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Murder By the Book Mystery Book Club Thursday, July 13th, 12:30, Braden River Library, 4915 53rd Ave. East, Bradenton, FL 34203, Call 941.727.6079 for information Discuss this classic mystery set in Sarasota!
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July discussion book: Condominium : a novel
by John D. MacDonald
Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin Liss, a greedy, indifferent developer who victimizes the residents with continuing price increases
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| Date with Death by Julia ChapmanCozy Mystery. Placed on indefinite leave, Met cop Samson O'Brien returns to his Yorkshire Dales hometown to open a detective agency. But no one's happy to see him, least of all Delilah Metcalfe, whose brother was Samson's best friend (Samson didn't come to the funeral after he died in Afghanistan). In spite of that, dating service owner Delilah needs money, so she rents part of her building to him. When several suspicious deaths connected to Delilah's business occur, the duo team up in this fun 1st book in an atmospheric, well-plotted series. |
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| The Chalk Pit by Elly GriffithsMystery. Beneath Norwich, England lies a number of medieval and chalk-mining tunnels, and in one of them, a surveyor unearths recent human bones. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway teams up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate the bones amid reports of cults, cannibals, a man who vanished into thin air, and a missing homeless woman. Featuring complex characters and relationships (Ruth and the married Harry have a child together) combined with suspenseful plotting, this 9th in the Ruth Galloway mysteries will please fans of both Louise Penny and Julia Spencer-Fleming. |
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| Song of the Lion by Anne HillermanMystery. Attending a high school basketball game, Navajo police officer Bernadette Manuelito hears a car bomb explode in the parking lot. It's thought that the owner of the car, a lawyer mediator working with land developers, the Hopi, and the Dani, was the target, so Bernie's husband, Sgt. Jim Chee, guards him. Meanwhile, Bernie works with retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn to uncover a link from the bomb to one of his earlier cases. While the late Tony Hillerman focused on Leaphorn and Chee, his daughter Anne places Bernie at center stage in her previous two books in the series and in this 21st entry. For another fascinating female lead, try Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mysteries. |
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Purr M for murder
by T. C. LoTempio
After the landlord of the building where they house their Friendly Paws animal shelter winds up dead, Sydney and Kat McCall are under suspicion, prompting Sydney, with the help of her orange tabby, Toby, to hunt for the real killer. By the national best-selling author of Meow If It's Murder. 40,000 first printing.
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Killer jam : a Dewberry Farm mystery
by Karen MacInerney
"Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. Then an oil exploration truck rolls up with plans to drill. Two days later the woman who orderedthe drilling, turns up dead and the sheriff fingers Lucy as the prime suspect"
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The dark room
by Jonathan Moore
SFPD homicide inspector Gavin Cain is forced to set aside a cold case when a ruthless killer attempts to blackmail San Francisco's mayor with exposures of grisly secrets unless the mayor commits suicide. By the author of The Poison Artist.
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| A Rising Man by Abir MukherjeeHistorical Mystery. Newly arrived in 1919 Calcutta, former Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham joins the Imperial Police Force and lands a big case: a murdered British official is found with a sinister note in his mouth. Working with likable Sgt. Banerjee and jealous sub-Inspector Digby, Wyndham travels through all levels of Colonial Indian society to find a killer. With atmosphere to spare, this delightful debut should please fans of other India-set historical mysteries, such as Barbara Cleverly’s Detective Joe Sandilands series, Miranda Carter's The Strangler Vine, and Laurie R. King's The Game. |
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A deadly affection
by Cuyler Overholt
"One of the first women practicing in the advanced new field of psychology, Dr. Genevieve Summerford is used to forging her own path. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder--a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked--she is forced to seek help to solve the crime and clear her patient's name...and her own"
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| Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love by James RuncieCozy Mystery/Short Stories. Like previous entries in this charming series, this 6th collection features clergyman-detective Sidney Chambers investigating cases big and small. First, while on a walk in the 1970s Cambridgeshire woods with his seven-year-old daughter, the archdeacon discovers a corpse. With his friend DI Geordie Keating sometimes helping, Sidney also aids a friend who's been raped, looks for a runaway teen, and tries to locate a missing medieval book. Slightly cozier than Grantchester, the TV series based on them, these leisurely paced novels are reminiscent of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries. |
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The Undesired
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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| What the Dead Leave Behind by Rosemary SimpsonHistorical Mystery. A spring blizzard hits 1888 New York City, taking the lives of many. Was lawyer Charles Linwood one of them? That's the way things appear, but his fiancée, strong-willed heiress Prudence MacKenzie, suspects foul play. With help from Charles' friend, former Pinkerton agent Geoffrey Hunter, Prudence gathers her courage and hunts for the truth. Want more richly detailed books set around this time period? Try Lawrence H. Levy's Mary Handley novels or Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily Ashton mysteries. |
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Desperation Road
by Michael F. Smith
In a rough-and-tumble Mississippi town, the vices of drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect when Russell Gaines, newly released from prison, returns home on the same night that a young and desperate mother shoots a local deputy
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The Sixth Idea: A Monkeewrench Novel
by P.J. Tracy
Crime Fiction. Killers don't take Christmas off, which means Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth don't either. After someone murders two online friends several miles and hours apart, Leo and Gino need help from Monkeewrench cyber-geniuses Grace, Harley, Annie, and Roadrunner. A connection between the two dead people dates back 60 years and involves the atomic bomb -- and the investigators realize that other people with the same connection may also be targeted. Combining thriller elements with those of police procedurals and murder mysteries, The Sixth Idea (published as Cold Kill in the UK) is the 7th amusing, banter-filled entry in the award-winning Monkeewrench series, which is penned by a mother-daughter writing team.
