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Mystery/Crime

A Casualty of War

By Charles Todd - Published 2017

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Armistice Day brings no peace to nurse Bess Crawford. In the waning days of the Great War, she nursed a patient, Captain Alan ...Read Review

Deadly Cure

By Lawrence Goldstone - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Doctor Noah Whitestone, along with his father, has a medical office in Brooklyn, New York in 1899. Noah is asked to attend to the ...Read Review

The Soldier’s Curse

By Meg Keneally - By Tom Keneally - Published 2017

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Adventure Military Mystery/Crime

Set in 1825 in the early years of the Australian colony, this first novel in The Monsarrat Series is set in Port Macquarie. The ...Read Review

Homicide for the Holidays

By Cheryl Honigford - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Near Christmas 1938, Vivian Witchell discovers a long-missing key to her deceased father’s desk. She finds money and a seven-year-old warning—not to ...Read Review

Nine Lessons: A Josephine Tey Mystery

By Nicola Upson - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

In Nine Lessons, Nicola Upson serves up multiple murders, romances on the rocks and a horrible act occurring years ago at the heart ...Read Review

City of Desire

By Sidney Morrison - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

In 1836 in Augusta, Maine, Judge Weston and his wife are horrified upon learning of the ghastly murder of a New York prostitute, the “...Read Review

Blood Oath

By Melissa Lenhardt - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

This story, book 2 in the Sawbones series, starts with a killer first sentence (which aspiring authors will envy) to grip the reader from ...Read Review

This Side of Murder

By Anna Lee Huber - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

In 1919 England, young war widow Verity Kent receives an anonymous letter suggesting her husband, Sidney, committed treason. At first, she refuses to believe ...Read Review

The Hiding Places

By Katherine Webb - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

In the sweltering summer of 1922, the sleepy, idyllic village of Slaughterford in Wiltshire, is shaken by a brutal murder, and the son of ...Read Review

A Christmas Return

By Anne Perry - Published 2017 Published 2017-11-07

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Mystery/Crime

This compact little gem, Perry’s fifteenth Christmas novella, demonstrates her proficiency in writing Victorian-set mysteries. The protagonist is Mariah Ellison, grandmother of ...Read Review