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A Venetian Elder Abuse Mystery
Title: Unto Us a Son is Given
By: Donna Leon
Unto us a son is given is Donna Leon's newest book, published in March, 2019. Unlike her previous 27 installments of Guido Brunetti mysteries, it concentrates on solving a case of financial elder abuse turning into murders (image courtesy Penguin UK). Eighty-five-year-old Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada is a naturalized Italian. ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Dec. 3, 2019
Tags: mystery
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Title: The Voices Beyond
By: Johan Theorin
Öland is like paradise to the nearly 12-year-old Jonas Kloss. He is going to spend the last summer of the 20th century at the family resort, Villa Kloss, and earn some spending money by painting decks for his Uncle Kent and Aunt Veronica. Little does he know that an evening ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Aug. 17, 2016
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Treacherous net, treacherous human hearts
Title: The Treacherous Net
By: Helene Tursten
Many of our readers are familiar with Swedish author Helene Tursten. Her character, Detective Inspector Irene Huss, appears in a number of books, audiobooks, & DVDs in our library catalog. The Treacherous Net, her latest translated mystery, is a complex work, with an ambitious theme dealing with loneliness, the most ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on March 28, 2016
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: W is for Wasted
By: Sue Grafton
I have to confess I was not a Sue Grafton fan. For some reason, I used to be turned off by her formulaic, alphabetically ordered treatments of titles, not to mention her typecast characters and plot-driven story lines in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series. In response to public requests, SCPL ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Nov. 25, 2013
Tags: mystery, audiobook
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Title: Hiss and Hers
By: M.C. Beaton
Hiss and Hers, the 23rd installment of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the creation of the series by M.C. Beaton. As she hunts for the murderer of her handsome gardener, George Marston, Agatha meets a stronger adversary for the first time in her career. The character ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on July 18, 2013
Tags: mystery
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All about Justice, All about Politics
Title: Another Time, Another Life: the Story of a Crime
By: Leif G.W. Persson
I read and recently listened to "Another Time, Another Life" by Leif G. W. Persson, and I was struck by its refreshing political humor and reality. Through solving a cold murder case, the book reveals a strong sense of justice on the part of the Swedish secret police, especially its ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Dec. 6, 2012
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: The Ignorance of Blood
By: Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson’s The Ignorance of Blood not only ends Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón Seville quartet, but more importantly, completes the full recovery cycle of the protagonist’s troubled life. Javier Falcón’s troubled life is revealed in the first part of the quartet, The Blind Man of Seville (2003). While investigating the ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on June 23, 2011
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: Roseanna
By: Maj Sjöwall
After purchasing the complete set of Martin Beck mysteries on audio for the library, I found my curiosity piqued by the lasting charm of the series by Maj Sjöwall and her husband Per Wahlöö. During the period of 1965 to 1975, the couple wrote one 30-chapter mystery every year. The ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on May 12, 2011
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: City of Fear
By: David Hewson
Rome was under siege in the heat of tourist season and on the eve of the G8 summit. In the name of the Blue Demon to revive Etruscan civilization, a group of terrorists started a series of deadly attacks on the city’s officials and people, the presidential palace, the conference, ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on May 5, 2011
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: Mistress of the Art of Death..
By: Ariana Franklin
In twelfth century Cambridge, tensions are high between the local townsfolk and the Jewish population, suspected of murdering and disfiguring four children. King Henry II has requested aid of an expert in reading the dead from the Salerno School of Medicine in Italy. He is attempting to shelter the Jews, ... [Read more]
Posted by Ginger L. on March 31, 2011
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: Maisie Dobbs
By: Jacqueline Winspear
Aren’t you glad when a book is narrated well? It makes such a difference. I listened to the first book in the popular “Maisie Dobbs” mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear with the actress Rita Barrington reading aloud as I leisurely puttered in the backyard. I enjoyed getting to know the ... [Read more]
Posted by pollockl on March 31, 2011
Tags: mystery, audiobook
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When Two Brothers Love the Same Woman
Title: Nemesis
By: Jo Nesbo
Harry Hole is not an unfamiliar detective inspector to many Scandinavian mystery readers in Santa Cruz. The redbreast (2006) begins with Harry and his partner Ellen on surveillance detail. Oslo happens to be the scene of an international summit meeting. The devil's star (2005) finds Harry taking on a murder ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Dec. 30, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Title: The Price of Love and Other Stories
By: Peter Robinson
Inspector Alan Banks is a familiar character to many of Peter Robinson’s readers. He is mostly known as an experienced, persistent but sometimes lone detective. We can see his career growing from Gallows View (1987) to All the Colors of Darkness (2009). However, what was he like before joining the ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on July 29, 2010
Tags: short stories, fiction, mystery
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Jeepers Creepers It's Everywhere
Title: Creepers
By: Joanne Dahme
Ivy is everywhere. It seems to want to overtake the whole house. And no matter how much they try to pull it out and tear it off the walls it won't be eradicated. Courtney and her family move to their new home in remote Murmur, Massachusetts and the spookiness begins. ... [Read more]
Posted by ogradyj on July 15, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery, teen fiction
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Title: Sworn to Silence
By: Linda Castillo
As a 14-year old Amish girl, Kate Burkholder survived a brutal rape by a serial murderer dubbed The Slaughterhouse Killer. Some years later, Kate left Painters Mill, Ohio, parting with her family and the Amish way of life. Returning at thirty-years of age as the new Chief of Police, Kate ... [Read more]
Posted by Wildruby on May 13, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Big Bend mystery national park
Title: Borderline
By: Nevada Barr
Borderline is Nevada Barr’s fifteenth novel about a talented woman Park Ranger named Anna Pigeon. This mystery is fast-paced, engrossing and exciting to read. The author, through her character, Anna, interweaves many insights regarding the meaning of life, aging, death and the hereafter. Ms. Pigeon is trying to cope with ... [Read more]
Posted by downingp on May 6, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery, travel
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Title: Arctic Chill
By: Arnaldur Indridason
Arctic Chill opens with the stabbing death of Elias, a half-Thai and half-Icelandic boy of ten. Paralleled with Elias’ death is the murder case of a new wife by her unfaithful husband. Unlike his previous four mysteries, Arnaldur’s fifth book is haunted by a series of polemic clashes. Apart from ... [Read more]
Posted by Hui-Lan on Feb. 5, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Sleuthing Fun in San Francisco
Title: Revenge of the Spellmans
By: Lisa Lutz
Everybody's favorite thirty-something, Guinness-drinking private investigator with a checkered past is back in this third installment of the Spellman mysteries. Isabel Spellman continues to entertain as only she can in this heavily footnoted, case file format mystery set in San Francisco. Isabel's court-ordered therapy, insomnia, and secret new digs, along ... [Read more]
Posted by Abbey on Jan. 2, 2010
Tags: fiction, mystery
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Cathedrals, Fog and Gothic Suspense
Title: The Unburied
By: Charles Palliser
If your brain is ready for a workout, you might want to try this intricately plotted atmospheric thriller set in Victorian England. It is a framed story--a mystery within a mystery wrapped in yet another mystery. And it has all of the elements you might expect in this genre: missing ... [Read more]
Posted by fatorangecat on April 29, 2009
Tags: fiction, mystery
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