| The Antiquities Hunter: A Gina Miyoko Mystery by Maya Kaathryn BohnhoffIntroducing: Gina Miyoko, a petite San Francisco Bay area PI with a Russian American mother obsessed with good luck charms and a Japanese American father who loves Sherlock Holmes.
What it's about: When Gina's best friend, a National Park Service agent preparing to testify in a stolen artifacts case, is stalked, Gina investigates and ends up in Mexico posing as a wealthy femme fatale.
Is it for you? Try this 1st in a new series if you’re looking for an action-packed mystery with a tough, clever heroine (like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone), a diverse cast, and plenty of archaeological details. |
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| The Accident on the A35: An Inspector Gorski Investigation by Graeme Macrae BurnetWhat it is: This sequel to The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau is an atmospheric literary mystery with noir elements as well as a Georges Simenon pastiche with a bit of metafiction tossed in.
What happens: A car accident leaves a local lawyer dead, and as a favor to his beautiful widow, provincial French police detective Georges Gorski investigates. Meanwhile, the dead man's Sartre-reading 17-year-old son finds an address on a scrap of paper that leads to his own questions about his father. |
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The affliction
by Beth Richardson Gutcheon
When a talkative teacher is murdered during the tensions of an evaluation to see if Rye Manor School will remain open, retired school head Maggie Detweiler is joined by madcap socialite friend Hope to identify a killer among multiple suspects, in a sequel to Death at Breakfast. 50,000 first printing.
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Target, Alex Cross
by James Patterson
When the U.S. President is assassinated by an unknown sniper, Alex Cross takes a personal role with the FBI to lead an unprecedented investigation that is complicated by Constitutional crises. 800,000 first printing.
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| The Shadows We Hide by Allen EskensStarring: young Minneapolis reporter Joe Talbert, who lives with his law-student girlfriend and his autistic younger brother.
What happens: Joe is sued by a senator for defamation of character and put on leave, so he has time to check things out when he learns about the nearby murder of a much-disliked man...who may be the father Joe never knew.
Read this next: If you like this sequel to The Life We Bury, and want similar novels, check out Allen Eskens' mysteries starring detective Max Rupert, who appeared with Joe in The Life We Bury. |
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Death of a rainmaker : a Dust Bowl mystery
by Laurie Loewenstein
"When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl."
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Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
What it's about: It's Autumn, six years after the events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Elizabeth and Darcy are happily married with two sons -- but their estate is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth's sister Lydia arrives, announcing that her husband has been murdered.
Read it for: crime fiction master P.D. James' inspired take on Austen's characters and language.
Want a taste? "It is doubtful whether Mrs. Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite child."
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| Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie BarronWhat happens: Jane Austen is drawn into a murder investigation when the noble husband of her friend Isobel dies suspiciously after only three months of marriage -- and accusatory notes suggest Isobel was having an affair and killed him.
Why you should read it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you're an Austenophile, you should try this 1st in a popular series; those who'd like to see Austen's characters as sleuths and enjoy a hint of the supernatural can pick up Carrie Bebris' Mr. & Mrs. Darcy books. |
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| By Book or by Crook by Eva GatesWhat it is: the 1st in a charming cozy mystery series set in a lighthouse library in North Carolina's Outer Banks, complete with a library cat.
Introducing: young assistant librarian Lucy Richardson, a Jane Austen fan, who's left her Harvard job and family to strike out on her own.
What happens: Happy to get away from her well-to-do family's expectations, Lucy loves her new job, especially since there's a new Jane Austen exhibit, but library politics, a murder, and a missing Jane Austen book mean she may not have it for long. |
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Jane and the twelve days of Christmas
by Stephanie Barron
Invited to spend the Christmas holiday season of 1814 at the ancestral home of the wealthy Chute family, Jane investigates the suspicious death of a Yuletide reveler whose killer is among the snowbound guests
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