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Edgar and Agatha Awards 2018
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WINNER: Bluebird, bluebird : a novel by Attica LockeForced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double-murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman.
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The dime
by Kathleen Kent
A woman from a family of take-no-prisoners police detectives relocates from Brooklyn to Dallas, where she tackles adversaries ranging from drug cartels and cult leaders to difficult vagrants and society wives before a first major investigation is challenged by unruly subordinates, a stalker, a criminal organization and an unsupportive girlfriend.
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Prussian blue
by Philip Kerr
Hiding on the French Riviera when his cover is blown, Bernie Gunther finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with an old and dangerous enemy before fleeing to Berlin, where he places his survival in the hands of dubious former allies. By the best-selling author of A Man Without Breath. (suspense).
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A rising man
by Abir Mukherjee
Relocating to Calcutta to head a new police force after traumatizing World War I experiences, a former Scotland Yard detective is caught up in a high-profile murder investigation that threatens to destabilize a city already struggling with political insurgency.
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The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley : a novel
by Hannah Tinti
A once-professional killer protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past, an effort that is challenged by his daughter's struggles with the death of her mother and the reckoning of old enemies. By the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.
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WINNER: She rides shotgun by Jordan HarperFresh out of jail, Nate thrusts his 11-year-old daughter into a world of robbery and violence in an effort to keep her safe from the prison gang that has put a bounty on his head and murdered her mother. 30,000 first printing.
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Dark chapter
by Winnie M. Li
One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspenseabout of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives.
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Lola : a novel
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Hiding her role as the true leader of a small gang in South Central Los Angeles, Lola pretends to be the submissive girlfriend of the gang's purported boss while her intelligence and leadership are increasingly tested by high-stakes betrayals and escalating violence between rival drug cartels. A first novel.
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Tornado weather
by Deborah Elaine Kennedy
When a disabled five-year-old goes missing while wheeling herself the short distance between her school bus and home, small-town secrets and suspicions collide as the pieces of what is known are put together.
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Idaho : a novel
by Emily Ruskovich
A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder. A first novel.
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WINNER: Glass houses : a novel by Louise PennyA suspicious figure that appears on the village green on a cold November day leaves a dead body in its wake, compelling Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec to pursue an investigation that has difficult consequences.
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Death overdue
by Allison Brook
When a guest speaker claiming to have knowledge of a cold case murder dies during a program at her library, Carrie feels responsible and investigates with the help of a ghostly librarian.
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A Cajun Christmas killing
by Ellen Byron
Maggie Crozat must pair up with unlikely ally and longtime family enemy to catch the killer before Christmas on the bayou is ruined. Includes recipes. By the USA Today best-selling author of Body and the Bayou.
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No Way Home
by Annette Dashofy
Not available in SAILS system.
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Take out
by Margaret Maron
A debut entry in a spin-off series by the best-selling author of the long-running Deborah Knott mysteries focuses on NYPD Detective Sigrid Harald. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Three Day Town. 20,000 first printing.
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WINNER: In Farleigh Field : a novel by Rhys BowenWorld War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with Pamela'shelp, stop them before England falls?
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Murder in an English village
by Jessica Ellicott
The boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn’t be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina, but as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they’re the perfect match to catch a killer.
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Called to justice
by Edith Maxwell
Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. Original.
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The Paris spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
When one of England's most daring spies is kidnapped by the Nazis in 1942 Paris, the discovery of a mole's activity deep in the British SOE prompts codebreaker Maggie Hope's mission to unmask the traitor before the site of a planned Allied invasion is revealed. By the award-winning author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary.
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Dangerous to Know by Renee Patrick Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures' wardrobe department, but only until a suitable replacement comes along. The two friends again become partners thanks to an international scandal, a real-life incident in which the war clouds gathering over Europe cast a shadow on Hollywood. Lillian attended the Manhattan dinner party at which well-heeled guests insulted Adolf Hitler within earshot of a maid with Nazi sympathies. Now, secrets the maid vengefully spilled have all New York society running for cover - and two Paramount stars, Jack Benny and George Burns, facing smuggling charges.
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