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| When Hell Struck Twelve by James R. BennTwo months after D-Day, a French traitor has been delivering classified plans to German leaders in Nazi-occupied Paris.
The Allies leak false information, and U.S Army Captain Billy Boyle and his friend Kaz must prevent the traitor's capture by the French Resistance until the fake plans are delivered, while also investigating a murder.
Series alert: This well-researched 14th Billy Boyle novel provides a fascinating mystery and a compelling look at the realities of war. |
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| Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery by Ellen HartStarring: Minneapolis restaurateur/private detective Jane Lawless, her retirement-age lawyer father, Ray, and her best friend, vibrant theater director Cordelia Thorn.
What happens: When new evidence surfaces, Jane helps her dad work to free an innocent man (whom he defended in court four years earlier) and try to locate the real murderer.
Series alert: This is the tightly-plotted 26th entry in the Lambda Award-winning Jane Lawless series, and newcomers can start here. |
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| The Pawful Truth: A Cat in the Stacks Mystery by Miranda JamesStarring: widowed grandfather and kindly college librarian Charlie Harris, whose Maine Coon cat, Diesel, goes with him almost everywhere.
What happens: After Charlie enrolls in a history course at his Mississippi college, another older student is found dead. With the help of friends, Charlie investigates in this 11th Cat in the Stacks series entry.
Who it's for: cat fanciers and fans of small-town mysteries where the characters are as important as the plot. |
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Ice Cold Heart
by P. J Tracy
With the help of Grace MacBride and her partners at Monkeewrench Software, Detectives Magazine and Rolseth investigate a grisly murder that exactly mirrors a previous homicide. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Guilty Dead.
For fans of: The Black Widow Agency by Felicia Donovan
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A Better Man
by Louise Penny
Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim’s distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.
Fans of the Inspector Gamache series might also enjoy the Molly Smith mysteries by Vicki Delaney. Start with In the Shadow of the Glacier.
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Death in Focus : an Elena Standish novel
by Anne Perry
In a series debut by the best-selling author of the William Monk mysteries, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover’s final, urgent message into the heart of pre-World War II Berlin as Hitler is ascending to power.
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If You Like: Downton Abbey
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| Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa ArlenWhat it's about: The morning after Lady Montfort's annual summer costume ball, the murdered body of her husband's unpleasant nephew is found and two others go missing, causing Lady Montfort and her housekeeper to set out to solve the mysteries together.
Series alert: This initial entry in the Lady Montfort series is set in 1912 and offers an engaging, well-researched depiction of the era.
Why Downton Abbey fans might like it: the country estate setting, the Edwardian time period, and the upstairs-downstairs relationships. |
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| The Mitford Murders by Jessica FellowesIntroducing: Louisa Cannon, a down-on-her-luck young Londoner in 1919 who finds work as a nursemaid to the (real-life) Mitford family.
What happens: She investigates with teenage Nancy Mitford and a handsome railway cop when a retired military nurse is killed on a train.
Why Downton Abbey fans might like it: it's set during the inter-war period, examines social classes, and Jessica Fellowes is the niece of Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and has written several nonfiction books about the show. |
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A Spider in the Cup
by Barbara Cleverly
When the body of a young woman is found buried along the banks of the Thames in 1933, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands juggles the case with a high-profile and increasingly dangerous assignment protecting an American senator at a historic global economic conference on the Depression.
You might also like: A Most Novel Revenge by Ashley Weaver.
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| A Duty to the Dead by Charles ToddWhat happens: After being injured, World War I nurse Bess Crawford is recovering back in England where she delivers a dying soldier's strange message to his family. Bess stays on with the family for a while...and becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Series alert: This is the 1st in a popular, atmospheric series. The 11th entry, A Cruel Deception, comes out in October.
Why Downton Abbey fans might like it: the World War I setting at a family estate where secrets and allegiances prove life-changing for many. |
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