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Fortune Favors the Dead
by Stephen Spotswood
Introducing: Willowjean "Will" Parker, our tough young narrator who's a quick learner, an ex-circus knife thrower, and the new assistant to Lillian Pentecost, a famous New York City PI who's in need of help since her multiple sclerosis has started to tire her more often.
What happens: They investigate a locked-room murder at a Halloween party, and Will falls for the wealthy victim's glamorous daughter.
Why you might like it: This debut novel and vibrant series starter offers a witty, fresh take on detective stories set in the 1940s and has fully realized characters you'll adore.
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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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Steeped to Death
by Gretchen Rue
Introducing: Phoebe Winchester, who's left a bad marriage in Seattle and moved to Raven Creek, Washington after inheriting her Aunt Eudora's Victorian mansion, her book and tea shop, and her cat.
What happens: A bullying realtor tries to buy her out, but Phoebe's determined to stay, even after she finds a dead body at her shop.
She decides to investigate the murder...and to uncover if her aunt really was, as rumor says, a witch.
For fans of: Jennifer Hawkins' Chatty Corgi mysteries, which feature a tea-shop owning amateur sleuth who understands her pet corgi's barks.
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| Magic for Liars by Sarah GaileyNon-magical California PI Ivy Gamble takes her first murder case. But since the killing happened at the private boarding school for mages where her estranged (and magically gifted) twin works, she'll have to deal with both sister issues and a killer. For fans of: supernatural mysteries, such as T.L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights novels. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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