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New Mysteries at Riverside Public Library |
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Ace Atkins
It's 1985, what will soon become known as 'The Year of the Spy,'
and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. 'Gary' isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box
of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get
close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab
with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him?
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The Queen Who Came in from the Cold:
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates
by S. J. Bennett
1961, England.The Queen is spending a night on board the
royal train with her entourage and her sister, Princess Margaret.
But before they reach their destination, an unreliable witness
claims to have seen a brutal murder from one of the carriages.
The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw,
get to work on their second joint investigation. No one else
saw the crime.
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The Chow Maniac: A Noodle Shop Mystery
by Vivien Chien
Lydia's client insists he, and only he knows who will be next
and wants the murderer captured before there is another victim.
Riding below the line of three cities of law enforcement and Lana's
own boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau, the two women must tread lightly as they infiltrate a secret organization that even the Mahjong Matrons know nothing about.
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Crime Rangoon: A Noodle Shop Mystery
by Vivien Chien
Lana Lee is equally excited for the appearance of her favorite
author and even more so when Cindy asks her to be Charlene's
handler for the event. Taking her duties very seriously, Lana
stays by the side of the prominent author to assist in anything
that she might need. With a line out the door and stretched
through the plaza, Cindy is overjoyed at what a success this is
for her shop. But, unfortunately for Cindy, her success comes
with a price: the author is found dead in the mystery aisle,
clutching a copy of her own book.
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Peking Duck and Cover: A Noodle
Shop Mystery
by Vivien Chien
Lana Lee and friends return for a fiery Chinese New Year
celebration that rattles their quaint community. After all, an
Asia Village party wouldn't be complete without an explosive
finale. With Lana Lee as his right-hand woman and head event
planner, Ian Sung orchestrates an extravagant evening filled with
music, live entertainment, and generous giveaways. But at the
end of the night, during an elaborate firework show in the parking
lot, a member of the lion dance performance team is found dead backstage with a single bullet hole through the heart and a red
envelope in their pocket containing four one-dollar bills,
an omen of death.
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The Quiet Mother: A Detective Konrad
Novel
by Arnaldur Indridason
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's
phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child
she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen
old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to
uncover the truth--for her and for himself.
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Murder in Highbury
by Vanessa Kelly
First in a captivating new series, Jane Austen's Emma
Knightley entertains a different role in Highbury--going from
clever matchmaker to Regency England's shrewdest sleuth.
Clever and charming, Vanessa Kelly brings Austen's world in
Highbury village to life with beloved characters, twisty hijinks,
and a mystery that will keep you guessing.
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Homemaker
by Ruthie Knox
Prairie Nightingale is both the midlife mother of two teenage girls
and a canny entrepreneur who has turned homemaking into a
salaried profession. She's also fascinated with the gritty details of
other people's lives. So when seemingly perfect Lisa Radcliffe, a
member of her former mom-friends circle, suddenly disappears,
it's in Prairie's nature to find out why.
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Death and Dinuguan
by Mia P. Manansala
Love is in the air for the citizens of Shady Palms, but Cupid’s
arrow isn’t the only thing striking the town, not with another
killer on the loose. Includes recipes and an excerpt from Arsenic
and Adobo.
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on
a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt--it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.
Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who'd been poking his
nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence
referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal
murder of his girlfriend when he vanished.
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The Murder at World's End
by Ross Montgomery
On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will
accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be
sealed from top to bottom--every window, chimney, and keyhole
closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest
Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies
within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered
by his own ancestral crossbow.
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The Burning Grounds
by Abir Mukherjee
In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest,
a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body
is that of a popular philanthropist and patron of the arts. A man,
who was, by all accounts, beloved by all. So what could possibly
be the motive for murder?
