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| Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Ernest Cunningham #2The Mystery Writers' Society of Australia hosts a crime festival on a cross-country train trip -- and there's a murder. Festivalgoer and writer Ernest Cunningham delightfully spins the tale of what happened in this fast-paced sequel to Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. Read-alikes: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express; Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders mysteries or his Daniel Hawthorne series. |
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| The Lace Widow by Mollie Ann Cox
An Eliza Hamilton Mystery #1Alexander Hamilton is dead, killed days earlier in an 1804 duel. His widow Eliza sells lace for much-needed money -- and she also turns sleuth after one of the witnesses to the duel is killed and her 18-year-old son is accused of the crime. Read-alikes: Amanda Flower's Because I Could Not Stop for Death, which stars Emily Dickenson. |
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| Gaslight by Femi Kayode
Philip Taiwo #2After years in the United States, investigative psychologist Dr. Philip Taiwo is settling back in in Nigeria with his wife and teenage daughter (who's having trouble adjusting). Then his sister asks him to find the missing wife of her megachurch pastor and major trouble ensues in this 2nd in a series (which can be read as a standalone). Read-alike: Kwei Quartey's Emma Djan novels. |
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The road to murder
by Camilla Trinchieri
Tuscan Mystery #4
Former NYPD detective Nico Doyle reluctantly agrees to help Perillo of the local carabinieri when a witness to the murder of Signora Nora speaks only English and, faced with a long list of suspects, have their hands full as they try to solve this case and restore peace to Gravigna.
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| Sniffing Out Murder by Kallie E. Benjamin
Bailey the Bloodhound Mystery #1Teacher and children's book author Priscilla "Pris" Cummings and her bloodhound Bailey must sniff out who killed Whitney Kelley, the mean-girl mother of one of Pris' students with whom Pris recently had words. This is the 1st in a new series by the author who also writes as V.M. Burns (the Mystery Bookshop series) and Valerie Burns (the Baker Street mysteries). |
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Knife Skills
by Wendy Church
Shadows of Chicago #1
When her boss, head chef Louie Ferrar is murdered, Sagarine Pfister is drawn into the world of Russian mob boss Anatoly Morzov, and with the FBI pressuring her to inform on the gang, she must decide where her loyalties lie when she falls for one of Morzov's lieutenants.
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A Deadly Endeavor
by Jenny Adams
Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she’s shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman—and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city, her newfound independence begins to feel dangerous.
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Ghost island
by Max Seeck
Jessica Niemi Series #4
A homicide detective, Jessica Niemi, investigates a drowning on a remote island in the Åland archipelago that appears to be tied to a frightening local, ghostly legend, in the fifth novel of the series following The Last Grudge. Original.
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Double grudge donuts
by Ginger Bolton
Deputy Donut Mystery #8
Deputy Donut Café owner Emily Westhill and her cat investigate a contest-winning bagpiper's death when one of their coffee mugs turns up at the crime scene, in the eighth novel of the series following Boston Scream Murder. Original.
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| The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes
The Expectant Detective Series #1In this fun debut, pregnant Alice, her partner, and her dog have just moved from pricy London to the charming Cotswolds. When a shopkeeper is murdered downstairs from Alice's prenatal class, she teams up with other mums-to-be/suspects to investigate. For fans of: modern-day cozies set in England, such as Simon Brett's Decluttering mysteries and Jenn McKinlay's Hat Shop mysteries. |
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Twice the Trouble
by Ash Clifton
A private investigator follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target—or die trying. Noland Twice, a star athlete turned private investigator, can find anyone, no matter how far they run or how well they hide. He works the Orlando-Tampa corridor, a bizarre land where theme parks and tourists coexist with drug deals and crooked businessmen. When a shady local executive, Valkenburg, goes missing, Noland is the only man for the job.
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In the fog
by Richard Harding Davis
On the evening following London's great fog of 1897, five men are lounging at the Grill, an exclusive gentleman's club. One, a visiting American diplomat, tells the others that while lost in the fog the night before, he stumbled upon the scene of a double murder! Scotland Yard, he relates, is baffled, but a second club member corroborates the diplomat's fantastic tale, confirming that the murder victims were a Russian princess and a young British adventurer. Now the third guest adds his own intimate knowledge of the victims-coincidentally, it seems, he is the solicitor for the adventurer's family. Who committed this heinous crime? And what do these men have to do with it? Until the tale's shocking conclusion reveals all, readers will feel as though they, too, have been wandering in the fog.
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Perfect opportunity
by Steven Havill
Posadas County Mystery #16
The morning after his eighty-seventh birthday bash, former Posadas County sheriff Bill Gastner drives past a couple of vehicles stopped on the highway shoulder. It's not an unusual sight: a sheriff's patrol unit, emergency lights ablaze, pulled in behind a pickup truck. The female deputy hasn't radioed for backup. But there's something about the scene that makes him feel uneasy. The next day, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to a rather more dramatic and disturbing roadside scene, with the same truck the star of the show. But this time, its occupant is in no fit state to talk - his dead body stabbed through the chest with a Ka-Bar, a second corpse in the ditch beside the car. What happened to the two men? And what were the dead man and the deputy discussing in the quiet of pre-dawn the previous day? The truth is more twisty and complex than even Estelle and her long-standing friend and former colleague Bill are ready for, and it will take all their combined years of experience to untangle the sorry tale and ensure justice is served.
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Malice
by Keigo Higashino
Kyoichiro Kaga Series #1
When a best-selling Japanese novelist is found murdered the night before he was scheduled to move to another country, police detective Kyochiro Kaga uncovers a deadly game involving the victim's best friend and rival. By the Edgar Award-finalist author of The Devotion of Suspect X.
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Newcomer
by Keigo Higashino
Kyoichiro Kaga Series #2
Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
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