Mystery
September 2023

Recent Releases
The bitter past
by Bruce Borgos

Sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, Porter Beck must solve the murder of an old, retired FBI agent linked to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age in a case where an all-but-forgotten person holds the key to what happened then and the deadly events now.
The last devil to die
by Richard Osman

When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
Holly : a novel
by Stephen King

Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
I'm not done with you yet
by Jesse Q. Sutanto

A struggling, unhappy writer is shocked to discover her best friend, who disappeared without a trace, is at the top of the New York Times best-seller list and decides to pay her a surprise visit at an upcoming book convention.
Good bad girl
by Alice Feeney

When a baby is stolen from a stroller and someone at a nursing home is murdered, four women who distrust each other must investigate together, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Daisy Darker.
The girl in the eagle's talons
by Karin Smirnoff

Named guardian to her niece, whose mother has disappeared, Lisbeth Salander, while keeping the remarkably gifted teenager safe, comes to Mikael Blomkvist's aid when rumors about the man his daughter is about to marry lead to violence, plunging them both into a world of conspiracy and betrayal in the ice-bound wilderness.
If you like: James Ellroy
Acclaimed author James Ellroy pens gritty crime stories known for their blunt, visceral writing style, snappy dialog, and vividly described settings (especially Los Angeles, where he was born in 1948). His latest novel, The Enchanters, is out this month and takes place in L.A. in the summer of 1962, just after the death of Marilyn Monroe. If you're on the hold list, try some of the books below.
 
 
One good deed
by David Baldacci

The best-selling author of The Fallen and The Fix presents a latest thriller introducing straight-talking World War II veteran and recent prison inmate, Aloysius Archer.
She rides shotgun
by Jordan Harper

Fresh 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.
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
by Walter Mosley

Trying to locate a family friend who has become involved with a radical resistance group, Easy Rawlins stumbles onto a murder scene only to be named a suspect, and he finds himself exploring a world of betrayal, trying to stay alive.
Hollywood Station : a novel
by Joseph Wambaugh

Under the leadership of their sergeant, known as The "Oracle,"the crew of the LAPD's Hollywood Station--cantankerous veteran Fausto Gamboa, his enthusiastic young partner Budgie Polk, single mother Andi McCrea, and the other colorful misfits--take on their toughest case yet as they deal with the Russian mob, diamonds, counterfeiting, and grenades.
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