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May Contain Murder
by Orlando Murrin
While his flooded house undergoes repairs, chef-turned-writer Paul Delamare has been offered an accommodation upgrade: an all-
expenses-paid trip aboard a private superyacht in the company of
Xâera, one of his dearest friends. Paul will help Xâera work on her memoirs as Maldemer glides its sumptuous way to the Caribbean.
When Xâera's priceless new necklace goes missing, Paul falls under suspicion. But there's far worse in store, as one of the passengers is found dead in mysterious and grisly circumstances.
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First Do No Harm: A Lydia Chin/
Bill Smith Mystery
by S. J. Rozan
In the latest novel in S. J. Rozan's groundbreaking mystery
series, Lydia Chin and Bill Smith face a dangerous task: they
must unlock a hospital's many secrets in order to save an
innocent man.
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A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel
by Ashley Weaver
Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their
safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with
World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick's locksmith business just
can't pay the bills anymore.
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The Key to Deceit: An Electra McDonnell Novel
by Ashley Weaver
Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as
they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-
laced Major Ramsey didn't give them much choice, but still, Ellie
must admit she doesn't miss breaking and entering as much as
she might have thought. What she does miss is the challenge of unlocking an impossible code and the adrenaline rush that comes
from being somewhere she shouldn't.
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Playing It Safe: An Electra McDonnell Novel
by Ashley Weaver
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell--
formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay
on the straight and narrow to help her country--is approached by
British Intelligence officer Major Ramsey with a new assignment.
She is to travel under an assumed identity to the port city of
Sunderland and there await further instructions. In his usual
infuriating way, the Major has left her task as vague and
mysterious as possible. Ellie, ever-ready to aid her country,
heads north, her safecracking tools in tow. But before she can rendezvous with the major, she witnesses an unnatural death.
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Locked in Pursuit: An Electra McDonnell Novel
by Ashley Weaver
Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn't seen Major Ramsey--her
handsome but aloof handler in the British government--since
their tumultuous mission together three months before, but
when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the
neutral city Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought
to London by a mysterious courier.
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One Final Turn: An Electra McDonnell Novel
by Ashley Weaver
The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series
brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era
Europe to Lisbon, Portugal, to rescue a key group of escaped
POWs. She intends to save her beloved cousin Toby who has
reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby
has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all
but lost hope in ever seeing him again.
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From Cradle to Grave
by Rhys Bowen
Lady Georgiana Georgie Rannoch is just like any other new
mother, balancing responsibilities of being 34th in line for the
British throne and solving the shocking deaths of several young
men, in this new Royal Spyness novel from the queen of historical mystery, Rhys Bowen.
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Murder at the Christmas Emporium
by Andreina Cordani
It's Christmas Eve at the Emporium, a bespoke gift shop hidden
in the depths of London's winding streets, where a select few
shoppers are browsing its handcrafted delights. But when they
go to leave, they find the doors are locked and it isn't long before
they realize this is no innocent mix-up. The shoppers have been
trapped here by someone who knows their darkest secrets,
someone will stop at nothing until they have all been unwrapped,
and there is a gruesome gift waiting in Santa's grotto.
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The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just
about anything. Too bad she can't seem to lose her gorgeous-
but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her
help. His cousin Harley is in trouble. ... As the president of a too-
big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money
in insuring some of the world's most priceless artifacts at the
urging of his board.
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Coyote Hills
by Jonathan Kellerman
Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner's office to
strike out on his own as a private investigator. He's perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases--that is, until PI Regina
Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a
wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San
Francisco Bay with drugs in his system and a head injury.
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Robert B. Parker's Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who
believes Hale may be his father. It's a potentially explosive
revelation for a man in the podcaster's position and it might
even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could
explain the bodies that start popping up - bodies connected in
one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniel's birth.
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Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with
a twisty, magnetic thriller featuring forensic anthropologist
Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series
of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more
sinister.
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At Midnight Comes the Cry: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
New York Times Book Review bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming
returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery
series It's Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare
Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned
from his position as chief of police - plan to enjoy it with their
baby boy.
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