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Hidden Depths
by Ann Cleeves
On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers.This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued.
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| The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel by David CasarettIn this 2nd book of the engaging Ethical Chiang Mai Detective Agency series, hospital nurse ethicist Ladarat Patalung, who helps terminally ill patients have a "good death," and her friend, dependable police detective Wiriya Mookjai, once again team up: eight foreign travelers to Thailand have disappeared, and all they have in common is brief stays at the mysterious Magic Grove Hotel.
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The Mitford Murders
by Jessica Fellowes
It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London and gets a position at the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire. But then there is a murder and Louisa Cannon and Nancy Mitford find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret....
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The Voice Inside
by Brian Freeman
Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he’s forced to reveal the truth, his sister’s killer is back on the streets. Staying ahead of the game of a killer who’s determined to strike again is not going to be easy .
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Last stop in Brooklyn : a Mary Handley mystery
by Lawrence H Levy
"A historical mystery about a female detective hunting a serial killer...It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island. In the midst of her investigation, Mary is contacted by a convicted man's brother to reopen a murder case.
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| Beau Death by Peter LoveseyIn Bath, England, police detective Peter Diamond investigates after a demolition crew uncovers stylishly clad human remains, which could be the skeleton of famous 18th-century dandy Beau Nash. To boot, the irascible Diamond works a modern murder case.
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The chalk man : a novel
by C. J. Tudor
"Narrated by 'Eddie' who receives a chalk drawing of a stick figure that hurtles him back to an innocent childhood game 30 years before which went terribly, terribly wrong. As history begins to repeat itself, it seems the game was never really over"
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Anatomy of a scandal : a novel
by Sarah Vaughan
"An incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. Sophie's husband James is a loving father and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Kate is the prosecutor, who knows that the law is all about winning the argument.
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2017 Books You Might Have Missed
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Missing persons
by Michael Brandman
Reluctantly agreeing to succeed his ailing sheriff father, former LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel investigates the disappearance of a renowned television minister's wife, only to become embroiled in a case involving con artists, gangs and corruption.
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The lioness is the hunter : an Amos Walker novel
by Loren D Estleman
Hired to investigate the disappearance of a Detroit entrepreneurial firm partner, Amos Walker becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a murder, questionable real estate and an international fugitive who may have faked her death to organize an attack on civilization.
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The whole art of detection : lost mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
by Lyndsay Faye
The Edgar Award-nominated author of the Timothy Wilde trilogy presents a collection of 15 Sherlock Holmes stories that features pieces previously published in literary journals and two new works, including "The Lowther Park Mystery" and "The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel."
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| Prussian Blue: A Bernie Gunther novel by Philip Kerr In 1956, cynical former Berlin cop Bernie Gunther, who's been lying low in the French Riviera, is discovered and ordered by a Stasi leader to kill a female agent, or die himself. The suspenseful events that follow cause Bernie to recall 1939, when he investigated a cunning murder at Hitler's private home in the Bavarian Alps.
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| Take Out by Margaret MaronThis final entry in the Sigrid Harald series features the loner NYPD homicide detective dealing with the estate of her artist lover, who died in a car accident a year earlier, as another possible heir appears. Meanwhile, the poisoning deaths of two homeless men have Sigrid's team looking at the well-off neighbors including a mafia don's widow and an opera star. |
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