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All's Fair in Love and Treachery
by Connally, Celeste
London Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this new installment in a Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to celebrate after discovering that the death of her viscount fiancé three years earlier was no accident. Instead, it was murder, and the man responsible is her handsome, half-Scottish secret paramour Duncan Shawcross--yet the scoundrel has disappeared, leaving only a confusing riddle about long-forgotten memories in his wake. So what's a lady to do when she can't hunt down her traitorous lover? She concentrates on a royal assignment instead.
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Watch it Burn
by Bird, Kristen
Three women investigate the death of a high-profile local woman in a small Southern town, and when they find a connection to a cultish personal development group, their discoveries have scorching consequences for the whole community.
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Only One Survives
by McKinnon, Hannah Mary
All drummer Vienna Taylor ever wanted was to make music. And with their new all-female pop rock band gaining traction, soon everyone would hear their songs... Except, on the way to an event, the Bittersweet's van careens off an icy mountain road during a blizzard. In order to survive the frigid night, the rest must take shelter in a nearby abandoned cabin. But Vienna's dreams devolve into a terrifying nightmare as, one by one, her fellow band members meet a gruesome end...and her best friend Madison simply vanishes in the night. Has Vienna's closest friend finally decided to take center stage on her own terms?
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| A Killer Clue by Victoria GilbertRetired librarian Jane Hunter helps catalog thirtysomething Cameron Clewe's collection of rare crime novels at his North Carolina estate, coaches him in social niceties, and teams up with him to solve crimes. In their 2nd outing, the two assist a bookseller who's hoping to clear her deceased mother's name but is then arrested for murder herself. Read-alike: Ellery Adams' The Secret, Book, and Scone Society mysteries. |
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Death at a Scottish Wedding
by Connelly, Lucy
Finally feeling like Sea Isle, Scotland is becoming her new home, American doctor Emilia McRoy is delighted when she is invited to a wedding at Morrigan's Castle. When Emilia explores the impressive castle, she finds a dead man in one of the turrets. The snowstorm hits and the local police can't reach the castle until it lets up. With no one able to leave, the family insists they carry on with the wedding, which makes Emilia's job as the coroner a bit easier--the suspects are in one place--and complicated because the killer has Emilia in his sights. It's up to Emilia to uncover the mystery, so the killer doesn't get away Scot free.
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| Ashes Never Lie by Lee GoldbergFollowing Malibu Burning, this intricate, fast-paced 2nd outing for Los Angeles arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his action-oriented new partner Andrew Walker has them teaming up with homicide detective Eve Ronin (who stars in another series by author Lee Goldberg) after a string of fires uncover a burnt corpse who's been shot. Read-alikes: Michael Connelly's novels. |
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| Against the Grain by Peter LoveseyIn his multi-layered 22nd and final outing, curmudgeonly senior police detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma go to Somerset to visit one of his former underlings, Julie Hargreaves, who's sure that a local woman convicted for manslaughter is innocent. Despite hating the country, Diamond goes undercover in a rural village without benefit of policing tools to uncover a killer. Read-alikes: Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope mysteries; Mark Billingham's Detective Miller novels. |
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| Pony Confidential by Christina LynchNarrated by both a grumpy pony and his former owner, Penny, who's just been jailed for a murder she supposedly committed when she was 12, this thoroughly charming novel follows the aging pony as he travels the country plotting his revenge on the girl who broke his heart. But then Pony discovers Penny didn't sell him years ago and sets out to prove her innocence. Fans of Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie mysteries will appreciate this humorous, thought-provoking tale that has a bit of bite. |
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| The Rivals by Jane PekCrime fiction fan Claudia Lin and her business (and maybe more) partner Becks run an exclusive small agency vetting online dating matches with help from their tech expert Squirrel. In this "excellent" ('Kirkus Reviews') follow-up to "The Verifiers", they also again investigate a murder after a client dies and it seems to be related to online dating services secretly using AI for nefarious reasons. Read-alike: L.M. Chilton's "Swiped". |
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| Rough Pages by Lev AC RosenIn his atmospheric 3rd outing, Andy Mills, an ex-cop turned PI in 1953 San Francisco, tries to figure out what happened to two bookstore owners who've disappeared along with the list of subscribers to their gay book service. When a murder occurs, the stakes go up, and Andy suspects the mafia is involved. |
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