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New and Coming Soon Mysteries December 2018
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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud by Mike LupicaRobert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. When Richie is shot, Sunny is dragged into his family's business as she searches for answers and tries to stave off a mob war. But as the bullets start flying, Sunny finds herself targeted by the deranged mastermind of, whose motive may be far more personal than she could have anticipated. MYSTERY PARKER #7
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City of Secrets by Victoria ThompsonAn exciting new book in the series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles--from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Con artist Elizabeth Miles befriends Priscilla, a dedicated suffragist who was recently widowed for the second time in her young life. Elizabeth discovers some unsavory evidence that suggests this death may have been connected to blackmail. To save her new friend's future, Elizabeth must use her special set of skills to find the truth. MYSTERY THOMPSON #2
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The Moscow Sleepers by Stella RimingtonA Russian immigrant lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted and news quickly travels to MI5 in London. While investigating, Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving learn of a Russian network with a plot to undermine the German government. Liz and Peggy set out to stop this insidious network, traveling the world from Montreal to Moscow. MYSTERY RIMINGTON #10
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now by Maggie RobinsonLady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband. With a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of his ghost to turn up! Before Addie can convince herself she's not completely lost her mind, a murder disrupts her careful seating arrangement. Enter Inspector Devenand Hunter from the Yard, who is not going to let some barmy society beauty witnessed talking to herself derail his investigation. Something very peculiar is afoot and he's going to get to the bottom of it - or go as mad as Lady Compton trying. MYSTERY ROBINSON #1
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The Shadows We Hide by Allen EskensCub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father. MYSTERY ESKENS #2
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The Best Bad Things by Katrina Marie CarrascoA period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside. MYSTERY CARRASCO
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A Dangerous Duet by Karen OddenNell lives with her brother Matthew, an inspector at Scotland Yard. She aspires to attend the Royal Academy. With tuition beyond their means, Nell sets out to earn the money herself—by playing piano in a popular Soho music hall in disguise. The Octavian is full of energy, fascinating performers, raucous patrons—and dark secrets. The more Nell becomes a part of that world, the more she risks the relationships with those she loves. When a performer is left for dead in an alley as a warning, she realizes her future could be in jeopardy in more ways than one. MYSTERY ODDEN
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Hushed in Death by Stephen KellyArriving in the rural community of Marbury to investigate a gruesome murder, Inspector Lamb discovers that the victim's mysterious past is linked to the history of Elton House, a once-grand estate transformed into a hospital for "shell-shocked" officers sent back from the front lines. MYSTERY KELLY #3
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Lost Lake by Emily LittlejohnOn a bright Saturday in early spring, newly engaged Detective Gemma Monroe responds to a missing person call at Lost Lake, near the mountain town of Cedar Valley, Colorado. Campers at the still icy lake report one of their group Sari Chesney has disappeared overnight. Gemma must untangle the complex dynamics of Sari's supposedly close-knit group of friends to find answers. MYSTERY LITTLEJOHN #3
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Nighttown by Timothy HallinanLos Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well--in the criminal underworld, if someone is offering you more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he's bending his rule this one time. When an old friend ends up murdered, Junior decides he will stop at nothing to figure out who the did it. MYSTERY HALLINAN #7
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The Poisoned Chalice Murder: A 1920s English Mystery by Diane JanesTom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? MYSTERY JANES #2
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Song of the Damned by Sarah RayneWhen Phineas is asked to help with the music at Cresacre Abbey School, he does not expect to find a sinister medieval ritual within a locally-written opera. As Phin follows the threads of the past, he discovers that curious legends about the school's history still linger, including the fate of a group of nuns who disappeared without trace more than 200 ago. As he delves further, Phin begins to unravel a series of interlocking secrets, each one more puzzling--and sinister than the last. MYSTERY RAYNE #3
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Crisis by Felix FrancisInvestigating a stable fire that has killed a Derby favorite, London crisis manager Harrison Foster discovers a human victim and is reluctantly thrust into the dysfunctional rivalries of a racing dynasty. By a New York Times best-selling novel. MYSTERY FRANCIS #8
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Death in Paris by Emilia BernhardThe only thing chillier than a Parisian winter is cold-blooded murder. When a man drowns in a bowl of soup, his ex-girlfriend is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? Even stranger: a bottle of rosé was on the table when he died, but Edgar loathed rosé. The death is ruled accidental, but the suspects start dropping like flies. It's up to two amateur sleuths to solve the case before the murderer decides they're next. MYSTERY BERNHARD #1
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When You Find Me by P. J. VernonGray Godfrey wakes from a night out to an empty bed. Her husband Paul is gone and a hangover has wiped her memory clean. At first, she's relieved for the break from her tumultuous marriage. Then Paul's car is found abandoned on the highway. A stranger named Annie calls claiming to know his whereabouts. But soon Annie is sending frightening messages and revealing disturbing secrets only Gray could know. What does Annie want? And what will she do to get it? MYSTERY VERNON
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The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery QueenThe offices of Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty waiting room is unlike any that has come before. Nobody, it seems, entered or exited the room, and yet the crime scene clearly has been manipulated, leaving everything in the room turned backwards and upside down. Stuck through the back of the corpses shirt are two long spears and a tangerine is missing from the fruit bowl. Enter amateur sleuth Ellery Queen. MYSTERY QUEEN
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The Second Rider by Alex BeerInspector Emmerich has been on the trail of a smuggling operation in a city still devastated by World War I. Emmerich dreams of a reassignment to the elite homicide division and hopes to showcase his skills after his assistant stumbles across a corpse. The coroner and his boss are eager to label the death a suicide, even after a second body turns up. Emmerich resists directives to devote himself to the smuggling ring, even as he grapples with a devastating development in his personal life. MYSTERY BEER #1
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The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. HughesGriselda Satterlee is traveling to Manhattan to reinvent herself as the dashing Montefierrow twins return after a twelve-year sojourn in Europe. When the three meet, their polite conversation quickly turns menacing. The twins are seeking a rare and powerful gem they believe is stashed in the apartment where Griselda is staying. Then the murders begin... Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the New York elite, this is a perfectly Art Deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. MYSTERY HUGHES
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The Sleeping Witness by Fiorella Sultana De MariaWhen a foreign artist and war hero seeking refuge at Saint Mary's Abbey is found murdered with the village doctor's wife Marie Paige lying next to him in a coma, Father Gabriel comes to the aid of Dr. Paige after he's arrested by the police. MYSTERY DE MARIA
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Deadly Camargue: A Provence Mystery by Cay RademacherRoger Blanc and Marius Tonon investigate after a Parisian political reporter and TV personality is discovered gored to death by a fighting bull in the Camargue region that seems to have been intentionally set free. MYSTERY RADEMACHER #2
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Newcomer by Keigo HigashinoNewly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects. MYSTERY HIGASHINO #2
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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie LoewensteinWhen a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. MYSTERY LOEWENSTEIN #1
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