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| Glory Daze by Danielle ArceneauxThis fun follow-up to the award-winning Glory Be finds Louisiana bookie Glory Broussard investigating another murder when her ex's second wife shows up saying he has disappeared. Glory finds him murdered and tries to figure out who killed him while keeping tabs on her mourning middle-aged daughter and planning the Red Hat Society's Mardi Gras gala. For fans of: Ellen Byron; Mario Giordano. |
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| Cold as Hell by Kelley ArmstrongHaven's Rock in the Yukon forest, population 67, is the place to be for those who need to disappear in order to stay safe. Or maybe not. Because one woman has been drugged and attacked and another has been killed. As a blizzard threatens, Sheriff Eric Dalton and his pregnant wife, Detective Casey Duncan, need to quickly figure out what's going on in this suspenseful 3rd Haven's Rock novel. Read-alikes: Iris Yamashita's City Under One Roof; Paul Doiron's Mike Bowditch novels. |
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High Tea and Misdemeanors
by Laura Childs
While catering an elegant wedding, tea shop owner Theodosia Browning investigates a murder after a suspicious greenhouse collapse turns deadly during the celebration, in the latest addition to long-running the series following Peach Tea Smash. For fans of: Jennifer Hawkins' To Fetch a Felon.
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Silent As the Grave
by Rhys Bowen
Molly Murphy Sullivan, juggling motherhood in 1900s New York, investigates deadly sabotage on a film set after her adopted daughter, Bridie, lands a starring role, uncovering tensions between rival studios amidst the fledgling movie industry's dangerous experiments. Read-alike: Kellye Garrett's Hollywood Homicide.
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| Smoke on the Water by Loren D. EstlemanAs smoke from Canadian wildfires blows into Detroit, tough PI Amos Walker works the suspicious hit-and-run death of a young lawyer who had been carrying confidential documents that are now missing. The dead man's firm wants the papers back, and bad, so Walker takes the case, but the deaths are just beginning in Amos' 32nd outing. For more gritty Detroit mysteries, try Stephen Mack Jones' August Snow novels. |
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Last Twilight in Paris
by Pam Jenoff
In London, 1953, a secondhand shop necklace bears the name Lévitan, a Paris department store-turned-Nazi prison camp, leading Louise and former romantic partner Ian to investigate her friend Franny's war death and the fate of Helaine, a woman imprisoned at Lévitan when the Germans invaded France. Read-alike: Ellen Feldman's Paris Never Leaves You: A Novel.
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| The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskeyStill recovering from an on-the-job injury, Glasgow DI Georgina "George" Lennox and her partner Richie Stewart travel to an isolated island off the western coast of Scotland to investigate the death of an 18-year-old. But the case is complicated by hostile locals, a powerful priest, and the strange 1919 disappearance of three lighthouse keepers. Fans of atmospheric, gothic-infused mysteries will enjoy this slow-burn debut. |
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The Puzzle Box: A Novel
by Danielle Trussoni
The world's greatest puzzle master sets out to solve the most dangerous enigma of his life—or die trying. By the New York Times bestselling author of The Puzzle Master. Read-alike: Fredrik T. Olsson's Chain of Events.
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| Broken Fields by Marcie R. RendonIn her "outstanding" (Booklist) 4th outing, Ojibwe sleuth Cash Blackbear is happy sort-of dating a Vietnam vet and driving a tractor all day. But after she finds her farmer boss fatally shot and a mute Indigenous child hiding nearby, Cash helps mentor Sheriff Wheaton with the case. She also tries to make sure the traumatized girl doesn't suffer in foster care like she did. Try this next: Laurie L. Dove's Mask of the Deer Woman. |
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| Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder by Bellamy RoseAfter the grandmother of 28-year-old Upper East Side hotel heiress Pomona is murdered, her family's inheritance is indefinitely frozen until the crime is solved. With no home and few skills, Pomona moves in with handsome Gabe, the son of her former nanny, and the two decide to solve the case in this lighthearted and funny romantic mystery. Read-alike: Jenny Elder Moke's She Doesn't Have a Clue. |
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