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| On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys BowenHistorical Cozy. In April 1935, Wallis Simpson, an American socialite on her second marriage, has entranced the Prince of Wales, and both are attending a house party in Italy. Georgie Rannoch, 35th in line to the British throne, agrees to act as the queen's eyes and ears at the gathering...which means she's present when a murder occurs. Georgie also helps an unmarried pregnant friend, secluded in a nearby clinic. Like the others in the lighthearted Royal Spyness mysteries, this 11th provides a fascinating glimpse at British aristocracy. |
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| Down a Dark Road: A Kate Burkholder Novel by Linda CastilloMystery. Joseph King, an Amish man convicted of murdering his wife, escapes prison and heads to Painters Mill, Ohio, where his children live. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, who grew up Amish and was close friends with King as a kid, finds him; he claims he's innocent and says evidence supports him. When a police sniper kills King, Kate doesn't back off trying to find the truth in this 11th entry in the gritty series. If you enjoy atmospheric rural settings, well-drawn characters, and a no-nonsense heroine, also try Julia Keller's Bell Elkins series, featuring a West Virginia prosecutor (the 1st is A Killing in the Hills). |
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| Gone to Dust: A Novel by Matt GoldmanMystery. Minneapolis, Minnesota PI Nils Shapiro takes on a messy -- literally and figuratively -- case when he agrees to help a police detective friend in a wealthy suburb: whoever murdered Maggie Somerville at her mansion appears to have emptied dozens of vacuum cleaner bags over the house, making viable DNA evidence unlikely. With a wisecracking detective, irreverent humor, and plenty of red herrings, Gone to Dust is fresh and fun. Though this is a debut novel, readers are in good hands: Matt Goldman is an Emmy Award-winning writer. |
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| The Devil's Muse by Bill LoehfelmPolice Procedural. It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, and tough-as-nails rookie police officer Maureen Somerville is working her first night parade. She knew it'd be crazy, but she didn't think that within a few minutes of each other she'd see an overdose victim run into a car and hear a shooting, which injures multiple people (including a child). While Maureen and her fellow cops try to capture the bad guys in this fast-paced 5th outing, they deal with partiers, gangbangers, drama-seeking videographers, an incompetent detective, and complicated race relations. |
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| Dishing the Dirt: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. BeatonMystery. Agatha Raisin is no one's idea of a meek, humble person. So when a new therapist arrives in her Cotswold village, goes out with Agatha's ex-husband, and snoops into Agatha's background, Agatha pushes back, threatening the woman. Loudly. That's a problem when the therapist turns up dead. M.C. Beaton is one of several pseudonyms that prolific Scottish author Marion Chesney uses (she also writes historical romances). Dishing the Dirt is the 26th outing for Agatha; the 28th and latest in the series, The Witches' Tree, comes out in October. |
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| The Silver Swan by Benjamin BlackHistorical Mystery. A beautiful woman is found dead, washed up on the rocks, an apparent suicide. Her husband asks pathologist Quirke, an old school acquaintance, to skip the autopsy because he doesn't want his wife to be cut. But Quirke, who's been sober for six months, notices a puncture mark on her arm, and he not only does the autopsy, but also begins digging into the lady's past. Booker Prize-winner John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, produces a "tense, engrossing tale of passion, crimes, and chaos" (Booklist) in this well-written follow-up to Christine Falls. |
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Career of evil
by Robert Galbraith
Mystery. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible-and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them... Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling. It is a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.
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The painted queen
by Elizabeth Peters
Historical Mystery. Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins. When a stranger bursts into her elegant Cairo hotel suite and dies from injuries sustained during an interrupted assassination attempt on her life, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts while navigating the murderous activities of master-of-disguise, Sethos. By mystery author Joan Tess.
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