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Out of Hounds
by Rita Mae Brown
What happens: Sister Jane investigates when a series of art thefts and acts of vandalism targeting the Jefferson Hunt Club escalates to the murder of a retired fox hunter.
Reviewers say: "Animal lovers and those curious about the elite world of fox hunting will be rewarded" (Publishers Weekly).
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Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
by Ace Atkins
What it's about: Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients.
Series alert: This is the forty-eighth Spenser novel and the eighth by Atkins, who is also known for the Quinn Colson series.
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The Lost Boys
by Faye Kellerman
Starring: Former LAPD detective Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus.
What happens: When a local man goes missing, the entire community volunteers to search the surrounding woods. No trace of the man is found, but the searchers discover the skeletal remains of a college student who had vanished a decade earlier. As the cases intertwine, Decker races for answers.
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| The War Widow by Tara MossIntroducing: Billie Walker, a smart, stylish former war correspondent whose photojournalist husband went missing in Europe during the war.
What happens: In 1946 Sydney, Australia, Billie has reopened her late father's private inquiry business and agrees to find the missing teenage son of Jewish immigrants, which sees her swept up in a dangerous case involving a ritzy nightclub, Nazi war criminals, treasure, and the mistreatment of Aboriginal people.
For fans of: Kerry Greenwood, Sulari Gentill, or Charles Todd's Bess Crawford mysteries. |
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| And the Killer Is... by G.A. McKevettWhat it's about: When an elderly movie star is murdered in her clutter-filled California mansion, plus-sized PI Savannah Reid and her cop husband search for answers as Savannah juggles caring for a child she's temporarily taken in. |
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| Cartier's Hope by M.J. RoseWhat happens: Intrepid, well-to-do journalist Vera Garland investigates possible misdeeds around jeweler Pierre Cartier’s recently acquired (and supposedly cursed) Hope Diamond. A facet of Vera's article will also, she hopes, provide revenge against her late father's blackmailer.
Why you might like it: Painting a vivid picture of gilded age New York, Cartier's Hope includes history, mystery, and romance. |
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