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Livingsky
by Anthony Bidulka
Going home is not always the best answer. Forced to leave behind her big city dreams, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan to start over. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter-all while trying to start her own PI business-proves to be more challenging than she imagined. With a first case that quickly turns more dangerous than it first appeared, Merry must deal with a dodgy client, the murder of the surgeon who performed her gender affirming surgery, and more than one mysterious stranger.
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Framed in death
by J. D. Robb
When a killer stages victims as classic paintings, Eve Dallas must stop a deluded artist whose is leaving a bloody trail through Manhattan's elite art world.
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| There Will Be Bodies by Lindsey DavisIn 90 C.E., Roman detective Flavia Albia and her husband, Tiberius Manilus, renovate a home in a small coastal town partially destroyed by Mount Vesuvius a decade ago. Tiberius' uncle got it cheap, maybe because along with ash and dirt, workers find multiple dead bodies. Though this is Flavia's 13th outing, newcomers can still enjoy this compelling mystery.
(To start at the beginning check out The Ides of April) |
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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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A Deceit of Lapwings
by Steve Burrows
Three murder scenes; two causes of death; one body. It is a case that would challenge Domenic Jejeune even under the best of circumstances. But his DCS's temporary absence means that Jejeune must work under Marvin Laraby, an ex-superior with whom he has a particularly fractious history.
Book 9 in the Birder Murder Series
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Apostle's Cove : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Just before Halloween, former sheriff Cork O'Connor reopens a decades-old murder case at his son's urging as whispers of the Windigo grow louder and bodies begin to fall.
Book 21 in the Cork O'Connor series
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The hallmarked man
by Robert Galbraith
When dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop, the police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber, but not everyone agrees with that theory.
Book 8 in the Cormoran Strike series
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Immortal Murder : A Ghoulish Game of Medieval Murder and Mayhem
by Paul Doherty
January 1313. London is gripped by a freezing winter as Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game between the royal courts of England and France. A mysterious individual calling himself the Immortal swears vengeance against Corbett and all those who support the royal clerk. And, with danger stalking their every step, Corbett, Ranulf and Megotta must piece together a complex puzzle to prevent more bloodshed.
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The Garden Club Murders
by Jonathan Whitelaw
Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing. And he's not the only person to disappear.
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Gray Dawn
by Walter Mosley
Running a successful detective agency in 1970s L.A., Easy Rawlins is hired to find a dangerous woman whose secrets threaten to upend the city's fragile balance in the latest addition to the long-running series following Farewell, Amethystine.
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Doggone bones
by Carolyn Haines
When a local pet activist's dog is stolen, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency race against time to find the thieves who are shady breeders involved in illegal dogfighting in the latest addition to series following Blue Christmas Bones.
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