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| Proud Sorrows by James R. BennVisiting a coastal English village in 1944, U.S. Army Captain Billy Boyle investigates after the wreckage of a German bomber emerges from the North Sea with the body of a British officer inside. This is the 18th in a well-researched series that follows ex-Boston cop Billy from 1942 onwards. |
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| The Raging Storm by Ann CleevesDI Matthew Venn and his team are called to remote North Devon after the murder of a celebrity adventurer, who'd shown up in a seaside village a month earlier claiming to be waiting on a mysterious visitor. This well-plotted 3rd in a series can be read as a standalone. Read-alikes: Firewatching by Russ Thomas; the Ruth Galloway mysteries by Elly Griffiths. |
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| Those We Thought We Knew by David JoyToya Gardner, a young Black artist, plans to spend the summer in her grandmother's small North Carolina mountain town, which is overdue for a reckoning with its racist past. Then the KKK show up and violence erupts, leading to murder. Read-alikes: S.A Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed; Attica Locke's Heaven, My Home. |
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| The Lady from Burma by Allison MontclairIn their atmospheric 5th outing, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge, who run a marriage agency in post-World War II London, look into the murder of a dying woman and navigate tough personal issues (like Gwen's dealings with the lunacy board). Read-alikes: Jessica Ellicott's Beryl and Edwina mysteries; Ashley Weaver's Electra McDonnell novels. |
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| Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina SimonThis "dazzling debut" (Library Journal) introduces three generations of Rubicon women: businesswoman Lana; her estranged daughter, Beth; and 15-year-old Jack. Lana moves in with Beth and Jack during her cancer treatment, and when Jack is accused of murder, the trio investigates. Read-alikes: Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club novels; Darynda Jones' Sunshine Vicram mysteries. |
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| Murder Most Fowl by Donna AndrewsVirginia blacksmith Meg Langslow stirs up trouble while hunting for the killer of an unlikeable documentary filmmaker, who'd purposefully shot embarrassing footage of actors in a local production of Macbeth. Plus, there are medieval Scots reenactors camping in the woods. This is the delightful 29th novel starring Meg and her family; their 34th outing, Let it Crow! Let it Crow! Let it Crow!, is due this month. |
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| Trace of Evil by Alice BlanchardIn an upstate New York town that has a history with the occult, rookie detective Natalie Lockhart works the cold case of nine people who've disappeared over the course of 25 years and the recent murder of a fellow cop's pregnant wife. This 1st in a series will please fans of small-town mysteries with surprising endings. |
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