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The Lost man by Jane HarperMeeting at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches on an isolated belt of the Australian outback, two brothers navigate the haunting realities of the isolation that ended their third brother's life. By the best-selling author of The Dry
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Forget You Know Me by Jessica StrawserHoping to end an estrangement with her best friend, Liza panics when their video call is interrupted by a masked invader before her friend calls back later, pretending nothing has happened. By the author of Not That I Could Tell
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The Nowhere Child by Christian WhiteA young woman's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she may have been abducted in early childhood by her recently deceased mother.
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The Hangman's Secret : A Victorian Mystery by Laura Joh RowlandWhen a local executioner is found murdered by the same method he used to end criminal lives, photographer Sarah Bain and her friends follow leads to a notorious killer of infants. By the award-winning author of A Mortal Likeness
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| Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg CabotWhat happens: When New York College hosts the first ever Tania Trace Teen Rock Camp, assistant residence hall director (and former teen singing sensation) Heather Wells finds herself trying to stay alive while surrounded by teenage divas in training and working with her P.I. fiancé Cooper Cartwright to catch a killer on the loose.
Read it for: Like the other books in the series, this frothy 4th Heather Wells mystery has a chick-lit feel and plenty of humor. |
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| Fall of Angels by Barbara CleverlyWhat happens: Handsome, well-bred young World War I vet DI John Redfyre begins work with the Cambridge CID in 1923 and attends a holiday concert scandalously headlined by a female trumpeter, who later suffers a suspicious, near-fatal accident.
Series alert: This is the 1st in a new series by the bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands mysteries; the 2nd John Redfyre book, Invitation to Die, comes out in August.
Read this next: If you enjoy this look at Cambridge in the 1920s, try Dorothy L. Sayer's Gaudy Night, which is set at Oxford in the 1930s and also deals with women's rights and poison-pen letters. |
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| A Free Man of Color by Barbara HamblyWhat it's about: In 1833, Benjamin January, a doctor and free man of color, has returned to New Orleans after years in Paris, and must earn his living in the racially divided city as a piano player. But after doing a favor for a former piano student -- a white woman -- he's suspected of murder and turns sleuth to clear his name.
Series alert: Originally published in 1997, A Free Man of Color is the 1st in a 16-book series (the latest, Cold Bayou, came out in October).
Want a taste? "January knew the man would hit him the moment he let go and knew also that he'd better not hit back." |
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| The Prague Sonata by Bradford MorrowWhat happens: In New York, musicologist and former concert pianist Meta Taverner is given a partial manuscript of a mysterious 18th-century sonata. The dying old woman who gave it to her requests that Meta find its true owner...who hasn't been seen since World War II. This leads Meta to Prague, where she looks for answers and the rest of sonata.
Is it for you? Pick it up if you appreciate complex historical stories with multiple perspectives and timelines, missing-item mysteries, and lyrical language. |
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| The Beautiful Mystery by Louise PennyThe setup: In a remote monastery, 24 monks should be contemplating nature and God, but one brother's mind -- and hand -- turns to murder.
What happens: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec arrive to investigate the murder of the order's choir director and meet with the monks, who've taken vows of silence but are the voices on a bestselling album of Gregorian chants.
Series alert: This is the 8th in an elegant, award-winning series; since the well-drawn characters evolve over time, newcomers may want to pick up the 1st in the series, Still Life. |
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