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January 21 – Gone Too Long / Lori Roy (white supremacist) Seven years after a girl with unusual skills goes missing amid a Klan uprising in Georgia, an estranged daughter confronts community secrets when she discovers a child in her father's basement. (2019)    February 18 – Beloved Poison: A Novel / E. S. Thomson.  Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St. Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors, the doctors bicker and backstab. Ambition, jealousy, and loathing seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything but says nothing.  (2016) March 17 – Baltimore Blues / Laura Lippman - When a former Baltimore reporter works to solve the murder of a notorious attorney, she discovers Charm City is rife with dark, sordid, and dangerous secrets.  But there are lethal secrets hiding in the Charm City shadows. And Tess's own name could end up on that ever-expanding list of Baltimore dead.  (2007) April 21 – Sweet Little Lies / Caz Frear (2018)  A London policewoman, from a troubled family, is forced to investigate dark secrets in her estranged father's past to solve the murder of a young housewife and the disappearance of a teen girl years earlier.  (2018) May 19 – Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder / Dianne Freeman. (2018)   A wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures—and scandalous pitfalls—of a London social season.  (2018) June 16 – Aunt Dimity’s Death / Nancy Atherton.  Summoned from her latest dreadful temp job by her lawyers, Lori Shephard discovers that Aunt Dimity--her mother's favorite bedtime story heroine--was a real person who has left her millions and the challenge to solve an eerie mystery.  (1992)
July 21 – Lost Man / Jane Harper.  Meeting at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches on an isolated belt of the Australian outback, two brothers navigate the haunting realities of the isolation that ended their third brother's life.  (2019)
August 18 – Murder in Time / Julie McElwain.   Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.  While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. (2017)
September 15 – Lock Every door / Riley Sager.  Follows a young woman, whose new job apartment sitting, in one of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings, may cost more than it pays.  (2019)
October 20 – Right Sort of Man / Allison Montclair.  Organizing a matchmaking business together in spite of their differences, two women from 1946 London find their promising company endangered when one of their clients is arrested for the murder of another.  (2019)
November 17 – A Man Lay Dead: Inspector Roderick Alleyn / Ngaio Marsh.  Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens (she has been called the empress) of England’s Golden Age of mystery fiction. And in true Golden Age fashion, her oeuvre opens with, yes, a country-house party between the two world wars – servants bustling, gin flowing, the gentlemen in dinner jackets, the ladies all slink and smolder. Even more delicious: The host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game. (1934) December 15 – Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the last Trial of Harper Lee / Casey Cep.  Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.  (2019)