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Past Tense
by Lee Child
What it's about: Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller. Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: The town where his father wasborn. He thinks, What's one extra day? and takes the detour. The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in town. He knows his father left and never returned. Now Reacher wonders, Was he ever there in the first place? As Reacher explores his father's life, and strands of different stories begin to merge, he makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense and deadly.
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You Don't Own Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
What It's about: Television producer Laurie Moran sets aside her wedding plans to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor, placing herself in the path of a mysterious stalker. By the best-selling authors of Every Breath You Take.
Series Alert: This is the sixth title in the Under Suspicion series. To start at the beginning pick up I've Got You Under My Skin.
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| The Vanishing Box by Elly GriffithsStarring: Brighton, England DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto, who met in a secretive World War II unit nearly ten years ago.
What happens: Edgar is called to a murder scene where a body is arranged as if in a famous Jane Grey painting...which calls to mind the poses that the young women in Max's new opening act create.
Series alert: This 4th Magic Men novel is a charming holiday mystery featuring romance and a well-crafted plot. To start with the 1st book (and see character relationships develop), pick up The Zig Zag Girl. |
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| The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson; translated by Victoria CribbIntroducing: Hulda Hermannsdottir, a dogged 64-year-old Detective Inspector with the Reykjavik Police who's being forced into retirement.
What happens: With two weeks left on the job, Hulda's begrudgingly allowed to select a cold case to investigate. She picks the murder of a Russian asylum seeker -- and not everyone's happy about it.
For fans of: This debut in the Hidden Iceland series should please readers of Arnaldur Indridason's Iceland-set mysteries as well as Anne Holt's Hanne Wilhelmsen novels, which star an older female detective. |
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The Colors of All The Cattle
by Alexander McCall Smith
What it's about: When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephotho, who is in the pocket of the hotel developers. To everyone's surprise, she wins. As it turns out, politics does not agree with Mma Ramotswe. Though everyone is supportive, she eventually resigns. She thinks there will be a new election, but she discovers that the rules state that in such an event, the runner-up automatically takes the seat. Violet is triumphant, and sure that she will get the Big Fun Hotel planning application through without a hitch. But Mma Makutsi and Mma Potokwane are not about to make it easy for her.
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A Christmas Revelation : A Novel
by Anne Perry
What it's About: An orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance. When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as they track Eloise down, they're surprised to hear that she does not, in fact, wish to be rescued. Instead, Eloise intends to bring the kidnappers, who drew her father into their shady business deals and then murdered him, to justice. The kidnappers are skilled illusionists, and after they try their tricks on Worm and Squeaky, the friends are determined to help Eloise with her plan--and they might just be able to use the kidnappers' tricks against them"
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NYPD Red
by James Patterson
What it's about: Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres in this new novel from the authors of Kill Me If You Can.
Series Aler: This is the first in the NYPD Red series. You can find the whole series on the shelves at the IPL, including the fifth book that came out just this past March.
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Purple Cane Road : A Novel
by James Lee Burke
What it's about: Haunted by the mother he never knew, Dave Robicheaux is stunned when a chance meeting reveals that his mother had been murdered by a New Orleans police officer, a discovery that has him searching for the killer.
Series Aler: This title is number 11 in the Dave Robicheaux series. You can start at the beginning with The Neon Rain.
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A Little Yellow Dog : An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
What it's about: In the latest installment in a popular, critically acclaimed series set in Los Angeles's inner city during the fifties, Easy Rawlins takes a job as head custodian at a junior high school, where old enemies and murder catch up with him.
Series Aler: This title is the fifth book in the Easy Rawlins series, if you'd like to start at the beginning, pick up Devil In A Blue Dress.
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Blood Orange
by Susan Wittig Albert
What it's about: When a nurse who is renting her guest cottage discovers disturbing evidence that a patient has been murdered before a suspicious accident places her in a coma, China Bayles races against time to identify the culprit and prevent another death. By the best-selling author of the Darling Dahlias mysteries.
Series Aler: Blood Orange in #24 in the China Bayles series. Catch the beginning of the story with Thyme of Death.
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