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• Killers of a Certain Age

  a Novel

  Raybourn, Deanna

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  This witty and intricately plotted thriller introduces four veteran women assassins who have been made redundant by their shadowy organization – The Museum – for technological reasons. Sent on a farewell retirement cruise, they soon uncover deadly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Spoonful of Murder

  Hall, J. M. (Fiction writer)

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  On Thursdays, three retired school teachers meet for their coffee o’clock ritual at a favourite café. When an ex-colleague turns up dead, the trio suspects there’s more to the death than authorities suppose. Recommended for those who enjoy the power…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman in the Library

  a Novel

  Gentill, Sulari

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  Of interest for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, this witty, dark and intricately plotted mystery begins when writer Freddie and three others at her reading table at the Boston Public Library witness a murder. The four become fast…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder in an Irish Village

  O'Connor, Carlene

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  One of our top circulating titles of 2024, this gentle and amusing but fast-paced mystery is set in a family-run bistro in Kilbane, County Cork. Siobhán and her five siblings (the O’Sullivan Six) discover a dead body in the bistro with a complicated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs. Plansky's Revenge

  Quinn, Spencer

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  Witty and fast-paced, this mystery follows wealthy widow Loretta Plansky as she tries to recover her fortune. After being scammed one night by someone posing as her grandson, Plansky refuses to be victimized. The clues lead her on a whirlwind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spy Coast

  Gerritsen, Tess

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  Once a spy and now a ‘Martini Club’ book club member, Maggie Bird becomes a suspect when a woman’s body is found in her Maine driveway. It doesn't look great for Maggie that the woman was killed with two bullets, execution style. The clues suggest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homecoming

  a Novel

  Morton, Kate, 1976-

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  Another title popular with our readers in 2024, Homecoming is an intricately plotted family mystery that puts the events of a wealthy family’s mysterious deaths in 1959 into a parallel telling with modern day journalist Jess and her investigation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mistress of Bhatia House

  Massey, Sujata

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  Set in 1920s Bombay, India and following up from the story that started in The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen is drawn into investigating the mistaken arrest of Sunanda, a servant who rushes to intervene in an attack her successful Gujarati patron.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cannonball Tree Mystery

  Yu, Ovidia, 1961-

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  Set in 1930s Singapore, amateur detective Su Lin worries she has summoned a violent tree demon when her awful, blackmailing relative Mimi is found dead alongside photographic equipment under Su Lin's cannonball tree. Her neighbours and friends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

  Giordano, Mario, 1963-

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  Told from the perspective of a scandalized nephew, this witty and atmospheric mystery transports the reader to the world of larger-than-life Bavarian ex-pat Isolde “Poldi” Oberreiter. Poldi is a widow who planned a quiet, wine-soaked retirement in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bingo Hall Detectives

  Whitelaw, Jonathan

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  When a fellow regular at her local bingo turns up dead and outside her country home, Anita has an inkling that the situation is no simple accident. She enlists the help of her friends before another player’s number can be “called.”

• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

  a Novel

  Stevenson, Benjamin

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  In this locked room style meta-mystery, mystery writer Ernest Cunningham is struggling with his second book during Australian Mystery Writer’s Society – held aboard a luxury train traversing the Australian desert.