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| The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery AdamsWhat it is: a book-centric cozy mystery featuring four women carrying scars from the past (some literal), including bookstore owner Nora, who can talk to people and somehow know what novel will help them. A visiting land developer to Nora's small North Carolina town asks her for recommendations, but before she can give him the books she's picked out, he's dead. Was it murder? Nora and three new friends try to find out.
Who it's for: This 1st in a new series is for mystery fans who like women's fiction and a bit of magical realism. |
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The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel
by Stefan Ahnhem
A second entry in the internationally best-selling and award-winning series finds criminal investigator Fabian Risk and his Danish colleague, Dunja Hougaard, teaming up on a serial murder case involving a Swedish minister of justice and a Danish television star's wife, in a thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face
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| Murder in an English Village by Jessica EllicottIntroducing: boisterous American adventurer Beryl Helliwell, who's grown weary of change as she's gotten older, and prim and proper (but definitely not prosperous) British spinster Edwina Davenport. Beryl takes a room in Edwina's home, and when young ladies disappear or die in mysterious circumstances, the two old school friends of a certain age decide to solve the cases.
What it is: a historical cozy and charming series launch set in a rural 1920s English village. |
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Wild Chamber
by Christopher Fowler
Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl and a dog who vanish into thin air from London's Regent Park on an early summer morning. By the award-winning author of Strange Tide.
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The Body in the Casket: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
by Katherine Hall Page
Catering the lavish birthday party of a Broadway legend, Faith Fairchild is astonished when her client reveals that he hired her less for her culinary prowess and more for her skills as a detective and that one of his guests is trying to kill him. Includes recipes. By the Agatha Award-winning author of The Body in the Birches.
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2017 Books You Might Have Missed
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Fast Falls the Night
by Julia Keller
In a 24-hour period, Raythune County, West Virginia faces a record number of overdose victims thanks to heroin laced with elephant tranquilizer. Sheriff's deputy Jake Oakes, other cops, and EMTs try to save who they can, but not everyone lives, and opinions vary among locals if an addict's death matters. Investigating the source of the tainted drug in her Appalachian hometown, prosecutor Bell Elkins learns more about her past and new secrets from her ex-convict sister. Critics love this atmospheric, gritty 6th in the Bell Elkins series. Looking for more beautifully written rural crime novels? Try Tom Bouman's Henry Farrell novels.
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| She Rides Shotgun by Jordan HarperFeaturing: shy, smart 11-year-old Polly, who carries her beloved one-eyed teddy bear everywhere, and her newly released ex-con father.
What it's about: Nate ticked off the Aryan Steel gang leader in prison, and now there's a hit out on him and his daughter, whom he hasn't seen in years. Since the gang's already killed Polly's mom, Nate takes Polly with him as he wreaks havoc on the gang's businesses in this gritty, compelling debut crime novel. |
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| August Snow by Stephen Mack JonesWhat it's about: Former Detroit police officer (and the son of one, too), August Snow reported corrupt cops and was fired. Having won a wrongful dismissal case worth millions, half-African American, half-Mexican August returns home to Detroit's Mexicantown, where he soon feels compelled to solve the murder of a wealthy woman who'd asked for his help.
Author alert: Stephen Mack Jones is a playwright and poet; August Snow is his atmospheric first novel. |
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| Prussian Blue: A Bernie Gunther novel by Philip KerrWhat it's about: In 1956, cynical former Berlin cop Bernie Gunther, who's been lying low in the French Riviera, is discovered and ordered by a Stasi leader to kill a female agent, or die himself. The suspenseful events that follow cause Bernie to recall 1939, when he investigated a cunning murder at Hitler's private home in the Bavarian Alps.
Series alert: Richly detailed and thought-provoking, this is the12th Bernie Gunther mystery.
You might also like: Rennie Airth's John Madden mysteries, which also spans various time periods during and around World War II. |
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| Take Out by Margaret MaronWhat it is: This 9th and final entry in the Sigrid Harald series features the loner NYPD homicide detective dealing with the estate of her artist lover, who died in a car accident a year earlier, as another possible heir appears. Meanwhile, the poisoning deaths of two homeless men have Sigrid and her team looking at the well-off neighbors who sometimes left take-out food for them, including a mafia don's widow and an opera star.
Author alert: Acclaimed, award-winning author Margaret Maron -- who also writes the Judge Deborah Knott mystery series -- has said this is her last novel, so make sure to savor it. |
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