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"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below." ~ John McCrae (1872-1918), Canadian poet, physician, and soldier, "In Flanders Fields"
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| Bred in the Bone: A Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod Novel by Christopher BrookmyreMystery. In Glasgow, Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod investigates the murder of a middle-aged gangster at a car wash on his birthday. Meanwhile, young private investigator Jasmine Sharpe finds her life enmeshed with that of the man who killed her father before she was even born. Readers who enjoy gritty, atmospheric crime novels set in Scotland, such as those by Stuart MacBride, Ian Rankin, and Denise Mina, should pick up this darkly humorous novel that's peppered with Scottish slang. Titled Flesh Wounds in the U.K., Bred in the Bone is the 3rd in a series that starts with Where the Bodies Are Buried. |
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| The Hollow Girl: A Moe Prager Mystery by Reed Farrel ColemanMystery. Former cop and current Brooklyn PI Moe Prager is drinking himself to death. Just when things were going right, the accidental death of his fiancée, shook him up, and he can't seem to recover. But hope appears in the form of a woman he met on his first case as a PI, who wants him to find her troubled 30-year-old daughter, Sloane. Sloane, a performance artist who gained fame a decade earlier after faking suicide online, has disappeared, and a body that's not hers has been found in her apartment. Sloane finally shows up -- online -- but she's bound and gagged in what could either be "art" or a life-threatening situation. This is being called the final book in the series, but not to worry, Moe's "story is wrapped up perfectly" (Booklist, starred review). Newcomers looking for a well-written, compelling, and noirish mystery can start with this 9th entry, but for the best experience, pick up the 1st book, Walking the Perfect Square, and proceed from there. |
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| Invisible City: A Novel by Julia DahlMystery. Narrated by immensely likable Rebekah Roberts, who works as a rookie stringer for the New York Tribune, this fantastic debut novel examines crime in a closed community. While covering the murder of a Hasidic woman -- who because of religious laws may be buried without an autopsy -- Rebekah wonders if the killer will get away with his crime since little evidence is being gathered by the cops. And she also wonders if she'll run into her own Hasidic mother, who left her Christian father and her when she was a baby in order to return to this Brooklyn community. With her heritage gaining her limited entry into an insular world rife with secrets, Rebekah faces obstacles and danger as she doggedly seeks the truth. |
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| Bone Dust White: A Novel by Karin SalvalaggioMystery. Not yet 18, sickly Grace Adams has lived with her aunt since her mother, Leanne, disappeared from northern Montana 11 years ago (the police suspected Leanne was somehow involved in a sex trafficking ring). While home alone recovering from a heart transplant, Grace sees a man stab a woman to death on a forest trail behind her rural home. She calls 911 and goes out in the bone-chilling cold to find the woman...who turns out to be her missing mother. Having worked the original case, state police detective Macy Greeley -- who's unmarried and eight months pregnant -- is assigned to sort it all out, but to do so, she'll have to deal with a former lover, meth addicts, suspicious locals, and a ruthless killer. Fans of author Julia Keller who are looking for other gripping mysteries featuring well-drawn characters should check out this accomplished first novel. |
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| Murder in Murray Hill: A Gaslight Mystery by Victoria ThompsonHistorical Mystery. An inheritance changes the life of late-19th-century New York City Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy. For one thing, he knows wealthy men aren't welcome to work as cops (he's right: he's fired as soon as his boss finds out). For another, he can finally marry widowed midwife Sarah Brandt. But before the two can combine households, they join forces to solve Frank's last police case: a young spinster is missing after responding to a “lonely hearts” newspaper ad. This intense 16th entry in the Gaslight Mysteries should please those who enjoy richly detailed mysteries set in old New York, such as Rhys Bowen's Molly Murphy books or Caleb Carr's The Alienist. |
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| No Graves As Yet: A Novel of World War I by Anne PerryHistorical Mystery. As war brews in 1914 Europe, it's a beautiful June afternoon in Cambridge when professor Joseph Reavley learns that his beloved parents have died in an automobile accident. But all is not as it appears: his father, a former MP, was delivering an important paper containing secrets that could "ruin England" to Joseph's younger brother, a member of the Secret Intelligence Service. As the brothers wrap up their parents' affairs, they find evidence of murder. Before long, one of Joseph's most gifted students also dies, and the brothers investigate further. Taking place against the backdrop of World War I's beginnings, this is the 1st in a series of five books that combine mystery and espionage. |
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| He Shall Thunder in the Sky: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth PetersHistorical Mystery. Tense about the impending arrival of war during the winter of 1914-15, British-occupied Egypt is under martial law and no one knows whom to trust. But that doesn't keep the Emerson family from continuing their archaeological work. In addition, son Ramses voices his pacifist views (and receives white feathers symbolizing cowardice from ladies) and adopted daughter Nefret runs a Cairo medical clinic for fallen women -- but there's more going on with both of them than first appears. To top it all off, the family's dangerous nemesis, Sethos, may be at work again. This 14th Amelia Peabody mystery, like others in the series, features a complex plot balanced by romance, humor, witty dialogue, and plenty of adventure. Readers who want to watch characters and relationships develop should start with Crocodile on the Sandbank. |
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| Blackstone and the Great War: An Inspector Sam Blackstone Mystery by Sally SpencerHistorical Mystery. After a titled fellow soldier from the Second Afghan War contacts him after 30 years, Scotland Yard Inspector Sam Blackstone quickly finds himself landing in Calais, France, headed to the Western Front, surrounded by boys less than half his age. There to investigate the murder of the old British General's grandson, what Blackstone finds is that many possible suspects and witnesses have been killed in battle, that upper-class officers are prejudiced against the lower-class soldiers, and that trench warfare is horrific. If he is to gain justice for the murdered man, Blackstone will have to face bullets, deceit, and more in this smart, twisty whodunit. |
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| An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles ToddHistorical Mystery. In the summer of 1917, British nurse Bess Crawford accompanies a group of badly wounded soldiers home from the battlefields in France. She recognizes the wife of one of them (he always kept her photo pinned to his tunic) at a London train station -- but the distraught woman is clinging to another soldier. Bess later learns that the woman has been murdered, and she finds herself hunting her killer, especially once the police arrest a soldier she believes to be innocent. An Impartial Witness is the atmospheric 2nd in a series; the 6th, An Unwilling Accomplice, comes out in August. Readers interested in what life was like for solders post-war should pick up the author's Inspector Ian Rutledge novels. Those who'd like to read about strong, independent women like Bess after the war should try Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mysteries about a wartime nurse turned PI. |
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