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| The Secrets of the Abbey by Jean-Luc BannalecIn coastal Brittany, France, Police Commissaire Dupin and his team investigate when Second Inspector Kadeg is attacked and critically injured at his elderly aunt's property, just days after she died in odd circumstances. At the aunt's home in a restored former abbey on the Côte des Légendes, Dupin finds secrets and murder. Like the others in the series, this 11th entry lovingly describes the setting and food and works as a standalone story. |
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| A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan HarperIn Los Angeles, people make money however they can. Jake monitors the police scanner and livestreams to his many followers, defense attorney Gibson reluctantly represents a big-time TV producer charged with possession of child abuse images, and Kara works for a private concierge service, getting the wealthy what they want. Then a missing woman connects them, upending their lives. For fans of: gritty neo-noir novels with well-crafted dialogue; Jonathan Ames' Happy Doll novels. |
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How to Cheat Your Own Death by Kristen Perrin1968: Frances Adams is loving her new London life, and she's stepped into a world of glamour thanks to her new friend, Vera Huntington--a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative. Vera dances around London like she owns it, taking Frances with her. Present day: When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her famous artist mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Laura's new protégée, left in an alley with her heart surgically removed from her chest. Annie is no stranger to murder--after all, she's solved a few already. And something about this case feels familiar. She's read about one just like it in the journals of her late great aunt Frances, whose friend Vera was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way. As Annie investigates, threats pile up on Laura's doorstep, and it soon becomes clear that she's next. With her mother's life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it's too late?
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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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Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel by Anne Perry1913: 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, struggling with grief and disbelief, 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. Eager to assist, 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. Despite Miriam's involvement in the case, Daniel finds himself distracted by his desire to help Toby, who is too distraught to investigate the attack on his parents. And when the evidence points to Toby's father as the killer of Toby's mother, Daniel faces two of the greatest challenges of his young career: proving the innocence of both Peter Ward and Reverend Kitteridge. One mistake in London and a blameless man will hang. One mistake in Ipswich and Toby's father will go to prison for life.
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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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| Pomona Afton Can Totally Catch a Killer by Bellamy RoseIn this fun sequel to Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder, heiress Pomona Afton has started a charity to help kids go to college. She's hosting her first gala at the New York Public Library when she discovers the body of her biggest donor. With her best friend the prime suspect, Pomona tries to solve the murder, getting help from her middle-class boyfriend. Read-alikes: Jenny Elder Moke's She Doesn't Have a Clue; Amanda Chapman's Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library. |
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The Keeper by Tana FrenchOn a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fianc e Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty's tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel's death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
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| Nobody's Baby by Olivia WaiteOn the HMS Fairweather, a luxurious interstellar passenger liner, ship's detective Dorothy Gentleman investigates when an infant is left on her nephew's doorstep. Since fertility is supposed to be on pause during the journey, Dorothy has lots of questions, and while she looks for answers, her nephew and his partner grow attached to the baby. Readers who appreciate smart, fresh takes on cozy mysteries will want to pick up this delightful 2nd in a series. Try this next: Malka Older's Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti series. |
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