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When the Grits Hit the Fan
by Maddie Day
After hosting a dinner for Indiana University’s Sociology Department at her restaurant, Pans ‘N Pancakes, Robbie Jordan must flip over the clues to prove that her friend, graduate student Lou, did not kill Professor Charles Stilton, a man who seemed to thrive on heated exchanges with his students and peers before they all get burned. Includes recipes. Original.
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A Shattered Circle
by Kevin Egan
Protecting her husband, New York City judge William Lonergan, after an accident leaves him mentally impaired, Barbara, who doubles as his confidential secretary, must make a tough decision when a court officer looks into a decades-old courthouse murder, which causes the judge to be attacked.
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Desert Vengeance
by Betty Webb
When the man who raped her when she was a 9-year-old foster child is released from prison and subsequently brutally murdered along with his wife, Scottsdale PI Lena Jones falls under suspicion until she takes up the case, in which she is forced to make a decision that goes against everything she believes in.
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| Song of the Lion by Anne HillermanMystery. Attending a high school basketball game, Navajo police officer Bernadette Manuelito hears a car bomb explode in the parking lot. It's thought that the owner of the car, a lawyer mediator working with land developers, the Hopi, and the Dani, was the target, so Bernie's husband, Sgt. Jim Chee, guards him. Meanwhile, Bernie works with retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn to uncover a link from the bomb to one of his earlier cases. While the late Tony Hillerman focused on Leaphorn and Chee, his daughter Anne places Bernie at center stage in her previous two books in the series and in this 21st entry. For another fascinating female lead, try Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mysteries. |
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| A Rising Man by Abir MukherjeeHistorical Mystery. Newly arrived in 1919 Calcutta, former Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham joins the Imperial Police Force and lands a big case: a murdered British official is found with a sinister note in his mouth. Working with likable Sgt. Banerjee and jealous sub-Inspector Digby, Wyndham travels through all levels of Colonial Indian society to find a killer. With atmosphere to spare, this delightful debut should please fans of other India-set historical mysteries, such as Barbara Cleverly’s Detective Joe Sandilands series, Miranda Carter's The Strangler Vine, and Laurie R. King's The Game. |
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What You Break
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Hardboiled Fiction. In a part of Long Island far removed from the Hamptons, ex-cop Gus Murphy lives at a motel and works as its late-night van driver/bouncer/house detective. Still adjusting after the death of his son, divorced Gus does a favor for a friend and investigates why someone killed a rich businessman's adult granddaughter (the cops have the killer, but no motive). Gus also learns that a co-worker, bellman Salva, isn't who he seems and has a darker past than Gus'd imagined. Navigating a minefield of secrets, street gangs, and Russians with ties to heinous crimes committed decades earlier, this follow-up to Where It Hurts provides a dark, twisty tale for those who like their mysteries hardboiled.
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| A Man Without Breath by Philip KerrHistorical Mystery. The Nazis want evidence of a rumored Soviet massacre of Polish officers (Josef Goebbels hopes to use it as propaganda against the Soviets). To that end, Bernie Gunther of the War Crimes Bureau heads to Smolensk, where the former Berlin cop works with the Wehrmacht's Prussian aristocrats, interviewing people and sifting through the evidence. Though the truth is elusive, Bernie, an ethical man who doesn't like the Nazis, keeps at it, uncovering more crimes in the process. Enjoyed this excellent 9th in a popular series and want more World War II-era crime stories? Pick up Alan Furst's historical spy novels or David Downing's John Russell series. |
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Memory of Flames
by Armand Cabasson
The Tsar had long dreamt of taking Paris in revenge for Moscow - A" March 1814. With the allied armies of Russia, Austria and Prussia advancing, Paris is in real danger of falling to occupying forces for the first time in 400 years.
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The Kill Switch
by James Rollins
Recruited by Sigma Force to extract a Russian pharmaceutical magnate, who holds the biological key to a new weapons system, from Siberia, former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane must solve an ancient mystery before the modern world suffers a fate worse than death.
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