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The Unlocking Season
by Gail Bowen
On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne's life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of her history that for years was shrouded in secrecy. Living Skies is producing Sisters and Strangers, a six-part TV series about the tangled relationships between the families of Douglas Ellard, the father who raised Joanne, and Desmond Love, her biological father. Joanne is working on the script with Roy Brodnitz, a brilliant writer and friend. The project's future seems assured, but before the script is completed, Brodnitz disappears while scouting locations in northern Saskatchewan. Hours later, he's found--sweat-drenched, clawing at the ground, and muttering gibberish. He dies in a state of mortal terror. Heartsick and perplexed, Joanne resolves to learn what happened in the last hours of Roy's life. What Joanne discovers threatens Brodnitz's legacy, and the decision about whether or not to reveal the truth is hers to make.
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Troubled blood
by Robert Galbraith
While visiting his family in Cornwall, Private Detective Cormoran Strike agrees to take on a cold case involving a woman who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974, and as Strike and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, investigate the disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer, and witnesses who cannot all be trusted
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| Still Life by Val McDermidWhat it's about: In February 2020, DCI Karen Pirie, head of Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, investigates two cold cases and deals with skeletal remains, art forgery, secret identities, and more. Also, the killer of her true love gets out of prison, and near the novel's end, COVID-19 hits.
Series alert: Peppered with Scottish words, this entertaining 6th Karen Pirie mystery has complex characters and deft writing.
Try this next: Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope novels, Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series, or Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books. |
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All the devils are here
by Louise Penny
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d'Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide
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A question of betrayal
by Anne Perry
Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in Italy, just as important information about Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. Young Elena Standish is the only person who can recognize MI6's man, Aiden Strother, because he is her former lover. As Elena heads to Trieste to track down Aiden, her older sister, Margot, is in Berlin for a wedding. Their grandfather, the former head of MI6, is unhappy about the sisters' travels during tumultuous time. As his own investigation collides with his granddaughter's, what's at to stake on the continent becomes increasingly frightening--and personal
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Shadows in death
by J. D. Robb
"In the new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series, Lt. Eve Dallas is about to walk into the shadows of her husband's dangerous past..."
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| The Night Fire by Michael ConnellyWhat happens: Retired cop Harry Bosch is given an old police file by the widow of his newly deceased mentor, who'd inexplicably and illegally taken it. LAPD detective Renée Ballard helps Bosch dig into the old case while also working the arson murder of a homeless man.
Series alert: After working together in Dark Sacred Night, Bosch and Ballard team up for the 2nd time here, in the 3rd Renée Ballard book overall and the 22nd in the popular Bosch series.
What about Mickey Haller? He makes an appearance, too! For the next in his series, look for The Law of Innocence, out this month. |
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Night vision : a Jane Lawless mystery
by Ellen Hart
Years after fleeing a terrifying stalker, reclusive Hollywood actress Joanna Kasimir emerges from her seclusion to star in a Minneapolis production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but is forced to enlist the assistance of her friends, amateur sleuth Jane Lawless and Cordelia Thorn, when her old enemy returns to prey on his victim again.
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Night watch
by Iris Johansen
When the surgeon who made it possible for her to see goes missing, Kendra Michaels recruits government agent Adam Lynch to accompany her on a trail that leads them to the murdered body of one of the doctor's colleagues
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The night thief
by Barbara Fraser Fradkin
Simple country handyman Cedric O'Toole relies on his organic vegetable garden to supplement his meager income, so he's upset when vegetables begin disappearing. After several futile attempts to protect the garden, he stakes it out one night with his shotgun and spots a shadowy figure running into the woods. Cedric follows and finds a young boy living rough on his land. The boy has never been taught to read or write, and no one has reported him missing. No stranger to childhood neglect himself, Cedric takes the boy under his wing and tries to find answers. Who is the mystery boy, and why is he hiding in the woods?
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