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| Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell HallEx-LAPD detective Sonny Rush moves to picturesque Haven, California, to work for her godfather's PI firm and help care for her mom. After learning that the police didn't do a good job investigating a Black teen's supposed suicide, she looks into the death, unearthing the area's ugly underbelly in this suspenseful 1st in a new series. Read-alikes: Tracy Clark's Chicago Mysteries; Delia Pitts' Vandy Myrick series. |
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The Solitary Friend
by Gail Bowen
Noah Wainberg is a close member of Joan Shreve's inner circle. When scandalous photos and threatening demands target his fiancé, Joane Shreve wonders if the hate mail could be a heartbroken ex, or worse, someone closer to home. With her loved ones’ lives at stake, Joanne races to find the source of the mysterious messages before they make good on their menacing ultimatum.
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| Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-OpokuRecently widowed Savvy Summers runs a Chicago soul food restaurant and catering business in this engaging series opener that includes recipes. But after a customer dies and people blame her, she must figure out what really killed the man to save herself and her livelihood. Thankfully she has help from her gossipy sous-chef and her cop ex-husband. Try this next: Abby Collette’s Books and Biscuits Mysteries; Danielle Arceneaux’s Glory Broussard Mysteries. |
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The Story That Wouldn't Die : A Mystery
by Christina Estes
When a beloved small business owner dies in a car crash, Arizona TV reporter Jolene Garcia isn't convinced it was an accident. He'd been raising questions about who keeps getting lucrative deals at city hall - questions that powerful people don't want answered. Exposing greed, ambition, and deception could become the biggest story of Jolene's career. Her bosses tell her to drop it. But there's a story here, and Jolene's going to find it.
Jolene Garcia Mysteries (2)
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Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing
by Nicholas Meyer
What makes a work of art valuable? Worth killing for? In 'Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing', Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves drawn into one of the most bizarre cases of the great detective’s career. And into the cutthroat big business of Art, where chicanery, mendacity, and cut throats, proliferate.
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Hunter's Heart Ridge : A Mystery
by Sarah Stewart Taylor
It's November of 1965 when Detective Franklin Warren is called in to investigate the death of a diplomat at The Ridge Club, an exclusive club for congressmen, diplomats, judges, and titans of industry. With the war in Vietnam picking up speed, Warren quickly realizes that many of the club’s members are powerful men who may have ulterior motives and connections in high places.
Franklin Warren and Alice Bellow Mysteries (2)
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| Into the Leopard's Den by Harini NagendraIn 1922 colonial India, pregnant private detective Kaveri Murthy leaves Bangalore to visit her husband in Coorg where he's setting up a new medical clinic. While happy to see him, she's also investigating the odd death of an old woman, which leads to more cases, including one involving a ghost leopard. This evocative, charming 4th Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery will work for new readers to the series and for fans of Nev March and Sujata Massey. |
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Gone in the Night
by Joanna Schaffhausen
Detective Annalisa Vega's estranged, incarcerated brother tasks her with tracking down the real killer behind the murder that his fellow inmate, Joe Green, was imprisoned for.
Detective Annalisa Vega (5)
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| The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo NicholsElderly Mrs. B. rents her Santa Barbara, California, cottages to people who need help in this charming 1st in a series. Her newest renter, an ex-convict, is blamed when a body is found nearby, so Mrs. B. sets out to prove his innocence with help from other tenants, including a single mom and her kids, an agoraphobic man, and a workaholic perfectionist. For fans of: Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building; Richard Osman; Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong Mysteries. |
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The Dead Come to Stay
by Brandy Schillace
When neurodivergent American Jo Jones relocates to her family's North Yorkshire estate, she's pulled into a murder investigation with gruff detective James MacAdams, uncovering ties to missing teens, illicit artifact trading, and buried family secrets harbored by the region's polished elite.
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The Witch's Orchard : A novel
by Archer Sullivan
A ninth generation Appalachian herself, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in 'The Witch’s Orchard', a debut novel that introduces private investigator Annie Gore, who must navigate a decade's worth of secrets, folklore, and a whole town that prefers to forget in order to discover the truth about the disappearance of three little girls.
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Murder by the Book
by Amie Schaumberg
Detective Ian Carter is shaken by a student's dead body posed like Hamlet's Ophelia, and when a chance meeting with literature professor Emma Reilly ends with her accidentally solving the killer's clue, she turns to the books she loves for the key to unraveling the crime.
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Just Another Dead Author
by Katarina Bivald
A bookish mystery transports readers to a writers' retreat in France, where a famous writer is murdered, and the 20 wannabe authors at the retreat all have a motive.
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Joy Moody is out of Time
by Kerryn Mayne
On her twin daughters' twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody—proprietor of Bonbeach's premier laundromat—is found dead, yet that is not the strangest thing happening behind the bright pink facade of Joyful Suds.
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Sour Crime Donuts
by Ginger Bolton
Bakery owner Emily and her new friend Izzy must clear their names after poisoned pastries link them to a developer found dead on contested land near Deputy Donut, surfacing buried motives and rivalries in their seemingly sweet small town.
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Five Found Dead
by Sulari Gentill
After surviving terminal cancer, Joe boards the Orient Express for a fresh start, but when a passenger disappears and the train is quarantined, he and his sister race to catch a killer before they become the next victims.
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