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The Fury of Beijing : An Ava Lee Novel: the Triad Years
by Ian Hamilton
Still reeling from the brutal murder of her close associates, Lau Lau and Chen, Ava Lee embarks on a quest for revenge that takes her from Toronto to Los Angeles to Beijing. Along the way, Ava is aided by some familiar faces and old comrades-in-arms, including Sonny Kwon, Jimmy Li, Lop, and Xu, the mountain master of Shanghai. The search leads first to Ava's old opponent, Mo, the chairman of the China Movie Syndicate, and then to a shadowy figure at the very top of the Chinese Security Service--the man who gave the order to kill her friends.
Book 16 in the Ava Lee series.
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A Stolen Child
by Sarah Stewart Taylor
After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered--days after responding to a possible domestic violence disturbance at her apartment--they also discover Jade's toddler daughter is missing. Amidst a nationwide manhunt, Maggie and her colleagues must look deep into Jade's life--both personal and professional--to find a ruthless killer.
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Trotting into trouble
by Amber Camp
When horse rescue owner Mallory Martin, while trying to catch a loose horse, stumbles upon the body of his unfortunate rider—Hillspring's star basketball coach, she gallops into yet another murder investigation when the victim's widow begs her to look into the case .
Book 2 in the Horse Rescue Mystery series, start with Canter with a Killer.
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The mystery guest / : A Maid Novel
by Nita Prose
The esteemed Head Maid of the 5-star Regency Grand Hotel, Molly Gray, when a world-renowned mystery author drops dead, matches wits with her old foe, Detective Stark, to solve this case, which not only threatens the hotel's pristine reputation but may be linked to her own past. Book 2 in the popular Maid novels.
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Books You May Have Missed
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| The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasIn this evocative series starter, Mumbai's Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput hunts for a serial killer targeting young women. This has him dealing with the city's gritty underworld as well as police corruption in a case that seems to have links to the ten-years-missing bar dancer he once loved. For fans of: Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice; Kwei Quartey's Emma Djan novels. |
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| Blood Betrayal by Ausma Zehanat KhanThis sequel to Blackwater Falls finds Colorado police detective Inaya Rahman, who's assigned to a Community Response Unit, working the fatal police shooting of a Black graffiti artist in Blackwater Falls and (unofficially) a Denver police shooting that's left a Latino bystander dead. If you like this "penetrating, of-the-moment police procedural" (Kirkus Reviews), try Attica Locke's Highway 59 books.
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| Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G. GiarratanoTo help support her mom who has Alzheimer's, 24-year-old Billie Levine becomes a PI working out of a Jewish deli in Teaneck, New Jersey. But she's off to a rough start when a missing person's case turns into a murder investigation, complete with cops and the mob in this fun, fast-paced mystery. For fans of: Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels; Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan books. |
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| A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Young widow Eliza Ripple works at a well-run brothel in 1851 Monterey, California, where the women are protected and customers screened. Nevertheless, a killer is targeting sex workers in town, so Eliza and her friend Jean, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin, decide to investigate.
Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. Read-alike: Frog Music by Emma Donoghue. |
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