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Mercy, Mercy
By Marlene Stanton. 2020
Smart, sarcastic TV reporter Mercy Pepper struggles with feelings of guilt after her cameraman dies while on assignment with her.…
A news tape that he had hidden in his personal effects contains a secretly recorded conversation, and Mercy picks up the scent of corruption. She soon finds herself mired in the muck of provincial politics—the power brokers and the opportunists and those willing to go to extreme measures for a piece of the pie. With a keen observer's eye and sharp, sparkling wit, Stanton, a former news reporter, delivers a compelling crime/mystery story with a satisfying dash of romance.
Dark August: A Novel (Gus Monet Series #1)
By Katie Tallo. 2020
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein…
of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The WintersAn electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined.Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But that’s not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can’t resist following her mother’s clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mother’s investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus’ obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever…? Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.
November Rain (Paradise Cafe #2)
By Maureen Jennings. 2020
Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of…
the detective agency. Mrs. Jessop hires the newly promoted Private Investigator to inquire into the untimely death of her son, a veteran injured in the Great War. The police ruled it a suicide, but Mrs. Jessop doesn’t agree and wants Charlotte to find out what really happened. Then Charlotte is hired to infiltrate a small women’s wear manufacturer to uncover communist agitators. When the factory supervisor is murdered on the job just as Charlotte starts to look into it, she gets seconded to the police to help find out what happened. The November clouds darken and Charlotte is left to struggle to solve two mysteries at the same time — until they intersect. Add an aging grandfather, an absent boyfriend, and a mad scheme to mount a controversial play at the Paradise Café and Charlotte has her hands full.
Heat wave: a Paradise Café mystery / (A Paradise Café mystery #1)
By Maureen Jennings. 2019
July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private…
investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this story. 2019.
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel A CBC Bookie Award: Mystery and Thriller, Finalist A Quill…
&Quire Book of the Year An Amazon.ca Editors’ Pick In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar.
The Fury of Beijing: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #16)
By Ian Hamilton. 2024
The Sultan of Sarawak: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #14)
By Ian Hamilton. 2022
Detective aunty: a novel
By Uzma Jalaluddin. 2025
When her grown daughter is suspected of murder, a charming and tenacious widow digs into the case to unmask the…
real killer in this twisty, page-turning whodunnit-the first book in a cozy new detective series from the acclaimed author of Ayesha at Last. After her husband's unexpected death eighteen months ago, Kausar Khan never thought she'd receive another phone call as heartbreaking-until her thirty-something daughter, Sana, phones to say that she's been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her child, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years. Returning to the Golden Crescent suburb where she raised her children and where her daughter still lives, Kausar finds that the thriving neighborhood she remembered has changed. The murder of Sana's landlord is only the latest in a wave of local crimes which have gone unsolved. And the facts of the case are troubling: Sana found the man dead in her shop at a suspiciously early hour, with a dagger from her windowfront display plunged in his chest. And Kausar-a woman with a keen sense of observation and deep wisdom honed by her years-senses there's more to the story than her daughter is telling. With the help of some old friends and her plucky teenage granddaughter, Kausar digs into the investigation to uncover the truth. Because who better to pry answers from unwilling suspects than a meddlesome aunty? But even Kausar can't predict the secrets, lies, and betrayals she finds along the way?
Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library (A Lakeside Library Mystery #2)
By Holly Danvers. 2022
An icy cold murder and a library patron collide in Holly Danver&’s second Lakeside Library Mystery.A glowing wood stove, a…
cozy log cabin, and shelves full of books are all Rain Wilmot needs to ride out the Wisconsin winter, now that she&’s made her family&’s Lofty Pines library her year-round home. But the warm-hearted librarian&’s blood runs cold when local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree. After Benson&’s body is found in his ice shanty, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament&’s communal &“chili dump.&” She later finds these same books returned to the library&’s drop box, with an enigmatic note from Benson to Rain. As Rain seeks to understand the message, the prime suspect becomes Rain&’s friend Nick, who was the last person to see Wallace alive and who returned to the Jamboree with a nasty cut on his hand. The knife found in his tackle box only makes Nick&’s troubles worse. But Rain keeps fishing for other suspects. Was the killer Danny, who lost his arm to a logging accident involving Wallace? Or Danny&’s bitter father, whose dreams of retirement were dashed by his son&’s accident? With the help of her friends Julia and Jace, Rain sets out to hook the real culprit and clear Nick&’s name. But can her sleuthing skills protect her from a killer who&’d like to take her out of circulation?
