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Fortune Favors the Dead
by Stephen Spotswood
It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition.
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| One for the Books by Jenn McKinlayStarring: Briar Creek, Connecticut library director Lindsey Norris; Sully, her fiancé and a boat captain who grew up in the small coastal town.
Wedding problems: A mishap with the guest list finds most of the town invited to the wedding, but the biggest development is that someone murders Sully's old friend, who was to perform the ceremony.
Who it's for: This 11th Library Lover's mystery is perfect for fans who've watched the romance between Lindsey and Sully grow as well as newcomers who love romantic Christmas mysteries. |
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Death and the Maiden
by Ariana Franklin
A long-anticipated series conclusion finds a young healer dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.
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Murder is in the Air : a Kate Shackleton Mystery
by Frances Brody
Invited by 1930 North Yorkshire’s brewery queen to accompany public engagements that are then upended by the murder of a drayman, Kate Shackleton investigates two suspects, including a disreputable horse dealer and her hostess’s conservative-minded father.
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| Still Life by Val McDermidWhat it's about: In February 2020, DCI Karen Pirie, head of Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, investigates two cold cases and deals with skeletal remains, art forgery, secret identities, and more. Also, the killer of her true love gets out of prison, and near the novel's end, COVID-19 hits.
Series alert: Peppered with Scottish words, this entertaining 6th Karen Pirie mystery has complex characters and deft writing.
Try this next: Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope novels, Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series, or Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books. |
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Snow
by John Banville
Investigating the murder of a 1957 County Wexford priest, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community’s culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family’s dangerous secrets. By the award-winning author of The Seas.
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A Garland of Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends find their Christmas cheer turning to fear when strange accidents befall them during holiday festivities and are determined to catch the wrong-doers, who deserve nothing but coal in their stockings this year.
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The Gift of the Magpie : a Meg Langslow Mystery
by Donna Andrews
When the magpie, who has been bringing her bits of tinsel and costume jewelry, arrives with a gift that may be the clue to solving a crime, Meg finds her hopes for a relatively peaceful holiday season dashed.
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Silent Bite
by David Rosenfelt
Finally getting into the Christmas spirit, lawyer Andy Carpenter, while running a dog rescue organization, which is his true passion, agrees to help his partner prove the innocence of a man wrongly accused of murder.
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