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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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Murder At La Villette
by Cara Black
Framed for the murder of her daughter's father, a former homicide investigator, Parisian P.I. Aimïe Leduc must quickly find the real killer and, cut off from her typical network and forced to operate undercover, goes deep into the underbelly of Paris' 19th arrondissement on her hunt for justice.
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In Sunshine or In Shadow
by Rhys Bowen
Deep in the New York Catskills in 1908, tensions are running high, and it's not long before a body delays Molly Murphy's return to Westchester.
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Hammers and Homicide
by Paula Charles
While running the hardware store she owned with her husband, a recently widowed sexagenarian discovers the body of a land developer in her shop's bathroom and works with her adult daughter and a neighboring shop owner to uncover the murderer.
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Murder In the Tea Leaves
by Laura Childs
When she reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark Fortunes, which results in the film's director murder, Theodosia Browning starts her own shadow investigation, and just when she's about to solve the case, another murder occurs, sending her back to square one.
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Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins
After surviving a wildfire that ripped through her hometown, Alison emerges from her home to find a dead woman in her driveway, which sends her on a search for answers across Australia's scorched bushlands where she learns fire isn't the only threat she's facing.
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A Catered Quilting Bee
by Isis Crawford
When one of their members is discovered dead, the members of the Longley Sip and Sew Quilting Circle don't accept the police's determination of suicide, in the seventeenth novel of the series following A Catered Book Club Murder.
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The Hunter
by Tana French
Moving to rural Ireland, Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid, but when Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme, Trey wants revenge.
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Cold To the Touch : a Novel
by Kerri Hakoda
When women are being kidnapped and murdered, including a bright young college student he bought coffee from every morning, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, Anchorage homicide detective DeHavilland Beans and his team are determined to stop a serial killer's spree before it's too late.
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Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
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Close To Death : a Novel
by Anthony Horowitz
When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife.
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| Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonoughIn 1866, Scotland Yard DI Richard Tennant is surprised when Dr. Julia Lewis, who normally helps cholera victims, arrives at a grisly London crime scene instead of her ill grandfather. But with a serial killer at work, he desperately needs her help. |
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The Fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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| The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. RozanIn 1924 London, unexpected events lead quiet academic lecturer Lao She to team up with larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie to figure out who's killing Chinese immigrants who served in France during the Great War. |
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| Cahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordIn this noirish alternate history starring a hardboiled police detective, Indigenous people didn't die of smallpox and make up a large percentage of 1922 Cahokia, a city on the Mississippi where everyone gets along fairly well. But the grisly murder of a white man agitates race relations. |
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Death In the Details : a Novel
by Katie Tietjen
A World War II widow creating and selling intricate dollhouses to avoid foreclosure on her Vermont home investigates when her first customer turns up suspiciously dead, relying on help from a rookie police officer and her own skills at crafting miniatures.
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| Listen For the Lie by Amy TinteraDespite misgivings, Lucy Chase returns to her Texas hometown, where everyone thinks she killed her best friend five years ago on a night she can't recall. Now a podcaster is on the case, and Lucy's going to help. This atmospheric novel is a Good Morning America Book Club selection. |
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Butter : a Novel of Food and Murder
by Asako Yuzuki
After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins corresponding with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen and notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats.
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