A Dash of Death (A Cocktails and Catering Mystery #1)
By Michelle Hillen Klump. 2022
A Houston reporter-turned-mixologist mixes it up with murder in this series debut from Michelle Hillen Klump, superbly catering to fans…
of Diane Mott Davidson and Lee Hollis. Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fiancé in rapid succession. But Sam has a way of making lemonade out of the bitterest of lemons. At a meeting of the local historical-homes council, she serves up the homemade bitters that she made as gifts for her wedding party. She intends to use that as her &“in&” to become an in-demand party mixologist. But the party&’s over for one of the council members, who keels over dead soon after he sips the bereft bride&’s bitter brew.It turns out that the victim, Mark, was poisoned—his drink spiked with oleander. Since Sam mixed the drink that Mark imbibed right before his demise, she finds herself at the front of the suspect line. Now, she&’ll have to use all of her reporter&’s wisdom and wiles to clear her name. Who could have wanted Mark dead? His wife, Gabby? His girlfriend, Darcy? Someone who wanted his seat on the council? Or another citizen of this sweet Texas town that holds some seedy secrets? Job hunting, building her mixology business, and fending off late-night phone calls from her nearly betrothed don&’t leave much time for sleuthing. But if Sam can&’t &“pour&” over the clues to find the killer, it may soon be last call for her.
L. A. Burning: A Novel
By D. C. Taylor. 2022
An ex-con hits the streets of L.A. to find her twin sister&’s killer. Is it a mission of justice—or a…
quest for vengeance?Cody Bonner, identical twin, daughter of a major movie star, a teenage street kid in Los Angeles, a bank robber at nineteen, and a prison inmate at twenty. When she&’s released after six years, she returns to L.A. with a purpose: to learn the truth about her sister Julie, who washed up on a Malibu beach a year earlier. The connection between the twins was so powerful that the day Julie died, Cody collapsed in the prison yard. Now that bond is driving her to seek justice—at any cost. Using bootleg skills she learned in prison, Cody begins to peel back the layers of mystery. Her search leads her to the darker alleys behind the dazzle of the film business, and into the world of high-powered agents, high-priced call girls, and men with a taste for sexual violence. As she homes in on her mother&’s powerful agent, Harry Groban, a man with ugly accusations of abuse in his past, Cody becomes more deeply enmeshed in the life she left behind as a teenager: her mother&’s star power, her former classmates-turned-producers, glitzy parties, and a handsome former love who knows all the players. Is Groban at the center? Could there be others who had a hand in Julie&’s murder? As Cody gets closer to the truth, another ghost from her criminal past is stalking her—one that could put her back in prison for years.
The Wrong Woman: A Novel (A Kendall Beck Thriller)
By Leanne Kale Sparks. 2022
The past is never far behind, as a string of murders threatens to unleash long-buried secrets in this pulse-pounding thriller…
for fans of Melinda Leigh and T. R. Ragan.The only survivor of Denver&’s notorious &“Reaper&” serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She&’s neck deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams—but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake. Devastated by the news of Gwen&’s death, Kendall teams up with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer. Gwen&’s fiancé, Ty Butler, is being evasive about the last time he saw Gwen, and as the evidence mounts against him, he&’s arrested for the murder. With every new clue, Kendall questions how well she really knew her friend. And when Gwen&’s dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude of her murder. The Reaper has returned to Denver—and he&’s not stopping at just one victim. As the trauma of Kendall&’s past comes roaring back, she and Adam have no time to spare before more bodies start piling up. And then Kendall makes a shocking discovery that reveals the horrifying truth behind Emily Williams&’s disappearance. Now, Kendall must confront her darkest fears as she and the Reaper face off one more time.
