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Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most recent mysteries in the collection.
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The Framed Women of Ardemore Houseby Brandy SchillaceA neuro-divergent, hyperlexic book editor takes possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, where she finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing; to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets - and her own.
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Blessed Water by Margot DouaihyA tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by God to find the killer after discovering a dead priest - in the second novel of the series following Scorched Grace.
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Murder at La Villette by Cara BlackWhen she is framed for the murder of her daughter's father, the former homicide investigator Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc must quickly find the real killer and, cut off from her typical network and forced to operate undercover, goes deep into the underbelly of Paris' 19th arrondissement on her hunt for justice.
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Murder in the Tea Leaves by Laura ChildsWhen she reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie Dark Fortunes, which results in the film director's murder, Theodosia Browning launches her own shadow investigation; just when she is about to solve the case, another murder occurs, sending her back to square one.
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A Smoking Bun: A Bakeshop Mysteryby Ellie AlexanderWhile baking up spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour, pastry chef turned amateur sleuth Jules Capshaw takes Ramiro's family to the annual Downhill Dummy competition in which murder comes in first and where he must catch a stone-cold killer before they strike again.
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The Lantern's Dance: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. KingDiscovering an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code that is linked to a zoetrope, whose images dance with the lantern's spin, Mary Russell must determine how these items are related to Holmes's artist son Damian - and possibly to Sherlock Holmes himself - when secrets of the past appear to be reaching into the present.
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Twice the Troubleby Ash CliftonFormer college football player and reformed cop P.I. Noland Twice follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target, a possible embezzler in a large construction firm - in a hugely challenging and deadly case with the promise of a $4,000,000 fee.
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The Stars Turned Inside Outby Nova JacobsThe discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy and a high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe.
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Murder and the Missing Dog by Susan C. SheaWith the shocking business of the murder of the local historian behind her, Ariel and her friend Katherine find the body of the elderly Madame Toussaint in the doorway of Katherine's flea market shop in the idyllic French village of Noyers-sur-Serein, and, despite warnings from the rather handsome Brigadier Allard, Ariel once again dons her sleuthing hat.
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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael WolraichAfter Vivian Gordon's body was discovered in a desolate Bronx park, detectives discovered notebooks full of the names of businessmen, socialites and gangsters, as well as a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets?
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