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New Mysteries - ebooksJune 2020
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While we remain closed, here are our new Mystery ebooks– digital resources free and available to you. Holds are permitted. If you need help getting started or placing holds, email us at refdesk@beltiblibrary.org. Our Librarians will assist you 7 days a week.
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Search for mystery eBooks to check out and stream on your mobile device or computer. The hoopla app works on smartphones and tablets. On a computer hoopla works in a web browser. All you need is your library card to get started.
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Thunder Bay : a thriller by Douglas SkeltonWhen a suspected murderer returns to the island of Stoirm, reporter Rebecca Connolly smells a story and teams up with a local reporter to dig up the truth, which sets in motion a chain of violent events.
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The coyotes of Carthage by Steven WrightIn a small South Carolina town, a political operative runs a dark-money campaign for his corporate clients in this portrait of our fragile democracy and one man's unraveling - a disturbingly real look at the American experiment in action.
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Do no harm by Max Allan CollinsNathan Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case, in which a young doctor, after being startled from sleep and discovering his wife brutally murdered, claims that a mysterious intruder killed her - but the evidence points otherwise - by the New York Times best-selling author of Road to Perdition.
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A forgotten murder by Jude DeverauxGathering at a British country estate for a festive murder-mystery weekend, a retired romance novelist and her old friends tackle a 25-year-old unsolved case that is complicated by the discovery of a murdered jewel thief.
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Murder in the bayou boneyard by Ellen ByronMaggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October—and Halloween—approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana.
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The evil men do by John McMahonA sequel to The Good Detective finds P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan investigating the murder of a real-estate baron before uncovering a dark pattern of crimes linked to an accident from Marsh’s recent past.
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Mrs. Mohr goes missing by Maryla SzymiczkowaPlanning a charity auction sponsored by her wealthy neighbors, bored professor’s wife and socialite Zofia Turbotynska investigates a suspicious death at a local nursing home only to become 1893 Cracow’s most clever amateur sleuth.
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I saw him die by Andrew WilsonBestselling novelist and part-time undercover sleuth Agatha Christie is looking forward to a bit of well-deserved rest and relaxation when her longtime friend John Davison pleads with her to help him protect a retired British agent turned hotelier who has been receiving threatening letters.
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Losing you by Nicci FrenchAlthough Nina knows that teenagers are unreliable and impulsive, she always thought she and Charlie had a solid, trusting relationship until her search for clues to Charlie's whereabouts makes her reconsider. How well does Nina know her daughter, really? How well can a parent ever know a child? And will everything Nina doesn't know—about Charlie, her neighbors, even the friends and family closest to them—prove fatal...?
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The Mitford scandal by Jessica FellowesLady’s maid to Diana Mitford, the new wife of wealthy Bryan Guinness, Louisa Cannon must convince the Mitford sisters that there is a murderer in their midst when a recent murder is connected to the death of their former maid two years earlier.
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small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets - by the acclaimed author of She lies in wait.
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You fit the pattern by Jane HaseldineWhen female runners are snatched off jogging trails to be slaughtered in abandoned churches, crime writer Julia Gooden begins investigating, only to discover that the victims are women who share traits with her. Now the murderer is contacting her directly, insisting things will get much worse unless Julia makes him famous through her writing.
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Watch her by Edwin HillHarvard librarian Hester Thursby returns in Edwin Hill's complex psychological thriller about a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their darkest secrets from coming to light.
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The night raids by Jim KellyDuring the long hot summer of 1940, DI Eden Brooke, the first on the scene of a bombing, discovers the body of an elderly woman whose granddaughter has gone missing and realizes there is more to the situation than meets the eye.
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A reasonable doubt by Phillip MargolinWhen a magician linked to suspicious deaths goes missing in the middle of performing a new trick, criminal defense attorney Robin Lockwood untangles dangerous clues to identify a killer among numerous suspects.
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The second hostage by Jeffery DeaverWhile searching for a missing woman, career "reward-seeker" Colter Shaw assists police in a small Kansas town in assessing a captor's motives, concluding that nothing about the hostage situation is as it seems, including the hostage himself.
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City of marginsby William BoyleThe lives of several lost souls intersect in gritty 1990s south Brooklyn, from a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands to the grieving mother of a suicide victim - by the author of The Lonely Witness.
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The third to die by Allison BrennanA disgraced detective teams up with an ambitious FBI special agent to prevent a cycle of murders by a killer who ended the life of a colleague’s sister - by the author of the Lucy Kincaid series.
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