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A Room Full of Bones
by Elly Griffiths
Ruth Galloway investigates a mysterious death in a museum, leading her to uncover secrets buried in the past.
Combine a splash of Alan Bradley with a pinch of Kathy Reichs and you have a gripping new Ruth Galloway Mystery – a good-hearted mystery series with a dark edge. Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full ... (Goodreads)
The Janus Stone
by Elly Griffiths
When a child's bones are found on a construction site, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called to investigate. Emotions: Suspense, Intrigue, Curiosity, Unease
It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old ... (Goodreads)
A Dying Fall
by Elly Griffiths
A murder investigation leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to explore the connections between a long-dead king and a modern-day killer.
Ruth’s old friend Dan Golding dies in a house fire. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. Could this find be linked to his ... (Goodreads)
Death in a Strange Country
by Donna Leon
Commissario Brunetti investigates the murder of a young American soldier in Venice, uncovering corruption and secrets in the process.
Early one morning Brunetti is confronted with the body of a young American serviceman fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All clues point to a mugging, but robbery seems too convenient a motive. ... (Wikipedia)
The Blackhouse
by Peter May
A murder mystery set in a remote Scottish island, delving into a dark past.
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to ... (Goodreads)
Missing Joseph
by Elizabeth George
A vicar's disappearance leads to a tangled web of secrets and lies in a small English village.
Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar ... (Goodreads)
And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander
Newly widowed Emily discovers her late husband's secrets and becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of deception and betrayal in Victorian England.
From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, ... (Goodreads)
A Trick of the Light
by Louise Penny
A murder mystery set in a small Quebec village, as a young detective uncovers secrets of the past.
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden ... (Goodreads)
A Lesson in Secrets
by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of a college professor in Cambridge during the build-up to World War II.
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs’s career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior ... (Goodreads)
The Anatomist's Wife
by Anna Lee Huber
Lady Darby, a widow and anatomist's wife, helps solve a murder mystery in 1830s Scotland.
Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister's estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw a house party for the ... (Goodreads)
Glass Houses
by Louise Penny
A suspenseful murder mystery set in a remote Quebec village.
An instant, New York Times Bestseller, and August 2017 LibraryReads pick!, “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with ... (Barnes & Noble)
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Detective Armand Gamache investigates a murder in a small Canadian town, uncovering secrets and lies.
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive ... (Goodreads)
Red Bones
by Ann Cleeves
A murder mystery set in the Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered in a tight-knit community.
An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are ... (Goodreads)
Blue Lightning
by Ann Cleeves
A detective unravels a web of secrets in a small town, seeking justice for a murdered girl.
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancee, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the ... (Goodreads)
In the Bleak Midwinter
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
An ex-priest investigates a murder in a small, rural town, uncovering dark secrets.
Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Millers Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot and ... (Goodreads)
The Hypnotist
by Lars Kepler
A police detective investigates a mysterious and violent death, uncovering a dark and sinister past.
A man is discovered murdered in the bathroom of a locker room. Upon going to the man's residence, a policeman finds the man's wife and young daughter brutally murdered as well as his son, Josef Ek, ... (Wikipedia)
White Nights
by Ann Cleeves
A murder mystery set in the isolated and eerie Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered.
The electrifying follow up to the award-winning, Raven Black,Raven Black, received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an ... (Barnes & Noble)
Capital
by John Lanchester
An exploration of the lives of a group of characters in London, revealing the dark side of modern capitalism.
Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (author of The Debt to Pleasure ) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and ... (Goodreads)
The Lewis Man
by Peter May
A murder mystery set in the Scottish Highlands, unravelling the secrets of a family's past.
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. ... (Goodreads)
Speaking from Among the Bones
by Alan Bradley
A young detective investigates the mystery of a decades-old murder in a small English village.
From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent ... (Goodreads)
Sidetracked
by Henning Mankell
A police detective's investigation into a mysterious murder, uncovering a dark conspiracy.
In the award-winning Sidetracked , Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in ... (Goodreads)
The Boys from Brazil
by Ira Levin
An international thriller involving a sinister plot to clone Hitler and create a Fourth Reich.
Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi hunter (loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal ) who runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity, perpetrated during the Holocaust . The waning interest of ... (Wikipedia)
Sovereign
by C.J. Sansom
A lawyer's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death in Tudor England.
Set in the autumn of 1541, the novel describes fictional events surrounding Henry VIII's 'Progress' to the North (a state visit accompanied by the royal court and its attendants, the purpose of which ... (Wikipedia)
The Murmur of Bees
by Sofía Segovia
A Mexican boy's quest for identity and justice in a small rural town.
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the ... (Goodreads)
I Let You Go
by Clare Mackintosh
A mother's heartbreaking journey of grief and guilt as she struggles to come to terms with the death of her son.
THE, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER,One of, The New York Times Book Review’,s 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016!,Now in paperback—the next blockbuster thriller for those who loved, The Girl on the Train, and, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
A human raised by Martians must find his place in a hostile Earth society.
The story focuses on a human raised on Mars and his adaptation to and understanding of humans and their culture. It is set in a post- Third World War United States, where organized religions are ... (Wikipedia)
Guards! Guards!
by Terry Pratchett
A group of misfits join forces to save Ankh-Morpork from a dragon terrorizing their city.
This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put ... (Goodreads)
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
A police detective investigates a mysterious disappearance, uncovering a sinister conspiracy.
Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. His investigations suggest that the woman, a rising politician, ... (Wikipedia)
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne du Maurier
A young man's journey of suspicion and intrigue, searching for the truth about his mysterious cousin.
Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather , Nick ... (Wikipedia)
The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
A woman is murdered hours after planning her own funeral. Private investigator Hawthorne and author Horowitz team up to solve the case.
She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to ... (Goodreads)
