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Set in 19th century England, this engaging and intricately plotted series stars Kat Holloway, a likable, sought-after cook who discovers a knack for investigation after a murder occurs at her employer's Mayfair mansion. With a little help from her resourceful friend Daniel McAdam and her own natural people skills, Kat solves murders and thefts that touch all parts of Victorian society.
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This character-driven and action-packed series centered on Cass Raines, a courageous Black cop-turned-private detective. Using whip-smart first-person narrative to vividly describe the Chicago setting gives the series a refreshing social justice component. Cass is a strong female protagonist, whose tenacious investigations expose her to menacing and dangerous scenarios.
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Brimming with madcap violence and macabre humor, these fast-paced, gritty novels follow a deranged yet charismatic vigilante killer as he travels across Florida visiting cultural landmarks, participating in outlandish capers, and killing evildoers in inventively ghoulish ways. Readers with a sardonic sense of humor will enjoy the non-stop action, seedy atmosphere, and amusing galleries of degenerates and weirdos.
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Magpie Murders is a brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it. A fictionalized-version of author Anthony Horowitz acts as sidekick and chronicler to ex-cop turned private investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
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Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series. Her new crime series featuring Detective Inaya Rahman begins with Blackwater Falls.
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This masterful, many-tiered examination of British police work features an unorthodox and shrewd chief superintendent in Bath, England who is always bucking police bureaucracy. These traditional police procedurals are filled with compelling characters, intricate plots, and witty dialogue. The mysteries are made up of puzzles and red herrings that keep the stories moving quickly and the reader guessing.
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Set in the 1920s as the sun is beginning to set on the British Raj, this engaging mystery series stars Perveen Mistry, an Oxford graduate and the first female attorney in Bombay. Perveen's unique status allows her to take her investigations into spaces that no man or Englishwoman could ever hope to access as easily.
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This witty and engaging amateur detective series is about a club composed of four septuagenarian residents in an upscale English retirement home who meet regularly to pore over old and new criminal investigations. The books offer intricate and suspenseful plots to solve cases of theft, murder, and espionage told from multiple perspectives of likable and spirited protagonists with exciting backstories.
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When his former partner is murdered by an unusually skilled sniper, a disabled former FBI agent with an exceptional ability for reading difficult crime scenes struggles to outmaneuver a killer during a historical blizzard.
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Set in the 1890s, these engaging and intricately plotted mysteries star former Secret Service agent John Quincannon and former Pinkerton agent Sabrina Carpenter, who join forces in their own private detective agency. It's not uncommon for their seemingly separate investigations to overlap or even directly connect in the volatile and complicated world that was 19th century San Francisco.
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Detective Marcus Tullius Jarsdel isn’t your average cop. Known as the “professor detective” after abandoning work on his PhD in ancient history to enroll in the police academy instead, Jarsdel has the kind of free-floating intellect that helps him piece together disparate clues to solve tricky cases.
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Set in 1970s San Francisco, Colleen Hayes, an ex-con who killed her husband, has now become a Private Investigator. She takes her knowledge of the criminal mind and uses it to solve her cases.
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