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Hana Westerman Thriller Series
by Michael Bennett
Tenacious Māori detective Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB.
In the first novel, Westerman is led to a crime scene by a mysterious video. She discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling, inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second—apparently unrelated—death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal and bloody British colonization of New Zealand, a troop of colonial soldiers unjustly executed a Māori Chief.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter, Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, a chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured Cecily into a life of espionage.
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Cormoran Strike Novels
by Robert Galbraith
In the first novel of the series, The Cuckoo's Calling, working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
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The Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family--loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all.
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Easy Rawlins Mystery Series
by Walter Mosley
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
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Harry Hole Seriesby Jo NesbøInspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. In this series starter, The Bat, Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry befriends one of the lead detectives and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country.
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Thursday Murder Club Novelsby Richard OsmanIn this first in the series, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes in a peaceful retirement village. They call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
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Three Pines Mystery Seriesby Louise PennyBestselling author Louise Penny introduces Monsieur L'Inspecteur Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec, a modern Poirot who anchors this beloved traditional mystery series. In the first book, Still Life, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal, Three Pines. Jane Neal, a local fixture, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.
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by Cate Quinn
Checking into a remote rehab facility on the Pacific Northwest coast as a patient to investigate her famous sister's death, Meg, battling her own addictions, searches for the truth, which is much more difficult than she imagined, especially since there's no one who can help her. |
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by Jonathan Santlofer
Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched and gets closer to the truth. |
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California Bearby Duane SwierczynskiA serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease, and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
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Cara Kennedy Series
by Iris Yamashita
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building, in this gripping debut by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own reasons for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After an avalanche causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town—all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building and are as icy as the weather.
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