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Booked for Revenge
The second (after Murder Marks the Page) in a series that spins off Smith’s “Daisy’s Tea Garden” mysteries, this novel features a strong cast of characters, romance, and an amateur sleuth still trying to find her role in life and overcome her background of loss. Cozy readers will enjoy this bookstore/tea shop scenario, even if they haven’t read Smith’s earlier books.
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Playing Dead: Short Stories in Honour of Simon Brett by Members of the Detection Club
Fans of mystery short stories will want to pick up this collection by the finest British crime writers today. The stories are original and a fine salute to Brett and his work.
Hang On St. Christopher
An outstanding new installment (following The Detective Up Late) in the award-winning police procedural series featuring lone wolf Sean Duffy and set during the Troubles, from the bestselling author of The Chain.
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If It Isn’t One Thing…
The 27th “Posadas County Mystery” (after Perfect Opportunity) is a solid small-town police procedural. The step-by-step investigations will please fans of mysteries by Claire Booth and Terry Shames.
The Quiet Librarian
Eskens’s (The Life We Bury) novel alternates between two timelines: 1995 Bosnia and present-day Minnesota to tell the brutal story of war and its repercussions 30 years later. Fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale or Kate Quinn’s books will be caught up in this violent story of a courageous woman.
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To Catch a Thief
Dodge’s 1952 novel, the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, gets a Library of Congress Crime Classics reissue, with a new introduction and notes by Edgar Award winner Klinger (editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes). Fans of the movie and classic crime fiction will enjoy this story of honor among thieves.
Broken Fields
The author of Where They Last Saw Her brings back Cash Blackbear (who last appeared in 2022’s Sinister Graves) in a tragic, unforgiving crime novel that emphasizes the perils of the foster care system for Indigenous children.
The Wolf Tree
McCluskey’s gripping debut features an isolated island with a brooding, storm-tossed atmosphere, reminiscent of Ann Cleeves’s “Shetland Island” mysteries. The violence and collusion lead to a shocking conclusion.
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Cat Got Your Killer
The 12th “Second Chance Cat Mystery,” following Fur Love or Money, might have a few too many characters, but fans of the series, the author’s “Magical Cats” novels (written under the name Sofie Kelly), or Miranda James’s “Cat in the Stacks” mysteries will enjoy the book.
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