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The Last Line by Scott LyerlyWhen the overbearing lead in her latest production drops dead on opening night, Ellie Marlowe, with her Tourette's syndrome flaring, teams up with her childhood friend, the local chief of police, to investigate, uncovering connections between cast members as they work to shine a light on the killer before their final act.
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It's Elementaryby Elise BryantMavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee. As one of the few Black parents at this California elementary school, Mavis tries to convince herself this is an opportunity for real change. But things go off the rails at the very first meeting, when the new principal's plans leave Trisha absolutely furious. Except Principal Smith fails to show up for work the next morning, and has been MIA since the meeting. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Mavis, along with the school psychologist with the great forearms (look, it’s worth noting), launches an investigation that will challenge her views on parenting, friendship, and elementary school politics.
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Golden Age Whodunits by Otto PenzlerIn this volume, Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.
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by Allison Montclair
When they discover a body while scouting a place to throw a New Year's Eve soiree for their clients, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, in post-World War II London, are drawn into a murder investigation that complicates both their love lives and must do what they can to protect their business and themselves.
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The Wilds (#3 in Detective Elin Warner series) by Sarah Pearse
After a young woman vanishes without a trace while on a trip to a Portuguese national park, leaving behind a disturbing map, Detective Elin Warner, as the park's wild beauty turns sinister, must untangle the clues, discovering when you follow a trail, you have to be careful to watch your back.
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by Donna Leon
Commissario Guideo Brunetti investigates after one of his colleagues is attacked by a possible gang member while walking through Venice in the latest addition to the long-running Italian sleuthing series.
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by Valerie Burns
Maddy Montgomery becomes a murder suspect after the woman who stole her fiancé is found dead inside her successful shop, Baby Cakes Bakery, in the third novel of the series following Murder is a Piece of Cake.
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Next Meeting Wednesday August 7th @ 5pm In person AND on Zoom! Zoom Link: If you'd like more information about the Mystery Lover's Book Club, please e-mail me! at bhomrighausen@losgatosca.gov
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Our August Read![](https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=M&Value=9780374717988) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim In rural Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine. A pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives,” it's also a repository of hopes and dreams: the dream of a mom that her child can be like other kids; the dream of a young doctor desperate to cure his infertility and save his marriage; the dream of the Yoos themselves, Korean immigrants who have come to the United States so their teenage daughter can have a better life.
When the oxygen chamber mysteriously explodes, killing two people, all these dreams shatter with it, and the ensuing murder trial uncovers imaginable secrets and lies.
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