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Death Times Seven
by Anne Perry
1913. Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby's mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman. Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. His pathologist wife, Miriam Fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports. Read-alikes: City of Lies by Victoria Thompson, A Cruel Necessity by L.C. Tyler.
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Death by Chocolate Ladyfingers
by Sarah Graves
As the sun sets on summer in Eastport, local celebrations are in full swing--and Jake and Ellie have their hands full supplying the most decadent of desserts for extended family gatherings, class reunions, and other catered events. The organizers for Eastport High School's Class of '86 reunion thought it would be fun for former schoolmates to dress up in costume for a masquerade ball. Unfortunately, masks cannot hide old grudges borne out of teenage angst. So when Cindy Munson's body is discovered murdered on the night of the dance, suspicion immediately falls upon Eastport High's one-time notorious school bully. Read these next: Kilt Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett, Truffle Trouble by Amanda Flower.
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| Robbie McNeil's Hit List by Brianna HeathMilitary vet Robbie McNeil is busy running the Indiana karaoke bar she co-owns with her queerplatonic partner and fellow contract killer, Dee. The two are also writing and staging a musical. Needing money for their theatrical ambitions, Robbie takes a sketchy contract job and soon her target disappears, leading Robbie to investigate in the midst of everything else. For fans of: found family themes; slow-burn crime novels with likeable morally gray characters. |
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| My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru KonishiKaede, a 27-year-old teacher and crime novel reader, often uncovers puzzling events as she goes about her day. With her beloved grandfather, a former member of a mystery club whose Lewy body dementia hasn't affected his armchair crime-solving skills, she explores six mysteries, including a locked room murder and a missing persons case. For fans of: novels that reference classic mysteries; cozy Japanese stories. |
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| No Good Deed by Katherine KovacicNewly widowed and retired, Rena sets out alone on the camping journey across Australia she'd planned on doing with her husband. But she isn't even to her first stop when she sees a fire off road and finds a burned-out car and the dead body of a fellow geologist she knew years ago. Staying in town at the request of the cops, she can't help but conduct her own inquiries. For fans of: Jane Harper; Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek. |
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The Secret of Saint Olaf's Church: An Apothecary Melchior Mystery
by Indrek Hargla
In 15th‑century Tallinn, a Baltic trading center shaped by foreign guilds, rising fortifications, and the building of St Olaf’s Church, apothecary Melchior is drawn into a castle killing that demands his medical knowledge and sharp observation. As further deaths unsettle the town, his inquiry exposes hidden networks tied to the church construction and a long‑standing group influencing the city’s affairs. Read-alikes: Murder at Whitby Abbey by Cassandra Clark, Those Who Go By Night by Andrew Gaddes.
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| The Gardeners' Club by Marnie RichesSingle mom Gill Swanley juggles her boring-but-necessary job with taking care of her teen son and her elderly mother. To help deal with anxiety, she takes up gardening by joining the Bromley Botanists, who hope to win the coveted Golden Trowel award. But when Gill and another member find a dead body in a greenhouse, the group adds investigating a murder to their to-do list. Read-alike: Paula Sutton's The Potting Shed Murder; Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club books. |
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A Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz
Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne is dead. Or, rather, the actor playing him in the film adaptation of The Word is Murder is. Rising star David Caine has been stabbed, and it seems that everyone on the set had a motive. Caine had just fired his PA. He had fallen out with his director, slept with the screenwriter, humiliated his co-star and dropped his agent days before he was about to sign a multi-million-dollar deal to appear in the next Spider-Man movie. But what if Caine's murderer had made a mistake? What if it was the real Hawthorne who was the intended victim? For it turns out that the brilliant detective may have got it wrong ten years earlier. An innocent man has died in jail. And perhaps someone has decided that Hawthorne must pay the price. From the film set on the south coast of England, the story moves to Reeth, in Yorkshire, the village where Hawthorne grew up. A burned-down school, a car accident that isn't what it seems, blackmail and murder in an Elizabethan country house . . . somehow they combine to unlock the secret of what has happened in Hastings. For once, the local police are helpful. DS Sarah Milnes gives Hawthorne carte blanche to investigate and there may even be a hint of romance in the air. Which leaves his hapless sidekick, Horowitz, on his own, stumbling his way to the truth. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, A Deadly Episode is an intriguing page-turner that once again demonstrates why Anthony Horowitz is the reigning king of the modern whodunit. Read-alikes: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma.
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| The Politician by Tim SullivanWhen Peggy Frampton, a former Bristol mayor turned influencer, is killed, methodical DS George Cross, who's on the autism spectrum, realizes this isn't a burglary gone wrong as others assume. But was the killer someone from Peggy's professional life or was it more personal, such as her cheating barrister husband or gambling-addicted adult son? Though this is the 4th in an acclaimed British series, readers can start here. Read-alikes: The Loose End by A.J. Cross, The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter |
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