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| The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan BradleyFeaturing: delightful 12-year-old chemist and sleuth Flavia de Luce.
Series alert: This 9th entry in a charming series set in 1950s England finds Flavia and her two older sisters at a crossroads even as Flavia once again sets out to solve a murder. Newcomer? Start with the 1st book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
You might also like: For another mystery series with a village setting, eccentric characters, and an intelligent, likable detective (though one older than Flavia), try Louise Penny's Armand Gamache mysteries. |
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| The Mitford Murders by Jessica FellowesIntroducing: Louisa Cannon, a down-on-her-luck young Londoner who finds work as a nursemaid to the (real-life) Mitford family.
What it's about: When a retired military nurse is killed on a train, Louisa, teenage Nancy Mitford, and a handsome railway cop investigate.
For fans of: Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mysteries, which are also set in the inter-war period and examine the upstairs-downstairs dynamic, or Downton Abbey (author Jessica Fellowes is the niece of its creator and has written several nonfiction books about the show). |
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Dark in death
by J. D. Robb
When a young woman is brutally murdered while attending a screening of "Psycho" at Times Square, Eve Dallas is contacted by a writer of crime fiction who recognizes the case, and other recent killings, from storylines in her books
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Death by chocolate cherry cheesecake
by Sarah Graves
Opening a waterfront bakery in a coastal Maine fishing village, Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie, find their summer launch complicated by an unseasonal hurricane that strands her family away from home and renders her a suspect in the murder of a corrupt health inspector. By the best-selling author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series.
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The gate keeper : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
An encounter with a frightened woman standing over a body launches an inquiry that leads Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge into a dangerous confrontation with a stealthy killer and his own painful memories. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Bess Crawford mysteries. 75,000 first printing.
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Night moves : an Alex Delaware novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner to discover the murdered body of a complete stranger in their house, psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis navigate unexpected consequences in a case that tests their intellectual and emotional limits. By the best-selling author of Heartbreak Hotel.
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Death of an honest man
by M. C Beaton
When an insensitive newcomer to the village of Cnothan is found dead, flame-haired sergeant Hamish Macbeth confronts a bewildering array of suspects at the same time his clumsy police sidekick, Charlie, resigns in protest of his treatment by Chief Inspector Blair. By a New York Times best-selling author. 40,000 first printing.
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The woman in the water : A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series
by Charles Finch
An early case that set the stage for Charles Lenox's distinguished career is set in 1850 London and finds a young Lenox rejected by Scotland Yard before resolving to prove himself by capturing an anonymous killer who claims to have committed the perfect crime. By the award-winning author of A Beautiful Blue Death.
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