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| How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen PerrinA fortune teller at a 1965 English country fair tells Frances Adams she'll be murdered, causing her to obsess over her death. Decades later, it finally happens, and Frances' great niece, 25-year-old mystery writer Annie, must find the killer in order to inherit Frances' estate. This dual timeline mystery offers an intriguing plot and delightful characters. Read-alikes: Emily Critchley's One Puzzling Afternoon; Ruth Ware's The Death of Mrs. Westaway. |
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| Death in the Details by Katie TietjenNewly widowed and in need of money, Maple Bishop starts selling intricate dollhouses in 1946 Vermont. While delivering her first order, she finds a body, and the cops say it's suicide. Maple disagrees, creating a diorama of the scene to prove it's murder and investigating with help from a rookie cop. Katie Tietjen's fascinating debut is inspired by Frances Glessner Lee's Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. |
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If You Like: Anthony Horowitz
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| The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeSpecial Operative Thursday Next is a literary detective in an alternate England where dodos are kept as pets and fictional characters are as real as "real" people. So when Jane Eyre is kidnapped from her book, it's up to Thursday to save the day. This charming mix of humorous mystery, police procedural, and fantasy is the 1st in the Thursday Next series and will please readers who enjoy bookish mysteries that offer something a bit different. |
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| The Eighth Detective by Alex PavesiBook editor Julia Hart travels to a remote Mediterranean island to work with Grant McAllister, who wrote a paper about the rules of whodunits as well as seven short stories demonstrating them (which are all included here). But Julia discovers the books may hide other mysteries. Those who like creative storytelling and mystery novels' puzzle aspects will relish this fresh, intricately plotted debut. |
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| The Marlow Murder Club by Robert ThorogoodJudith Potts, a 77-year-old happily living on her own in a rundown mansion in a sleepy English village, finds her neighbor murdered. So she sets out to solve the case, teaming up with a dog walker, a vicar's wife, and a police detective who's in over her head. Fans of Anthony Horowitz's mysteries and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series will enjoy this debut novel by Robert Thorogood, who created TV's Death in Paradise. |
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