[bksvol-discuss] Fw: Mystery September 2009
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- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:18:35 -0400
New and Recently Released!
The Fate of Katherine Carr - by Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Pub Date: 06/23/2009
ISBN-13: 9780151014019
ISBN-10: 0151014019
Mystery. Though it's been seven years since the unsolved murder of his young
son, George Gates is still grief-stricken. Also troubled by the past is police
detective Arlo McBride, who's never gotten over another cold case, the
disappearance of reclusive poet Katherine Carr 20 years ago. At a bar, Arlo
tells
George about Katherine and the short story she wrote about a stalking
victim...also named Katherine Carr. Intrigued, George, who is assisted by a
12-year-old
orphan dying from a disease that ages her prematurely, seeks closure for
Katherine and himself. The New York Times says that Thomas H. Cook's latest
novel
is "positively haunting."
The Unscratchables: A New Breed of Crime Novel - by Cornelius Kane
Publisher: Scribner
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Pub Date: 07/07/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416596417
ISBN-10: 1416596410
Mystery. In this satirical novel that's entirely sans human characters, Cassius
Lap, a Siamese FBI (Feline Bureau of Investigation) agent, teams up with
Max "Crusher" McNash, a bull terrier police officer, to sniff out what appears
to be a serial killer kitty. The critics like this one: Booklist says, in
a starred review, that Cornelius Kane (a pseudonym of Australian author Anthony
O'Neill) has written "one of the best mysteries of 2009" and Kirkus Reviews
says that The Unscratchables is "unquestionably a tour de force." For another
recent book that's doggone good, try Spencer Quinn's Dog On It, which is
narrated by a loveable mutt named Chet.
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Wife of the Gods: A Novel - by Kwei Quartey
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 07/14/2009
ISBN-13: 9781400067596
ISBN-10: 1400067596
Mystery. Beautiful young AIDS worker Gladys Mensah is reported missing by her
brother and is quickly found dead in a small Ghanaian village where people
still believe in curses and witchcraft. Local police chief Max Fiti, who only
has a staff of two, asks for help from higher ups. They send talented Detective
Inspector Darko Dawson, whose own mother disappeared from the town years
earlier. If you're a fan of such African-set mysteries as Alexander McCall
Smith's
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and Michael Stanley's Detective Kubu
books, pick up this "well-crafted" (Library Journal) debut novel by the
Ghanaian-born Quartey, a physician who now lives in California.
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Six Suspects - by Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Pub Date: 07/07/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312605032
ISBN-10: 031260503X
Mystery. In this "clever whodunit" (Kirkus Reviews), Vivek Rai, the playboy son
of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is shot to death at a party while
celebrating his acquittal on a murder charge. The Delhi police find six
gun-toting guests at the party--Vivek's own father, a Bollywood actress, a
corrupt
bureaucrat, an American tourist, a mobile-phone thief, and a Jharkhand
tribesman. Author Vikas Swarup, a diplomat whose book Q&A was the basis for the
Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, offers up "a Bollywood version of the board
game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in" (The New York Times)
in his latest look at modern India.
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A Duty to the Dead - by Charles Todd
Publisher: William Morrow
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Pub Date: 09/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061791765
ISBN-10: 0061791768
Historical Cozy Mystery. Rejoice, Charles Todd fans! The pseudonymous
mother-son authors of the acclaimed Ian Rutledge mysteries have begun another
fine
series--this one featuring World War I nurse Bess Crawford. After being
injured, Bess is back in England where she delivers a soldier's dying message to
his family ("Tell Jonathan I lied. I did it for Mother's sake. But it has to be
set right."), and before long, she's involved in an old murder and dark
family secrets. If you'd like another historical mystery featuring an
independent young woman, check out Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series;
though
Maisie works as psychologist and PI, she too was WWI nurse.
The Innocent Spy - by Laura Wilson
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Pub Date: 07/07/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312538101
ISBN-10: 0312538103
Historical Mystery. In June 1940, DI Ted Stratton suspects that the falling
death of a silent-screen star wasn't a suicide, but he's told not to
investigate.
He asks questions anyway and soon suspects one of London's most notorious
gangsters and finds the case linked to the work of undercover MI5 agent Diana
Calthrop. Ted and Diana must tread carefully among the gangs and spies of
wartime England as they try to uncover the truth...and fight the attraction the
already-married-to-others duo feel for each other. Published in the U.K. as
Stratton's War, this book won the 2008 Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical
Crime Novel.
If you like Agatha Christie, try these...
Dame Agatha Christie, who was born in September, is known as the Queen of Crime
for good reason--around two billion of her ground-breaking, well-plotted
mysteries have been sold. If you love her books--such as those featuring
spinster sleuth Miss Marple and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot--but have read
all of them multiple times, try our suggestions below.
