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The Silent Dead

Tetsuya Honda · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what"...
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Crime and Poetry: A Magical Bookshop Mystery

Amanda Flower · Signet Book
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From Amanda Flower - who writes the national bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries as Isabella Alan - comes the first in the new Magical Bookshop Mystery series.Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother's bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect...
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Murder on the Bucket List

Elizabeth Perona · Midnight Ink

The septuagenarian women of the Summer Ridge Bridge Club have gathered in secret late one July night to check skinny-dipping off their bucket list. But as Francine observes, the jittery members seem more obsessed with body issues and elaborate preparations than actually stripping down and getting...
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The Big Chili

Julia Buckley · Berkley Prime Crime, 2015.
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

First in a delicious new mystery series filled with casseroles, confidences, and killers...Lilah Drake's Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine...
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The Trap

Melanie Raabe · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 343
Format: Print book

In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister's murderer--but is he really the killer? For 11 years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister--who...
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The High Flyer: An aviation mystery

Elizabeth Darrell · Severn House
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Twelve years after World War I, former Flight Sergeant Ben Norton must discover the truth behind his wartime colleague's death.1930. The Lance family, major shareholders in Marshfield Aviation, watch in horror as their prototype fighter fails to pull out of a dive during a display before...
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A Scream in Soho: A British Library Crime Classic

John G Brandon · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.'Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied...
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Death on the Sapphire: A Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery

R.J. Koreto · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance.When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady discovers that he was working...
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The Last Time She Saw Him

Jane Haseldine · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In Jane Haseldine's gripping and brilliantly crafted debut, a reporter searching for her kidnapped son must untangle the connection to her brother's long-ago disappearance.Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother...
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Cantaloupe thief

Deb Richardson-Moore · Lion Fiction
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Too many people are staying silent about a ten--year--old murder case--it's time for reporter Branigan Powers to investigateBranigan Powers knows a good story when she sees one--and the ten--year--old cold case of wealthy Alberta Grambling Resnick's murder definitely makes the cut....
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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep: A Novel

Joanna Cannon · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors...
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The Dead Don't Bleed: A Novel

David F Krugler · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes...
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Quick and The Dead

Susan Moody · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Book

Introducing outspoken female sleuth Alex Quick in the first of a brand-new mystery series When her business partner, acclaimed art historian and university professor Dr Helena Drummond, disappears, Alexandra Quick is consumed by guilt. Shortly before she vanished, Helena had complained...
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The Branson Beauty: A Mystery

Claire Booth · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Branson Beauty, an old showboat, has crashed in the waters of an Ozark mountain lake just outside the popular tourist destination of Branson, Missouri. More than one hundred people are trapped aboard. Hank Worth is still settling into his new role as county sheriff, and when he responds...
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A Few Right Thinking Men

Sulari Gentill · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Not Miss Fisher, but Mr. Sinclair ... Meet Rowland Sinclair, gentleman and artist living in 1931 Sydney. Friend of the Left, son of the Right, he paints in a superbly tailored, three-piece suit and houses friends who include a poet, a painter, and a feminist sculptress whom he has painted...
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