"The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series comes to a thrilling conclusion when the team must turn inward to solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out. On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q, Detective Carl M²rck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen's Vestre prison. After fifteen years, a violent case from his past has caught up with him. Charges of drug trafficking and murder threaten to destroy his life and career. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn't talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison's incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers. The question that remains is, Why? Carl's colleagues at the Copenhagen Police Department instantly turn their backs on him, leaving the ever-loyal Department Q team as his only hope. In search of answers, Rose, Assad, and Gordon must disobey direct orders from way up the chain to try to unravel case. With only one another to trust and Carl's battle against the unknown mastermind's henchmen worsening by the day, they must work faster than ever before if they are to clear his name-and save his life"
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| The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur IndridasonRetired Reykjavik police detective Konrad declines to investigate when a terminally ill woman asks him to find the son she gave up for adoption decades earlier. But when the woman is killed and her apartment ransacked, guilt forces Konrad to look into the murder, and what he finds may connect to his own life in his 3rd outing. Read-alikes: Stig Abell's Death Under a Little Sky; Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series.
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Mother-Daughter Murder Night
by Nina Simon
This "dazzling debut" (Library Journal) introduces three generations of Rubicon women: businesswoman Lana; her estranged daughter, Beth; and 15-year-old Jack. Lana moves in with Beth and Jack during her cancer treatment, and when Jack is accused of murder, the trio investigates. Read-alikes: Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club novels; Darynda Jones' Sunshine Vicram mysteries.
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