| The Couple in the Photo by Helen CooperTeacher and amateur photographer Lucy is enjoying her colleague's honeymoon photos when she spots her best friend's husband in the background of one picture, with a woman who isn't his wife. Not long afterwards the unidentified woman turns up dead, and Lucy gets pulled into an investigation that will change her tight-knit circle of friends forever. |
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| The Weekend Retreat by Tara LaskowskiRichard, Harper, and Zach Van Ness gather at their wealthy family's winery estate for an an extravagant party weekend, significant others in tow. Ambitious elder siblings Richard and Harper also bring along personal and professional secrets they'll do anything to keep hidden, while black sheep Zach's gossip blogger girlfriend could mine the weekend for the ultimate scoop -- if she manages to survive. |
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Munich Wolf
by Rory Clements
Munich, 1935: The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't see or choose to ignore is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual home. When a high-born English girl is murdered, Detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. Wolff is already walking a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the political party he abhors. Now Hitler is taking a personal interest in the case. Followed by the secret police and threatened by his own son, a fervent member of the Hitler Youth, the stakes have never been higher. And when Wolff begins to suspect that the killer might be linked to the highest reaches of the Nazi hierarchy, he fears his task is simply impossible and that he might become the next victim.
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| Midnight by Amy McCullochDespite her own antipathy to sea travel, Olivia Campbell agrees to accompany her art dealer boyfriend Aaron on a cruise where he's set to hold an important auction, hoping some relaxation might help her recovery from a recent breakdown. But when Aaron fails to board the ship, Olivia is left trying to manage Aaron's art works while dealing with debilitating seasickness and a strange pattern of accidental deaths onboard. |
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The queen of poisons : a novel
by Robert Thorogood
"Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a town council meeting. When traces of aconite--also known as the queen of poisons--are found in his coffee cup, the police realize he was murdered. But who did it? And why? The police bring Judith, Suzie, and Becks in to investigate the murder as civilian advisors right from the start, so they have free rein to interview suspects and follow the evidence to their heart's content... which is perfect because Judith has no time for rules and standard procedure. But this case has the Marlow Murder Club stumped. Who would want to kill the affable mayor of Marlow? How did they even get the poison into his coffee? And is anyone else in danger? The Marlow Murder Club is about to face their most difficult case yet.."
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| Two Dead Wives by Adele ParksThis atmospheric sequel to Woman Last Seen picks up where the last story left off, during the most claustrophobic parts of the COVID lockdown in 2020. DCI Clements returns in a new chapter of the investigation into the disappearance of two seemingly unconnected women, only to discover a shocking secret that blows the case wide open. |
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| What Waits in the Woods by Terri ParlatoReaders first met Boston detective Rita Myers in All the Dark Places, where she unraveled the murder of a suburban psychologist by a guest at his 40th birthday party. This time, she investigates the seemingly random killing of a young woman who may have been mistaken for a friend she bore a striking resemblance to. |
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Helle and Death
by Oskar Jensen
A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It's going to be murder. Torben Helle. art historian, Danish expat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers, has been dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a ten-year reunion with old university friends. Things start to go sideways when their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations at the dinner table. And when these are followed by an apparent suicide, the group faces a test of their wits, and their trust. Snowed in and cut off, surrounded by enigmatic housekeepers and off-duty police inspectors, not to mention a peculiar last will and testament, suspicion and sarcasm quickly turn to panic. As the temperature drops and the tension mounts, Torben decides to draw upon all the tricks of Golden Age detectives past in order to solve the mystery: how much money would it take to turn one of his old friends into a murderer? But he'd better be quick, or someone else might end up dead.
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The Beaver Theory
by Antti Tuomainen
Moving in with painter Laura Helanto and her daughter, intrepid insurance mathematician and adventure-park entrepreneur Henri Koskinen inadvertently becomes part of a group of local dads, while dealing with a corrupt competing adventure park and a rising body count that forces him out of his comfort zone.
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| Dead of Night by Simon ScarrowDead of Night is the action-packed sequel to Blackout, which first introduced readers to police inspector Horst Schenke during his hunt for a serial killer in 1939 Berlin. This time, he investigates a the suspicious suicide of a doctor who hid in plain sight as a member of the Nazi Party while secretly helping Jews trapped in the city. |
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| Here in the Dark by Alexis SoloskiKnown for her scathing reviews, actress-turned-theater-critic Vivian Parry reluctantly agrees when local grad student David Adler asks to interview her. She ends the interview early as David's questions grow increasingly invasive, but when he disappears shortly after their meeting, Vivian must become an amateur sleuth to uncover who he was, why he's missing, and why he had such an interest in her past. |
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