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  Only the Wicked

  Gary Phillips

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  Private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date—and chases answers deep into America’s haunted past. 
   
  Long ago, Marshall Spears was a hero of the ballpark. In a time when baseball—and the nation—was segregated, he played in the vaunted Negro Leagues.  
   
  Decades later, Old Man Spears is living out his days as a fixture in a barbershop in South Central.  
   
  One afternoon, PI Ivan Monk—a shop regular—learns that Spears’s former teammate was Kennesaw Riles. From family lore, Monk knows Riles is his cousin who was ostracized for the damning testimony he gave during a controversial murder trial in the ’60s—testimony that put a firebrand civil rights leader behind bars. Before Monk can hear more, Old Man Spears drops dead while listening to a ballgame on the radio. Even stranger, the long missing Riles shows up at the Old Man’s funeral services, and dies soon after.  
   
  Monk knows the timing is not a coincidence. He follows the mystery to the Mississippi Delta. There, he unravels the truth behind the murder of two civil rights era activists. Eventually Monk zeroes in on a group of shadowy Mississippi businessmen-turned-philanthropists who may not have reformed their ways as they claim. Far from Los Angeles, the tenacious private eye confronts his own family history as well as a brand of hatred thought to have died with Jim Crow. 
   
  “[A] gripping tale starring a genuinely charismatic hero.”—Booklist

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  The Dream

  Shari Low, Ross King

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  Edgar Allan Poe: The Mystery of...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843. Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris. The body of Rogêt, a perfume shop employee, is found in the Seine, and the press takes a keen interest in the mystery. Dupin remarks that the newspapers "create a sensation ... [rather] than to further the cause of truth". Even so, he uses the newspaper reports to get into the mind of the murderer. 
  Dupin rejects the popular theory blaming the murder on a gang of ruffians seen in the area around the time of Rogêt's disappearance. One of such a group, he reasons, would have certainly confessed to the crime due to fear of betrayal rather than a bothered conscience. 
  Using the known facts in the case, Dupin further determines that a single murderer was involved. This person was probably a sailor, and dragged the victim by the cloth belt around her waist at first, then switched to a cloth around her neck, before dumping the body off a boat into the river. Finding the boat, Dupin suggests, will lead the police to the murderer. An "editor's note" states that it would be inappropriate to relate details of what followed, but that the police did apprehend the true murderer with the help of Dupin's deductions.

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  Full Circle

  FJ Donohue

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  A severely wounded FBI agent reinvents himself as a private investigator. 
  When Alastair Stewart loses his wife and unborn child and is badly injured in an ambush in Miami, he moves back home to upstate New York to begin his life over. 
  He opens a private investigation agency. Along the way he rescues a dog, half-shepherd, half-husky thrown from a moving car. Sherlock becomes his faithful sidekick as he investigates an explosion in a local bluestone quarry. 
  Then a dying mother persuades him to take on a cold case the local police have been unable to close.  Her autistic son disappeared ten years ago. His investigation not only leads him to the boy, now a man, but also the drug and money laundering ring ultimately responsible for his wife and unborn child's death. 
  Read this first novel in the Endwell Investigations series to get reacquainted with characters from FJ Donohue's Upstate Mysteries and meet Alastair and Sherlock, an inseparable team.

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  Bound by Danger

  Danielle M. Haas

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  The disappearance of a local girl leads Special Agent Graham Grassi right to the doorstep of the sexy redhead that has haunted him since they were part of a thwarted hijacking last week. 
   
   
   
  Questioning Mickey O'Shay cuts through him as he informs her about her missing goddaughter, one of the girls involved in his investigation. He wants to keep her safe, but she won't sit on the sidelines. The life of her goddaughter is in jeopardy and Mickey's determination has him ready to handcuff her—or kiss her—in place. As time runs out though, the stakes run higher. They both struggle to ignore their attraction as they try to unravel a web of deception—before it's too late. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Agatha Christie

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  Despite his best efforts to retire, the fourth book in Agatha Christie's famous detective series sees Detective Hercule Poirot returning for his next intriguing case.Detective Poirot is enjoying a quiet, peaceful retirement in a small village where he can focus on gardening and daily life. His plans are rudely disrupted when Roger Ackroyd, a wealthy widower, is murdered in his study shortly after the suspicious death of his fiancée. Ackroyd's niece and Poirot's new neighbor, Flora, begs for the detective's help on the investigation, and he can't bring himself to refuse. Poirot quickly finds himself pulled into another intriguing case filled with impossible alibis and dark secrets that he will have to unravel if he wants to discover who killed Roger Ackroyd.

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