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| Hitting the Books: A Library Lover's Mystery by Jenn McKinlayWhat it is: a cozy mystery set in a small town and peopled with characters readers will grow to know and love.
What happens: Assisting a police investigation after witnessing an intentional hit-and-run, Briar Creek, Connecticut, library director Lindsey Norris is further drawn into the case when a stack of library books is found in the trunk of the stolen car that was used in the crime.
Read this next: If you enjoy this 9th Library Lover's Mystery, check out Miranda James's Cat in the Stacks mysteries or Eva Gates' Lighthouse Library Mysteries. |
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Running an independent bookstore in small-town Hazel Rock, Texas, doesn't sound like a high-risk pursuit. But when a fundraiser reveals a story with a truly killer ending, Charli Rae Warren will need to scramble to sort out the deadly plot Sponsoring the literacy drive to benefit the foster care system should be a feel-good endeavor, but one of Charli's helpers is definitely on another page. Charli's dad is distracted and keeping something secret, which Charli suspects is a harmless flirtation with an attractive county clerk who offered to lend them a hand. It's nothing to worry about—until the same clerk winds up dead When nosy locals begin pointing fingers, Charli finds herself entangled in a race to uncover the killer's identity—and to get to the bottom of a shattering family secret that could rewrite her history in alarming ways. Suddenly Charli is facing her worst fears and her childhood nemesis in order to unmask a murderer—before he silences her for good
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"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one ofthe best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are"
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eBook on Hoopla It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris-broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocence-and exact revenge on George. When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates-including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined. As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley's murder. B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector's Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.
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What happens: Rev. Max Tudor, the handsome, unmarried Anglican vicar in Nether Monkslip (who's also a former MI5 officer), investigates when overbearing Wanda Batton-Smythe is found dead at the Harvest Fayre.
For fans of: charming yet crime-ridden literary villages, such as Alan Bradley's Bishop's Lacey and Agatha Christie's St. Mary Mead.
Series alert: Wicked Autumn is the leisurely paced 1st in a fun cozy series that now numbers seven. |
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| Glass Houses by Louise PennyWhat happens: Near Halloween, a black-clad figure appears on Three Pine's village green...and a murder occurs. Sûreté du Québec's Armand Gamache investigates in this novel dealing with conscience and secrets.
Series alert: Glass Houses is the 13th in the introspective Three Pines mystery series. New readers should start with the 1st book, Still Life, as each book builds on the others. Current fans will be happy that the 14th entry, Kingdom of the Blind, comes out at the end of November.
Try these next: mysteries by P.D. James, Donna Leon, and Ann Cleeves. |
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