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| That Old Scoundrel Death: A Dan Rhodes Mystery by Bill CriderWhat happens: Sheriff Dan Rhodes contemplates retiring as he faces down a man with a gun and investigates a murder at an abandoned school that some want to raze and others want to restore.
Read it for: wry humor, clever plotting, a well-wrought small-town Texas setting, and entertaining characters.
About the author: Sadly, Bill Crider died in 2018. That Old Scoundrel Death is his 25th and final entry in the character-driven Dan Rhodes mysteries. |
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| The Vanishing Man: A Charles Lenox Mystery by Charles FinchFeaturing: Charles Lenox, a 26-year-old sleuth and Oxford grad in 1853 London; his butler Graham, who assists with cases; his clever neighbor, Lady Jane Grey; and Lancelot, his mischievous 12-year-old cousin.
What happens: The theft of a duke's painting finds Lenox contemplating Shakespeare, visiting a Tower of London prisoner, seeing his own name dragged through the mud, and sussing out a killer.
Series alert: This is the 2nd prequel in the Charles Lenox series and the 12th book overall. |
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| In the Dark by Cara HunterThe set up: An Oxford, England, home renovation creates an opening in a basement wall belonging to a weak, dementia-afflicted professor -- and exposes a room containing a traumatized woman and a two-year-old boy.
What happens: In his engrossing 2nd outing, Thames Valley Police DI Adam Fawley finds the facts don't add up as he unearths a link to a cold case...and then things get even more complex.
Reviewers say: "This slow-burning procedural builds with tension as the narrative moves through several cunning twists" (Library Journal). |
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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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