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One By One: A Danny Ryan Mystery
by Sarah Cain
Mystery. Philadelphia journalist Danny Ryan is finally getting his life together. Then an old high school acquaintance, Greg Moss, shows up asking for help. He’s been getting threatening text messages, and he’s not the only one. Other members of Danny’s high school class have gotten the same messages and now they’re dead. Danny finds himself drawn down the dark corridors of his own life as he tries to put together the lost memories from one fateful high school party all those years ago. When Danny receives a text of his own, it's a race to find the truth before the killer, much like his own past, can catch up to him. The electrifying follow-up to The 8th Circle.
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What You Don't Know
by JoAnn Chaney
Mystery. The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn’t kill. Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers -- and then it cracked him. He’s in cold cases, as is his career. Sammie was the lead reporter who broke the story, but now she’s selling makeup at the mall. She wants back on page one. Gloria claims she was the unsuspecting wife. She didn’t know a thing. As new murders shake Denver, this is a final chance to get their lives back. A series of murders brings Denver to its knees in this wonderfully voice driven, dark, wry, and wholly original debut.
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| What You Break by Reed Farrel ColemanHardboiled Detective. In a part of Long Island far removed from the Hamptons, ex-cop Gus Murphy lives at a motel and works as its late-night van driver/bouncer/house detective. Still adjusting after the death of his son, divorced Gus does a favor for a friend and investigates why someone killed a rich businessman's adult granddaughter. Gus also learns that a co-worker, bellman Salva, isn't who he seems and has a darker past than Gus imagined. Navigating a minefield of secrets, street gangs, and Russians with ties to heinous crimes committed decades earlier, this follow-up to Where It Hurts provides a dark, twisty tale for those who like their mysteries hardboiled. |
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| A Cast of Vultures by Judith FlandersMystery. London book editor Sam Clair sets off on her Saturday morning trip to the farmers' market and finds herself in the middle of a neighborhood mystery. Her elderly friend Viv's upstairs neighbor has disappeared, and feisty Viv wants help finding out what happened to him, a little breaking and entering might be involved. Then a series of arsons grows closer when a nearby house inhabited by squatters is torched and a body is found inside. With some help from her police detective boyfriend Jake, Sam tries to unravel what's going on. Third in the Sam Clair series, A Cast of Vultures features a sassy, relatable heroine, eccentric secondary characters, and a lively look at modern London and book publishing. |
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Twelve Angry Librarians: A Cat in the Stacks Mystery
by Miranda James
Cozy Mystery. Attending the Southern American Library Association annual meeting only to be confronted by an old nemesis from library school, interim library director Charlie Harris is wrongly implicated in his rival's murder and must discover which of their fellow librarians is the true killer in order to clear his own name. By the New York Times best-selling author of No Cats Allowed.
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| Snowblind by Ragnar JonassonMystery. Despite his live-in girlfriend's wishes, Ari Thor Arason, who previously studied philosophy and theology, accepts his first police job: a posting in a remote village in Northern Iceland near the Arctic Circle. Accessible by tunnel, it's also completely cut off part of the year. His boss informs him that things are done differently here -- you try to avoid giving people tickets and such. But when a suspicious injury and a murder occur, Ari Thor starts to examine everything, including small town secrets. Everyone from Agatha Christie fans to Arnaldur Indridason readers will want to try this debut novel, which was a bestseller in Europe and is the stunning first in the Dark Iceland series. |
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| The Dime by Kathleen KentPolice Procedural. When Betty "Riz" Rhyzyk, a tough, red-haired, nearly six-foot-tall police detective, relocates from Brooklyn to Dallas, Texas with her long-term girlfriend, she doesn't expect to fit in with the locals. Working in narcotics, Betty does find a friend in her partner Seth; after an operation goes south, the two of them realize the case is bigger than a drug bust and try to sort out what's going on...and if it's related to Biz's stalker and an older case. Gritty and violent but leavened with humor, this scorching first in a new series is perfect for readers who like strong female protagonists, realistic characters, and tight plotting. |
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I See You
by Clare Mackintosh
Mystery. A normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world... Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her. It all starts with a classified ad. Spotting her own picture in an ad referencing a mysterious website, Zoe discovers that other women who have appeared in the ad have become the victims of increasingly violent crimes. By the international best-selling author of I Let You Go.
