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  High Hand

  Traude Ailinger

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  A killing in high society leaves a detective with a chip on his shoulder grasping at straws 
   
   
   
  After a shooting party on a Scottish estate, one of the participants is found dead, having been unceremoniously hit on the head with a rock. 
   
   
   
  Getting nowhere when interviewing the arrogant son of the wealthy landowner, DI Russell McCord is quietly relieved that with her family connections, bothersome journalist Amy Thornton might help the investigation. 
   
   
   
  But with a new partner to train—one who, to his dismay, seems to have won the affections of Amy—McCord wastes no time putting the most likely suspect in jail. He'll work out the motive later. 
   
   
   
  When Amy undermines his case, he'll have to rely heavily on her to find the real perpetrator. But not before another murder throws everything up in the air.

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  The Simon Turing Mysteries

  Jack Treby

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  THE BOOK OF DEATH 
  A long forgotten book conceals a dangerous secret. 
  James Faraday is about to turn eighty and his daughter has organised a gathering of friends and family at Woodford Grange to celebrate the big day. There will be a marquee in the garden, plenty of food and drink, and a huge stack of birthday presents. One particular gift, however, is proving difficult to track down. 
  For Simon Turing, who works in the local bookshop, it is just another order; an out of print book of wartime statistics. It only takes a day or two for him to locate a copy. 
  As soon as the book arrives, however, things start to go awry. The shop is burgled. Simon is knocked off his bike on his way to the Grange. And a worker at the estate suffers a fatal accident. Is it just a run of bad luck or are more sinister forces at work? 
  Simon is about to find out. 
  THE BONFIRE NIGHT MASSACRE 
  The corpse was snoring softly behind the sofa. 
  It is early November and the Wynmouth Fire Festival is in full flow. A dozen or more giant statues are about to be put to the torch. The locals jokingly refer to it as "the Bonfire Night Massacre". Fireworks and bonfires are the order of the day, and Simon Turing is looking forward to seeing the display. 
  He is in town performing at a local theatre, a revival of a fifties mystery play. All is not well at the venue, however. The theatre is in financial trouble and there are tensions backstage. The management needs a good box office if the theatre is to survive the winter. Luckily, the fire festival is a significant draw to the town. But when the theatre's own contribution to the festivities erupts into flames a couple of days earlier than planned, it does not bode well for the rest of the run.

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  The Existential Worries of Mags...

  Jean Grainger

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  My twelve-year-old daughter frequently moans that Ballycarrick is the most boring town in Ireland. Nothing ever happens here. She’s right. And as the local police sergeant, this is something I’m delighted about. I’ve enough to worry about - the polar ice-caps, the evil monster that’s shrinking my trousers, not to mention the hot flushes - without having to be like one of those gritty Netflix cops, chasing criminals down alleyways and busting drug deals. So, life is calm and fairly predictable. Until something unthinkable happens in our sleepy backwater. A crime, but not like anything I've ever seen before. It's a complete mystery. And it's up to me to solve it.

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  The Pigeon - A Joe the Bouncer...

  David Gordon

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  Harvard dropout and ex–Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task—retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn—has Joe puzzled . . . until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars. 
   
   
   
  Joe hatches a plan to sneak into the luxury park-side apartment building where the pigeon is held captive. But that simple plan takes a deadly turn when he stumbles upon a nest of international war criminals and a ruthless building manager overseeing the nefarious operation. Fearing that Joe's entry into the building has somehow compromised the scheme, they put a bounty on his head. In New York, Joe is untouchable, but his new foes come from outside the flock, and he'll need a wing and a prayer to elude their assassins. 
   
   
   
  With high-stakes action sequences punctuated by laugh out loud humor, The Pigeon is an entertaining caper with nods to vintage crime fiction by masters like Elmore Leonard and Richard Stark. It's a perfect entry point into David Gordon's enjoyable Joe the Bouncer series, and a great continuation for returning fans.

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  Bells Tails & Murder

  Kathy Manos Penn

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  She crossed an ocean to start her life over. Can she nab a killer before her quaint village becomes a graveyard? 
   
   
   
  Recently widowed Leta Parker desperately needs a change of scenery. Pursuing her lifelong dream of retiring to the Cotswolds, she leaves her soulless corporate hustle in Atlanta and moves to England with her talking dog and cat companions—Dickens and Christie. But she's barely begun making new friends when she stumbles across her housekeeper's body . . . 
   
   
   
  With several villagers pegged for the crime, Leta teams up with a retired English teacher and her sharp-as-a-tack octogenarian mother to track the killer before the trail goes cold. As the not-so-friendly local policewoman elbows them out and scandalous rumors plague the tight-knit community, it's left to the ladies and their pets to sleuth for the truth. 
   
   
   
  Can Leta, Dickens, and Christie sniff out the culprit before the cute little town loses more than its charm? 
   
   
   
  Bells, Tails & Murder is the delightful first book in the Dickens & Christie Mystery series. If you like spunky literary women, amusing animal sidekicks, and inviting cultural backdrops, then you'll love Kathy Manos Penn's engaging cozy mysteries.

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  Sinister Soufflé The: A Cozy...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  🍮 French pastry chef Claire Lérin is known throughout Paris for her perfect soufflés that never fall. But when a ruthless food critic collapses after tasting her signature chocolate soufflé during a prestigious culinary competition, Claire's reputation crumbles faster than a failed meringue. The police suspect accidental food poisoning, but Claire knows her kitchen is impeccable and her ingredients pure. To save her patisserie and clear her name, Claire must investigate her fellow chefs, suppliers, and even her own staff. With help from a charming food journalist and her meticulous kitchen assistant, Claire uncovers a web of culinary sabotage, recipe espionage, and bitter professional rivalries. From tampered oven temperatures to substituted ingredients, every kitchen disaster holds a clue. But as Claire whips up the truth, she realizes the killer is still mixing a deadly recipe—and her next soufflé might be her last.

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