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“Murder Among the Pyramids” by Sara Rosett

Blix Windway has made a career out of her wanderlust and is entirely independent – an unusual and difficult choice for a woman brought up as a Lady in 1920s England.  Her newest expedition takes her to Egypt, where she is eager to experience the culture and learn all she can.  She makes a new […]

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“Not Quite Dead Yet” by Holly Jackson

Whether you’re a fan of Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy, or if you simply love a good murder mystery thriller, check out her debut adult novel, Not Quite Dead Yet! 27-year-old Jet Mason feels like her whole life is ahead of her, in no rush to make any big life decisions.  But […]

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“Murder by Memory” by Olivia Waite

Dorothy Gentleman wakes up and realizes several things are very wrong.  First, the massive interstellar ship she’s on is going through a magnetic storm, which means communication with the ship-mind is on the fritz.  Second, all passengers’ minds are stored until they request to be uploaded to a new body, and Dorothy wasn’t supposed to […]

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Elementary (TV Show)

Elementary, a reimagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories, places the famous detective (Johnny Lee Miller) in modern-day New York City.  He works as a consultant for the NYPD with Dr. Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu. The show adapts his classic deductive reasoning to contemporary crimes, and introduces the benefits of new technology to Holmes’ detecting […]

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Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

Leonie Swann’s debut novel is cozy, clever, and unconventional. If you’ve ever wondered what a murder mystery would look like if solved by a flock of sheep, Three Bags Full should be your next read. Yes, sheep. It sounds silly, I know, but somehow, it works. When their beloved shepherd is found dead, the flock […]

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Staff Pick: Midsomer Murders (TV Show)

If you appreciate charming English villages, intriguing mysteries, and a bit of dark humor, Midsomer Murders is a show you may really enjoy. This long-running British detective series is set in the picturesque–and deceptively deadly–fictional county of Midsomer, where murder seems to lurk behind every hedgerow and manor house. Each episode follows Detective Chief Inspector […]

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“A Traitor in Whitehall” by Julia Kelly

Evelyne Redfern, a clever and independent young woman living in 1940s London, is just trying to get through the air raids and do her part for the war effort by working in Churchill’s War Rooms as a typist. But when there is a murder and the investigators seem to be chasing the wrong suspects, she […]

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Signora Volpe (TV series)

Sylvia Fox has been an operative with MI6 for years when, disillusioned and ready for change, she decides to retire to the Italian countryside to be closer to her sister and her family.  It isn’t long before she is pulled into a local murder case and decides to use her particular set of skills to […]

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Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

Crash Robertson, newly hired intern to Senator Bernie Sanders, finds herself tasked with keeping the iconic senator on track as they travel back to Vermont, where he is scheduled to give speeches, meet with constituents, and serve as Grand Marshall at the Champ Days Parade in Crash’s hometown on Lake Champlain. Soon after their arrival, […]

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“Anatomy: A Love Story” by Dana Schwartz

Edinburgh, 1817. A secluded castle becomes a make-shift teaching hospital for one pupil determined to solve a mystery endangering the city’s impoverished and make her lifelong dream a reality. In “Anatomy: A Love Story” by Dana Schwartz, Hazel Sinnett loses her status as the brightest prospect of a renowned surgeon’s anatomy class when it is […]