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The pint of no return
by Ellie Alexander
Fermenting in internal turmoil due to her personal life, local brewmaster Sloan Krause, while preparing for Oktoberfest, must deal with the death of an overzealous actor who met his demise while downing a local microbrew.
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| The Long Call by Ann CleevesIntroducing: introspective DCI Matthew Venn of the Devon police, who grew up in a religious sect and is estranged from his family.
What happens: A murder victim with an interesting tattoo is found on a North Devon beach, and the case seems to be related to Venn's childhood church as well as his husband's job at a community center.
Read this next: William Shaw's Salt Lane or Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway mysteries -- both are evocative English mysteries that prominently feature police officers and are set near the coast. |
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The missing corpse : a Brittany mystery
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
"Jean-Luc Bannalec's fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. It's picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most diffcult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults"
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| Heaven, My Home: A Highway 59 Novel by Attica LockeWhat happens: African American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has a troubled marriage, an estranged mother who's blackmailing him, and a dangerous new case in a small town involving the missing child of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.
Series alert: This is the well-wrought 2nd novel in the Highway 59 series following the Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird.
Read it for: the evocative Caddo Lake setting in East Texas; the compelling look at race and politics. |
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Sins of the fathers
by Judith A Jance
Agreeing to help an acquaintance from the past track down a missing child, Beau launches an investigation that forces him to confront his troubled past. By the New York Times best-selling author of Field of Bones.
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The Murderer in Ruins
by Cay Rademacher
The Murderer in Ruins is the first of a trilogy, set in Hamburg, 1947. A murderer is on the loose and policeman Frank Stave, whilst plagued with worry about his missing son, is under increasing pressure to find out why - after the atrocities of World War II - someone still has the stomach for murder.
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If You Like: Deborah Crombie
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Still life
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Quebec is called to the tiny hamlet of Three Pines to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village
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| The Crossing Places by Elly GriffithsWhat happens: In Norfolk, England, 40-something forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives in the remote Saltmarshes and is asked by married DCI Harry Nelson to examine the bones of a child found there. Nelson thinks the remains might be a girl missing for ten years, and, when another girl goes missing, the two work together -- and grow close to each other.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: the strong sense of place; the characters’ complicated personal lives and relationships, which grow and change throughout the series (this is the 1st of 11 books, so far). |
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| The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Novel by Martha GrimesWhat it's about: Two women are murdered in the Lincolnshire fens and Inspector Richard Jury and his aristocratic pal, Melrose Plant, investigate when one of Jury's friends becomes the prime suspect.
Series alert: This is the cleverly plotted 14th entry in the popular Richard Jury series of police procedurals; the 25th book, The Old Success, is due in November.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: Like Crombie, Martha Grimes is an American Anglophile who writes British police novels that follow a pleasing cast of characters over the course of many books. |
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| Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel by Peter RobinsonWhat happens: Yorkshire DI Alan Banks' small English village has a host of trouble: a serial Peeping Tom, several vandalism and robbery cases, and the suspicious death of an elderly woman.
Series alert: This is the 1st of more than 25 books in the award-winning DI Alan Banks series. The latest, Many Rivers to Cross, is out in the U.K. now and will be available elsewhere in January.
Why Deborah Crombie fans might like it: the well-described British setting and the focus on police detection. |
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