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Mystery March 2024 Monday Mysteries Book Club Monday, April 1 at 4 pm Join us to discuss:
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Secret lives by Mark De Castrique"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse. With no one to trust but each other, these double-first-cousins-twice-removed form an unlikely bond, and learn that the only thing truly worth risking your life for is family"
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Blessed water
by Margot Douaihy
A tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by god to find the killer after discovering a dead priest in the second novel of the series following Scorched Grace. 100,000 first printing.
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| California Bear by Duane SwierczynskiThe Bear, a serial killer in hibernation for decades, is stirring due to an investigation by an ex-cop and an ex-con in this "tour de force" (Publishers Weekly) that also includes a teen girl detective with cancer and a genealogist in a troubled marriage. For fans of: Michael Connelly; She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper. |
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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A Midnight Puzzle
by Gigi Pandian
After a former client blames his wife's death on Tempest Raj's Secret Staircase Construction company, he winds up dead, and Tempest is on the case.
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| Village in the Dark by Iris YamashitaThis atmospheric, fast-paced crime novel is narrated by three Alaskan women: former police detective Cara, who learns her husband and young son, whom she thought had died accidentally, were likely murdered; Ellie, a grief-stricken hotel owner; and Mia, a young Indigenous woman in danger. Though this is a sequel to City Under One Roof, readers can start here. |
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Kala : a novel
by Colin Walsh
Three friends reunite in their Irish seaside hometown 20 years after their friend Kala disappeared and are forced to confront their own complicity in her fate and the town's secrets as new disappearances are reported and human remains are discovered.
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| Missing, Presumed by Susie SteinerSmart, single (but lonely and looking) DS Manon Bradshaw stars in this intricate police procedural and series starter that details the high-profile case of a missing Cambridge graduate student. Meanwhile, Manon also looks into the death of a Black teen and tries to help his younger brother. Tana French fans will like the authentic characters, engaging story, and the interplay of the personal and professional. |
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| Still Life by Val McDermidIn 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. Meanwhile, the killer of her true love gets out of prison and COVID-19 hits. Fans of Tana French will enjoy the complex characters and deft writing in this 6th in a series (which is fine for newcomers). |
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Sweet little lies : a novel
by Caz Frear
A London policewoman from a troubled family is forced to investigate dark secrets in her estranged father's past to solve the murder of a young housewife and the disappearance of a teen girl years earlier. 75,000 first printing.
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The vows of silence : a Simon Serrailler mystery
by Susan Hill
Chief Inspector Serrailler investigates a seemingly random series of murders targeting young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton, cases he is certain are related in spite of their varying methods. By the author of The Various Haunts of Men.
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