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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November
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The Red Chesterfield
by Wayne Arthurson
Who owns that red chesterfield?: M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a running shoe-and a severed foot. Now M is involved in a murder investigation and must navigate a world of Russian gangsters and neglected wives, biker gangs and suspicious coincidences. On top of everything else, M is determined to track down the owner of that red chesterfield and make sure they get a ticket.notation.
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DreadfulWater Shows Up
by Hartley GoodWeather
From award-winning literary author Thomas King (a.k.a. Hartley GoodWeather): Leaving his career as a police officer to pursue photography on Chinook reservation, Thumps DreadfulWater reluctantly becomes involved in a murder investigation at the site of a new luxury condo resort.
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Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch
by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
A Sadie Walela Mystery: The fourth cozy mystery featuring Cherokee sleuth Sadie Walela features murder, intrigue, and romance. When Sadie Walela learns that her new neighbor in Cherokee Country, Angus Clyborn's Buffalo Ranch, offers rich customers a chance to kill buffalo for fun, she is horrified. No good can surely come from this. It doesn't, and murder soon follows.
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No Fixed Line
by Dana Stabenow
A Kate Shugak Series: When a New Year’s Eve blizzard blocks access to the site of a plane crash in the Quilak mountains, former trooper Jim Chopin struggles to rescue two child survivors, before Kate Shugak receives an unwelcome accusation from beyond the grave.
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| Howloween Murder by Laurien BerensonStarring: Melanie Travis, who raises show dogs and works with struggling students as a tutor at a Connecticut private academy.
What happens: The school's elderly secretary is accused of poisoning a homemade marshmallow puff that killed a neighbor, so Melanie seeks the real murderer as Halloween nears.
Series alert: This lighthearted 26th in a popular cozy series features a cast of likeable characters (human and canine) and deft plotting. |
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| And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell HallWhat it's about: After years doing research at a firm, 39-year-old African American Grayson Sykes has her first solo job as a PI for the group.
The case: A doctor's girlfriend has been missing for weeks and the cops think she left of her own accord. Now, Gray, who has secrets and troubles of her own, must find the truth. But it's all more complicated than it first appears...and that's before Gray's past catches up with her.
Read it for: the captivating characters; the wry humor; the atmospheric setting; the suspenseful, twisty plot. |
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| In a Midnight Wood by Ellen HartWhat happens: Attending an arts festival in the small town of Castle Lake, Minnesota, 53-year-old restaurateur and true crime podcast host Jane Lawless and her best friend Cordelia Thorn investigate after the bones of a long-missing teenager are unearthed in a local cemetery.
Read it for: personable characters; an intricate plot; chapters that alternate between the time of the murder and the present day.
Series alert: Though this is the 27th entry in the award-winning Jane Lawless mysteries, newcomers can start here. |
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| The Finisher by Peter LoveseyThe setup: Curmudgeonly police detective Peter Diamond of Bath, England is working crowd control during a springtime half marathon when he spots a violent criminal he put away years ago.
What happens: A female runner goes missing, and Diamond and his team investigate, even searching the parts of the ancient city that are underground, in a case that might involve human trafficking.
Series alert: This is the atmospheric, intricate 19th Peter Diamond mystery by octogenarian Peter Lovesey, who published his first mystery (starring Victorian London's Sergeant Cribb) 50 years ago. |
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| The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanWhat it's about: When a contractor at an English luxury retirement village is murdered, four members of its crime club try to crack the case.
Reviewers say: "British TV celebrity [Richard] Osman mixes mirth and murder in his exceptional debut" (Publishers Weekly); "A top-class cozy infused with dry wit and charming characters" (Kirkus Reviews).
Read this next: If you like witty, unorthodox British police detectives, try Christopher Fowler’s delightful Bryant & May books; for short stories involving a mystery-solving group, grab Agatha Christie's Tuesday Night Club. |
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| A Deception at Thornecrest by Ashley Weaver1934 England: Heavily pregnant Amory Ames is at her Kent Country house when a nice young lady arrives...claiming to be married to Amory's handsome husband, Milo.
What happens: As Amory is dealing with one newcomer, another visitor appears in the village who upends the town and its Springtide Festival in a case involving secret identities, seduction, and murder.
Series alert: Like the earlier entries, this 7th in the Amory Ames series has a pleasing mystery, witty banter, and a dashing couple. |
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Dakota County Library
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