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| Dead Tired by Kat AilesAfter joining an overnight eco-protest in order to save a Cotswolds meadow from development (and maybe get some sleep), new mom Alice and her mom friends awake to find a murdered eco-warrior. The group investigate, this time with babes in tow, in the witty and charming sequel to The Expectant Detectives. For fans of: Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Is Killing it; Mia P. Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen mysteries. |
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Rhythm and Clues
by Olivia Blacke
When a predatory investor is killed outside their shop during a violent storm, the Jessup sisters, owners of Sip & Spin Records, are trapped in town with a killer, and when the river spits out an unexpected surprise, Detective Beau Russell asks them for help, bringing them face-to-face with danger.
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Shades of Mercy
by Bruce Borgos
When a series of increasingly deadly events of unknown origins plague drought-stricken Lincoln County, former Army intelligence officer Porter Beck is led to a currently incarcerated 16-year-old tech-whiz who is more than she claims to be, especially when she becomes the target of a vicious Mexican drug cartel and a brutal foreign agent.
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| The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia GrayIn 1821 England, after attempts on her life, imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh summons her great-nephew Jonathan Darcy and his friend Juliet Tilney to investigate, as they've had some success in solving crimes. Wonderfully depicting Jane Austen characters and creating fascinating new ones, this engaging 3rd series entry "sensitively portrays the neurodivergent Jonathan" (Library Journal). Read-alikes: Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen mysteries; Julia Seales' A Most Agreeable Murder. |
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Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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| The Mayfair Dagger by Ava JanuaryHaving lost her father and brother in 1894, Albertine is in danger of being married off. So she takes a fake name and escapes to London to open a detective agency. When her first case leaves her unpaid and accused of murder, a handsome Scotland Yard detective comes to her aid. Read-alikes: Dianne Freeman's Countess of Harleigh mysteries; Deanna Raybourn's historical mysteries.
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| The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanIn small-town Coldwell Beach, Washington, police detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose sister disappeared two decades ago, is assigned the case when 19-year-old Ellie Black, who's been missing for two years, turns up lost, confused, and unwilling to talk about where she's been. If you like this suspenseful, intricately plotted novel, try Paula McLain's When the Stars Go Dark or Alice Blanchard's Trace of Evil. |
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Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
by Catherine Mack
Bestselling mystery writer Eleanor Dash is on an Italian book tour with other authors, fans, and her greedy ex (whom one of her fictional sleuths is based on). When a murder occurs, Eleanor investigates in this series starter that features funny footnotes addressing the reader.
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The Conditions of Unconditional Love
by Alexander McCall Smith
While tapping into her stores of coolness and reserve to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute, moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own.
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Fatal First Edition
by Jenn McKinlay
Attending a conference in Chicago, library directory Lindsey Norris discovers under her chair a rare, first edition book inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock and tied to a murder, in the 14 novel of the series following The Plot and the Pendulum.
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Daughter of Mine : a Novel
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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| What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. MorrisAfter her life implodes, lawyer Deena Wood heads home to Brunswick, Georgia to start again. There, she gets drawn into the disappearance of Holcomb Gardner, a poor, elderly Black man who's been fighting an unethical land developer targeting the oceanfront property that Gardner's family has lived on since the 1860s. This timely, haunting tale is "not to be missed" (Booklist). For fans of: John Grisham; Attica Locke. |
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| Farewell, Amethystine by Walter MosleyIn January 1970, 50-year-old Los Angeles PI Easy Rawlins agrees to help beautiful Amethystine Stoller when her ex-husband disappears. When the ex turns up dead and Easy's LAPD connection goes underground, things get dicey. Newcomers and series fans alike will enjoy this atmospheric 16th outing for Easy. Read-alikes: One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips; Good Man Gone Bad by Gar Anthony Haywood; The Second Murderer by Denise Mina. |
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A Pie To Die For
by Gretchen Rue
Este March, owner of the Lucky Pie Diner in Northern Michigan, where certain customers are granted their greatest wishes upon eating her family's magical pies, investigates after an unpopular new produce vendor is found murdered on his boat.
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Murder Road
by Simone St. James
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, making a wrong turn, pick up an injured hitchhiker who later dies and, now suspects in a series of unexplained murders, must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
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| The Queen of Poisons by Robert ThorogoodWhen the kindly mayor of Marlow, England, is fatally poisoned during a town meeting, septuagenarian Judith Potts, dogwalker Suzie Harris, and vicar's wife Becks Starling once again team up to investigate. This is the charming 3rd novel in a fun series that's recently been adapted for TV: The Marlow Murder Club is out in the United Kingdom and appears on PBS in the United States in October. Read-alikes: Anthony Horowitz's mystery novels; Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club books. |
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
by Stuart Turton
On an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered, which triggers a security system, giving the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet.
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| The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline WinspearThis moving 18th and final outing for psychologist and PI Maisie Dobbs links to her past as she helps four teenage squatters in 1945 London who've witnessed something they shouldn't and who are nursing a gravely ill demobbed soldier. Read-alikes: Charles Todd's historical mysteries; Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series; Allison Montclair's Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries. |
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Centerville, OH 45458
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6060 Far Hills Ave Centerville, OH 45459
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