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• Dead Dead Girls

  Afia, Nekesa

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  “After a raid on a Manhattan speakeasy in 1926 Harlem, Louise Lloyd is given the opportunity to avoid jail by helping to solve the murders of several local black girls.” -- NoveList

• Exit

  Bauer, Belinda, 1962-

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  “In Bauer's darkly comic thriller, an elderly widower discovers no good deed goes unpunished when his act of charity goes horribly wrong. A touching crime novel that explores the nature of life and death with heart and soul.” -- Kirkus

• Good Rich People

  Brazier, Eliza Jane

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  "A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in their guesthouse -- and then conspire to ruin their life for sport -- meet their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in." -- NoveList

• A Tourist's Guide to Murder

  Burns, V. M., 1964-

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  “A Michigan mystery author and bookshop owner’s trip to England entangles her in a real-life murder. Cozy fans get two mysteries for the price of one: The intuitive heroine finishes her novel and solves a murder.” -- Kirkus

• When No One Is Watching

  a Thriller

  Cole, Alyssa

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  Researching the history of her historically Black – but swiftly gentrifying – Brooklyn neighborhood, Sydney Green discovers a sinister truth behind the recent displacement of longtime neighborhood residents.

• Razorblade Tears

  Cosby, S. A.

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  “A lean, mean crime story about two bereaved fathers getting their hands bloody.” -- Kirkus

• Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

  Cosimano, Elle

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  “A suburban Virginia divorcée struggles with that classic dilemma: What should she do when she’s offered a fat paycheck to kill a complete stranger?” -- Kirkus

• Never

  Follett, Ken

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  In this geopolitical thriller, a U.S. president facing a contentious reelection campaign must juggle foreign and domestic threats and complex international alliances in an effort to avoid all-out war with China.

• Gathering Dark

  Fox, Candice

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  When a prison friend asks recently paroled ex-surgeon Blair Harbour for helping finding her missing daughter, Blair is thrust into a world of gang leaders and corrupt cops, and only LAPD detective Jessica Sanchez – the very woman who put Blair away…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a Sister

  Garrett, Kellye, 1978-

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  “When her estranged ex–reality-star younger sister turns up shoeless and dead of an overdose on a Bronx playground, Lena Scott has to prove to herself—and everyone else—that it was not an accident.” -- Kirkus

• The Album of Dr. Moreau

  Gregory, Daryl

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  “Gregory constructs a clever mash-up of H.G. Wells’s "The Island of Doctor Moreau,” a locked room mystery, and the boy band phenomenon in this zippy but complex tale. Self-aware humor and punchy puns liven up the narrative, resulting in a quirky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apollo Murders

  a Novel

  Hadfield, Chris, 1959-

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  “A vast Cold War space thriller from astronaut Hadfield. Incorporating real-life characters and events, spanning decades and distances both terrestrial and translunar, this NASA-heavy thriller has everything…” -- Kirkus

• These Toxic Things

  Hall, Rachel Howzell

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  Putting together a digital scrapbook for a client with Alzheimer’s, Mickie Lambert discovers what she thinks may be evidence of an historical serial killer and begins to receive anonymous notes telling her to stop digging.

• Fadeout

  Hansen, Joseph, 1923-2004

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  Reprint. Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter looks into the supposed death of a radio personality whose wrecked car was found in a raging river. “A pioneering work of gay fiction featuring one of the most appealing and sympathetic sleuths…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paradox Hotel

  a Novel

  Hart, Rob (Fiction writer)

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  “In the Paradox Motel, where ultra-wealthy guests can take 'flights' to the past, head of security January Cole finds her job getting harder when a handful of trillionaires arrive to bid on time-travel technology and there's a murderer on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What the Devil Knows

  a Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

  Harris, C. S.

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  “Harris’s excellent 16th Regency-era whodunit pits her aristocratic sleuth, Sebastian St. Cyr, against a killer possibly connected to a notorious real-life series of murders.” -- Publishers Weekly

• A Line to Kill

  a Novel

  Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-

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  “Except for the atrocities of World War II, there hasn’t been a murder on the Channel Island of Alderney from time immemorial. The staging of the Alderney Lit Fest brings that streak to a decided end. The most conventional of Horowitz’s mysteries to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ballerinas

  a Novel

  Kapelke-Dale, Rachel

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  Murder and ballet go hand-in-hand in this well-choreographed thriller. "Set in the hothouse world of a Paris ballet academy, [this debut] follows three dancers hiding a very big secret." -- New York Times Book Review

• Red Widow

  a Novel

  Katsu, Alma

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  "Recruited by the CIA's Chief of the Russian Division amid rumors of a department mole, former Moscow Field Station handler Lyndsey Duncan teams up with a murdered director's widow to expose a life-threatening web of secrets." -- NoveList

• Never Saw Me Coming

  Kurian, Vera

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  Seven psychopaths attend university in Washington, DC, simultaneously undergraduates and participants in a research study on psychopathy. When two of them are murdered, freshman Chloe teams up with two others to find the culprit.