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| The Ghost of Christmas Past by Rhys BowenHistorical Mystery. Molly Murphy Sullivan has had a difficult 1906. Now, just before Christmas, she's struggling with depression in the aftermath of physical and emotional trauma that led to a miscarriage. When the semi-retired private detective's family plans for the holiday suddenly change, she, her police detective husband Daniel, and their two-year-old son end up at a Hudson River mansion. There, they become embroiled in a mystery when a 13-year-old girl appears on Christmas Eve, claiming to be their hosts' long-missing daughter. Readers who enjoy compelling stories featuring strong women will appreciated this 17th series entry. |
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| Heaven's Crooked Finger by Hank EarlyMystery. In this gritty debut novel, the 1st in a new series, private detective Earl Marcus returns home to the North Georgia mountains, a place he never wanted to see again. He's there to visit "Granny," a dying black woman who took him in when his father, a fundamentalist Christian pastor fond of snake handling, kicked him out. But his visit unearths secrets and danger, as he learns his estranged brother now pastors his father's old church, hears rumors that his recently deceased dad has risen from the dead, and learns that local teenage girls have been disappearing, only to return with strange tattoos. Fans of John Hart will want to snag this richly described book set in a small southern town. |
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Twelve slays of Christmas
by Jacqueline Frost
After Holly's fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding at the last minute, she heads home to her family's tree farm where she is forced to defend her father's innocence after he is accused of killing the president of the historical society
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| The Shadow District by Arnaldur IndridasonPolice Procedural. When a 90-year-old man is smothered to death, retired Reykjavik police detective Konrad is asked to look into the case by an old friend on the force. He soon discovers that the death is linked to the murders of two women years ago, during the occupation of Iceland by Allies in World War II, and that some locals claimed the killings were the work of the "hidden people" of Icelandic folk tales. This fascinating 1st in the Reykjavik Wartime series by the bestselling author of the Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries is a good bet for fans of parallel storylines, evocative settings, and well-plotted tales. |
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| Cast Iron by Peter MayMystery. In this stellar final book of six in the Enzo files, 56-year-old Scottish forensic expert Enzo Macleod once again investigates a cold case taken from a book written by his ambitious future son-in-law. In 1989 in western France, a wealthy young woman out for a walk disappeared; in 2003, her skeleton was found nearby. Digging into the woman's past in 2011, Enzo stirs up trouble; someone wants things left alone and might hurt Enzo's family if he doesn't. Readers who enjoy suspenseful, fair-play mysteries will want to pick up Cast Iron. |
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The vanishing season
by Joanna Schaffhausen
An award-winning first novel follows the experiences of a police officer who hides her identity as a serial killer's only surviving victim while overseeing petty crime in a sleepy community where the disappearances of three people on a fateful anniversary compels the officer to reach out to the FBI agent who saved her years earlier.
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| Winter's Child by Margaret CoelMystery. Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden witnesses her friend and fellow lawyer Clint Hopkins run down by a truck during a blizzard; while others think it was an accident, Vicky believes it was murder. Since she had just teamed up with Hopkins to help a Native American couple hoping to adopt an abandoned white child they've raised for five years, Vicky works that case and checks into the hit and run. Along with her friend, Jesuit priest Father John, she unravels a disturbing connection between the child, the lawyer's death, a missing Arapaho wanted by the cops, and very old secret. Though this is the 20th and last entry in the John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries, newcomers can easily begin here. |
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| The Ice Princess by Camilla LäckbergScandinavian Crime Fiction. With this atmospheric U.S. debut, which won France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Best International Crime Novel, Camilla Läckberg joined a long list of Scandinavian authors to watch. In this leisurely paced tale, biographer Erica Falck returns to her tiny hometown of Fjällbacka after her parents' unexpected deaths...and stumbles across the body of her childhood friend, Alexandra. It's unclear whether Alexandra's death was suicide or murder, but the town seems to be hiding plenty of deadly secrets. Joining Erica in her attempts to find the truth behind Alexandra's death is Detective Patrik Hedström in this 1st in a popular series. |
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A cold and lonely place : a novel
by Sara J. Henry
A follow-up to Learning to Swim finds Troy Chance discovering her roommate's boyfriend's murdered body in the Saranac Lake ice palace before becoming enmeshed in the victim's wealthy family's dangerous and closely guarded secrets. 25,000 first printing.
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Heaven's keep : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Receiving evidence that a plane crash that killed his wife may not have been an actual event and that she may still be alive, Cork O'Connor travels to Wyoming to investigate allegations about the pilot's actual identity and is confronted by a series of deadly interferences. By the award-winning author of Red Knife.
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