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| The Unwedding by Ally CondieRecently divorced Ellery Wainwright takes a planned 20th anniversary trip alone -- but the beautiful Big Sur resort is packed with a large wedding group. That’s bad enough, but then the groom is killed and a mudslide cuts off the resort, leading Ellery to turn sleuth. This first adult novel by a popular YA author is a Reese’s Book Club Pick. Read-alikes: The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley; The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand. |
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The Burning
by Linda Castillo
Discovering the charred body of an Amish man, chained to a stake and burned alive, in the woods, newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, at odds with everyone around her, uncovers a secret legacy that shatters everything she thought she knew about the Amish themselves — and her own roots.
Kate Burkholder (16)
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| Death in the Air by Ram MuraliRo Krishna, who’s has been forced out of his high-powered London lawyer job, is spending Christmas at a luxury Indian spa owned by a family friend. After one of the elite guests is murdered, Ro agrees to quietly look for the killer. Fans of closed circle mysteries will love this debut novel that explores race, class, and Indian history, and builds to a surprising conclusion. Read-alike: R.V. Raman's Harith Athreya novels. |
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A Refiner's Fire
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 following So Shall You Reap.
Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (33)
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| Blood in the Cut by Alejandro NodarseOut of prison after three years, Iggy Guerra returns to his much-changed family in Miami: his mom recently died, his little brother wants to quit school, his dad is involved with illegal Everglades poachers, and the family butcher shop is failing. Iggy doesn’t know how he’s going to fix it all, but he’s going to try. For fans of: intense, gritty crime novels, like those by S.A. Cosby and Eli Cranor. |
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Breaking the Dark
by Lisa Jewell
Retired superhero Jessica Jones helps a distraught mother search for her missing teenage twins who disappeared while visiting their father in the UK in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of None of This is True.
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The Conditions of Unconditional Love
by Alexander McCall Smith
While tapping into her stores of coolness and reserve to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute, moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own.
Isabel Dalhousie (15)
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Trouble is Brewing
by Vicki Delany
When bride-to-be Hannah unwraps a gift containing a beheaded Raggedy Ann doll at her shower, which is already tense, Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts finds things going from bad to worse when the groom's father is found dead and must discover if all the family drama led to a fatality.
Tea by the Sea Mystery (5)
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Dog Day Afternoon
by David Rosenfelt
A retired lawyer and dog rescue operator investigates after one of his recent adopters is implicated in a mass shooting at his workplace in the latest addition to the series following ‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas.
Andy Carpenter (29)
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Shades of Mercy
by Bruce Borgos
When a series of increasingly deadly events of unknown origins plague drought-stricken Lincoln County, former Army intelligence officer Porter Beck is led to a currently incarcerated 16-year-old tech-whiz who is more than she claims to be, especially she becomes the target of a vicious Mexican drug cartel and a brutal foreign agent.
Porter Beck Mystery (2)
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Murder at the White Palace
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.
Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery (6)
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A Controversial Cover
by Lorna Barrett
Tricia Miles investigates when a famous children's book author and area native is found shot in the head right before an event at the local library, in the latest addition to the long-running series following A Questionable Character.
Booktown Mystery (18)
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