Live, Local, and Dead (A Vermont Radio Mystery)
By Nikki Knight. 2022
Death waits for snowman in Nikki Knight&’s new Vermont-based cozy series, perfect for fans of Connie Archer and Mary Kennedy.In…
a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman&’s head off with a Revolutionary War-style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would be quieter when she left New York City and bought a tiny Vermont radio station. But now, Edwin Anger—the ranting and raving radio talk show host who Jaye recently fired—lies dead in the snow. And the Edwin Anger fans who protested his dismissal are sure she killed him. To clear her name, Jaye must find the real killer, as if she doesn&’t have her hands full running the radio station, DJing her all-request love song show, and shuttling tween daughter Ryan to and from school. It doesn&’t make matters easier that the governor—Jaye&’s old crush—arrived on the scene before the musket smoke cleared. Fortunately, Jaye has allies…if you count the flatulent moose that lives in the transmitter shack, and Neptune, the giant gray cat that lives at the station. If Jaye can turn the tables on the devious killer, she and the governor may get to make some sweet, sweet music together. But if she can&’t, she&’ll be off the air…permanently.
Behind the Lie
By Emilya Naymark. 2022
NYPD detective turned small town PI Laney Bird is in a fight to save lives—including her own—after a neighborhood block…
party turns deadly. A transplant to the upstate New York hamlet of Sylvan, all Laney wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. But things rarely remain calm in Laney’s life—and when her neighborhood summer block party explodes in shocking violence and ends with the disappearance of her friend and another woman, she’ll need all her skills as a PI to solve a mystery that reaches far beyond her small town. As people closest to Laney fall under suspicion, the local authorities and even her colleagues question her own complicity. And then there’s fifteen-year-old Alfie, her complicated and enigmatic son, obviously hiding something. Even as Laney struggles to bury evidence of her boy’s involvement, his cagey behavior rings every maternal alarm. Laney’s personal life unravels as she’s drawn into her missing friend’s dark secrets and she realizes she and Alfie are in danger. With treachery blazing hot as the searing summer sun, Laney fights to save lives, her family’s included.
Homicide and Halo-Halo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #2)
By Mia P. Manansala. 2022
Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy…
mystery series by Mia P. Manansala.Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started. To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila's little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago—a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. But when the head judge of the pageant is murdered and Bernadette becomes the main suspect, the two must put aside their differences and solve the case—because it looks like one of them might be next.
The Mad Hatter Murders (Billie Wilde #3)
By Marrisse Whittaker. 2022
A British police detective&’s latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil&’s…
Line. DSI Billie Wilde&’s romantic relationship is intense—but it&’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially since the new chief of police is gunning for her squad. If they don&’t get a handle on a series of deaths—which seem to have a connection to Alice in Wonderland—they could wind up being demoted. And the identity of one of the victims has made things devastatingly personal for Billie. In search of clues, she winds up working closely with PI Ellis Darque, who is working undercover. But as Billie works to sort out what&’s going on behind the scenes, and confronts dark truths about her own family, she starts to feel like she&’s gone through the looking-glass herself . . . This chilling police procedural by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction, is a compelling tale filled with complex motives, tangled mysteries, and shocking surprises.
