Celebrate Middle Eastern and North African (MENA)/Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Heritage Month in April |
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Picture in the Sand
by Peter Blauner
To save his teenaged grandson, Alex, who has run off to Syria to become a holy warrior, Ali Hassan, an Egyptian-American businessman, reveals a secret past of activism and heartbreak to Alex through a series of letters recounting his involvement in events that changed the course of history.
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Casablanca Story
by In Koli Jean Bofane
One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges. In The Belles of Casablanca, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction.
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East Jerusalem Noir
by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara
East Jerusalem's thorny politics run through each of the thirteen stories comprising this sturdy entry in Akashic's long-running regional noir series, which is being published simultaneously with West Jerusalem Noir . . . Written with passion and empathy, the volume's strength lies in giving voice to the varied experiences of Palestinians who live, work, and write in one of the world's most complicated cities. It's a fascinating glimpse of life under occupation.
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Blessed Water
by Margot Douaihy
A tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by god to find the killer after discovering a dead priest in the second novel of the series following Scorched Grace.
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West Jerusalem Noir
by Maayan Eitan
Fifteen tales that capture the magic and mystery of everyday life in West Jerusalem, which has been the main area of Jewish population from the time of Israeli independence in 1948 . . . Whether these stories are peopled by soldiers, students, children, and parents, they keep asking, 'Who belongs in Jerusalem?' and its corollary, 'Who does Jerusalem belong to?'-the central questions of this volume, which handles them with heartfelt sensitivity.
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On Her Own
by Lihi Lapid
In a novel set between the eve of Passover and Israel's Independence Day a tense story about two families looking for redemption, the transformative bonds between strangers and the unexpected places from which love can grow.
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Out of the Far North
by Amir Tsarfati
Israel discovers that Russia is secretly planning an attack against it-but has no idea when and how. In the race to prevent a devastating conflict, will Mossad agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux be able to outwit their enemies-or will their actions have catastrophic consequences?
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| The Nubian's Curse by Barbara HamblyIn 1840 New Orleans, free Black musician and sleuth Benjamin January is playing at a Christmas ball when he sees a French noblewoman he knew 16 years ago in Paris. That leads him to investigate an old murder in this evocative 20th in a popular series, which will be enjoyed by both fans and newcomers. Read-alikes: Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries; Lyndsay Faye's The Gods of Gotham. |
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| Of Hoaxes and Homicide by Anastasia HastingsIn Victorian London, Violet Manville, who secretly pens the Miss Hermoine advice column, receives a letter from a worried mother whose daughter has joined a cult. So Violet pretends an interest in the group to gain access...and then a murder occurs. This witty sequel to Of Manners and Murder is a fun choice for fans of Dianne Freeman's Countess of Harleigh novels or Mary Winters' Lady of Letters mysteries. |
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| California Bear by Duane SwierczynskiThe Bear, a serial killer in hibernation for decades, is stirring due to an investigation by an ex-cop and an ex-con that also includes a teen girl detective with cancer and a genealogist in a troubled marriage. For fans of: Michael Connelly; She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper. |
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| Village in the Dark by Iris YamashitaThis atmospheric, fast-paced crime novel is narrated by three Alaskan women: former police detective Cara, who learns her husband and young son, whom she thought had died accidentally, were likely murdered; Ellie, a grief-stricken hotel owner; and Mia, a young Indigenous woman in danger. Though this is a sequel to City Under One Roof, readers can start here. |
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Cozy Mystery Recent Releases |
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Rhythm and Clues
by Olivia Blacke
Mass Market Paperback Original
Spin into danger: When a predatory investor is killed outside their shop during a violent storm, the Jessup sisters, owners of Sip & Spin Records, are trapped in town with a killer, and when the river spits out an unexpected surprise, Detective Beau Russell asks them for help, bringing them face-to-face with danger.
Series note: This is the 3rd installment in the Record Shop Mystery series.
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In Sunshine or in Shadow
by Rhys Bowen
Motive for murder? With summer and typhoid descending, an expectant Molly Murphy Sullivan leaves 1908 Manhattan for her mother-in-law's home in lowkey Westchester County. She soon breaks the monotony by visiting friends in a Catskills artists' colony, where a dead body inevitably pops up.
Series alert: This is the 20th title in the long running Molly Murphy mystery series.
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The Witless Protection Program
by Maria DiRico
Mass Market Paperback Original
An untimely return- When she sees her philandering husband, who is supposed to be dead, at a huge wedding expo in Manhattan, Mia calls an emergency meeting with the family—and the Family because if he's alive, she's still married and may never be free to marry Shane—or anyone else.
Series alert: This is the 5th title in the Catering Hall mystery series.
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A Grave Robbery
by Deanna Raybourn
Clues come to light: Veronica and Stoke investigate after the purchase of a beautiful wax figure by Lord Rosemorran turns out to be the perfectly preserved body of a real young woman, in the ninth novel of the series following A Sinister Revenge.
Series note: This is the 9th Veronica Speedwell mystery.
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Murder Marks the Page
by Karen Rose Smith
Uncovering a killer: The first in a new series spun off from the Daisy Tea Garden Mysteries, Daisy's daughter Jazzi Swanson has opened her own book and tea shop, Tomes & Tea, providing a variety of literature and flavored beverages for a rural New York community. But Jazzi has not only inherited her mother's gift for brewing tasty drinks-she also has a nose for sniffing out murder.
Series note: Tomes & Tea mystery, book #1
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