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One Death at a Time
by Abbi Waxman
After cranky ex-actress Julia Mann finds a dead body in her pool in Los Angeles, her Gen Z sobriety sponsor Natasha Mason is eager to clear Julia's name and help keep her sober, but all Julia wants is to be left alone.
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| The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron CurrieThings go seriously sideways for Babs Dionne, a grandmother and crime boss in small-town Maine, due to a death, a stranger's arrival, and power plays from rivals. So she unleashes her fierce determination to protect those she loves in this compelling, character-driven crime novel. For fans of: Dennis Lehane; Liz Moore's Long Bright River. |
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| Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. SutantoAt her tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, 60-something Vera Wong looks into the death of an enigmatic young influencer, a case her son's cop girlfriend is also working. Investigating the dead man's associates, Vera finds the situation more disturbing than she imagined. Following her Edgar Award-winning 1st outing, this 2nd Vera Wong novel works for fans of Mia P. Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen mysteries. |
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| Murder by Memory by Olivia WaiteOn a generation spaceship, human minds can be stored in the Library, allowing bodies to be replaced. After a murder, the ship awakens detective Dorothy Gentleman, placing her in an emergency body that has a connection to the victim. With help from her nephew and others, witty Dorothy narrates and investigates. For fans of: short novels; the Mossa and Pleiti Science Fiction mysteries by Malka Older. |
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Silent as the Grave
by Rhys Bowen
Molly Murphy Sullivan, juggling motherhood in 1900s New York, investigates deadly sabotage on a film set after her adopted daughter, Bridie, lands a starring role. She soon uncovers tensions between rival studios amidst the fledgling movie industry's dangerous experiments.
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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan CoePost-university life is unfulfilling for Phyl. Her situation changes when family friend Chris arrives, investigating a sinister think-tank aiming to influence British politics. As a new Prime Minister takes office, Chris's pursuit of the truth leads him to a conference where a murder investigation unfolds.
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Not Dead Yet by Jeffrey Siger"Wealthy Greek businessman Dimitris Onofrio is known to be corrupt to the core, but the police have never been able to make his crimes stick. Powerful, influential and extremely dangerous, Onofrio is not a man to cross, and every witness prepared to come forward against him has died before they could testify. So when Onofrio's private jet crashes, seemingly with no survivors, the police breathe a sigh of relief - quickly replaced by horror when Onofrio is found alive but catatonic on a remote Ionian beach, beside the body of his beloved wife. Was the crash an accident . . . or sabotage?"
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Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
by Deepa Anappara
In an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home.
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A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee
"Calcutta, 1919. In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official--in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else."
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Clark and Division by Naomi HiraharaTwenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they were detained after Pearl Harbor. They are resettling in Chicago, where Aki's sister, Rose, was already living. Tragically, on the eve of their reunion, Rose dies under suspicious circumstances that were ruled a suicide. Aki, who idolized her sister, believes there’s more to the story and is determined to uncover the truth.
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The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Original.
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