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Blood Oath
by Linda A Fairstein
What it's about: A key witness' revelation about a sexual assault at the hands of a prominent official is complicated by rumors about a colleague's abusive conduct and another associate's violent, mysterious collapse. By the New York Times best-selling author of Deadfall
Series alert: This is the 20th title in the Alexandra Cooper series. If you would like to start at the beginning, pick up Final Jeopardy.
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The Tale Teller
by Anne Hillerman
What it's about: Investigating the disappearance of a priceless Navajo artifact, retired Tribal Police detective Joe Leaphorn receives a sinister warning at the same time a leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances.
Series alert: This is the latest in the Leaphorn & Chee series, to catch the beginning, pick up The Blessing Way.
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The A List: An Ali Reynolds Mystery
by Judith A Jance
What it's about: Settling into a quieter life a decade after a career scandal, a once-high-profile newscaster is approached by someone from her past who compels her to make a difficult choice.
Series alert: The A List brings the Ali Reynolds series to 14, catch the beginning with Edge of Evil.
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes
by Alexander McCall Smith
What it's about: Tasked with their Swedish Police Department's most unusual cases, lead detective Ulf Varg and his colorful associates investigate a bizarre stabbing, a lost imaginary boyfriend and a haunted spa.
Series alert: This is the first book in the brand new Detective Varg series.
You may also like: the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series or the 44 Scotland Street series, also by Alexander McCall Smith.
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| Murder Once Removed by S.C. PerkinsIntroducing: likable genealogist Lucy Lancaster of Austin, Texas, who runs Ancestry Investigations.
What happens: A billionaire hires Lucy to investigate his great-great-grandfather's death in 1849. She digs up evidence proving the man was murdered and finds clues to who did it, too, but after the press find out, thefts and a new murder occur and the FBI sends a handsome agent to talk to Lucy, who feels compelled to stay involved.
Book buzz: Murder Once Removed won the 2017 Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition. |
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Miss Julia Takes The Wheel
by Ann B Ross
What it's about: Miss Julia's efforts to understand mysteries surrounding an unscrupulous new doctor and his painfully shy wife are complicated by Lloyd's first car and a newly divorced LuAnne's makeover in accordance with a new funeral home job.
Series alert: This title is #21 in the Miss Julia series, if you would like to start at the beginning, pick up a copy of Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind.
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Hasty Death
by Marion Chesney
What it's about: Eager to seek her independence and become self-supporting, Lady Rose Summer leaves her parents' home to join the working class, but she is forced to put her new life on hold and rejoin London high society when one of her acquaintances turns up dead and Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard enlist her aid to uncover a devious blackmail plot.
Want more?: You may also want to give Snobbery With Violence a try.
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The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George
What it's about: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.
Series alert: This title is the latest (#20) in the Inspector Lynley series, to start at the beginning, pick up a copy of A Great Deliverance.
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| Murder in Murray Hill: A Gaslight Mystery by Victoria ThompsonStarring: Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, a single father who recently inherited a lot of money, and his intrepid fiancée, midwife Sarah Brandt.
What happens: In late-19th-century New York, wealthy men aren't welcome to work as cops, so on his last police case, Frank looks for a missing spinster who'd responded to a “lonely hearts” newspaper ad.
Series alert: This intense 16th Gaslight Mysteries is fine for newcomers; the 22nd series entry, Murder on Trinity Place, was just published. |
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| The Gate Keeper by Charles ToddStarring: Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked World War I veteran who often hears the voice of Hamish, a dead soldier.
What happens: A nighttime encounter with a woman standing over a body on a lonely Suffolk road leads Rutledge to a tricky case in his 20th outing (the 21st entry, The Black Ascot, came out earlier this year).
Anne Perry fans might like: the vivid English setting; the intelligent, tightly woven plot; and the nuanced characters. This series will especially appeal to fans of Perry's World War I series. |
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