| Let the Dead Speak by Jane CaseyPolice Procedural. A teenage girl returns home early from visiting her father and stepfamily to find her mother missing and their London home covered in blood. Investigating the possible murder, DS Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team -- including old pal DI Josh Derwent and ambitious newcomer DC Georgia Shaw -- struggle to piece together what happened, where the body might be, and who's responsible. If you appreciate suspense, finely wrought characters, and tight plotting, check out this excellent 7th entry in the Maeve Kerrigan series. |
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| Persons Unknown: A Novel by Susie SteinerMystery. Having left the Met police for Cambridgeshire in order to give her adopted 12-year-old son a new start, detective Manon Bradshaw finds things aren't going as planned. Her black son is being bullied, she's single and pregnant, and most troubling, someone close to her family has been murdered and the police think her son may be involved. The case pits her against colleagues, but Manon will do whatever she can to find the real killer and prove her son's innocence. Told from multiple points of view, this thought-provoking 2nd book to feature Manon (after Missing, Presumed) slowly builds momentum and addresses timely topics. |
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The Paris Spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Historical Mystery. Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she’s disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can’t help longing for home.
But her missions come first. Maggie’s half sister, Elise, has disappeared after being saved from a concentration camp, and Maggie is desperate to find her—that is, if Elise even wants to be found. Equally urgent, Churchill is planning the Allied invasion of France, and SOE agent Erica Calvert has been captured, the whereabouts of her vital research regarding Normandy unknown. Maggie must risk her life to penetrate powerful circles and employ all her talents for deception and spycraft to root out a traitor, find her sister, and locate the reports crucial to planning D-Day in a deadly game of wits with the Nazi intelligence elite.
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Wrong Side of the Paw
by Laurie Cass
Cozy Mystery. As the bookmobile rolls along the hills of Chilson, Michigan, Minnie and Eddie spread good cheer and good reads. But when her faithful feline finds his way into the middle of a murder, Minnie is there, like any good librarian, to check it out.
Eddie turns a routine bookmobile stop into anything but when he makes a quick escape and hops into a pickup truck…with a dead body in the flatbed. The friendly local lawyer who was driving the pickup falls under suspicion. But Minnie and Eddie think there's more to this case than meets the eye, and the dynamic duo sets out to leave no page unturned.
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| Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson by Lyndsay FayeHistorical Mystery. In 1888 London, Jack the Ripper is killing women and terrorizing the city's East End. Inspector Lestrade calls in Sherlock Holmes, who quickly becomes embroiled in the case and is even accused of being the Ripper by one newspaper. Though author Lyndsay Faye isn't the first person to pit Sherlock against the Ripper (there've been books, movies, games), Holmes fans will certainly want to read Dust and Shadow since talented novelist Faye wonderfully captures Watson's voice and presents an insightful look at Holmes and his time. |
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| The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or, On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. KingHistorical Mystery. When 15-year-old orphan Mary Russell runs into Sherlock Holmes, she isn't aware that the Sussex beekeeper is the famous, retired detective. She soon learns the truth, and the chance encounter proves pivotal as Holmes, impressed with Mary's intellect, becomes her mentor and teacher -- and eventually something more -- as the two solve crimes together. The Beekeeper's Apprentice is the 1st in Laurie R. King's popular continuation of the Sherlock Holmes oeuvre. If you like well-researched stories and intelligent lead female characters, be sure to check out this intricately plotted series. |
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| The Sherlockian by Graham MooreMystery. In 2010, literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the exclusive Baker Street Irregulars group. After a fellow member -- who had just discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary -- is murdered, Harold looks into the killing. Meanwhile, in 1890s London, Conan Doyle himself hunts a serial killer with the help of his friend Bram Stoker. Though there's no shortage of modern books featuring homages to Conan Doyle and Holmes, real-life Sherlockians should relish this novel as much as they do a well-placed red herring. |
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| The Baker Street Letters by Michael RobertsonMystery. Lawyers and brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath rent offices at 221B Baker Street and, as part of their lease agreement, they must answer every letter that arrives for Sherlock Holmes. When Nigel reads a letter written by a little girl whose father is missing and decides he must help, the two men find themselves dealing with a murder and taking a trip to Los Angeles. If you like this "lively and inventive" (Kirkus Reviews) debut, be sure to look for others in the Baker Street Brothers series. |
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