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Terns of endearment
by Donna Andrews
When her family's cruise vacation is interrupted by a ship breakdown and reports of a passenger's suspicious leap overboard, Meg races against time to uncover the truth. By the Agatha Award-winning author of Toucan Keep a Secret.
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Lady in the lake : a novel
by Laura Lippman
A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Sunburn.
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A capitol death
by Lindsey Davis
Stepping in for her ailing husband in the wake of a political assassination, private informer Flavia Albia uncovers unsettling truths about the victim and a disturbing number of suspects against a backdrop of an erratic emperor's ill-advised military celebrations.
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Smokescreen
by Iris Johansen
Racing to Africa when a village is attacked by guerilla forces, Eve Duncan begins to suspect a deeper plot before finding herself stranded in the jungle of an unstable country. By the best-selling author of Shattered Mirror.
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Knife
by Jo Nesbø
Learning that a serial rapist and killer he helped put away has been released from prison, Harry Hole wakes up from a drunken blackout with mysterious blood on his hands. By the best-selling author of The Thirst.
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Heart of barkness : a Chet & Bernie mystery
by Spencer Quinn
When their impulsive tip to a once-famous country singer performing in a dive bar is stolen from under their astute noses, P.I. Bernie and his canine sidekick, Chet, land on a case with ties to long-ago border-town secrets.
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Westside : a novel
by W. M Akers
In 1921 New York City, young detective Gilda Carr specializes in solving “tiny mysteries”—the impossible puzzles that keep us up at night, against a hellish landscape, in this thrilling historical fantasy steeped in the supernatural.
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The stories you tell
by Kristen Lepionka
When her brother is implicated in the disappearance of a hip young DJ, Roxane Weary investigates the coincidental murder of a police officer amid questions about a local dance club and its conspicuously absent staff.
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Killing with confetti
by Peter Lovesey
Tasked to run wedding security for a couple on opposite ends of the law, Peter Diamond finds himself navigating a wedding overrun by gang rivals, bossy photographers, straying bridesmaids and a hit man targeting the bride's father.
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Shamed
by Linda Castillo
Investigating a brutal murder and kidnapping in a once-peaceful Amish community, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder uncovers an Old Order settlement that hides a tragic secret. By the award-winning author of Sworn to Silence.
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Bark of night
by David Rosenfelt
Rescuing a dog who was abandoned at a veterinarian's office by a stranger, defense lawyer Andy Carpenter searches for answers upon learning that the dog's real owner has been found murdered. By the award-nominated author of Deck the Hounds.
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The second-worst restaurant in France
by Alexander McCall Smith
A follow-up to the best-selling My Italian Bulldozer finds Paul Stuart navigating romantic complications while writing his latest cookbook before finding his fortunes tangled up with those of an infamous restaurant in the French countryside.
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The pawful truth
by Miranda James
Enrolling in a medieval history course, librarian Charlie Harris bonds with fellow adult student Dixie Bell, who is found dead days later in the aftermath of an angry exchange with the class's charismatic professor.
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Throw me to the wolves
by Patrick McGuinness
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted novelist, a shocking story of voyeurism, betrayal, and the gray areas between truth and fiction that reflects our era of tabloid media and fake news. Combining the momentum of classic crime fiction with the emotional depth of literary fiction, Throw Me to the Wolves explores the harrowing power of the modern media spectacle to distract from acts of ordinary violence, and the power of the ever-present newsfeed to drown out the boundary between truth and fiction.
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Death in a desert land : a novel
by Andrew Wilson
Agatha Christie travels to the excavation of the ancient city of Ur where she must solve a crime with motives that may be as old as civilization itself.
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Loch of the dead
by Oscar De Muriel
After a mysterious woman asks Detective McGray and Inspector Ian Frey for protection for her son, she offers McGray a cure for his sister, who is in an insane asylum, water from an island in Loch Maree, but murder and bizarre events occur during their trip to the Highlands.
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The white feather killer
by R. N. Morris
London, 1914. The declaration of war with Germany has made the capital a dark, uncertain place, rife with fear and suspicion. As the pressure on young men to enlist grows stronger, Pastor Cardew holds a rally at his church. Unfortunately, it ends in humiliation for Felix Simpkins when he receives a dreaded white feather - the ultimate sign of cowardice. When a body is discovered in Wormwood Scrubs the day after Cardew's rally, a white feather placed in its mouth, Quinn finds himself unable to take a back seat in the investigation. Was the murderer really a foreign spy - or someone closer to home?
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The shameless
by Ace Atkins
Approached by two New York reporters to reopen a 20-year-old suicide case, Sheriff Quinn Colson finds the investigation complicated by a local crime syndicate's involvement in a gubernatorial election. By the best-selling author of The Lost Ones.
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Ruff justice
by Laurien Berenson
While preparing for the spring dog show, Melanie must investigate a murder after a talented canine portrait artist turns up dead behind her concession booth and her Aunt Peg's longtime dogsitter also disappears on the same day.
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Killer in the carriage house
by Sheila Connolly
A sequel to Murder at the Mansion finds Kate and Joshua searching for a solution to the community's money troubles only to discover a dead body in the town library hours before valuable historical documents are scheduled to arrive.
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Hope rides again
by Andrew Shaffer
A sequel to the best-selling Hope Never Dies is set against the backdrop of a raucous St. Patrick's Day in Chicago, where BFFs-turned-detectives Obama and Biden chase a stolen cell phone into a vast conspiracy.
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