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New & Coming Soon Mysteries May 2017
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Souls of Men by A. R. AshworthTrying to gain hold of a murder investigation gone awry, veteran Detective Inspector Elaine Hope becomes entangled in a web of secrets tied to a multinational criminal organization while tracking her prime suspect through wintery London boroughs where other predators wait in the shadows. 25,000 first printing. MYSTERY ASHWORTH (#1)
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In Farleigh Field : a novel by Rhys BowenWorld War II arrives at the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate and MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with investigating at the same time one of the daughters takes a secret job at Bletchley Park. MYSTERY BOWEN
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Date With Death : A Samson and Delilah Mystery by Julia ChapmanA debut entry in a new series set in the Yorkshire Dales finds the financially strapped owner of a local dating agency reluctantly offering a tenancy to a disgraced detective who taps her assistance solving a series of murders that are placing a mutual friend under suspicion. MYSTERY CHAPMAN (#1)
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Pekoe most poison by Laura ChildsInvited by one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses to a philanthropic "Rat Tea" where guests are served by attendants in rodent costumes, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning lands in the middle of a dangerous game of cat and mouse when the hostess' husband is poisoned. MYSTERY CHILDS (#18)
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Elementary, she read by Vicki DelanyWhen Gemma Doyle—owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, as well as Moriarty the cat—finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room), set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body. 40,000 first printing. MYSTERY DELANEY (#1)
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Song of the lion by Anne HillermanWhen a deadly bombing in the Shiprock High School parking lot is discovered to be part of a terrorist plot to disrupt peaceful negotiations between the Hopi and Dine tribes, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn discovers links between the bombing and a cold case from earlier in his career. 150,000 first printing. MYSTERY HILLERMAN
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The Secrets of Gaslight Lane by M. R. C. KasasianHired by a beautiful young woman to solve the mystery of her father's locked-room murder, private detective Sidney Grice uncovers links between the case and one of London's most notorious unsolved murders, which occurred in the same house. MYSTERY KASASIAN (#4)
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Athenian Blues by Pol KoutsakisStratos Gazis is a walking contradiction: He's a cold-blooded contract killer with a conscious. Normally this is not a problem. But in this case contradictions can lead to hesitation, and, in the world of the hired assassin, even the slightest hesitation can be lethal. MYSTERY KOUTSAKIS (#1)
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The forgotten girls by Owen LaukkanenStumbling on the cold case of a murdered and forgotten runaway, Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime force uncover the work of a serial killer who has been targeting young women drifters who were unlikely to be missed. MYSTERY LAUKKANEN (#5)
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A twist of the knife : a novel by Becky MastermanTraveling back to her Florida hometown when her former partner asks for her help with a case that is not going well, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn turns skeptical when she learns that her former colleague would save an innocent man on death row. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Fear the Darkness. MYSTERY MASTERMAN (#3)
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Caramel Crush by Jenn MckinlayWhen her friend, Diane, asks her to deliver a batch of breakup cupcakes to her soon-to-be ex-fiancé, Mel finds the recipient dead and must whip up a batch of clues to clear Diane’s name and make sure that the real killer gets his or her just desserts. Includes recipes. By a New York Times best-selling author. Original. MYSTERY MCKINLAY (#9)
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The killing bay by Chris OuldDon’t miss the second novel in the brooding Blood Strand series. When a group of activists arrive on the Faroe Islands to stop the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high, and the body count rises. ”An absorbing new mystery... The Blood Strand leaves readers satisfied but with that edgy sense of more to come. For anyone who’s visited the Faroes with Ould, it’s a beautiful feeling.” —Library Journal on The Blood Strand. MYSTERY OULD (#2)
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Of books and bagpipes : A Scottish Bookshop Mystery by Paige SheltonThriving in her new home in Edinburgh, historical book seller Delaney Nichols pursues a rare manuscript, only to stumble upon the murdered body of her contact, a crime that she links to a complicated plot. By the author of The Cracked Spine. MYSTERY SHELTON (#2)
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What the dead leave behind by Rosemary SimpsonWhen her beloved fiancé is found dead after the Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City, heiress Prudence MacKenzie, suspecting foul play, turns to her fiancé's best friend, a former Pinkerton agent, to discover the truth and find protection from sinister forces. By the author of Dreams and Shadows. MYSTERY SIMPSON (#1)
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