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A Room Full of Bones: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
An addictive series. (6/17/2024)
A Room Full Of Bones is the fourth book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. Curator of the Smith Museum in Kings Lynn, Neil Topham is excited to receive the coffin of a fourteenth Century ancestor, Bishop Augustine Smith, due to bemore
How to Solve Your Own Murder: Castle Knoll Files #1
by Kristen Perrin
An adequate debut. (6/12/2024)
How To Solve Your Own Murder is the first adult novel by British author, Kristen Perrin. The audio version is narrated by Alexandra Dowling and Jaye Jacobs. Recently jobless, aspiring murder mystery writer Annabelle Adams is living with her mother in her great aunt Frances’more
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
an outstanding debut. (6/1/2024)
Where The Crawdads Sing is the first novel by award-winning, best-selling American wildlife scientist and author, Delia Owens. In 1952, when she is almost seven, Miss Catherine Daniella Clark, known to everyone as Kya, watches her mother leave. She doesn’t return, and hermore
The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
Brilliant Aussie slow-burn crime fiction. (5/24/2024)
The Lost Man is a stand-alone novel by award-winning, best-selling Australian author, Jane Harper. In outback Queensland, Nathan Bright and his teenaged son, Xander abandon the fence-mending chore on his own property to return to the family’s holding when they learn thatmore
A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel
by Nolan Chase
cleverly plotted crime fiction (5/17/2024)
A Lonesome Place For Dying is the first book to feature Ethan Brand by award-winning Canadian-born author, Sam Wiebe, writing as Nolan Chase. On the morning he’s due to take over from Police Chief Frank Keogh in the Washington State border town of Blaine, someone has leftmore
The House at Sea's End: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
excellent British crime fiction (5/16/2024)
The House At Sea’s End is the third book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. Trace and Irish Ted lead a team of archaeologists conducting a survey on coastal erosion when one of them stumbles across what turns out to be a mass gravemore
Tell Me Who You Are: A Novel
by Louisa Luna
a cleverly-plotted page-turner. (5/2/2024)
Tell Me Who You Are is the fourth stand-alone novel by award-winning American author, Louisa Luna. During the twenty years she has been a psychiatrist, Dr Carolne Strange’s patients have confided many unusual things in the safe space she provides in the basement of hermore
The Janus Stone: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
Brilliant British crime fiction (4/15/2024)
The Janus Stone is the second book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. The audio version is narrated by Jane McDowell. As Head of Forensic Archaeology at the University of North Norfolk, Ruth Galloway is called in by U of Sussex’s Drmore
And Then She Fell: A Novel
by Alicia Elliott
a cleverly written, interesting and thought-provoking read. (3/21/2024)
And Then She Fell is the first novel by award-winning, best-selling Canadian Mohawk editor and author, Alicia Elliott. At twenty-six, Haudenosaunee woman Alice Dostator is married to Steve Macdonald, a white man, has a six-week-old daughter, Dawn, is living off reservationmore
The Curse of Pietro Houdini: A Novel
by Derek B. Miller
a moving, sometimes blackly funny, and thought-provoking page-turner. (3/20/2024)
“The wrinkles around his eyes and on his forehead spoke more of wear than years and I felt his presence to be dramatic and theatrical and magnetic: as though my eyes couldn’t help but fall on him and when they did—like being drawn to a performer under a spotlight onstage—Imore
The Hunter: A Novel
by Tana French
Brilliant Irish crime fiction (3/12/2024)
After some two years fixing up his dilapidated house near Ardnakelty in the west of Ireland, ex-Chicago cop, Cal Hooper is settling in, happy with the contrast to city life: “being boring is among Cal’s main goals. For most of his life, one or more elements always insistedmore
Exiles: Aaron Falk Mystery #3
by Jane Harper
another excellent example of Aussie Crime Fiction (2/26/2024)
Exiles is the third book in the Aaron Falk series by award-winning Australian journalist and author, Jane Harper. A year after he was meant to become godfather to Greg and Rita Raco’s baby son, Henry, Aaron Falk is returning to the Marralee Valley Annual Food And Winemore
No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
not for everyone (2/8/2024)
No One Is Talking About This is a genre-defying book by American editor and author, Patricia Lockwood. Part One, which comprises over half the book, seems to be the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of an unnamed protagonist, a social media poster whose followers avidlymore
Once There Were Wolves
by Charlotte McConaghy
Moving and hopeful, this is a fascinating page-turner. (2/1/2024)
Once There Were Wolves is the second adult literary fiction novel by award-winning Australian author, Charlotte McConaghy. After an unconventional upbringing by parents who could not have been a more unlikely couple, twins Inti and Aggie Flynn are in Scotland. Inti, amore
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by Sulari Gentill
Another page-turner! (1/18/2024)
The Mystery Writer is the third stand-alone novel by award-winning, best-selling Australian author, Sulari Gentill. When Theodosia Benton arrives at her older brother, Gus’s home in Lawrence, Kansas, having abandoned her law course in Canberra, she’s not sure of themore
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
by Bonnie Garmus
Funny, moving and thought-provoking, this is a brilliant debut. (12/13/2023)
“… here she was, a single mother, the lead scientist on what had to be the most unscientific experiment of all time: the raising of another human being. Every day she found parenthood like taking a test for which she had not studied. The questions were daunting and theremore
Tom Lake: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
quite possibly the best novel of 2023. (11/20/2023)
Tom Lake is the ninth novel by award-winning, best-selling American author, Ann Patchett. As the world turns upside down with a pandemic, Lara’s three daughters come home to their Michigan orchard to help with picking when their many regular pickers cannot. In their early-more
The Secret Hours
by Mick Herron
Topical, funny and very clever. (11/4/2023)
The Secret Hours is a stand-alone novel by award-winning, best-selling British author, Mick Herron. When the government initiates its inquiry into historical overreaching by the intelligence services, First Desk is dismissive with her PA about its impact, but is nonethelessmore
The Caretaker: A Novel
by Ron Rash
beautifully-written, brilliantly-plotted historical fiction (11/2/2023)
The Caretaker is the eighth novel by award-winning, best-selling American poet and author, Ron Rash. The loss of two infant daughters made Cora Hampton overprotective of her only son, Jacob, when he finally came. Cora and Daniel Hampton were people of wealth and influencemore
One Last Kill: Tracy Crosswhite Series #10
by Robert Dugoni
Addictive crime fiction. (9/27/2023)
One Last Kill is the tenth book in the Tracy Crosswhite series by best-selling award-winning American author, Robert Dugoni. When Seattle PD’s corrupt Chief of Police, Marcella Weber sets Cold Case detective Tracy Crosswhite the task of solving a twenty-five-year-old serialmore

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