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| Big Bad Wool by Leonie SwannThe sheep of Glennkill, Ireland, including clever Miss Maple, are wintering in France with their shepherdess Rebecca and her tarot card-reading mum. But strange deer deaths attributed to a werewolf and the killing of a human find the flock once again using wit and courage to solve crimes in this charming sequel to Three Bags Full. "A complete original," raves Booklist. |
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Death at a Highland wedding
by Kelley Armstrong
Living as a Victorian-era housemaid after slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day detective Mallory Atkinson joins Dr. Duncan Gray at a Highland wedding-turned-murder in the fourth novel of the series following Disturbing the Dead.
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| Esperance by Adam OyebanjiDetective Ethan Krol needs to figure out how a man and his young son drowned in sea water in a Chicago high rise. Things get trickier when he learns of similar deaths in Nigeria and Rhode Island. Meanwhile, a woman with strange powers appears in Bristol, England, asking about a slave ship from 1791. This "excellent" (Booklist) novel will please fans of intricately plotted science fiction mysteries, such as Silvia Park's Luminous. |
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| The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin by Alison GoodmanIn Regency England, 42-year-old twin sisters and amateur sleuths Augusta and Julia Colebrook have never married, each for her own reasons. Their compelling second 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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| Marble Hall Murders by Anthony HorowitzAfter breaking up with her Greek boyfriend, Susan Ryeland is back in London, editing a novel by the late Alan Conway that's been completed by Eliot Crace. But troubled Crace has laced the plot with references to his well-known grandmother's suspicious death, and this leads to murder. Fine for newcomers and featuring a book-within-a-book, this third Magpie Murders novel "dazzles" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess KiddIn 1954, after letters from former novice Frieda abruptly stop, Sister Agnes leaves the order she's been a part of for decades. Now known as Nora Breen, she goes to Frieda's last address, the Gulls Nest boarding house in Kent, and finds an eccentric group. When murder occurs, Nora works with an intriguing police inspector to solve the cases. |
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| Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom-CourageIn this fun series starter, TV's Golden Girls are back, and this time, they're solving crimes! After Rose's niece decides to have her wedding in Miami instead of St. Olaf, Dorothy's date ends up dead at the bridal shower. With Dorothy the prime suspect, the senior sleuths set out to solve the case in this "nostalgic delight" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor--a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases. Though hampered by an old beef with an ex-colleague determined to thwart him at every turn, he is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as "Nightshade." Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
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| One Death at a Time by Abbi WaxmanAward-winning actress Julia Mann is drunk when she finds a body in her Los Angeles pool. She did time for her ex's death, so the cops want to pin this on her, too. But her young, bubbly-with-an-edge sobriety sponsor Natasha is determined to clear Julia's name in both cases. This entertaining novel introduces a fun duo who are witty, sarcastic, and full of heart. |
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Sealed with a Hiss
by Rita Mae Brown
When a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a creek in Virginia, with a body in the driver's seat, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her animal companions—felines Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, Tee Tucker the Corgi and Irish Wolfhound Pirate—team up to solve the mystery.
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