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Rules for Perfect Murders

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In this entertaining novel, Peter Swanson has concocted the perfect plot for lovers of classic mysteries. Malcolm Kershaw, the widowed part-owner of Boston’s Old Devils Bookstore wrote a blog post some years ago that described what he considered the best depictions of the perfect murder….
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The Lantern Men

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We’re at book 12 of the series featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway, and Elly Griffiths shows no sign of taking her eye off the ball and letting her readers down. Ruth has left her beloved Norfolk and is working at Cambridge University. She also…
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The Blood is Still

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Tartan noir aficionado Douglas Skelton is on top form in this, the second in his series featuring reporter Rebecca Connolly. And you don’t get much more Scottish than this one – a man wearing full Highland regalia is found dead on the ancient battle site…
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The Recovery of Rose Gold

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This intriguing and unusual debut by Stephanie Wrobel takes the mother/daughter relationship to a whole new level. Rose Gold was in her late teens before she saw her mother’s overweening protectiveness for what it really was – a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Five…
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The Wild One

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Nick Petrie’s PTSD-afflicted hero, Peter Ash, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, takes on the job of finding a missing father and his eight-year-old son. Ash is told the father killed his wife and kidnapped the boy, presumably taking them to the isolated…
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Hitler's Secret

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Cambridge professor Tom Wilde has risked his life over three previous thrillers by Rory Clements to spy for and protect his adopted Britain and native United States of America, mainly from the evil Fascists at home and in Germany. Hitler’s Secret takes us two years into…
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Naked Came the Florida Man

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Former newspaper editor Tim Dorsey has an eye for the telling detail. With #FloridaMorons trending IRL as beach-going in the Sunshine State resumes, you may take special delight in this antic excursion into Florida history, hurricane recovery and a contemporary crime spree by aptly named…
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The Bramble and the Rose

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Tom Bouman has penned his third Henry Farrell novel and the cop, based in small-town Pennsylvania, is called out to investigate a headless corpse. It looks like a bear had been eating the man but killing the creature isn’t Farrell’s main worry – it’s the…
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