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No exit : a novel
by Taylor Adams
What happens: Returning home to visit her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne waits out a Colorado blizzard at a rest stop with four other stranded souls and is horrified to discover a little girl locked in an animal crate in the back of a parked van. With no cell reception allowing her to call for help, what can she do?
Why you might like it: A well written thriller with a lot of suspenseful twists. How does she save the child with minimal resources and no idea who the kidnapper is?
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The New Iberia blues
by James Lee Burke
What happens: Det. Dave Robicheaux is haunted by ghosts, both his own and the one behind the brutal tarot-card murders. Native son Desmond Cormier is back from Hollywood, shooting part of his movie in the local swamplands of Iberia Parish, where locals are suddenly being killed in unusual ways--victims wear charms to ward off bayou evil, and signs of black magic and religious crusades mark the crime scenes.
Why you might like it: No one paints a picture of life Louisiana bayou better than Burke.
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Never tell : a novel
by Lisa Gardner
What happens: While D. D. Warren investigates a pregnant woman's suspicious role in the murders of her father and husband, Flora draws on her own haunted past to identify an unsettling link to one of the victims.
Why you might like it: Book ten in the series will keep readers guessing.
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The girl in the glass box
by James Grippando
What happens: Miami attorney Jack Swytech lands in the heart of a contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who has fled to America to safeguard family lives.
Why you might like it: By the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
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The current
by Tim Johnston
What happens: When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl's survival, and the other's death--murder, actually--stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may yet live among them.
Why you might like it: The novel successfully depicts how people deal with grief.
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The wedding guest : an Alex Delaware novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
What happens: Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis investigate the morbidly staged murder of an unknown young woman at a run-down former strip joint during a raucous Saints and Sinners-themed wedding reception.
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The rule of law : a novel
by John T Lescroart
What happens: When Hardy's longtime secretary, Phyllis, leaves work one day with no explanation, appears to vanish into thin air, and then returns to the office as though nothing has happened, Dismas is pretty sure something unusual is going on. When Phyllis is arrested and charged as an accessory to murder, he knows there's trouble afoot.
Why you might like it: Lescroart's characters are well developed and his plots well planned out.
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The widows
by Jess Montgomery
What happens: Lily Ross's husband, Daniel, is killed in the line of duty as sheriff. The griefstricken Lily grapples with unanswered questions and her new duties as acting sheriff. Her sorrow is compounded by the
sudden appearance of Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner's widow, who shares a past with Daniel and whose daughter, Eula, is currently
missing.
Why you might like it: Inspired by the true story of Maude Collins, Ohio's first female sheriff,and prominent labor and community organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Montgomery's debut novel features two tough-as-nails, strong-willed women whose empathy leaves a lasting impression. (Library Journal)
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Liar, liar
by James Patterson
What happens: Detective Harriet Blue is a very good cop . . . gone very bad. In the space of a week, she has committed theft and
fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man,
Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet-and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly
speeds toward the dark side-and finally crosses it-Harriet won't stop until Regan pays for the many lives he has taken.
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| Hearts of the Missing by Carol PotenzaIntroducing: Sgt. Nicky Matthews of New Mexico's Tsiba’ashi D’yini Reservation police, who has supernatural visions but isn't Native.
What happens: Someone's killing locals and violating Native American spiritual laws in order to disturb the victims' eternal rest.
Awards buzz: This is a Tony Hillerman Prize-winning debut novel.
For fans of: Tony Hillerman, Anne Hillerman, Aimee and David Thurlo, and evocative mysteries that combine Native American traditions and modern science. |
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Verses for the dead
by Douglas J Preston
What happens: Forced to work with a partner after organizational changes at the FBI's New York field office, infamous maverick agent Pendergast teams up with junior agent Coldmoon on a grisly serial murder case on Miami Beach.
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The flimflam affair
by Bill Pronzini
What happens: Professor A. Vargas, self-styled medium extraordinaire, and his partner Annabelle, use guile and trickery to swindle bereaved men and women eager to contact the spirits of deceased loved ones. John and Sabina must not only unmask these charlatans, but also solve the riddle of an impossible murder in the midst of a séance. Other cases involve brute force and personal danger. Such as the theft of a burglarproof safe mysteriously emptied of gold bullion. And John's pursuit of a ruthless gang of counterfeiters, whose leader appears to be a man from John's past in the Secret Service--a man thought long dead.
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Connections in death : an Eve Dallas novel
by J. D. Robb
What happens: Helping to build a new school and youth shelter, homicide cop Eve Dallas and her husband enlist the aid of a child psychologist whose rehabilitated brother is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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| A Shot in the Dark: A Constable Twitten Mystery by Lynne TrussWhat it's about: In 1957, a theater critic ready to reveal new details about a bank robbery he witnessed years ago is killed, causing eager rookie Constable Twitten to investigate in this witty caper.
About the author: Lynne Truss wrote the bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves; this is her 1st mystery featuring Constable Twitten though he's also appeared on BBC Radio in Truss's Inspector Steine series. |
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| Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga WojtasWhat happens: Shona McMonagle, an Edinburgh librarian who learned languages, music, martial arts, etc. at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, becomes, at the behest of Miss Blaine, a time traveler in czarist Russia on a secret mission...only she doesn't know what the mission is.
Did you know? Author Olga Wojtas attended the real Edinburgh school that inspired the fictional Miss Blaine's, which also appears in Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Who it's for: readers who want something a bit different, enjoy a bit of time travel, or like witty satire along the lines of P.G. Wodehouse. |
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