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| The Antiquities Hunter: A Gina Miyoko Mystery by Maya Kaathryn BohnhoffIntroducing: Gina Miyoko, a petite San Francisco Bay area PI with a Russian American mother obsessed with good luck charms and a Japanese American father who loves Sherlock Holmes.
What it's about: When Gina's best friend, a National Park Service agent preparing to testify in a stolen artifacts case, is stalked, Gina investigates and ends up in Mexico posing as a wealthy femme fatale.
Is it for you? Try this 1st in a new series if you’re looking for an action-packed mystery with a tough, clever heroine (like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone), a diverse cast, and plenty of archaeological details. |
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| The Accident on the A35: An Inspector Gorski Investigation by Graeme Macrae BurnetWhat it is: This sequel to The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau is an atmospheric literary mystery with noir elements as well as a Georges Simenon pastiche with a bit of metafiction tossed in.
What happens: A car accident leaves a local lawyer dead, and as a favor to his beautiful widow, provincial French police detective Georges Gorski investigates. Meanwhile, the dead man's Sartre-reading 17-year-old son finds an address on a scrap of paper that leads to his own questions about his father. |
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| Overkilt by Kaitlyn DunnettWhat it is: a delightful cozy mystery that combines small-town Maine charm with social issues and takes place during the holidays.
What happens: The leader of a small religious cult carries a strange grudge against Liss MacCrimmon's Scottish Emporium, her father-in-law's hotel, and other local business. After the group pickets and harasses Liss and others, a murder occurs.
For fans of: This 12th outing for Liss will please fans of Donna Andrew's Meg Langslow mysteries especially those who don't mind less zaniness. |
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| The Shadows We Hide by Allen EskensStarring: young Minneapolis reporter Joe Talbert, who lives with his law-student girlfriend and his autistic younger brother.
What happens: Joe is sued by a senator for defamation of character and put on leave, so he has time to check things out when he learns about the nearby murder of a much-disliked man...who may be the father Joe never knew.
Read this next: If you like this sequel to The Life We Bury, and want similar novels, check out Allen Eskens' mysteries starring detective Max Rupert, who appeared with Joe in The Life We Bury. |
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| The Line by Martin LimónFeaturing: persistent, tough 8th Army CID agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom in their 13th outing.
What happens: In the 1970s Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea, a South Korean soldier assisting the U.S. Army is found murdered, lying on the countries' dividing line, igniting tensions.
Reviewers say: "One of the most powerful episodes in an always-strong series" (Booklist)
Read this next: James Church's Inspector O series, set in North Korea. |
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The contract
by Jeff Gulvin
Texas Ranger John Q travels to New Orleans to investigate a string of murders, police corruption, and a missing singer
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The Holdouts
by James Tucker
"A Long Island fishing crew makes a horrific catch: the bodies of an Asian couple dragged up with the trawl from the Atlantic. Homicide cop Buddy Lock knows there isn't a chance in hell that this is some tragic accident. But as soon as his investigation begins, so do the warnings to back off. They're not only coming from within the NYPD; they're hitting close to Buddy's heart: his new family has become the killer's target. When people start disappearing from Chinatown, Buddy finds himself on the trail of a killer whose motives are more twisting and far-reaching than the detective imagined. A killer who knows just how to get to him by pursuing everyone he loves. Now Buddy can trust only himself even as his relentless pursuit of justice plunges him into the most brutal waters of his career"
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The Hour of Death
by Jane Willan
"Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president's death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent's peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with making the abbey's world-renowned organic gouda, is not shy about inserting herself into the case. With the not-entirely-eager assistance of Father Selwyn, she begins her investigation. Sister Agatha has no shortage of suspects to check off her naughty-or-nice list, until finally, Tiffany's half-brother, Kendrick Geddings, emerges as the prime suspect. There never was any love lost between Tiffany and Kendrick, and of late they had been locked in a vicious battle for control of the family estate. But if Sister Agatha thinks she has the case wrapped up, she'll have to think again."
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Eighteen below : a Fabian Risk novel
by Stefan Ahnhem
When a police chase in Helsingborg ends in the death of a tech entrepreneur, Fabian Risk and his team make a bizarre discovery about the victim's demise before the case is further complicated by other strange murders.
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Murder on Millionaires' Row
by Erin Lindsey
A housemaid from Five Points who works in a ritzy Fifth Avenue brownstone during the Gilded Age of Manhattan takes it upon herself to investigate after her employer, who she is certain is in trouble, suddenly and mysteriously disappears.
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Murder at the mill : a mystery
by M. B Shaw
Renting a cottage in a picturesque Hampshire village to escape her crumbling marriage, Iris Grey is commissioned to paint the portrait of a celebrated crime writer before a tension-filled Christmas Eve party is thrown into turmoil by an untimely death.
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| By Book or by Crook by Eva GatesWhat it is: the 1st in a charming cozy mystery series set in a lighthouse library in North Carolina's Outer Banks, complete with a library cat.
Introducing: young assistant librarian Lucy Richardson, a Jane Austen fan, who's left her Harvard job and family to strike out on her own.
What happens: Happy to get away from her well-to-do family's expectations, Lucy loves her new job, especially since there's a new Jane Austen exhibit, but library politics, a murder, and a missing Jane Austen book mean she may not have it for long. |
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Jane and the Waterloo map
by Stephanie Barron
"November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraordinaire, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to tour Carlton House, the Prince's fabulous London home. Clarke is a fan of Jane's books, and during the tour he suggests she dedicate her next novel Emma to HRH, whom she despises. However, before she can speak to HRH, Jane stumbles upon a body sprawled on the carpet in (where else?) the Regent's library. The dying man, Colonel MacFarland, was a cavalry hero and a friend of Wellington's. He utters a single failing phrase: "Waterloo map" and Jane is on the hunt for a treasure of incalculable value and a killer of considerable cunning"
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The missing manuscript of Jane Austen
by Syrie James
Discovering a letter written by Jane Austen inside of a centuries-old book, a delighted Samantha McDonough investigates the letter's suggestions about a possible undiscovered Austen manuscript and searches the historical home of handsome-yet-stern Anthony Whitaker, with whom she explores truths about life and love. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Arsenic with Austen
by Katherine Bolger Hyde
Cozy Mystery. After her dear aunt dies, leaving her millions in cash and property, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh returns to the charming seaside village of Stony Beach, Oregon. She spent many youthful summers with her aunt there -- and fell in love with Luke Richards (whom she hasn't seen in 30 years). When Emily discovers that her aunt may have been murdered, Luke, now a local Sheriff's Lieutenant, investigates, and Emily reads Jane Austen's Persuasion, finding that the book sheds light on her beloved aunt's killing. This well-written 1st volume in a lighthearted new series combining mysteries with classic novels (and a dash of romance) is set to be followed by Bloodstains with Brontë.
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