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| What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan BradleyPrecocious 12-year-old chemist and amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce returns in her 11th outing, her first since 2019. Teaming up with her younger cousin, she works to clear the name of the family cook and learn who really killed a former public hangman, all while uncovering other secrets in her 1950s English village. Read-alikes: Robert Thorogood's Marlow Murder Club books; Louise Penny's Armand Gamache novels. |
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| Guide Me Home by Attica LockeFacing a possible indictment, Black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews quits his job. Then his estranged mom tells him the only Black member of the sorority she cleans for has disappeared, leading Darren to investigate in this atmospheric finale to the Highway 59 trilogy (newcomers may want to pick up the 1st book, Bluebird, Bluebird). Read-alikes: James Lee Burke's Holland family novels; S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed. |
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| City of Secrets by P.J. TracyLAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates when a businessman whose company was being sold for millions is found dead in a sketchy area. When his partner's wife is kidnapped days later, Nolan searches for a link between the two cases in this suspenseful 4th in a series that starts with Deep into the Dark. Read-alikes: Joanna Schaffhausen's Detective Annalisa Vega series; Michael Connelly's Renee Ballard novels. |
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| The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden WrightIn 1980s Meridian, Mississippi, jaded biracial PI Clementine Baldwin works with white Vietnam veteran Dixon Hicks to investigate the death of a young white man, who supposedly jumped off the jail's roof while he was in custody. But they find themselves up against the secretive Dixie Mafia and a hired killer in this twisty, slow-burn crime novel. Read-alikes: the Hap and Leonard novels by Joe R. Lansdale; Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts. |
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