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Mysteries & ThrillersApril 2024
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In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The Murder Inn by James PattersonThe owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
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The 24th Hour by James PattersonWhile celebrating Cindy's engagement a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid…or two.
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It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins ClarkYears after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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An Unfinished Murder by Jude DeverauxA novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder.
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Extinction by Douglas PrestonColorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
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Pay Dirt by Sara ParetskyWhile visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Darling Girls by Sally HepworthTwo women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
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Circle in the Water by Marcia MullerSharon McCone is hired by a coalition of concerned San Francisco homeowners whose homes have been targeted in a series of pranks, in the latest installment of the long-running series following A Midnight Puzzle.
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Lost Birds by Anne HillermanRetired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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Close to Death by Anthony HorowitzWhen Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife.
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Feline Fatale : A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae BrownMary Minor“Harry” Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker, in the latest novel in the long-running series following Hiss and Tell. Illustrations.
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I Will Ruin You : a novel by Linwood BarclayA teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
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The Instruments of Darkness by John ConnollyIn Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child; and soon enough, Charlie Parker is on the case.
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Patchwork Quilt Murder by Leslie MeierWhen the director of the community center and her young employee are found dismembered, part-time reporter Lucy Stone discovers the truth rests somewhere between wild rumors, a trusted friend's emotional new sewing project and the authenticity of a mysterious 300yr. old quilt.
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The Heist by Jack B. Du BrulDetective Isaac Bell investigates an attack on the Federal Reserve being led by a master thief and his assassin accomplice in 1914 Washington, D.C. in the fourteenth novel of the series following The Sea Wolves.
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Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria ThompsonIn Victorian era New York, when Louisa, a reporter researching the dangers of patent medicines, is found strangled in New Century Magazine's lobby after interviewing her, midwife Sarah Malloy and her PI husband, take it upon themselves to catch a cold-blood killer.
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One of Us Knows by Alyssa ColeFrom a critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling author of When No One Is Watching comes a thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past.
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A Game of Lies by Clare MackintoshSeven reality show contestants are trapped in the Welsh mountains, but when the disappearance of a contestant triggers a more deadly game, DC Ffion Morgan is employed in an investigation more complex than she had ever imagined.
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