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The Witch Elm
by Tana French
Praise: "A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out.
Summary: Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.
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| The Vanishing Man: A Charles Lenox Mystery by Charles FinchFeaturing: Charles Lenox, a 26-year-old sleuth and Oxford grad in 1853 London; his butler Graham, who assists with cases; his clever neighbor, Lady Jane Grey; and Lancelot, his mischievous 12-year-old cousin.
What happens: The theft of a duke's painting finds Lenox contemplating Shakespeare, visiting a Tower of London prisoner, seeing his own name dragged through the mud, and sussing out a killer.
Series alert: This is the 2nd prequel in the Charles Lenox series and the 12th book overall. |
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| Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna by Mario GiordanoFeaturing: the unnamed narrator, a German novelist who regularly flies to Sicily to visit his aunt; and Auntie Poldi, a wacky, Prosecco-loving widowed retiree who romances a local cop and turns amateur sleuth.
What it's about: Poldi tries to find out who cut off her neighborhood's water and poisoned a friend's dog...and then she finds a corpse.
Series alert: Also known as Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord in the U.K., this is the leisurely paced, atmospheric, and zany follow-up to Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. |
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| In the Dark by Cara HunterThe set up: An Oxford, England, home renovation creates an opening in a basement wall belonging to a weak, dementia-afflicted professor -- and exposes a room containing a traumatized woman and a two-year-old boy.
What happens: In his engrossing 2nd outing, Thames Valley Police DI Adam Fawley finds the facts don't add up as he unearths a link to a cold case...and then things get even more complex.
Reviewers say: "This slow-burning procedural builds with tension as the narrative moves through several cunning twists" (Library Journal). |
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Something Read, Something Dead : A Lighthouse Library M ystery
by Eva Gates
Summary: A bride-to-be’s wedding is destroyed when her overbearing grandmother imposes her own plans and her cousin suddenly dies after eating a bridal-shower treat she made, in the fifth novel of the series following The Spook in the Stacks.
Audience: For lovers of libraries, lighthouses and cats.
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| Hunting Game by Helene TurstenIntroducing: Embla Nyström, a 28-year-old Swedish Detective Inspector with anxiety, which she battles by boxing (and she's a champ).
What it's about: Embla goes on her annual moose hunting trip with her uncle and friends, but several strange things happen and someone drowns in suspicious circumstances. Embla seeks answers and delves into the pasts of her fellow hunters, including an enigmatic outsider.
For fans of: closed-circle mysteries; the author's Inspector Irene Huss series (Nyström even appears briefly in The Treacherous Net) and other moody Scandinavian mysteries with strong female leads. |
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| What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery by C.S. HarrisWhat it's about: At the dawn of the Regency period in 1811 London, the prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a woman is young Sebastian St. Cyr, a war veteran and heir to an earldom. Turning fugitive, St. Cyr, a master of disguise, seeks to clear his name.
Why Anne Perry fans might like it: it's part of a long-running series, has fascinating historical details, and includes a bit of romance.
Series alert: This is the atmospheric 1st entry in the St. Cyr mysteries; the 14th, Who Slays the Wicked, comes out this month. |
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Death of an Honest Man
by M. C Beaton
Summary: When an insensitive newcomer to the village of Cnothan is found dead, flame-haired sergeant Hamish Macbeth confronts a bewildering array of suspects at the same time his clumsy police sidekick, Charlie, resigns in protest of his treatment by Chief Inspector Blair.
Starring: Hamish Macbeth
Got time?: Book #33 in the series!
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The Punishment She Deserves : A Lynley Novel
by Elizabeth George
Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and the pugnacious but loyal detective sergeant Barbara Havers tackle one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered in a latest entry in the best-selling series by the Agatha Award-winning author of A Banquet of Consequences.
Something to sink you teeth into: At almost 700 pages.
Number in the series: #20!
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| The Gate Keeper by Charles ToddStarring: Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked World War I veteran who often hears the voice of Hamish, a dead soldier.
What happens: A nighttime encounter with a woman standing over a body on a lonely Suffolk road leads Rutledge to a tricky case in his 20th outing (the 21st entry, The Black Ascot, came out earlier this year).
Anne Perry fans might like: the vivid English setting; the intelligent, tightly woven plot; and the nuanced characters. This series will especially appeal to fans of Perry's World War I series. |
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