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Bury our bones in the midnight soil
by Victoria Schwab
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
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| The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers with Alex KiesterHaunted by her sister's unexplained disappearance seven years ago, 24-year-old Nicole "Nic" Monroe lives with her grief-stricken dad in her Indiana hometown and struggles to move forward. When Jenna Connor, whose sister vanished in similar circumstances, asks Nic to team up, they risk everything to uncover the truth in this fast-paced debut by "Crime Junkie" podcaster Ashley Flowers. Try this next: Julia Heaberlin's Night Will Find You; Jessica Strawser's Catch You Later. |
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The red queen
by Martha Grimes
"A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle). One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life-from his widow, Alice, to the staffat his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partnerat New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric, and fueled by Richard Jury's talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called "delightful, surprising, even magical" (Washington Post)"
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| Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura LippmanAfter winning the lottery, 68-year-old widow Mrs. Blossom goes on her first international trip, which finds her facing deceptive fellow travelers and a deadly mystery. Using skills she learned from working for PI Tess Monaghan, Mrs. Blossom sets things right while seeing Paris and going on a European river cruise. This cozyish tale by bestselling author Laura Lippman will interest fans of Nicholas George's A Deadly Walk in Devon. |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Introducing: 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison who lives in a small English village.
Summer 1950: Flavia spends her time tinkering in the old chemistry lab in her family's rundown manor house and plotting revenge on her annoying older sisters. But when a dying man is found in the cucumber patch and her father is named a murder suspect, she turns detective.
Series alert: If you enjoy this most charming of series debuts, which is sure to please fans of traditional mysteries, there are nine more novels.
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The Thursday murder club
by Richard Osman
Meeting weekly in their retirement village’s Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case.
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Still Life
by Val McDermid
What it's about: In February 2020, DCI Karen Pirie, head of Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, investigates two cold cases and deals with skeletal remains, art forgery, secret identities, and more. Also, the killer of her true love gets out of prison, and near the novel's end, COVID-19 hits.
Series alert: Peppered with Scottish words, this entertaining 6th Karen Pirie mystery has complex characters and deft writing.
Try this next: Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope novels, Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series, or Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books.
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The Dark Hours
by Amy Jordan
In this gripping dual timeline debut, retired Garda detective Julia Harte is relieved to hear the serial killer she put away in 1994 has died. Then she learns that a copycat crime has occurred in Cork and she's needed on the disturbing case, forcing her to leave her rural home behind and face old demons. For other crime novels set in Ireland, try Tana French's Dublin Police Squad series or Dervla McTiernan's Cormac Reilly books.
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