MYSTERY
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THE DARKNESS KNOWS – Arnaldur Indridason

Inside the glacier Langjökull, a body is discovered. It appears to be that of a business man who went missing thirty years prior. At that time a massive search had been conducted and one of the man’s business associates had been suspected of foul play, but there was never enough evidence to charge him with anything. Continue reading
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SCRAPPED: JUSTICE AND A TEEN INFORMANT – Lisa Peebles & John O’Brien

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW Warning, reading this book is likely to raise your hackles and ignite your ire. In 1994, convenience store clerk, 18 year old Heidi Allen, was kidnapped from the store (she was working alone at the time). Her body has never been found. When local man Gary Thibodeau heard about Continue reading
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HEARTACHE MOTEL – Terri L. Austin, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker

Take one fleabag motel and have three cozy mystery authors bring their regular characters into that motel and you get three novellas loosely tied together. In “Diners Keepers, Losers Weepers” by Terri L. Austin, it is just before Christmas and Rose Strickland and friends are planning a visit to Graceland. Their planned accommodations fall through and Continue reading
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FOX CREEK – William Kent Krueger

With Fox Creek, author William Kent Krueger returns to a more traditional mystery/thriller format with a little something extra, wherein a skilled tracker and probable killer is tracking Henry Meloux and two women who are trying to get away from the tracker. Cork is tracking the men following Henry, and Cork himself may be being followed. At Continue reading
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THE APOLLO MURDERS – Chris Hadfield

WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD It’s 1973 and Apollo 18 is headed to the moon … but first a secret mission to destroy a Russian spy satellite that is in earth orbit. That mission doesn’t quite go as planned and the continuing mission on to the moon (which also has a hidden agenda) is now Continue reading
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THE CRACKED SPINE – Paige Shelton

Kansas girl, Delaney Nichols, decides it’s time for a change and accepts a long-distance job in a bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland by way of a phone interview. All she knows is that it’s time for a personal change and that the work … whatever it is … sounds exciting. The book shop, The Cracked Spine, is Continue reading
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TALUS AND THE FROZEN KING – Graham Edwards

Talus, a bard, and his companion Bran, make a journey to the island realm of Creyak. A king has been murdered and there are no shortages of suspects, including the king’s six sons, the local shaman, the servant girl, or even a neighboring warlord. Talus, who is clever and insightful, will study the clues and investigate, Continue reading
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QUIET NEIGHBORS – Catriona McPherson

Ooooooh. What should be one of the best, dark reads on my shelf turns out to be one of the dullest. Jude needs a safe haven. She remembers finding some dusty old treasures in the oldest bookstore in a town full of old bookstores; Lowland Glen Books. This seems as good a place as any Continue reading
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FUGITIVE TELEMETRY – Martha Wells

This is not my first Martha Wells book, but it is my first foray into The Murderbot Diaries, despite this being book number six. A quick background … “Murderbot” is the name a self-aware robot has given itself, though it doesn’t refer to itself that way out loud for fear of scaring off the humans Continue reading
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GAME ON – Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum is on the hunt for an international computer hacker – Oswald Wednesday. Stephanie is not the most technology proficient sleuth and she’s probably going to need some help. One night Stephanie is awakened in the middle of the night when she hears footsteps in her apartment. Her gun is not in the bedroom, Continue reading
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THE CHUCKLING FINGERS – Mabel Seeley

Mabel Seeley was a mystery writer who published a few novels beginning in the late 1930’s through the early 1950’s. The Chuckling Fingers was first published in 1941. In it, the Heaton family (Minnesota lumber tycoons) experience some strange goings-on at their remote estate (called “Fiddler’s Fingers”) along the shore of Lake Superior. Ann Gay has received Continue reading
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LIGHTNING STRIKE – William Kent Krueger

In this prequel to the popular Cork O’Connor series, Cork is twelve years old and takes an active viewing role watching his father, Liam O’Connor, the local sheriff, navigate between two worlds (the white man and the Native community) after Cork discovers the body of a man, hanged in an abandoned logging camp. This is Continue reading

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