March 2017 list by Jewel Nelson
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Graveyard Shift
by Casey Daniels
Pepper Martin, now Community Relations Director of Garden View Cemetery, is contacted by the ghost of Eliot Ness, one of Cleveland's most famous dearly departed. According to Ness, the ashes scattered at the ceremony twenty years earlier weren't his. His were stolen prior to the ceremony by a Ness groupie, and he cannot rest until those ashes are found. Luckily, Pepper has an idea where they may be. Knowing she'll have no peace until she does what the ghost wants, Pepper travels across town to retrieve the ashes. When she gets there, though, she finds more and less than she bargained for. There is a dead body in the house... and Eliot Ness s ashes have vanished.
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Shadows on the Lake: A Stefania Valenti Mystery
by Giovanni Cocco
After the remains of a young man are discovered near Lake Como in Northern Italy, Commissario Stefania Valenti must delve into the World War II-era history of the region for her investigation and uncovers a fascinating, tragic family secret. Original.
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Swiss Vendetta
by Tracee De Hahn
Transferring to the Violent Crime unit in the aftermath of her husband's death, Swiss-American police inspector Agnes Lüthi investigates her first homicide case in the stabbing death of an auction house appraiser who had been working in a medieval chateau filled with priceless works of art.
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The Exiled
by Kati Hiekkapelto
Murder. Corruption. Dark secrets. A titanic wave of refugees. Can Anna solve a terrifying case that’s become personal? Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case.
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Facials Can be Fatal
by Nancy J. Cohen
During the frenzy of the December holidays, the last thing salon owner Marla Vail needs is a dead body slathered in a green facial mask at her new day spa. The victim, Valerie Weston, was a major donor for Friends of Old Florida, a historic building preservation society. Marla’s stylists are scheduled to work backstage at their upcoming gala fashion show, but Val’s demise might put a crimp in their plans. Hoping to salvage her reputation, Marla determines to track down the suspects. As she learns more about Val, she realizes the benefactress might have stumbled onto secrets others would kill to keep. She’d better prepare for a body count that has nothing to do with hot stone massages and everything to do with murder.
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Kneaded to Death
by Winnie Archer
When her new friend—the Dias sisters, who teach a bread-making class at Yeast of Eden—are accused of murdering one of their students, struggling photographer Ivy Culpepper vows to prove their innocence and must follow a deadly trail of crumbs around town in order to do so. Includes bread recipes. Original.
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Champagne Widows
by Jean-Pierre Alaux
Wine expert Benjamin Cooker and his assistant are called to Champagne to help newly widowed Alice de Mareuyls take over her husband's winery. The Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile get caught in a web of family ambition and battles, while inclement weather threatens the bubbly. Could Cooker's reputation be tainted?
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Notes from Hell
by Rachel Bukey
When Seattle Times reporter Ann Dexter scores an interview with Franco Albanese, rock star of the modern opera world, she is thrilled. Don Giovanni in art, Don Juan in life, this charismatic man easily charms all women he meets, including Ann. But when Franco is kidnapped and the kidnapper demands that Ann print the truth about the star, she is determined to uncover the facts and rescue Franco.
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Crooked Street: A Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy Mystery
by Priscilla Masters
Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one miserable March night, she rings the police, certain that something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical: there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. So what is the truth about Jadon? As the investigation proceeds, it soon becomes apparent that Jadon Glover has been keeping dark secrets from his wife. And as the police pursue their house-to-house enquiries through the claustrophobic, jumbled streets of cramped Victorian terraces, they unearth other secrets from behind the net curtains. But, whatever else has been going on among the inhabitants' quiet, desperate lives, it's clear that at least one of them knows what really happened to Jadon.
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Blind to Sin
by Dave White
When Matt Herrick was 17, his father was arrested for robbery—a bank heist gone wrong. Herrick joined the Army and was sent off to Afghanistan—a trip that would change his life.
Jackson Donne has spent the last year in prison, where his mentor, Kenneth Herrick, has kept him safe. One night, Kenneth tells Donne a “friend” has bought them out of their sentence. Confused, Donne goes along. And finds himself in the clutches of a partner from Kenneth’s past.
Learning of the release, Matt Herrick decides to pursue his father. But when he finds that his terminally ill mother is now married to Kenneth’s old partner, Herrick turns his investigation into overdrive. And that could cost him everything.
Kenneth’s old partner gives him an ultimatum: steal millions of dollars from the Federal Reserve in New Jersey, or let the disease kill his ex-wife. Donne has no choice but to help his new mentor.
Now Matt Herrick is faced with a choice: Can he let his dad and Donne save his mother, while letting the heist go off without a hitch? Or can Matt Herrick save his mother, and stop the the heist before everyone ends up in prison—or worse—dead?
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The Undesired: A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Decades after two boys go missing from a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland, a single father investigates alleged abuse at the center before discovering baffling links between the long-ago disappearance and the accident that killed his ex-wife. By an international best-selling author.
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A Cast of Vultures
by Judith Flanders
A wild post-launch party culminates in an elaborate mystery involving missing neighbors, suspected arson and an unidentified murder victim that pits editor Sam Clair, Inspector Jake Field and her goth assistant against wacky adversaries. By the best-selling author of A Murder of Magpies.
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Death & the Gravedigger's Angel
by Loretta Ross
When former army medic Tony Dozier is accused of killing a member of the hate group that disrupted his wife's funeral, the prosecution charges premeditated murder and the defense claims temporary insanity. Former marine Death Bogart and auctioneer Wren Morgan think there's more to the story.
They're both led to the long-abandoned Hadleigh House, where Wren begins preparing the contents for auction but ends up searching for the story behind an antique sketchbook. As Wren uncovers the century-old tale of a World War I soldier and his angel, Death finds a set of truths that will change...or end...their lives.
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Murder on a Summer's Day
by Frances Brody
When amateur sleuth detective Kate Shackleton receives a dawn telephone call from her cousin James, his news soon snaps Kate into wakefulness. The India Office seek her on-the-spot help in finding a Maharajah, last seen on the Bolton Abbey estate. He has with him a hugely valuable diamond.Investigative successes and good family connections put Kate in the highly trusted category.
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A Climate of Fear
by Fred Vargas
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over ten years ago where a group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted island for two weeks, surrounded by a thick, impenetrable fog rumored to be summoned by an ancient local demon. Two of them didn’t make it back alive. But how are the deaths linked to the secretive Association for the Study of the Writings of Maximilien Robespierre? And what does the mysterious symbol signify?
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