| Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily Mystery by Tasha AlexanderIn St. Petersburg the body of a young prima ballerina, is discovered in the snow, still wearing her white Swan Lake tutu. Having attended the ballet, Lady Emily and her British spy husband become involved in a case that is complicated by a distraught lover, the politics of Tsarist Russia, and sightings of a ghostly dancer. This well-researched 12th entry in the Lady Emily mysteries will make readers feel as if they've visited St. Petersburg. Ballet aficionados will find much to like here, including narrative parts of the story that portray the young ballerina at school. |
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| The Seagull by Ann CleevesDCI Vera Stanhope's latest case has a link to her now-deceased cop father, who raised her alone...and sometimes used her as a lookout on some of his less-than-legal outings with his "Gang of Four." While Vera's giving a talk at a prison, current inmate (and former cop and Gang-of-Four member) John Brace tells her he has info about a buried body -- if she looks after his daughter. Vera agrees, and then the cops dig up two skeletons instead of one. What do a 1980s bar and her father have to do with it all? Tough, dedicated Vera will sort it out. This is the 8th in the compelling series that inspired TV's Vera. |
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Cold hearted river : a Sean Stranahan mystery
by Keith McCafferty
A story of lost treasure, Cold Hearted River begins with the death of a woman, stranded in a spring snowstorm, who in desperation climbs into a bear's den. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger, reunited with once-again lover Sean Stranahan, investigates, she finds a fly wallet in a pannier of the dead woman's horse, the leather engraved with the initials EH. Only a few days before, Patrick Willoughby, the president of the Madison River Liars and Fly Tiers Club, had been approached by a man selling fishing gear that he claims once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. A coincidence? Sean doesn't think so, and he soon finds himself on the trail of a missing steamer trunk rumored to contain not only the famous writer's valuable fly fishing gear, but priceless samples of his unpublished work.
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The Well of Ice : an Inishowen mystery
by An Andrea Carter Mystery
December in Glendara, Inishowen, and solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is working flat-out before the holidays; the one bright spot on her horizon is spending her first Christmas with Sergeant Tom Molloy. But on a trip to Dublin to visit her parents, she bumps into Luke Kirby - the man who killed her sister - freshly released from jail. He apologises to her; remorseful, conciliatory ... but as she walks away, he whispers something that chills her to the bone. Back in Glendara, there is chaos. The Oak pub has burned down and Carole Kearney, the Oak's barmaid, has gone missing. And then on Christmas morning, while walking up Sliabh Sneacht, Ben and Molloy make a gruesome discovery: a body lying face-down in the snow ... Soon it becomes clear that these events are part of a plan for revenge that will have devastating consequences for Glendara's residents.
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Blood Orange
by Susan Wittig Albert
Cozy Mystery. In the small Texas Hill Country town of Pecan Springs, herbalist China Bayles tends her shop, About Thyme, as well as jointly running a tea room and a rental house. When the nurse renting the cottage discovers disturbing evidence about a patient's death, and then a suspicious accident lands her in a coma, China and her friends investigate. Like the Faith Fairchild mysteries, the China Bayles mysteries feature over two dozen series entries starring a strong female amateur sleuth living in a richly described small-town setting (and recipes are included!). Blood Orange is the 24th China book; the most recent one is The Last Chance Olive Ranch, which came out earlier this year.
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The Frangipani Tree Mystery
by Ovidia Yu
1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth SuLin, a local girl stepping in as governess for the Acting Governor of Singapore. 1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl SuLin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place. But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House. It now takes all SuLin's traditional skills and intelligence to help British-born Chief Inspector Thomas LeFroy solve the murders - and escape with her own life.
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
by Theodora Goss
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture...a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.
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Agatha Raisin and the witches' tree
by M.C Beaton
Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to see the road ahead, and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights, a body hangs from a gnarled tree at the edge of town. Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster, has been murdered, and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion (a little glad for the excitement, to tell the truth, after a long run of lost cats and divorces on the books). But Sumpton Harcourt is a small and private village, she finds, a place that poses more questions than answers. And when two more murders follow the first, Agatha begins to fear for her reputation, and even her life.
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Soul Cage
by Tetsuya Honda ; translated by Giles Murray
A worker reports his boss missing, and a large amount of blood is found in the rented garage he used. At the same time, a severed left hand is found in a minivan abandoned in the outskirts of Tokyo, which is quickly identified as belonging to this missing man, Kenichi Takaoka. Lt. Reiko Himekawa of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to the investigation, along with her squad and several other units. From the amount of blood spilled in the van and at the crime scene, it's clear to the team that the missing contractor Keninichi Takaoka is dead and presumably murdered. But searches of the area around the abandoned van and the river itself fail to turn up the rest of the body...
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The Companion
by Sarah Dunnakey
Billy Shaw lives in a palace. Potter's Pleasure Palace, the best entertainment venue in Yorkshire, complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink. Jasper Harper lives in the big house above the valley, with his eccentric mother Edie and Uncle Charles, brother and sister authors who have come from London to write in the seclusion of the moors. When it is arranged for Billy to become Jasper's companion, Billy arrives to find a wild, peculiar boy in a curiously haphazard household where nothing that's meant is said and the air is thick with secrets. Later, when Charles and Edie are found dead, it is ruled a double suicide, but fictions have become tangled up in facts...
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