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There should have been eight
by Nalini Singh
Gathering at their late friend Bea's family estate in New Zealand's Southern Alps for a reunion, a group of friends are plagued by long-buried grief, bitterness and rage, revealing that Bea's shocking death wasn't what it was claimed to be—and that the truth will finally be unleashed no matter the cost.
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| Murder Most Royal by SJ BennettAt Sandringham estate for Christmas in 2016, Queen Elizabeth II and her private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, investigate when a severed hand washes ashore on a nearby Norfolk beach in this 3rd in a fun series. |
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| Dangerous Women by Mark De CastriqueEthel Crestwater, a 75-year-old retired FBI agent now running a D.C.-area boardinghouse, investigates with help from a 20-something relative when an apparent mugging of two Supreme Court law clerks leaves one dead and the other (who's one of Ethel's boarders) comatose, in this entertaining follow-up to Secret Lives. |
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Act like a lady, think like a lord
by Celeste Connally
Lady Petra Forsyth, an independent woman in 1815 London, uncovers a private asylum where men pay to have their wives and daughters locked away, where she believes a longtime friend has been placed after suffering “melancholia.”
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Good girls don't die
by Christina Henry
A smart, twisty thriller about a woman who finds herself trapped inside a story she knows isn't her own, from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red Celi. She's waking up in a house with a man who says he's her husband and a daughter who wants her to pack a school lunch. But Celia knows she's not married and she doesn't have children. Even though she can't shake the suspicion that this life is someone else's, there's something about it that's awfully familiar. In fact, this feels just like something she once read in a book. So begins a gripping read that plays on our best-loved tropes and follows three women who will fight with everything they have to survive-and who may find that getting lost in a good book could be the key to salvation.
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| The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonIn 1789 Maine, a man accused of rape is found frozen in the river while his partner, a judge, has disappeared. Midwife Martha Ballard (who's based on a real person) investigates it all in this intricate tale that combines history, mystery, and courtroom suspense. |
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
by Benjamin Stevenson
On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.
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| Home at Night by Paula MunierWhen Grackle Tree Farm goes up for sale, Mercy Carr wants it, even though it's supposed to be haunted. But the body she finds in the library is all too real in this atmospheric page turner that finds Mercy and her dog Elvis looking for a ruthless killer. This 5th outing for Mercy and Elvis works well as a standalone. |
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| Murder in Drury Lane by Vanessa RileyEnjoying an evening at a Drury Lane theater, Lady Abigail Worthing, a young biracial woman in 1806 London whose older husband is always away exploring, teams up with her naval hero neighbor to investigate when a playwright is murdered in this 2nd in a charming series. For fans of: Netflix's Bridgerton. |
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Phantom
by Helen Power
Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her art work seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse. Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar side effect--she develops a psychic connection to her missing limb. She soon discovers that Chicago's long-dormant Phantom Strangler is now wearing her hand and is using it . . . to kill.
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| Sweet Thing by David SwinsonIt's late 1999, Y2K looms, and Washington D.C. homicide detective Alex Blum links a new murder to one of his old informants, who's just gone missing. Now, the informant's beautiful, troubled girlfriend needs help, which Blum willingly provides...but at what cost? |
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The mystery guest / : A Maid Novel
by Nita Prose
When a world-renowned mystery author drops dead, the esteemed Head Maid of the 5-star Regency Grand Hotel, Molly Gray matches wits with her old foe, Detective Stark, to solve this case. This not only threatens the hotel's pristine reputation but may be linked to her own past.
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