Guardian Angel (The V.I. Warshawski Mysteries)
By Sara Paretsky. 1992
New York Times Bestseller: A Chicago PI trying to help her elderly neighbors ends up tangled in politics and a…
murder in this &“fast-paced, complicated mystery&” (New York Daily News). V.I. &“Vic&” Warshawski and her neighbor share responsibility for a currently pregnant dog—but Mr. Contreras complains that her detective work keeps her too busy to help with little Peppy. Still, that doesn&’t stop him from adding more to her plate by asking her to investigate the disappearance of his friend, a fellow retiree. At the same time, Vic&’s trying to look out for a vulnerable eighty-year-old down the street whose property is considered an eyesore by the newcomers gentrifying the neighborhood. When Mr. Contreras&’s friend turns up dead in a canal, and the old lady on the block winds up in the hospital, Vic is swept into a world of organized labor, money, and politics—and discovers a distressing personal connection to the case. Vic may not always succeed as a guardian angel—but when things go wrong, she can chase down the demons—in this suspenseful novel from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and &“crime-fiction pro&” (People). &“Paretsky&’s emphasis on character comes at no expense of action: Vic&’s investigation is as physical as it is mental, taking her inside Chicago&’s industrial world and up against bad guys who use everything from bats to heavy machinery to thwart her. Among today&’s PIs, nobody comes close to Warshawski.&” —Publishers Weekly &“The richest and most engaging yet of Ms. Paretsky&’s thrillers.&” —The New York Times &“Densely textured, adroitly plotted.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“One monster of a plot.&” —Booklist
The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers: Stories (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries)
By Stuart Palmer. 1947
A sharp-witted Manhattan schoolteacher tackles eight little mysteries in this collection from the author of The Puzzle of the Happy…
Holligan. When not teaching third graders, middle-aged singleton Hildegard Withers enjoys sipping orange pekoe tea, reading Sherlock Holmes stories, and tending to her tropical fish. And from time to time, she also helps her friend, Insp. Oscar Piper, with some puzzling cases . . . &“The Riddle of the Lady from Dubuque&”: Miss Withers goes undercover at an affluent dinner party, but murder cuts the evening short. &“The Riddle of the Yellow Canary&”: Hildegarde races to prove a young songwriter&’s death was a homicide and force her killer to face the music. &“The Riddle of the Blue Fingerprint&”: A mahogany wardrobe for sale at a local auction house contains a peculiar surprise: the body of a man Miss Withers was hired to find. &“The Riddle of the Doctor&’s Double&”: A doctor pays a house call to a sick patient on Riverside Drive, but the housekeeper thinks she just let him in, so . . . who is upstairs with her boss? &“The Riddle of the Twelve Amethysts&”: Miss Withers investigates a curious case of blackmail involving packages containing the violet gemstone. &“The Riddle of the Black Museum&”: A baffling locked-room murder sends Miss Withers on a field trip to the NYPD&’s famed collection of apprehended weapons. &“The Riddle of the Green Ice&”: Apartment hunting in New York can be killer, but Miss Withers wasn&’t expecting a robbery and a shooting, too. &“The Riddle of the Snafu Murder&”: After a possible spy uses her name in bars around town, Hildegarde&’s search for answers leads her to a Greenwich Village murder. Her style may be eccentric, but Miss Withers is as clever as they come. If you enjoy reading these cases, be sure to check out any of the full-length mysteries in the series like The Penguin Pool Murder, Murder on Wheels, or Murder on the Blackboard. Praise for the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries &“One of the world&’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives.&” —The New York Times &“Hildegarde Withers remains incomparable and inimitable.&” —Anthony Boucher
The Colours of Death: A gripping crime novel set in the heart of Lisbon (Inspector Reis)
By Patricia Marques. 2021
'Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' Val McDermid, bestselling author of Still Life'Compelling and original, this glints with…
freshness' Daily Mail'A brilliantly inventive and twisty tale' Claire McGowan, bestselling author of The Push'A good detective story . . . intriguing' Guardian'A distinctive, intriguing, immersive debut' Mari Hannah, multi-award winning author of Without a Trace The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this of his own accord. The City Lisbon 2021. A small percentage of the population are diagnosed as Gifted. Along with the power comes stigma and suspicion. The Detective In a prejudiced city, Gifted Inspector Isabel Reis is hiding her own secrets while putting her life on the line to stop an ingenious killer.A violent and mysterious crime. Suspected Gifted involvement. A city baying for blood. And a killer who has only just begun . . .'A bold, compelling police drama a step beyond the ordinary with writing to match' Helen Fields, bestselling author of The Shadow Man'This is crime fiction with a twist . . . This was a gripping and highly invented thrill ride. I can't wait for more' Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man'An amazing genre-bending debut' David Jackson, bestselling author of The Resident