January 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Beneath the Darkest Sky
by Jason Overstreet
International consultant Prescott Sweet’s mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America’s imperialistic interventions. With his outspoken artist wife, Loretta, and their two children, he lives a life of continental elegance amid Europe’s glittering capitals—beyond anything he ever dared hope for. But he is still a man in hiding, from his past with the Bureau, from British Intelligence—and from his own dangerous skills in high-level espionage.
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Bloodstains with Bronte
by Katherine Bolger Hyde
When the murdered body of a contractor is discovered at a Halloween murder-mystery fundraiser, detective Luke Richards reluctantly investigates Windy Corner's single-mother housekeeper, Katie; while owner Emily Cavanaugh identifies common traits shared by the victim and St. John Rivers from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
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Darkness Sing Me a Song
by David Housewright
Holland Taylor is a PI who does simple background checks and other mostly unchallenging cases. Almost by accident, he finds himself in the middle of the crime of the century. Eleanor Barrington, the doyenne of a wealthy and socially prominent family, has been overheard threatening to kill her son’s fiancée and an eyewitness claims to have seen her kill Emily. Caught in the dark tangle of a twisted family and haunted by his own past, Taylor finds that the truth is both elusive and dangerous.
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Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake
by Sarah Graves
Life just got a little sweeter in the fishing village of Eastport, Maine. “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie are opening a bake shop, The Chocolate Moose. But while Jake has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. When health inspector Matt Muldoon is found murdered it’s up to Jake to catch the real killer and keep Ellie living in the land of the free.
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The Hostess With the Ghostess
by E. J. Copperman
Things are never quiet for long at the Haunted Guesthouse. Right as Alison Kerby finally gets some peace, long-time deceased Paul Harrison’s recently murdered brother, Richard, shows up looking for the ghostly detective. But Paul has left for parts unknown months ago. And Alison doesn’t know how to find him. And she’s going to need to because Richard’s isn’t the only murder still left unsolved.
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In the Shadow of Agatha Christie
by Leslie S. Klinger
Before Agatha Christie became the world’s Queen of Crime, she stood on the talented shoulders of the female crime authors who came before her. This splendid anthology brings these exceptional writers out of Christie’s shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve.
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Lies That Comfort and Betray
by Rosemary Simpson
Heiress Prudence MacKenzie is a valuable partner to attorney Geoffrey Hunter, despite the fact that women are not admitted to the bar in New York’s Gilded Age. And though their office is a comfortable distance from the violence that haunts the city’s slums, the firm of Hunter and MacKenzie is about to come dangerously close to an unstoppable killer...London is not the only city being terrorized by a mad, knife-wielding murderer.
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A Map of the Dark
by Karen Ellis
Even as her father lies dying in a hospital, FBI Agent Elsa Myers can't ignore a call for help. A teenage girl has disappeared from Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads obscures the fact that she did not go willingly. With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man who may have been killing for years, Elsa's carefully compartmentalized world collapses around her. She finds missing people, but she knows too well how it feels to be lost.
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A Mortal Likeness
by Laura Joh Rowland
A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and former street urchin Mick O’Reilly. Their sole credential is that they solved the Jack the Ripper case, a secret they can never tell because they did it outside the boundaries of the law. Their new big case involves wealthy banker Sir Gerald Mariner and his missing infant. All of London is searching, but Sarah has an advantage―a photograph she took during a routine surveillance job.
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The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss
by Max Wirestone
Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in this mystery romp with a hilarious heroine. "Working for a games development company is my dream job. So, when a slightly sketchy lawyer offered me the opportunity, I had to take it! Who cares that the company has some quirks? No job is perfect." Dive into Dahlia Moss's brilliant, bonkers mystery and enjoy pure, geeky fun!
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Two Girls Down
by Louisa Luna
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. With little to go on, Vega will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads, and complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out, and they are gone forever. As addictive, cinematic, and binge-worthy as The Wire and The Killing.
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Walking the Bones
by Randall Silvis
Ryan DeMarco's decision to take a leave of absence from the Pennsylvania State Police was a surprise to everyone. Now, heading out on a road trip with Jayme, his former colleague and present girlfriend, DeMarco is ready to let his old wounds heal. But when DeMarco and Jayme arrive in Jayme's hometown, they're quickly recruited to help solve a cold case involving seven skeletons of young girls. DeMarco's instinct is to take to the open road again, but Jayme wants to stay and help.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
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