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| The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
#2 Two Rivers SeriesDI 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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Blessing of the lost girls
by Judith A. Jance
#1 Brady and Walker Series
Returning to her southwest roots, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance presents a riveting new Walker Family suspense novel in which human remains found in Cochise County have federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, stepping into Sheriff Joanna Brady's jurisdiction. As the investigation to track down a killer who preys on Indigenous victims unfolds, Jance brings together popular characters from both her Brady and Walker books.
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| Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala
#4 Tita Rosie's Kitchen SeriesCafe owner Lila Macapagal's godmothers usually know everything that goes on in their small Illinois town, but when a relative visiting from the Philippines is murdered in their new laundromat, they need Lila to sort out what happened. This lighthearted 4th entry in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen series, which began with Arsenic and Adobo, includes recipes. |
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| The Lady from Burma by Allison Montclair
#5 Sparks & Bainbridge SeriesIn their atmospheric 5th outing, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge, who run a marriage agency in post-World War II London, look into the murder of a dying woman and navigate tough personal issues (like Gwen's dealings with the lunacy board). Read-alikes: Jessica Ellicott's Beryl and Edwina mysteries; Ashley Weaver's Electra McDonnell novels. |
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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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The socialite's guide to death and dating : a Pinnacle Hotel mystery
by S. K. Golden
#2 Pinnacle Hotel Series
New York, 1958. Even though Evelyn Murphy has made progress conquering her agoraphobia by leaving the Pinnacle, she still feels most comfortable in her father's hotel. With Malcolm Cooper, her new boyfriend and fellow employee at the hotel, Evelyn feels prepared for whatever happens next. In this case, it's throwing a big fundraiser with the who's who of New York City. As the party ends, she discovers the dead body of a guest in a car-with a needle in his arm. Detective Hodgson and his new partner, Detective McJimsey, arrive on the scene, but before they can begin to question Evelyn, they are startled by another mysterious discovery: there's a woman in the trunk of the car.
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The shadow girls
by Alice Blanchard
#4 Natalie Lockhart Series
Obsessed with finding the truth surrounding the death of Burning Lake's most respected modern-day witch as well as her sister's traumatic murder and her old friend's disappearance, Natalie becomes locked in a twisted, elemental struggle between good and evil—and nothing will ever be the same again. 35,000 first printing.
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Murder by Degrees
by Ritu Mukerji
In 1875 Philadelphia, Dr. Lydia Weston, a professor and anatomist at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, investigates the death of her patient Anna, a young woman who seemingly committed suicide, and discovers a terrible, long hidden secret that makes her the target of those who wished to silence Anna.
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| Those We Thought We Knew by David JoyToya Gardner, a young Black artist, plans to spend the summer in her grandmother's small North Carolina mountain town, which is overdue for a reckoning with its racist past. Then the KKK show up and violence erupts, leading to murder. Read-alikes: S.A Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed; Attica Locke's Heaven, My Home. |
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Let it crow! Let it crow! Let it crow!
by Donna Andrews
#34 Meg Langslow Series
Participating in a weaponsmithing competition taking place on the estate of her friend Ragnar, a retired heavy metal drummer, Meg joins a cast laden with grudges and feuds who have large weapons and forges full of fire at their disposal—what could possibly go wrong?
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A cold highland wind
by Tasha Alexander
#17 Lady Emily Ashton Series
While vacationing at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of the Duke of Bainbridge, Lady Emily, when the duke's gamekeeper is murdered, investigates, discovering a link between his brutal death and that of a harrowing witchcraft trial hundreds of years ago that reveals the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village.
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Murders of a feather
by Eileen Brady
#3 Dr. Kate Vet Series
Discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake, and then finding the dead body of her temporary receptionist who appears to have overdosed, Dr. Kate, when all three fatalities are ruled homicides, decides she needs to investigate rather than let sleeping dogs lie. Original.
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Home at night
by Paula Munier
#5 Mercy & Elvis Series
Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room-and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library. There's something about Grackle Tree Farm that people are willing to kill for-and Mercy needs to figure out what before they move in. A coded letter found on the victim points to a hidden treasure that may be worth a fortune-if it's real. She and Captain Thrasher conduct a search of the old place-and end up at the wrong end of a Glock.
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Ukulele of death
by E. J. Copperman
After losing their parents when they were just babies, private investigators Fran and Ken Stein now specialize in helping adoptees find their birth parents. So when a client asks them for help finding her father, with her only clue a rare ukulele, the case is a little weird, sure, but it's nothing they can't handle. All Fran wants to do is find the ukulele and collect their fee, but it's hard to keep your focus when you're stumbling over corpses and receiving messages that suggest your (dead) parents are very much alive. Ukuleles aside, it's becoming clear that someone knows something they shouldn't - that Fran and Ken Stein weren't so much born, as built.
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'Twas the bite before christmas
by David Rosenfelt
#28 Andy Carpenter Series
When one of the Tara Foundation's best foster volunteers, Derek Moore, is arrested for murder during the annual Christmas party, lawyer Andy Carpenter, believing in Derek's innocence, discovers he's in the witness protection program and vows to clear his name and catch a killer before this case goes to the dogs. Simultaneous.
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Six sweets under
by Sarah Fox
#1 True Confections Series
Former actress-turned-chocolatier, Becca Ransom, while testing new flavors in preparation for the annual Gondola Races, must prove the innocence of her grandfather, the event's organizer, in the murder of local curmudgeon Archie Smith who was stirring up trouble in an attempt to keep tourists away from Larch Haven. Original.
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Baking spirits bright
by Sarah Fox
#2 True Confections Series
Competing in the Baking Spirits Bright holiday baking contest, chocolatier Becca Ransom, when the competition quickly heats up, resulting in the murder of an entrant by her chocolate chipper, tries to salvage the holiday season by finding a killer before she gets burned. Original.
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