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New MysteriesDecember 2018
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A shot in the dark
by Lynne Truss
On the verge of revealing the criminal mastermind behind a 1945 unsolved mystery, a famed theater critic is shot dead, leaving Sergeant Jim Brunswick and Constable Twitten to solve both the decades-old crime and the more recent murder.
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An elderly lady is up to no good
by Helene Tursten
Follows a feisty, eighty-eight-year-old woman who lives a solitary existence, but finds herself at the center of several adventures and misadventures
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Murder in Bloomsbury : an Atlas Catesby mystery
by D. M. Quincy
After the brother of her maid is poisoned, Lady Lilliana Warwick joins aristocrat Atlas Catesby to investigate the crime and they discover that the brother threatened to expose his high-born lady lover shortly before he was murdered.
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An empire for ravens
by Mary Reed
Emperor Justinian's former Lord Chamberlain, John, receives an urgent message from an old friend summoning him to Rome, but once there, he finds his friend vanished and the mysteries mounting.
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A Christmas revelation : a novel
by Anne Perry
An orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping in the days leading up to Christmas before discovering that more than a missing person is at stake. By the best-selling author of the William Monk series.
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Kingdom of the blind
by Louise Penny
The six-time Agatha Award-winning author of such best-sellers as Still Life and The Cruelest Month presents the latest entry in the popular Chief Inspector Gamache series.
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Savage liberty : a mystery of revolutionary America
by Eliot Pattison
Duncan McCallum works with John Hancock to uncover who sabotaged a ship that may have been carrying a secret document for the Sons of Liberty in Boston Harbor in 1768, in the fifth addition to the series following Blood on the Oak.
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Target, Alex Cross
by James Patterson
When the U.S. President is assassinated by an unknown sniper, Alex Cross takes a personal role with the FBI to lead an unprecedented investigation that is complicated by Constitutional crises.
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The colors of all the cattle
by Alexander McCall Smith
Reluctantly running for City Council when a flashy developer announces plans to build a hotel beside a graveyard, Mma Ramotswe, aided by the loyal Mma Potokwane, taps her humor and generosity of spirit to outmaneuver a corrupt rival.
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Robert B. Parker's blood feud
by Mike Lupica
When her ex-husband is nearly killed by an unknown shooter, Sunny becomes the unlikely protector of the Burke Mafia family against a deranged mastermind with a very personal vendetta. By the award-winning author of the Jesse Stone series.
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The line
by Martin Limón
After discovering a body on the Korean Demilitarized Zone in the 1970s, Sueño and Bascom try to find the perpetrator despite little cooperation between the two countries' governments, in the latest addition to the series following The Nine-Tailed Fox.
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River bodies
by Karen Katchur
Returning home to care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a 20-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
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Lies come easy
by Steven Havill
A toddler's horrifying abandonment, the disappearance of a Forest Service unit and the brutal murder of a border-town resident overshadow the holiday for the Posadas County Sheriff's Department and their families. By the author of Nightzone.
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Body & soul
by John Harvey
Frank Elder struggles to protect his estranged daughter and prove her innocence after her breakup with a controversial artist ends in murder.
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The infinite blacktop : a novel
by Sara Gran
Acclaimed detective Claire DeWitt navigates three cases from different turning points in her life, including the disappearance of a childhood friend, the cold-case double murder that shaped her PI license and a near-fatal attack by a homicidal driver.
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Look alive twenty-five
by Janet Evanovich
When three consecutive managers from a famous deli go missing, leaving no clues behind but a single shoe each, latest manager Stephanie Plum navigates Lula's theories about alien abductions to avoid becoming the next victim.
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The shadows we hide
by Allen Eskens
A young reporter investigating the murder of a man with the same name as him discovers the deceased to be a loathsome lowlife who may be his father in this sequel to The Life We Bury.
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A scandal in scarlet
by Vicki Delany
Gemma and Jayne donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned-out museum—but a killer wants a piece of the auction. By a national best-selling author.
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Past tense
by Lee Child
Detouring to his father's childhood hometown at the beginning of a cross-country hitchhiking tour, Jack uncovers disturbing family revelations at the same time he becomes entangled in a dangerous high-ticket sale. By the best-selling author of No Middle Name.
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In the Galway silence : a Jack Taylor novel
by Ken Bruen
Hopeful prospects and a case involving the murders of a wealthy Frenchman's twin sons are complicated for Jack Taylor by a babysitting request, the return of a character from his past and a manipulative vigilante killer.
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The midnight witness
by Sara Blædel
While investigating the murder of a young woman, who was found strangled in a park, Detective Louise Rick must help her friend, journalist Camilla Lind, when she goes too far while trying to discover who killed a fellow journalist.
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Kith and kin
by Jane A. Adams
December, 1928. When two bodies are found washed up in the Kentish marshes, it doesn't take long for DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens to identify at least one of them. Billy Crane was a known associate of Josiah Bailey, one of the East End's most notorious gangsters. But what were the victims doing in this remote and desolate spot? With witnesses too frightened to talk, the two London detectives must dig deep into the past if they are to make headway in the investigation and stop the escalating violence.
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Homeward hound : a novel
by Rita Mae Brown
When the Christmas Hunt is interrupted by the discovery of a body, "Sister" Jane Arnold and her company of loyal hounds find their efforts to uncover the truth complicated by the meddling antics of loathsome Victor Harris.
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