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Death at the sanatorium
by Ragnar Jâonasson
A cold case from 1983 involving the murder of a nurse at an Icelandic hospital is reopened in 2012 by a young police officer who digs deeper into the past and meets with the original suspects. 50,000 first printing.
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The examiner
by Janice Hallett
Told in emails, text messages and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of six Royal Hastings University students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry.
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Death at the sign of the rook : a novel
by Kate Atkinson
Ex-detective Jackson Brodie investigates a string of unsolved art thefts that point to a former estate that was converted into a hotel and now hosts Murder Mystery themed weekends, in the sixth novel of the series following Big Sky.
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The rose arbor : a novel
by Rhys Bowen
In 1968 London, obituary writer Liz Houghton, to break into the newsroom at a London newspaper, helps her best friend, a police officer, investigate a high-profile case and uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II that is linked to the recent disappearance of a young girl and a murder.
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| Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart TaylorIn 1965, former Boston cop Franklin Warren navigates a new job with the Vermont State Police's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and adjusts to small-town life. Things start hot when a suspicious fire and death on a remote farm has him thinking an unpopular farmer was murdered. This richly detailed, character-driven mystery paints a fascinating picture of rural New England life. Read-alike: Kate Tietjen's Death in the Details. |
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Little bookshop of murder
by Maggie Blackburn
Summer Merriweather, a Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop and a murder mystery that she takes upon herself to investigate.
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The murder of Mr. Ma
by John Shen Yen Nee
In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Twelve angry librarians
by Miranda James
Attending the Southern ALA annual meeting only to be confronted by an old nemesis from library school, interim library director Charlie Harris is wrongly implicated in his rival's murder and must discover which of their fellow librarians is the true killer in order to clear his own name. By the New York Times best-selling author of No Cats Allowed.
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The Cloisters : a novel
by Katy Hays
Assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden, curatorial associate Ann Stilwell becomes obsessed with the history of fortune-telling after discovering a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future, blurring the line between the modern and the arcane.
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