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| The Unwedding by Ally CondieRecently divorced Ellery Wainwright takes a planned 20th anniversary trip alone -- but the beautiful Big Sur resort is packed with a large wedding group. That’s bad enough, but then the groom is killed and a mudslide cuts off the resort, leading Ellery to turn sleuth. This first adult novel by a popular YA author is a Reese’s Book Club Pick. Read-alikes: The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley; The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand. |
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| An Art Lover's Guide to Paris and Murder by Dianne FreemanFrances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her new husband George attend the 1900 Paris Exposition and agree to help George’s Aunt Julia, who thinks her friend, renowned artist Paul Ducasse, was murdered. But before Frances and George can get details, Julia is fatally stabbed in this atmospheric 7th in a series. Read-alikes: Deanna Raybourn's historical mysteries; Mary Winters' Lady of Letters mysteries. |
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| Death in the Air by Ram MuraliRo Krishna, who’s has been forced out of his high-powered London lawyer job, is spending Christmas at a luxury Indian spa owned by a family friend. After one of the elite guests is murdered, Ro agrees to quietly look for the killer. Fans of closed circle mysteries will love this debut novel that explores race, class, and Indian history, and builds to a surprising conclusion. Read-alike: R.V. Raman's Harith Athreya novels. |
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| Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O'ConnorGarda Siobhan O’Sullivan and DS Macdara Flannery take a long-delayed honeymoon at the Irish coast, bringing Siobhan’s five siblings along. But it isn’t long before the couple are back at work, investigating who killed a seaside chip shop owner. This is the 10th outing for Siobhan and company in a series that’s perfect for cozy readers who like Irish settings and quirky families. |
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No Paw to Stand On
by Laurie Cass
Heading to the beach, Minnie finds her library business put on hold when her best friend needs her help sniffing out a saboteur in her restaurant, and when an employee at another restaurant is found dead, the claws come out as they corner a suspect.
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The Bookshop Detectives : Dead Girl Gone
by Gareth and Louise Ward
When a mystery parcel arrives at Sherlock Tomes bookshop in small-town Havelock North, New Zealand, husband-and-wife owners Garth and Eloise (and their petrified pooch, Stevie) are drawn into the baffling case of a decades-old missing schoolgirl.
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A Messy Murder
by Simon Brett
A professional declutterer must unravel the mystery of her curmudgeonly client's death, suspected to be murder rather than suicide, while managing her own family's chaos, in the fourth novel of the series following Waste of a Life.
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The Rose Arbor
by Rhys Bowen
In 1968 London, obituary writer Liz Houghton, to break into the newsroom at a London newspaper, helps her best friend, a police officer, investigate a high-profile case and uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II that is linked to the recent disappearance of a young girl and a murder.
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