Cardington-Lincoln Public Library

Mystery
August 2025
Now available on our shelves or on Libby
Death at the White Hart
by Chris Chibnall

Leaving Liverpool for her sleepy coastal hometown, DS Nicola Bridge plans to work less and save her marriage. But when the local pub owner is tied to a chair, killed, and left in the road, Nicola puts in long hours with her new team to solve the case. This "spectacular" (Library Journal) debut by the creator of TV's Broadchurch features well-drawn characters and will please fans of Ann Cleeves. 
Welcome to Murder Week
by Karen Dukess

After her estranged mother's sudden death, Cath Little is surprised to find pre-paid tickets to an English village murder mystery week meant for the two of them. Curious, Cath flies over alone, where she teams up with two other Americans to solve the fake killing, meets a handsome local, and tries to figure out what her mysterious mom was up to. For fans of: romantic mystery novels; murder-less mysteries.
Solid gold murder
by Ellen Byron

When the discovery of gold turns her struggling motel into a viral tourist hotspot, ex-sitcom writer Dee Stern must navigate eccentric guests, tech millionaires, and a suspicious death in the mines to save her business and clear her name.
The art of a lie : a novel
by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

After her husband is murdered, Hannah Cole fights to save her struggling confectionary shop on Piccadilly, contends with suspicion from magistrate Henry Fielding, and finds an unlikely ally in William Devereux, whose introduction of iced cream sparks both opportunity and peril in eighteenth-century London.
The Busybody Book Club
by Freya Sampson

In a Cornish village, newcomer Nova Davies starts a small book club, which isn't much of a success. But after a theft threatens the future of the community center where the group meets, the club members, who vary widely in age and reading tastes, come together to play sleuth...and then a murder occurs. For fans of: Richard Osman; Robert Thorogood.
The red queen
by Martha Grimes

When a businessman is gunned down in a quiet Twickenham pub, superintendent Richard Jury uncovers a web of conflicting accounts, a mysterious lookalike in America, and a parallel case involving his partner's missing sister that soon complicates both investigations in unexpected ways.
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