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| Love Like Blood by Mark BillinghamPolice Procedural. When her partner Susan is brutally murdered at their apartment, DI Nicola Tanner (introduced in last year's Die of Shame) decides she must have been the real target -- Tanner works with the Honour Crimes Unit, where she's discovered there's a pair of professional killers at work...and she believes these men killed Susan. Though on compassionate leave, Tanner gets rule-bending detective Tom Thorne to help her check things out. With plot twists and thrills aplenty, this 14th Tom Thorne novel may keep you up late. |
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| Let the Dead Speak by Jane CaseyPolice Procedural. A teenage girl returns home early from visiting her father and stepfamily to find her mother missing and their London home covered in blood. Investigating the possible murder, DS Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team -- including old pal DI Josh Derwent and ambitious newcomer DC Georgia Shaw -- struggle to piece together what happened, where the body might be, and who's responsible. If you appreciate suspense, finely wrought characters, and tight plotting, check out this excellent 7th entry in the Maeve Kerrigan series. |
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| Bad Housekeeping by Maia ChanceCozy Mystery. Having just moved back to her quaint upstate New York hometown, bookish 28-year-old Agnes Blythe is stunned when her professor fiancé dumps her. She'd planned to start graduate school the following week, but unable to face being near her ex, she instead agrees to help her glamorous 70-something Great Aunt Effie renovate a rundown hotel. But more trouble arises: a murder victim is found in the hotel! So the odd couple of Agnes and Effie must nail the real culprit before they're locked up. If you like your cozy mysteries with humor and quirky characters, check out this 1st in a new series. |
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Glass houses : a novel
by Louise Penny
A suspicious figure that appears on the village green on a cold November day leaves a dead body in its wake, compelling Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec to pursue an investigation that has difficult consequences. By the Edgar Award-winning author of A Great Reckoning.
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| Persons Unknown: A Novel by Susie SteinerMystery. Having left the Met police for Cambridgeshire in order to give her adopted 12-year-old son a new start, detective Manon Bradshaw finds things aren't going as planned. Her black son is being bullied, she's single and pregnant, and most troubling, someone close to her family has been murdered and the police think her son may be involved. The case pits her against colleagues, but Manon will do whatever she can to find the real killer and prove her son's innocence. Told from multiple points of view, this thought-provoking 2nd book to feature Manon (after Missing, Presumed) slowly builds momentum and addresses timely topics. |
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| The Force: A Novel by Don WinslowCrime Fiction. Denny Malone is a highly decorated NYPD detective at the head of an elite anti-gang task force -- he's also a dirty cop who skims cash and drugs, and worse. Tracing Denny's rise and fall and his attempts to avoid federal jail time, The Force showcases authentic dialogue and shockingly believable characters in a taut, gritty book. If you're on the hold list for this bestseller, try other atmospheric novels that examine police corruption, such as Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, Thomas Mullen's Darktown, or Ian Rankin's Malcolm Fox mysteries. |
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Elementary, she read
by Vicki Delany
When 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.
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A Study in Scarlet Women: First in the Lady Sherlock Series
by Sherry Thomas
Historical Mystery. Sherlock Holmes is a woman. Let us explain. In author Sherry Thomas' exhilarating take on the Holmes story, young Charlotte Holmes, facing social ruination, reinvents herself as a male detective, calling herself Sherlock. She's always been astute, and uses this to her advantage when Victorian London is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths, and suspicion falls on her sister and her father. Fans of Deanne Raybourn's romantic historical mysteries will appreciate the touches of romance and the Victorian London setting found here. Sherlockians who appreciate bold, new takes on the great detective should snap this up (for another Sherlock-inspired novel, pick up Joe Ide's recent debut, the excellent South Central Los Angeles-set IQ).
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| The Sherlockian by Graham MooreMystery. In 2010, literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the exclusive Baker Street Irregulars group. After a fellow member -- who had just discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary -- is murdered, Harold looks into the killing. Meanwhile, in 1890s London, Conan Doyle himself hunts a serial killer with the help of his friend Bram Stoker. Though there's no shortage of modern books featuring homages to Conan Doyle and Holmes, real-life Sherlockians should relish this novel as much as they do a well-placed red herring. |
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| The Baker Street Letters by Michael RobertsonMystery. Lawyers and brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath rent offices at 221B Baker Street and, as part of their lease agreement, they must answer every letter that arrives for Sherlock Holmes. When Nigel reads a letter written by a little girl whose father is missing and decides he must help, the two men find themselves dealing with a murder and taking a trip to Los Angeles. If you like this "lively and inventive" (Kirkus Reviews) debut, be sure to look for others in the Baker Street Brothers series. |
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