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Mystery March 2023 Monday Mysteries Book Club Monday, April 3 at 4 p.m. Our April Mystery is: |
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Elementary, she read
by Vicki Delany
When Gemma Doyleowner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, as well as Moriarty the catfinds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room), set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body. 40,000 first printing.
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| Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson1986: The Swedish prime minister is assassinated, stunning the country. On the same night, a serial killer murders his first victim, and police detective Sven Jörgensson investigates for years without success.
2019: Moth, a successful novelist, moves to a small town and connects with Evy, Sven's former police partner and lover, and Vidar, Sven's son who grew up to be a cop. The more Moth learns from them, the more he becomes obsessed with the cold case.
Reviewers say: "The plot unfolds slowly but masterfully...a brainy page-turner from a rising star" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Decent People by De'Shawn Charles WinslowWhat's inside: This evocative follow-up to the author's literary debut, In West Mills, takes place in the same North Carolina town, but this time, the character-driven plot revolves around a terrible crime.
A triple murder: In 1976, a wealthy Black doctor and her two siblings are shot in their family home. Their half brother is a prime suspect and everyone in town is talking, so his fiancée, newly retired and home after years in New York City, digs into the case, picking at town secrets.
Reviewers say: "propulsive...a murder mystery that doubles as a savvy examination of race and class" (Los Angeles Times).
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Every man a king
by Walter Mosley
NYPD investigator Joe King Oliver is tested when asked by his billionaire friend to defend a White nationalist who has been accused of murder, in the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Down the River Unto the Sea. 100,000 first printing.
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| Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin StevensonThe setup: Ernie, a self-published author of crime writing guidebooks, ponders mystery writing and promises to be a "reliable narrator."
Family reunion: Ernie describes a tense family vacation with his family, who are said to have all killed someone -- then a stranger is found dead in the snow at their Australian ski resort. With the weather preventing anyone from going anywhere, Ernie tries to solve the case.
Read this next: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, another darkly humorous meta-mystery starring a writer. |
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| Exiles by Jane HarperVacation, interrupted: In Southern Australia's wine country, Federal Agent Aaron Falk gets drawn into the case of a woman who disappeared a year earlier from a festival, leaving her sleeping infant in a parked stroller.
Series alert: This 3rd Aaron Falk novel follows acclaimed earlier entries The Dry (adapted into a 2021 film starring Eric Bana) and Force of Nature (a movie is in production and due out later this year).
Read this next: Tana French's The Searcher, starring a detective who's just moved to an Irish village and is pulled into a missing person's case, or Candice Fox's atmospheric Australia-set Crimson Lake crime novels. |
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The golden spoon : a novel
by Jessa Maxwell
"When production for the tenth season of the hit cooking competition Bake Week begins at the gothic estate of the show's host and founder, celebrity chef Betsy Martin, everything seems normal. The six contestants are eager to prove their culinary talentsover the course of five days, while Betsy struggles for control of the show with her new co-host, the brash and unpredictable Archie Morris. But as the baking competition gets under way, things begin to go awry. At first it's merely sabotage-sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned to high-but then someone shows up dead and suddenly everyone's a suspect"
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The kind worth saving : a novel
by Peter Swanson
When a troubled woman from his past wants proof her husband is cheating, this simple case of infidelity turns into a murder investigation, forcing PI Henry Kimball to go back to one of the worst days of his life to uncover the truth. 100,000 first printing.
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Murder at Haven's Rock
by Kelley Armstrong
Deep in the Yukon wilderness, in a place built for people to disappear where there is only one rule??stay out of the forest??Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are called in to investigate the murder of the towns construction crew members who broke it. 50,000 first printing.
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Playing dead
by Peggy Rothschild
Former PI Molly Madison must put her ex-police skills to good use when a dog trainers body is found onsite at the Playtime Academy facility and must collar the real killer when her friend is arrested for the crime. 30,000 first printing.
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A sinister revenge : a Veronica Speedwell mystery
by Deanna Raybourn
After receiving a cryptic, but threatening letter, Lord Templeton-Vane invites Veronica and her beau, Stoker, to a dinner party to help lure out the criminal, in the eighth novel of the series following A Sinister Revenge.
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