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Gull and Bones
by Sally Goldenbaum
A beloved Sea Harbor fixture, Angus McPherron is about to turn 100, and the whole town is preparing a heartfelt celebration of his life and stories. When Angus is found dead in his sleep the day before the party, the town decides to honor him anyway—until his closest friend is discovered badly injured in Angus’s cottage. What first seemed like a peaceful passing quickly turns into a murder investigation, casting a dark shadow over the celebration.
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Inside Man: A Head Cases Novel
by John McMahon
FBI agent Gardner Camden leads the elite Patterns and Recognition unit, a team of brilliant misfits who solve cases others can’t. While investigating a militia group, the team’s informant is murdered—only to reveal a deeper mystery involving an unidentified man linked to an unsolved series of buried bodies in Florida. As PAR pursues a possible serial killer and a growing terrorist threat at the same time, the case escalates dangerously, testing whether a unit built to solve puzzles can succeed when there are few clues and no clear answers.
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Murder at the Scottish Games
by Traci Hall
As the Highland Games descend on the seaside town of Nairn, shop owner and single mom Paislee Shaw finds her carefully balanced life in chaos. When a competitor is accused of cheating and his father is soon found murdered, Paislee teams up with DI Zeffer to investigate. Amidst rivalries, small-town scandals, and the colorful world of the Games, Paislee must untangle a web of suspects to catch a killer before the competition turns deadly again.
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The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum
by Valerie Wilson Wesley
In 1926 Harlem, independent Black intellectual Harriet Stone and her biracial foster daughter Lovey seek a fresh start amid the energy of the Harlem Renaissance. Their new life shatters when Harriet’s cousin, who runs a boardinghouse on Striver’s Row, is found murdered. As Harriet investigates the crime, she uncovers secrets about her cousin’s identity and becomes entangled with a group of strangers—one of whom becomes an unexpected ally—while realizing that both her future and her safety are at stake.
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The Murder at World's End
by Ross Montgomery
In 1910 Cornwall, a paranoid viscount seals his isolated manor in preparation for the apocalypse—only to be found murdered in a locked study. Suspicion falls on Stephen Pike, a newly hired under-butler with a troubled past, who teams up with the sharp-tongued, fearless octogenarian matriarch Decima Stockingham. As the unlikely pair investigate, they uncover hidden passages, long-held grudges, and deadly secrets within the sealed house to expose the true killer.
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The Botanist's Assistant
by Peggy Townsend
Margaret Finch knows that when she turns fifty-one, the day won't be celebrated. Like every other day, she will follow the same meticulous routine that she's had for the past ten years as Research Assistant II for Roosevelt University's brilliant professor of botany, Dr. Jonathan Deaver. No surprises. But as it turns out, she couldn't be more wrong. On the morning of her fifty-first birthday, Margaret finds her boss lying dead in his office, a pool of blood around his once-handsome head. That day of all days marks quite the dramatic shift in her otherwise mundane life. At the time of his death, Professor Deaver was on the cusp of a discovery that could bring a new treatment for lung cancer. As expected, his death shakes the tight-knit community of academics, but the coroner rules it to have been caused by a genetic heart defect. Margaret, however, isn't so sure--
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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
by Sophie Hannah
The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out--I'm afraid there's been an incident. For Sally Lambert, those words mean only one thing--danger. Not just for her family, but for Champ, their loyal and beloved dog. A single accusation, a neighbor's grudge, and suddenly the Lamberts are trapped in a nightmare with no escape. Unless they make one. Most people would never run. Most people would never leave behind everything they know to protect an animal who can't defend himself. But for Sally, Champ is more than a dog--he's one of her children. And most people aren't the Lamberts. No one has ever done this before. No one has ever gone this far. But the Lamberts have never been quite like any other family--
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The Red Scare Murders
by Con Lehane
July 1950. Mick Mulligan has just hung out his shingle as a private investigator in New York's sweaty Hell's Kitchen. A former Hollywood cartoonist whose life fell apart when he was blacklisted during a communist witch hunt, Mick is broke, divorced, and in need of a paying gig to make his child support payments. But maybe not this gig. ... Last year, universally reviled cab company owner Irwin Johnson was murdered. One of his drivers, an African American Communist Party member named Harold Williams, was arrested, tried, and found guilty, despite scant evidence. Now his execution date is two weeks away. No one has come out to fight the miscarriage of justice--not the liberals, not the unions, not the Communists. New York City labor leader Duke Rogowski asks Mick to make one last effort on Harold's behalf: can he find fresh evidence that might buy Harold a stay of execution?--
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