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Focus on: Mysterious Russia
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| The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin; translated by Andrew BromfieldHistorical Mystery. It's a lovely spring day in a Moscow park when a university student -- the heir to millions -- unexpectedly kills himself while playing "American roulette." Though he's young and inexperienced, Erast Fandorin of Moscow Police's Criminal Investigation Division believes there's more to the story. Questioning the dead student's friends and an English Baroness opening a Moscow orphanage, Fandorin discovers the death may be related to a terrorist group. This fast-paced 1st in Russian author Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin mysteries beautifully captures the feel of 1876 Russia and offers up a thoroughly entertaining mystery to boot. |
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Forbidden love in St. Petersburg : a thriller
by Mishah Ben-Daid
Sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad to set up business connections, agent Yogev Ben-Ari has an affair with a mysterious woman named Anna that forces the Mossad to hatch a dark scheme to drive them apart, turning his mission into a deadly exercise in survival. By an international best-selling author.
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A whisper to the living
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
In post-Soviet Union Russia, Inspector Portiry Petrovich Rostnikov must search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while also protecting a British journalist who is researching a story about a Moscow prostitution ring. By the author of The People Who Walk in Darkness.
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| A Man Without Breath by Philip KerrHistorical Mystery. The Nazis want evidence of a rumored Soviet massacre of Polish officers (Josef Goebbels hopes to use it as propaganda against the Soviets). To that end, Bernie Gunther of the War Crimes Bureau heads to Smolensk, where the former Berlin cop works with the Wehrmacht's Prussian aristocrats, interviewing people and sifting through the evidence. Though the truth is elusive, Bernie, an ethical man who doesn't like the Nazis, keeps at it, uncovering more crimes in the process. Enjoyed this excellent 9th in a popular series and want more World War II-era crime stories? Pick up Alan Furst's historical spy novels or David Downing's John Russell series. |
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| Gorky Park: A Novel by Martin Cruz SmithPolice Procedural. Originally published in 1981, Gorky Park introduced honorable, persistent Russian investigator Arkady Renko to the world; more than 35 years later, there are now eight books in this bestselling series. In this 1st appearance by Renko, he investigates a creepy triple murder -- three faceless, frozen bodies wearing ice skates have been found in the middle of Moscow's popular Gorky Park -- but the case is complicated by a New York City cop, several KGB agents, and a woman who captures Renko's heart. For additional police procedurals set in Russia, try Stuart Kaminsky's Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries. |
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In sheep's clothing
by Susan May Warren
Alone in Siberia and on the run from a killer, missionary Grace Benson, armed with a dangerous medical secret, finds safety in the arms of an FSB agent who helps her to navigate through a labryrinth of danger and mystery that leads all the way back to the Cold War.
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Siberian light by Robin A. WhiteA thriller in the vein of Smilla's Sense of Snow features the mayor of a Siberian town--a remote place where nothing is as it seems--who helps a pretty Russian-American scientist accused of murder.
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Contact your librarian for more great books and don't forget all the ebooks and eaudio available! |
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Manatee County Public Library System 1301 Barcarrota Boulevard West Bradenton, Florida 34205 (941) 748-5555www.mymanatee.org/library |
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