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Mystery June 2020 These eBooks and eAudios may be downloaded in the Libby by OverDrive app or viewed online on our OverDrive page.
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Masked Prey
by John Sandford
Summary: When a Senator’s daughter discovers that an unknown extremist has been posting politician kid photos online beside vicious but legal ideological rants, Lucas Davenport is summoned by influential Washington leaders to prevent dangerous attacks on their children.
Series Alert: This is #30 in the Lucas Davenport series.
Similar Authors: David Baldacci, Michael Connelly and J.A. Jance.
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Pretty Guilty Women
by Gina LaManna
What happens: Detectives must unearth the truth after a man is found dead during a rehearsal dinner at a fancy resort and four different women confess to the crime, each insisting they acted alone, and each with very different stories.
Similar Authors: Liv Constantine, Karin Slaughter and Lisa Unger.
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Long Range
by C. J. Box
Summary: Assisting an investigation into a fatal grizzly attack that is not what it seems, Joe Pickett become embroiled in the case of a prominent judge’s wife by a would-be assassin who was shooting from a confoundingly long distance.
Series Alert: This is #20 in the Joe Pickett series.
Similar Authors: Craig Johnson, Nevada Barr and Anne Hillerman.
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| The Body in the Garden by Katharine SchellmanIntroducing: charming young widow Lily Adler, who, still missing her husband, returns to London in 1815 in hopes of creating an independent new life for herself.
What happens: At her first ball of the season, Lily overhears the murder of a blackmailer. When the magistrate is bribed to drop the case, intrepid Lily vows to investigate and gets help from Anglo-Indian naval captain Jack (her deceased husband's best friend), as well as from an heiress newly arrived from the West Indies.
Why you might like it: This 1st Lily Adler mystery offers well-researched details and diverse Regency-era characters. |
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The Mapping of Love and Death
by Jacqueline Winspear
What happens: Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
Series Alert: This is #7 in the Maisie Dobbs series.
Similar Authors: Susan Elia MacNeal, Frances Brody and Alan Bradley.
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| The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova JacobsThe task: To honor her (possibly murdered) genius grandfather's last wish, failed bookstore owner Hazel must solve the clues he's left in her favorite novel and on a map in order to deliver his mathematical work into safe hands. But there are others who want his groundbreaking equation...and they might be willing to kill for it.
For fans of: literary mysteries, family dramas, inventive stories, and books dealing with big ideas, like chaos theory and free will.
Awards buzz: This delightful debut won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was one of The Wall Street Journal's Best Mysteries of 2018. |
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| A Great Reckoning by Louise PennyWhat happens: Thoughtful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, now in charge of Quebec's police academy, searches for a killer when a corrupt instructor is murdered. Found near the body is an odd World War I-era map of Three Pines, the small village where Gamache lives.
Reviewers say: Penny's "work is rich with luminous prose, complex but uncluttered plots, and profound compassion" (The Seattle Times).
Series alert: Newcomers can start with this award-winning 12th Gamache mystery, but it's best enjoyed by those familiar with earlier entries. |
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