November 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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The Best Bad Things
by Katrina Carrasco
Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency―but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man―Alma Rosales now works for Delphine Beaumond, the seductive mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. When product goes missing at their Washington Territory outpost, Alma is tasked with tracking the thief and recovering the drugs.
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Bring Them Home
by D. S. Butler
A perfect village. A perfect crime. When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert—and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a previous disappearance are anything but coincidental. Detective Karen Hart series.
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Cut to the Chaise
by Karen Rose Smith
With her wedding day mere weeks away, home stager Caprice De Luca is busy arranging every last detail for the reception at Rambling Vines Winery. But now celebrating at Rambling Vines seems like a mistake. As financial mishaps and unhappy customers put the winery in the red, an unidentified criminal plots to sour the business's already ailing reputation. Caprice de Luca Home Staging Mystery series.
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Daughters of the Lake
by Wendy Webb
After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She’s seen her before. In her dreams…
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Death of an Eye
by Dana Stabenow
Alexandria, 47 BCE: Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar. A shipment of new coin meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen, and the Queen’s Eye has been murdered. So, Queen Cleopatra turns to Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
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Deranged
by T. R. Ragan
Family man or deranged killer? It’s for fearless PI Jessie Cole to find out. At any cost. Jessie Cole series.
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House of Ashes
by Loretta Marion
Cassandra Mitchell is the fourth-generation to live in the majestic Battersea Bluffs, a brooding Queen Anne home originally built by her great-grandparents. Now she stands to lose her beloved home to mounting debt, when salvation seems to arrive in the form of a young couple who wander onto the property with the promise of companionship and much-needed help. Until they vanish without a trace... Haunted Bluffs Mystery series.
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Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets
by Rosemary Simpson
In Gilded Age New York, heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter investigate crimes that take them from the slums of Five Points to the Fifth Avenue mansions of society's elite. Gilded Age Mystery series.
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Lies Sleeping
by Ben Aaronovitch
The Faceless Man, wanted for murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in a joint operation to bring him to justice. But then Peter uncovers clues that the Faceless Man, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long term plan. A plan that has its roots in London's two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees. Rivers of London series.
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The Line
by Martin Limón
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, 1970s. A battered corpse is found a few feet north of the line dividing North and South Korea. When CID Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are ordered by superiors to pull the body to the South Korean side, they have no idea of the international conflict the action will spark. Before war breaks out, they must discover who killed Corporal Noh Jong-bae. Sueño and Bascom Investigation series.
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The Name of the Rosé
by Christine E. Blum
Annie "Halsey" Hall could get used to this—sitting around the pool in her backyard, savoring the latest wine flights with the ladies of the Rose Avenue Wine Club. But the peaceful pleasure of the afternoon is shattered by the boom of a small plane crash and some time later, a sour-faced detective shows up, holding a package of illegal drugs found on the plane—with Sally's address on it! Rose Avenue Wine Club Mystery series.
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Naughty on Ice
by Maia Chance
The Discreet Retrieval Agency is doing a brisk holiday business of retrieving lost parcels, grandmas, and stolen wreaths. When Mrs. Goddard goes toes-up, poisoned by her Negroni cocktail it becomes clear Lola and Berta were hired this time, not for their cracker-jack retrieving abilities, but to be scapegoats for murder. Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery series.
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Nighttown
by Timothy Hallinan
Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well--if someone is offering you more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he's bending his rule this one time. Now Junior must figure out who the woman in the orange wig is, and why she wants a doll so bad she's leaving a trail of bodies in her wake.
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Overkilt
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Liss MacCrimmon’s meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone at the table, family drama takes on a terrifying new meaning... Liss MacCrimmon Mystery series.
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River Bodies
by Karen Katchur
A body just turned up in the small town of Portland, Pennsylvania. The crime is eerily similar to a twenty-year-old cold case: another victim, brutally murdered, found in the Delaware River. Lead detective Parker Reed is intent on connecting the two murders, but the locals are on lockdown, refusing to reveal anything.
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The Shadows We Hide
by Allen Eskens
Joe Talbert, Jr. knows nothing of his father. Now a cub reporter for the Associated Press, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert. Mired in uncertainty, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history—before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
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A Shot in the Dark
by Lynne Truss
Brighton, 1957. A.S. Crystal intends to tell Constable Twitten the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. But just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead. With a new murder case on his hands and a lazy captain at the helm of the police department, the keen and clever Constable Twitten and Sargent Jim Brunswick set out to solve the decade-old mystery of the Aldersgate Stick-Up. Constable Twitten Mystery series.
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Slay in Character
by Lynn Cahoon
Cat and the members of her writers’ retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an “Old West” tourist town complete with inhabitants dressed up as famous figures from history. But this authentic slice of Americana takes a murderous turn when a college student masquerading as a 19th-century saloon girl becomes history herself. Cat Latimer Mystery series.
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Those Who Go by Night
by Andrew Gaddes
England, 1324. When a beggar is murdered in the quiet village of Bottesford, his body draped across the altar of St. Mary’s church, the Pope’s Inquisitor General focuses on the small hamlet. Anxious to stave off the Inquisition, the Bishop of Lincoln dispatches Thomas Lester to investigate―but the Archbishop’s fanatical emissary has already arrived to conduct an inquiry. Now the race is on to conjure the truth.
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The Whispered Word
by Ellery Adams
Nora Pennington, owner of Miracle Books, believes that a well-chosen novel can bring healing and hope. But she knows that practical help is needed too. That's the case with Abilene, found hiding in the fiction section of Nora’s store. When a customer is found dead in an assumed suicide, Nora uncovers a connection that points to Abilene as either a suspect—or another target. Secret, Book & Scone Society series.
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