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Death comes to Dartmoor
by Stephanie Austin
"When Juno Browne returns to the picturesque Dartmoor town of Ashburton after a brief holiday, she's relieved to find that no one has been murdered while she was away. Though uncharitable friends suggest the quiet was simply due to her absence. Just as she's settling back into her routine at the antiques shop and as domestic helper and dog walker, the brutal killing of local journalist Sandy Thomas shocks the town. When it becomes clear that one of Juno's friends has managed to catch the killing on camera, Juno is swept up into a fresh murder inquiry. What was Sandy really investigating on the night she was killed? With a spate of dog kidnappings to contend with as well, the Devon countryside never felt less tranquil, and inevitably means Juno's amateur sleuthing skills will be called upon once again."
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| The Raging Storm by Ann CleevesDI Matthew Venn and his team are called to remote North Devon after the murder of a celebrity adventurer, who'd shown up in a seaside village a month earlier claiming to be waiting on a mysterious visitor. This well-plotted 3rd in a series can be read as a standalone. Read-alikes: Firewatching by Russ Thomas; the Ruth Galloway mysteries by Elly Griffiths. |
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Holly : a novel
by Stephen King
Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
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The puzzle master : a novel by Danielle TrussoniAll the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink, a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor, understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower: he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also left him deeply isolated and unable to fully connect with other people. All of this changes when Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder. Traumatized by the crime, Price has not spoken a word since her arrest five years before. And when she draws a perplexing puzzle her psychiatrist believes will explain the crime she committed, they call Brink to solve it. What begins as a desire to crack a strange and alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with the woman who drew the puzzle. When Price reveals that there is something more urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, Brink is thrust into a hunt for the truth. The quest takes Brink through a series of interlocking enigmas, but the heart of the mystery is The God Puzzle, an enigmatic prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, one of the most controversial men in the history of Kabbalah. As Brink navigates a maze of clues, and his emotional entanglement with Price becomes more intense, he realizes that he is in danger, because the shocking revelation of the puzzle's true meaning will redefine the nature of life, death, and human identity
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Cold light of day
by Elizabeth Goddard
"Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job when an unexpected wave of violent crime sweeps through her small Alaskan town. Does Grier Carter, a relative newcomer to town, actually have her back? Or is she all alone as the body count rises?"
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| Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina SimonThis "dazzling debut" (Library Journal) introduces three generations of Rubicon women: businesswoman Lana; her estranged daughter, Beth; and 15-year-old Jack. Lana moves in with Beth and Jack during her cancer treatment, and when Jack is accused of murder, the trio investigates. Read-alikes: Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club novels; Darynda Jones' Sunshine Vicram mysteries. |
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| Murder Most Fowl by Donna AndrewsVirginia blacksmith Meg Langslow stirs up trouble while hunting for the killer of an unlikeable documentary filmmaker, who'd purposefully shot embarrassing footage of actors in a local production of Macbeth. Plus, there are medieval Scots reenactors camping in the woods. This is the delightful 29th novel starring Meg and her family; their 34th outing, Let it Crow! Let it Crow! Let it Crow!, is due this month. |
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| Trace of Evil by Alice BlanchardIn an upstate New York town that has a history with the occult, rookie detective Natalie Lockhart works the cold case of nine people who've disappeared over the course of 25 years and the recent murder of a fellow cop's pregnant wife. This 1st in a series will please fans of small-town mysteries with surprising endings. |
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| Magic for Liars by Sarah GaileyNon-magical California PI Ivy Gamble takes her first murder case. But since the killing happened at the private boarding school for mages where her estranged (and magically gifted) twin works, she'll have to deal with both sister issues and a killer. For fans of: supernatural mysteries, such as T.L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights novels. |
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