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Robert B. Parker's someone to watch over me
by Ace Atkins
When his apprentice Mattie’s childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim’s demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire.
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Cry Baby
by Mark Billingham
It's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his instinct about a suspect, by the horrific crime that followed and by the memories that come day and night, in sunshine and shadow. So when seven-year-old Kieron Coyne goes missing while playing in the woods with his best friend, Thorne vows he will not make the same mistake again. Cannot. The solitary witness. The strange neighbour. The friendly teacher. All are in Thorne's sights. This case will be the making of him... or the breaking.
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Premeditated Mortar
by Kate Carlisle
Plagued by strange events at a construction site, including the discovery of a dead body, Shannon wonders if someone wants to stop the renovations on an old asylum and vows to complete the project even if it kills her.
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A big fat Greek murder
by Kate Collins
When her sister is accused of seducing and stabbing the fiancé of their client, single mom Athena Spencer, to save her family’s reputation and garden center business, must dig up the dirt on the suspects and unearth the truth. Original.
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Death and the maiden
by Ariana Franklin
A long-anticipated series conclusion finds a young healer dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.
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The lost boys
by Faye Kellerman
Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son’s biological mother upends Decker’s home life.
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If You Like: Deanna Raybourn
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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A hope divided
by Alyssa Cole
The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor—but for scientist-spy and free black woman Marlie Lynch and philosophical Union soldier she helps to hide, war could bind them together when they must go on the run on the Underground Railroad to escape a common enemy. By the author of An Extraordinary Union. (historical fiction).
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Woman 99 : a novel
by Greer Macallister
"Shes only a number now. When Charlotte Smiths wealthy parents commit her beloved sister Phoebe to the infamous Goldengrove Asylum, Charlotte knows theres more to the story than madness. She risks everything and follows her sister inside, surrendering her real identity as a privileged young lady of San Francisco society to become a nameless inmate, Woman 99. The longer she stays, the more she realizes that many of the women of Goldengrove arent insane, merely inconvenient and that her search for the truth threatens to dig up secrets that some very powerful people would do anything to kep. A historical thriller rich in detail, deception, and revelation, Woman 99 honors the fierce women of the past, born into a world that denied them power but underestimated their strength."
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| A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry ThomasWhat it's about: After her social ruination, extraordinarily clever Charlotte Holmes created the alter ego male detective Sherlock. Now, amid other cases, she helps a woman find a missing former love...who turns out to be Charlotte's own illegitimate half-brother.
Series alert: Though this is the 2nd Lady Sherlock book, it's fine for newcomers. If you like first things first, pick up A Study in Scarlet Women. Want the latest? Murder on Cold Street came out in October.
Why Deanna Raybourn fans might like it: Charlotte is an intelligent and convention-defying character in a vividly depicted England. |
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