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| Force of Nature by Jane HarperWhat it's about: Whistleblower Alice Russell disappears while on a corporate retreat with four other women in the Australian Bush. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper, who were working with her on a money laundering case, uncover plenty of possible suspects, including a serial killer's son.
Series alert: This follow-up to the author's acclaimed debut, The Dry (Reese Witherspoon bought the movie rights), provides another suspenseful, vividly drawn tale but can be read as a standalone. |
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| Darkness, Sing Me a Song: A Holland Taylor Mystery by David HousewrightWelcome back to: St. Paul, Minnesota private detective Holland Taylor, appearing in his 4th book and his first outing since the 1999's Dearly Departed. Don't worry newcomers, this is a great place to start.
What it's about: Taylor discovers that his client's potential daughter-in-law isn't who she says she is. When the young woman is murdered, his client, the doyenne of a rich, socially prominent family, is arrested. Though the evidence is stacked against the (quite unpleasant) woman, Taylor feels compelled to investigate. |
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A howl of wolves
by Judith Flanders
"Whip-smart (Louise Penny) amateur sleuth Samantha Clair returns in the newest mystery from Judith Flanders, the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of A Murder of Magpies. Sam Clair figures she ll be a good sport and spend a nightout at the theater in support of her upstairs neighbors who have small parts in a play in the West End. Boyfriend (a Scotland Yard detective) and allround good sport Jake Field agrees to tag along to what is apparently an extra bloody play filled with dramatic gory deaths galore. So Sam expects an evening filled with faux fatalities. Until that is the curtain opens to the second act revealing a dummy hanging from the rafters, whos been made up to look suspiciously like Campbell Davison the director of the production. When Sam sees the horrified faces of the actors onstage, she realizes that this is indeed not a dummy, but Davison himself and this death is not part of the show. Now everyone wants to know who killed Campbell Davison? As Sam learns more about the murdered man, she discovers that he wasnt all that well-liked amongst the cast and crew so the suspect list grows. The show must go on but Sam knows a murderer must be apprehended so she sets out to find out what happened and why. New York Times bestselling author Judith Flanders once again brilliantly fuses mystery with humor in the fourth installment of her critically acclaimed Sam Clair series"
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The job of the wasp : a novel
by Colin Winnette
A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys, soon realizing that there is something sinister afoot in his new home, starts to unravel a mystery at the school’s dark heart that results in murder. Original.
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Charmed bones : A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery
by Carolyn Haines
"The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Private detective Sarah Booth Delaney doesn't quite know what to expect when she's urgently called to a school board meeting for Sunflower County, Mississippi. But she certainly wasn't expecting this: three Wiccan sisters are in the midst of a showdown with the Board of Education. They want to open a Wiccan school in Zinnia, Mississippi, and the conservative town vows to do anything necessary to stop them from opening their school. Sarah Booth and her partner in the detective agency, Tinkie Bellcase, are quickly enlisted to investigate the Wiccan sisters' real reasons for coming to town. Sarah Booth learns the sisters have rented a manor house and land from a reclusive local artist, Trevor Musgrove. But the case takes on a far more serious tone when Trevor Musgrove is found dead, and all evidence seems to point directly at the witch sisters"
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| Two Girls Down by Louisa LunaIntroducing: enigmatic young bounty hunter Alice Vega, who's also had stunning success finding abductees, and disgraced former cop Max Caplan, a loving father to a down-to-earth teenage girl.
What it's about: A single mom's two daughters disappear from a parking lot, and a rich relative hires Vega. The local Pennsylvania cops won't work with outsider Vega, but Max agrees to help.
For fans of: suspenseful mysteries featuring tough female detectives who don't mind working outside the law. |
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| Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter MosleyIntroducing: PI Joe King Oliver, a former NYPD cop who was framed by someone on the force and spent months in the notorious Rikers Island jail.
What it's about: While he's helping a man wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops, Oliver receives a confession from the woman who helped set him up.
Try this next: If you like this gritty, compelling 1st in a new series by the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries, try Rachel Howzell Hall's LA-set Detective Elouise Norton novels or Chester Himes' classic Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries. |
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The long drop : a novel
by Denise Mina
Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging. 35,000 first printing.
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| Murphy's Law by Rhys BowenWhat it's about: After accidentally killing a landowner's son who wouldn't take no for an answer, Molly Murphy flees turn-of-the-century Ireland. On a boat to New York, she's harassed by a fellow passenger, who's later murdered on Ellis Island. To clear her name, outspoken, intrepid Molly tries to find the real killer, with a bit of help from a handsome Irish-American cop.
Series alert: This is the opening entry in the richly detailed Molly Murphy mysteries, which now number 17 books; the latest, The Ghost of Christmas Past, came out last November. |
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| Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell; translated by Steven T. MurrayWhat it's about: When an elderly Swedish couple is brutally killed at their rural farm in Skåne, troubled, opera-loving Inspector Kurt Wallander tries to find the killer amid a wave of anti-immigrant attitudes following the news that the woman's last word was "foreign." This is the engrossing 1st in a popular series.
Media buzz: There have been several page-to-screen adaptations of the Wallander books, including two Swedish series and a British one, Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. |
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Fleshmarket Alley : an Inspector Rebus novel
by Ian Rankin
A latest Inspector John Rebus mystery finds the Edinburgh investigator pursuing a case in the city's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world. By the award-winning author of A Question of Blood. 50,000 first printing.
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Tell me, pretty maiden
by Rhys Bowen
With her turn-of-the-twentieth-century detective agency busier than ever, Irish-born P.I. Molly Murphy finds her life further complicated when she and her beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, stumble upon a mute young woman lying unconscious in the snow in Central Park. By the author of Oh Danny Boy. 25,000 first printing.
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