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A Twist of the Knife
by Becky Masterman
Mystery. Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn travels back to her Florida hometown when her former partner, Laura Coleman, asks for her help with a case that is not going well. Brigid turns skeptical when she learns that her former colleague would save an innocent man on death row. On leave from the Bureau and volunteering for a legal group, Laura is convinced the man did not kill his family. Brigid isn't so sure, but the date set for his execution is coming so they will have to act fast to find any evidence that my absolve him; before it's too late. Third in the Brigid Quinn series by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Fear the Darkness.
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If You Like: Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs
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Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble
by Mignon F. Ballard
Cozy Historical. World War II rages, but not all of the killing is happening on battlefields. In Elderberry, Georgia, an 18-year-old girl has mysteriously disappeared from the peach stand where she'd been working. Amateur sleuth Miss Dimple, who is picking peaches nearby with a few of her fellow teachers when the girl vanishes, helps look for the young woman. But when the teen is found dead, Miss Dimple and her friends dig deeper and learn that the victim had been hiding something and that an eccentric local woman who believes she is Scarlett O’Hara may have witnessed her kidnapping. This fourth, in the leisurely paced Miss Dimple series, is perfect for those who enjoy gentle stories and wonder what life was like on the American home front during the 1940s.
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| Murder in the Afternoon: A Kate Shackleton Mystery by Frances BrodyCozy Historical. When a young girl and her little brother sneak away from home to visit their stonemason dad at work, they find his corpse. They tell an adult, but when the authorities arrive, the body is gone. Their worried mother, Mary Jane, calls on PI Kate Shackleton and asks for help...and tells Kate that they are sisters. Adoptee Kate sets aside news about her biological family and investigates, but soon has a growing suspicion that Mary Jane is harboring a dangerous secret. Fans of post-World War I mysteries set in the United Kingdom and featuring complex characters, such as those by Jacqueline Winspear, will want to try the Kate Shackleton series. This third entry was chosen by Library Journal as one of its five best mysteries for 2014; the seventh in the series, A Death in the Dales, was released in the U.S. last month. |
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| The Moor: A Mary Russell Novel by Laurie R. KingHistorical Mystery. In Dartmoor, 20 years after Sherlock Holmes' famous Baskerville case, a ghostly carriage and dog have been seen by more than one person...and a murder has occurred. Called to investigate by his ill, elderly friend Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, Holmes and his redoubtable young wife Mary Russell stay at Baring-Gould's fascinating house, tramp over the moors, talk with locals, and meet the new owner of Baskerville Hall as they puzzle out the complicated truth. Highly intelligent, courageous, and working during and after World War I, Mary Russell has much in common with Maisie Dobbs; also, like Maisie, Mary was apprenticed to an older and more experienced detective who taught her his methods. The Moor is the fourth in an excellent series; readers who haven't read the first, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, may want to start there. |
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| A Deadly Measure of Brimstone: A Dandy Gilver Mystery by Catriona McPhersonHistorical Mystery. In September 1929, Dandy Gilver's family is already sick with complications from the flu when scarlet fever arrives in their Scottish village. Decamping to a health spa, Dandy hopes to ensure the convalescence of her teenage sons and husband Hugh, while investigating, along with her close friend police detective Alec Osborne, the suspicious death of an elderly widow and ghost-like figures in the Turkish baths. This is the eighth entry in an Agatha Award-winning series; Maisie Dobbs readers who enjoy smart, spirited heroines, 1920s and '30s U.K. settings, and leisurely pacing will want to meet Dandy. |
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| An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles ToddHistorical Mystery. In the summer of 1917, British nurse Bess Crawford accompanies a group of badly wounded soldiers home from the battlefields in France. She recognizes the wife of one of them, he always kept her photo pinned to his tunic, at a London train station -- but she's clinging closely to another soldier. When the woman is murdered, Bess finds herself hunting a killer, especially once the police arrest a soldier she believes to be innocent. An Impartial Witness is the atmospheric second in the series. Those who appreciate strong, independent nurses living during World War I should enjoy spending time with Bess. |
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