Mysteries

Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
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Investigator Kendra Michaels—once blind and known for her sharp skills—puts her life on the line to catch a killer in this electrifying novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning duo.

Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses—honed during her years in the dark—and keen deductive abilities.

Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon
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After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.

Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Gestapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky enough to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation that turns unexpectedly passionate.

A Soldier Finds His Way
by Irene Onorato
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Gruff and tough, Edward Giordano’s success as an elite Special Forces soldier doesn’t carry over to his personal life. Emotionally scarred from a painful childhood, he’s built a wall around his heart that he lets very few penetrate.

Audra Lorenzo, a first-year school teacher, is on a road trip with her niece during the holidays. A storm that was supposed to pass, instead crosses her path. Lost, with her GPS cutting in and out, her car skids off a road, down an embankment, and into an icy river. Everything goes black.

The Tally
by Christian Kay
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Every soul is born with a hundred. Spend it, and you’re worth nothing. In the sealed city of Galcyon, a number on your wrist is the measure of your soul. It buys your food, your shelter, your right to exist. When it hits zero, the iron cuff goes on, and the city works you until the Reckoning, the holy day when the worthless are executed in front of everyone and it’s called an act of mercy.

Micah has spent eighteen years believing the number is fair. He has to believe it, because it’s the only thing keeping his twin brother safe.

Broken Cross
by Bill Byrnes
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Priest. Scholar. Fugitive. Tom Lache never imagined fleeing through Cappadocia, but now he’s running for his life. He’s wanted for the murder of a brilliant Muslim archaeologist, whose discovery could shatter Christianity. His only ally is Rachel Goldman, a New York Times reporter and rabbi’s daughter.

Tom must decipher the Gospel of Longinus, an ancient text stating that Christ planned and survived his crucifixion. He faces the unthinkable dilemma-is his faith based on a lie, or will a lie destroy his faith?

Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
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Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.

Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly.

The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
by Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler
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Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors of all time.

When a millionaire enlists Perry Mason to protect his mining interests, the sleuthing attorney and his tireless secretary Della Street trade the Los Angeles streets for the fresh mountain air of San Bernardino. As soon as they arrive at the property, however, things start to go sideways, first with the introduction of an eccentric cast of characters, and then with deception, poisoning, and gunfire. When one of the group falls dead, Mason must throw his deductive powers into overdrive, sorting through red herrings and puzzling clues to reveal whodunit. At the end, his dazzling explanation will hinge on an oddly lazy insect.

Ocean Prey
by John Sandford
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An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It’s a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean.

None of it makes sense unless there’s something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.

He Said/She Said
by Erin Kelly
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In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they’ll share.

But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her word against his.

The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to wonder—did she trust the wrong person?

Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
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Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface…and changing everything. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier.

But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.

Santa Fe Rules
by Stuart Woods
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Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse?

Why can’t Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead? Wolf had the means and motive—and his inexplicable memory loss seems far too suspicious to suit Sante Fe’s crusading D.A., who promptly has Wolf arrested.

Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
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Morgan Easton Greer is forced to pick up the pieces and start over after her world is shattered by a series of tragic events including a failing marriage and losing her mother.

Shortly after her mother’s death, a mysterious letter arrives, inviting Morgan to a remote island for the reading of her mother’s will… a will she had no idea existed. Does Morgan have the courage to claim what is rightfully hers and start over by building a life she never dreamed possible?

The Deep End
by Julie Mulhern
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“My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses.” Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life. It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art.

She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.

The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
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Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.

The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged.

Found
by Erin Kinsley
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When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak.

His loving family realise life will never be the same again. DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger. And with Evan silent, she must race against time to find those responsible…

Red Herring
by Warren Adler
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Detective Fiona Fitzgerald’s privileged upbringing in the nation’s capital and her intimate knowledge of its inner workings come in handy when Fran Miller, a top lobbyist, and legal expert, turns up dead on Independence Day. It looks like suicide, but when the clues lead back to Mark Chancellor, Fiona’s best friend’s husband, things get complicated.

Chancellor runs a complex, global conglomerate, and along with his Russian partner, is involved in the pharmaceutical and defense industries. Chancellor is at the top of his game, well-connected in Washington, and known to believe that money is the planet’s most powerful weapon.