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| Paper Cage by Tom BaragwanathLorraine Henry, a white policeman's widow, works as a police records clerk in a small New Zealand town rife with drugs and racial tension. When a part-Māori relative is one of three Indigenous children who go missing and the cops aren't all that concerned, Lorraine investigates. First published in New Zealand in 2022, this gritty, suspenseful debut features "a truly crackling mystery" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonoughIn 1866, Scotland Yard DI Richard Tennant is surprised when Dr. Julia Lewis, who normally helps cholera victims, arrives at a grisly London crime scene instead of her ill grandfather. But with a serial killer at work, he desperately needs her help. Read-alikes: Ritu Mukerji's Murder by Degrees; Ariana Franklin's Adelia Aguilar series; E.S. Thomson's Jem Flockhart mysteries. |
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| The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. RozanIn 1924 London, unexpected events lead quiet academic lecturer Lao She to team up with larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie to figure out who's killing Chinese immigrants who served in France during the Great War. For fans of: Sherlock Holmes; intricately plotted mysteries with a strong sense of place. |
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| Cahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordIn this noirish alternate history starring a hardboiled police detective, Indigenous people didn't die of smallpox and make up a large percentage of 1922 Cahokia, a city on the Mississippi where everyone gets along fairly well. But the grisly murder of a white man agitates race relations. Read-alikes: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; Better the Blood by Michael Bennett. |
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| Listen for the Lie by Amy TinteraDespite misgivings, Lucy Chase returns to her Texas hometown, where everyone thinks she killed her best friend five years ago on a night she can't recall. Now a podcaster is on the case, and Lucy's going to help. This atmospheric novel is a Good Morning America Book Club selection. Read-alikes: Samantha Jayne Allen's Annie McIntyre mysteries; Nicci French's Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? |
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| The Excitements by C.J. WrayJosephine and Penny are 90-something English sisters who served during World War II (including doing top secret work). Heading to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, they plan on settling a few scores along the way in this "utterly charming" (Booklist) novel by C.J. Wray, aka bestselling author Christine Manby. |
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A deadly endeavor
by Jenny Adams
In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. A first novel.
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Murder marks the page
by Karen Rose Smith
The owner of Tomes & Tea, a book and tea shop, Jazzie, when her friend Brie, who recently made contact with her biological father—and is looking for a husband—is murdered, Jazzie, playing detective, is faced with a list of suspects ranging from jealous half-siblings to unsuitable suitors.
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Long time dead
by T. M. Payne
"DI Sheridan Holler is used to solving crimes on Liverpool's streets, but after a decayed corpse turns up in a cemetery, she finds herself reopening not one but two cold cases. Seven years earlier, two women were gunned down and the only suspect, small-time drug dealer John Lively, was never seen again. Case closed. Until the body in the cemetery is identified as his. Holler needs to work out if Lively was killed out of revenge, or was just a victim of the criminal world he inhabited. When shocking evidence is revealed about the murder weapon, Holler's cold case starts to look hopeless once more. But defeat is not an option. Driven by the unsolved and traumatic murder of her brother when they were children, DI Holler's pursuit of justice is relentless. As old wounds are reopened, the police close in on the killer, but the threat of them striking again is all too real. Can DI Holler put the pieces of the puzzle together before anyone else winds up dead?"
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A midnight puzzle
by Gigi Pandian
After a former client blames his wife's death on Tempest Raj's Secret Staircase Construction company, he winds up dead, and Tempest is on the case.
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The clock struck murder
by Betty Webb
"Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash, Zoe sets off to track her down at her storage shed. With no Laurette in sight, Zoe snoops around and indeed finds several additional Chagalls-and then she finds Laurette herself, dead beneath a scrap heap, her beautiful face bashed in. With Paris hosting the 1924 Summer Olympics, the police are far too busy with tourist-related crimes to devote much time to the clock seller's murder. After returning the paintings to a grateful Marc Chagall, Zoe begins her own investigation. Did the stolen paintings play any part in the brutal killing? Or was it a crime of passion? Zoe soon discovers that there were many people who had reason to resent the lovely Laurette. But who hated the girl enough to stop her clock permanently? When Zoe discovers a second murder victim, the pressure is on to find the killer before time-and luck-run out"
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| Observations by Gaslight by Lyndsay FayeThis entertaining collection of Sherlock Holmes stories is told in epistolary form by people who've encountered the great detective over the years, including Irene Adler and Geoffrey Lestrade. Read it for the smart plotting, atmospheric Victorian settings, and in-depth Sherlockian knowledge on display. |
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| Seasonal Work by Laura LippmanLaura Lippman, the acclaimed author of novels such as Prom Mom and Lady in the Lake, serves up a "delightful" (Library Journal) collection of 12 stories, including a new novella. Tess Monaghan fans take note: the tough Baltimore PI makes two appearances here. |
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| An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene TurstenIn this follow-up to An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, readers learn more about clever, capable 88-year-old Maude in six darkly humorous stories that detail her meting out justice at various points in her life, including the present day, where Swedish police have just discovered a body in her apartment. For fans of: Arsenic and Old Lace. |
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| Midnight Hour by Abby L. Vandiver, editor; foreword by Stephen Mack JonesCentered around the midnight hour, this "excellent" (Kirkus Reviews) collection presents 20 original stories, from cozy to noir, written by authors of color, such as Jennifer Chow, Tracy Clark, E.A. Aymar, Raquel V. Reyes, Gigi Pandian, V.M. Burns, and David Heska Wanbli Weiden. |
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