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An obvious fact
by Craig Johnson
Investigating a hit-and-run accident near Devils Tower that has left a young cyclist in critical condition, Walt, Henry and Vic are confronted by unexpected complications in the form of competing biker gangs, the ATF bureau, an entrepreneur's donation of a military-grade vehicle and a femme fatale.
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The critic
by Peter May
When Gil Petty, the world's leading wine critic, vanishes during a tasting tour of the wine region of Gaillac, his body later discovered strung up on a cross, wearing ceremonial robes, Scottish exile and former forensics expert Enzo Macleod takes on the cold case, in an investigation that takes him into the genteel world of winemakers with hidden agendas.
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| Out of Bounds: A Karen Pirie Novel by Val McDermidMystery. A group of teen joyriders crash a stolen Land Rover; the driver ends up in a coma, but a routine DNA test reveals a link to a two-decade-old cold case. DCI Karen Pirie, head of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, hopes to spin this info into a conviction but things get complicated quickly. Meanwhile, she feels that a recent suicide is a murder and investigates, even though the case isn't hers, and on one of her insomniac night walks, she encounters Syrian refugees who need help. If after reading this 3rd outing for Pirie, you're looking for more gritty, suspenseful, and realistic novels featuring female police officers, try Jane Casey's London-set Maeve Kerrigan novels or Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series. |
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The Paris librarian : a Hugo Marston novel
by Mark Pryor
When his friend, Paul Rogers, dies under mysterious circumstances in a locked room at the American Library in Paris, Hugo Marston decides to investigate and must return to the scene of a decades-old crime involving an American actress who was rumored to have killed an SS officer in 1944. By the author of The Bookseller. Original.
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Tall Oaks
by Chris Whitaker
When three-year-old Harry goes missing, the whole of America turns its attention to one small town. Everyone is eager to help. Everyone is a suspect. Desperate mother Jess, whose grief is driving her to extreme measures. Newcomer Jared, with an easy charm and a string of broken hearts in his wake. Photographer Jerry, who's determined to break away from his controlling mother once and for all. And, investigating them all, a police chief with a hidden obsession of his own ...In Chris Whitaker's brilliant and original debut novel, missing persons, secret identities and dangerous lies abound in a town as idiosyncratic as its inhabitants.
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Turbo twenty-three : a Stephanie Plum novel
by Janet Evanovich
A latest entry in the best-selling series starring intrepid bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds her receiving support from prostitute-turned-bounty hunter Lula, gun-toting Grandma Mazur, on-again-off-again paramour Officer Hottie and mentor Ranger.
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| Dodgers: A Novel by William BeverlyCrime Fiction. East, a Los Angeles gang member who works as a lookout, is only 16 when he's sent to Wisconsin as part of a group to kill a witness hiding out there. Along with three other teens (including his younger brother), he traverses an entirely alien America, where as young black men they stand out far more than they did in L.A. Observant and cautious, East is a complex character, one who is good at what he does but not entirely hardened by his life. Recommended for fans of Richard Price, this debut is a "searing novel about crime, race, and coming-of-age" (Booklist). |
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| The Life We Bury: A Novel by Allen EskensMystery. Minnesota college freshman Joe Talbert has been assigned to write a biography of a stranger. He's chosen Carl Iverson, jailed for 30 years for rape and murder, now dying of pancreatic cancer and living in a nearby nursing home. The more Joe comes to know Carl (a hero in Vietnam) the harder it is for him to believe that he's guilty of the crimes for which he was imprisoned. Along with Lila, a neighbor and fellow college student, and later, police detective Max Rupert, Joe searches for the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by his needy, alcoholic mother, his responsibilities as caregiver to his 18-year-old autistic brother, and a dangerous someone who doesn't want him digging up the past. This finalist for the 2015 ITW Best First Novel award is the 1st in a series featuring Max Rupert that now numbers three. |
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| A Murder of Magpies by Judith FlandersMystery. Wry, likable middle-aged London book editor Samantha "Sam" Clair is visited by Inspector Fields, CID; a courier has been killed and all of his packages taken, including one for Sam. At first, Sam has no idea what might have been in the delivery, but when gossipy author Kit Lowell goes missing after her scandalous new manuscript indicates a Spanish fashion designer was murdered, Sam has an idea. This propels her into a criminal investigation where she discovers that someone will stop at nothing, not even murder, to see that Kit's latest does not get published. This witty, funny debut novel, the 1st in a series, features entertaining characters and an insider's look at the publishing world. |
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Maestra
by L. S. Hilton
A confidence woman and femme fatale uses her talents for self-invention to assume various identities and penetrate the invisible clubs of the debonair and wealthy, in a debut entry in a psychological thriller trilogy.
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