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New and Coming Soon Mysteries October 2020
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The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
by Elsa Hart
Visiting a formidable science-book collector’s home in the hopes of identifying plant specimens, 18th-century herbalist Cecily Kay finds herself investigating her host’s untimely murder when she observes unsettling inconsistencies. 50,000 first printing.
MYSTERY HART
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Deception by Gaslight : A Gilded Gotham Mystery
by Kate Belli
Stumbling on a murder victim while investigating a jewel thief on New York's Lower East Side, reporter Genevieve Stewart is rescued by a neighborhood tough who she discovers is a society scion, and her chief suspect. A first novel.
MYSTERY BELLI
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The Finisher
by Peter Lovesey
Tasked with crowd control during the Other Half, Bath’s springtime half marathon, Detective Peter Diamond catches sight of a violent criminal he put away years ago and believes he may be responsible for a runner not crossing the finish line.
MYSTERY LOVESEY
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Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two
by Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia’s efforts to help a friend escape unemployment are complicated by her husband’s mysterious illness and the abrupt appearance of a suspicious grandchild she has never met on her doorstep. By the author of Etta Mae’s Worst Bad-Luck Day.
MYSTERY ROSS
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Murder on Cold Street
by Sherry Thomas
When her friend refuses to defend himself after being found in a locked room with two murder victims, Charlotte Holmes navigates baffling evidence and rumors in a case that is further complicated by Lord Ingram’s long-anticipated offer. Original.
MYSTERY THOMAS
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Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
by James Lovegrove
In New York TImes best-selling author James Lovegrove’s latest Sherlock Holmes novel, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor, five years after the Hound of the Baskervilles died. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their young son. Until Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. Once summoned, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares.
MYSTERY LOVEGROVE
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The Sicilian Method
by Andrea Camilleri
"In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play. Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramaswith a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors. Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with, as well as strange notebooks full of figures and dates and names. Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters, and the notes on his last drama, Dangerous Turn--the theater is where he'll find the answer"
MYSTERY CAMILLERI
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Snow
by John Banville
Investigating the murder of a 1957 County Wexford priest, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community’s culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family’s dangerous secrets. By the award-winning author of The Seas.
MYSTERY BANVILLE
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The Unspoken
by Ian Smith
Fired for refusing to cooperate in a police cover-up, Chicago detective-turned-private investigator Ashe Cayne searches for a missing woman who has been hiding dangerous secrets from her wealthy family. By the award-winning author of The Blackbird Papers.
MYSTERY SMITH
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