Death of a Poison Pen: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery - by M.C. Beaton
Publisher: Grand Central
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Pub Date: 01/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780446614894
ISBN-10: 0446614890
Cozy Mystery. Local constable Hamish Macbeth investigates when poison pen
letters filled with ridiculous accusations start arriving at homes near the
Scottish
Highlands town of Lochdubh...and soon lead to a murder. Adding to his troubles,
Londoner Jenny Ogilvie, who's a friend of Hamish's old flame (and true
love) Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, arrives in town hoping to catch Hamish's eye.
This charming series, of which this is the 20th entry, is sure to please
Christie fans who enjoy expertly crafted plots and village settings. If you
want to start with the 1st book, pick up Death of a Gossip. For books with
an older female sleuth, try the author's Agatha Raisin books.
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A Beautiful Blue Death - by Charles Finch
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pub Date: 06/26/2007
ISBN-13: 9780312359775
ISBN-10: 0312359772
Historical Mystery. It's winter in 1865 London, and after a trying day, Charles
Lenox is just settling in for a cozy evening by the fire when he's called
to his old friend Lady Jane's house. It seems that Lady Jane's former maid, who
left to work for a politician in order to be near her footman fiancé, has
been fatally poisoned. Though the young woman may have done herself in, Jane
suspects murder and wants amateur sleuth Charles to investigate. Library Journal
calls this clever debut novel, which was nominated for an Agatha Award, a
"sparkling achievement." The 3rd book in the Lenox series, The Fleet Street
Murders,
is due out in November.
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Still Life - by Louise Penny
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pub Date: 07/11/2006
ISBN-13: 9780312352554
ISBN-10: 0312352557
Mystery. When a retired and well-liked schoolteacher is shot through the heart
with a bow and arrow, almost everyone in the small village of Three Pines
thinks it must have been a hunting accident. But Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
of Canada's Sûreté du Québec discovers there's a murderer in the town's
midst. In starred reviews, Booklist says that Louise Penny's award-winning
debut novel is "a real gem of a book" and Kirkus Reviews calls it "stellar."
The 5th novel to feature Chief Inspector Gamache, The Brutal Telling, is being
published this month. If you like visiting Miss Marple's hometown of St.
Mary's Mead, you'll enjoy your time in Three Pines.
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Fer-de-Lance: A Nero Wolfe Mystery - by Rex Stout
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Pub Date: 11/01/1984
ISBN-13: 9780553278194
ISBN-10: 0553278193
Classic Mystery. In a 1930s Manhattan brownstone, obese genius detective Nero
Wolfe agrees to take a case because he could use the dough (times are tough,
after all)--but when the missing persons case turns deadly, Nero and his
tough-but-charming assistant Archie Goodwin are working to save lives. As long
as Agatha Christie fans don't mind crossing the pond to New York City, they
should love spending time with Archie and Wolfe since Wolfe's penchant for
solving crimes after having a good think will remind readers of Hercule
Poirot's amazing "little grey cells." Originally published in 1934, Fer-de-Lance
is the 1st book in this timeless series.
The daughter of time - Tey, Josephine
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
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Pub Date: 11/29/1995
ISBN-13: 9780684803869
ISBN-10: 0684803860
Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (a character who also appears in five other
novels by Tey) is in hospital recovering from injuries. He becomes intrigued
by a reproduction of a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being
able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard
seems to him a gentle and kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he
was a cruel murderer? With the help of friends and acquaintances, Alan Grant
investigates the case of the Princes in the Tower. He comes to the conclusion
that the claim of Richard being a murderer is as much a fabrication of Tudor
propaganda as the popular image of the King as a monstrous hunchback.
Without leaving his bed, Grant investigates the evidence and arrives at a
convincing solution by means of acute historical detection, in a tale which
Anthony
Boucher called "one of the permanent classics in the detective field," and
which Dorothy B. Hughes has termed "not only one of the most important mysteries
of the year, but of all years of mystery". The title of the novel is taken from
Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo, in which the eponymous hero observes:
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
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Aunt Dimity : vampire hunter - Atherton, Nancy
Publisher: Viking
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Pub Date: 02/21/2008
ISBN-13: 9780670018543
ISBN-10: 0670018546
Cozy mystery. Lori Shepherd's life in England couldn't be more tranquil or
more satisfying- except for one thing. Her five- year-old twins have started
school, and Lori fears they'll catch everything from the flu to fleas. What
they do come home with, however, is worse: a report of a pale, cloaked figure
with bloodstained lips lurking in the woods.
Lori is skeptical at first but soon grows concerned enough to consult with her
late (but not entirely departed) Aunt Dimity and her dear friend Kit Smith.
The vampire-hunting trail leads to Leo, a charismatic vagabond who just
returned to England after a self-imposed exile, a bitter old crone named Lizzie
Black, and finally to Aldercot Hall, where a mysterious murder took place forty
years ago. With Kit and Aunt Dimity's help, Lori uncovers the secret that
will shock everyone-including herself-about the true identity of the twins'
vampire.
With its placid English countryside setting, eccentric characters, and
lighthearted charm, Atherton's newest novel will enchant cozy mystery
aficionados
and the many loyal readers of the Aunt Dimity series.
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