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A Witherston Murder Mystery Series by Betty Jean Craige

Griping and enthralling… A beautifully spun whodunit series. Craige, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, who has written books in the fields of literature, history of ideas, politics, ecology, and art, turns her talent to mystery in this charming whodunit series…
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Spent Identity (Annalisse Series #2) by Marlene M. Bell

  An ingenious mystery… a complete page-turner. This winning second installment in the Annalisse Series from Bell trails Annalisse Drury, 30-year-old antiquities expert who arrives at her childhood home and gets entangled into a murder investigation while her aunt goes…
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The Boy (Broussard and Fourcade #2) by Tami Hoag

A finely-constructed police procedural… Nick Fourcade, a detective with the Bayou Breaux, La., police department, is called to a crime scene to investigate the brutal murder of seven-year-old KJ Gauthier. His 27-year-old mother, Genevieve, who managed to escape the brutal…
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Hidden on the Fens by Joy Ellis

  Thoroughly compelling… A cold case becomes interwoven with a recent crime in the eleventh entry in the DI Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter series in Ellis’s police procedural novels. A couple living on a local farm are being…
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Hi Five (An IQ Novel: Book 4) by Joe Ide

  A thrilling read… Ide returns with this brilliant fourth installment in his IQ Novel series, featuring detective Isaiah Quintabe. Angus Byrne, a ruthless white supremacist and a major arms dealer, hires Isaiah to investigate the shooting murder of one…
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Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn

  A mystery that’s both clever and engrossing… Set in a small English town in 1902 and inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot, Jocelyn’s delightful middle-grade mystery series…
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The Whisperer by Karin Fossum

  Deeply engrossing but not without flaws… An intriguing, in-depth character study of a social misfit who becomes the target of a series of threatening letters. A botched surgery leaves Ragna Riegel with a ragged scar on her neck and…
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A Max Stone Series (2 book series) by Robert Segulin

Everyday intrigues, sudden mishaps, and unsolved mysteries mark the two installments of this entertaining series… Segulin launches his sparkling new cozy mystery series with an endearing retiree as his main protagonist. The first book, The Residents: Murders by the Lake,…