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| The Lost Traveller: A County Cork Mystery by Sheila ConnollyStarring: American Maura Donovan, who inherited a charming pub in an Irish village a year ago and is settling in and making friends.
What happens: Discovering a badly beaten body on her property, Maura tries to solve the crime to save her business's reputation.
Series alert: This is the charming 7th in the cozy County Cork mysteries.
For fans of: Carlene O'Connor's Irish Village mysteries; or Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity series, which follows another Bostonian, one who inherits land in an English village and becomes a sleuth. |
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| Headlong by Cynthia Harrod-EaglesWhat happens: DCI Bill Slider and his team investigate when a famous literary agent dies -- and even though his superiors want it to be an accidental death and not suicide, Slider realizes it's actually a murder.
Series alert: Though this is the 21st entry in this witty London-set police procedural featuring delightful dialogue (complete with British slang) and appealingly believable characters, newcomers can still start here.
You might also like: John Harvey's Charlie Resnik mysteries (which are grittier) or Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May mysteries (which are quirkier). |
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Wine and punishment
by Sarah Fox
The owner of a literary pub finds her efforts to start over in a quaint Vermont community challenged by a suspicious fire and the untimely death of her compulsive gambler ex. By the author of the Pancake House Mysteries.
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Chocolate cream pie murder
by Joanne Fluke
"Not even Lake Eden's nosiest residents suspected Hannah Swensen would go from idealistic newlywed to betrayed wife in a matter of weeks. But as a deadly mystery unfolds in town, the proof is in the pudding. When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakery--not the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But that's practically impossible with a disturbing visit from the shifty character sheonce believed was her one and only love, a group of bodyguards following her every move, and a murder victim in her bedroom. Now, swapping the crime scene in her condo for her mother Delores's penthouse, Hannah and an old flame team up to solve a case that's messier than an upended chocolate cream pie. As suspects emerge and secrets hit close to home, Hannah must serve a hefty helping of justice to an unnamed killer prowling around Lake Eden. before someone takes a slice out of her!"
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A beautiful corpse
by Christi Daugherty
When a 24-year-old bartender is found murdered, crime reporter Harper McClain investigates three men, including the victim's former-criminal boyfriend, her stalker boss and her acrimonious ex, the son of the district attorney. By the author of The Echo Killing
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Lives Laid Away
by Stephen Mack Jones
What happens: In Detroit's Mexicantown neighborhood, August Snow, a half-Mexican and Half-African American ex-cop who won millions in a wrongful dismissal suit, investigates the death of an immigrant teen found dead in the river and dressed as Marie Antoinette.
Series alert: This is the 2nd mystery novel, after the award-winning August Snow, by poet and playwright Stephen Mack Jones.
For fans of: Walter Mosley; Loren Estleman's hardboiled, Detroit-set novels; and David Housewright’s Rushmore McKenzie series.
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| In Farleigh Field: A Novel by Rhys BowenWhat it's about: World War II reaches British shores, changing life at the Kent estate of Lord Westerham, when one of his daughters secretly works at Bletchley Park. Then, a paratrooper, possibly a German spy, fatally lands at the home -- MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell covertly investigates and tries to learn if someone was aiding him.
Winner of: an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel and a Macavity Historical Mystery Award.
For fans of: Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope mysteries, Charles Todd's books, and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs novels. |
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| Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeWhat it's about: In a rural East Texas town, the body of a black lawyer from Chicago is found in a bayou, followed several days later by that of a white woman. African American Texas Ranger Darren Mathews investigates and finds a complex case of love and hate.
Why you should read it: With fully realized characters and a timely look at race relations in the U.S., this powerful book by Attica Locke (who's written and produced for TV's Empire) is the 1st in a planned series.
Winner of: both an Edgar and an Anthony Award for Best Novel as well as a Dagger Award. |
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