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The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett is the godfather of hard-boiled detective fiction. A former real-life Pinkerton detective, he wrote Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man over a span of 5...
Posted by Adult Services on January 30, 2020
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is an odd book. On the one hand, it’s grounded in a grimy, desperate post-Katrina New Orleans. Almost every character in the...
Posted by Adult Services on January 28, 2020
We Set the Dark on Fire
Daniela Vargas is a top student at the Medio School for Girls, where young women are trained to be prestigious wives to young rich men of high social status. Dani,...
Posted by Book Rex on January 16, 2020
The Shape of Night
Ava Collete is a food writer from Boston, looking to get away for the summer to finish her new book of historical New England recipes. It might be more fitting...
Snapshot
In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block...
Posted by Adult Services on January 7, 2020
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder
After a year spent “mourning” the sudden death of her philandering husband (who died in bed with his mistress no less) American born countess Francis Wynn is ready to move...
Posted by Adult Services on November 12, 2019
I Am Princess X
Libby died when she was fourteen. Her mom fell asleep at the wheel and drove into a river, where they both drowned. …Didn’t they?
Posted by Book Rex on October 17, 2019
D.O.A.
After a night on the town in San Francisco, account Frank Bigelow wakes up to discover he’s been poisoned. There’s no cure, he has no idea who did it, and...
Posted by Adult Services on September 9, 2019
Midwinterblood
Containing elements of mystery, horror, romance, history, and the paranormal, Midwinterblood is difficult to describe without giving too much away or just listing more descriptors like “sweeping” and “mystical.”
Posted by Book Rex on March 26, 2019
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Hal is a young woman hard on her luck. The debt collectors come knocking with threats of violence if she doesn’t pay off her mounting loan and she surely isn’t...
Six of Crows
Think Ocean’s Eleven, if the Ocean’s Eleven crew contained six teenage misfits living in medieval, high-fantasy Amsterdam. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime (read: more money than he could’ve...
Posted by Book Rex on November 20, 2018
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
Victoria Wright's best friend Lawrence has disappeared and no one is talking about it. Victoria must decide to keep up with her perfect routine or start investigating. With more children...
Posted by Book Rex on November 7, 2018
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dr. James Shepard had an unusual day. It began with the suicide of Mrs. Farrows, a patient of his whom he suspects murdered her husband a year prior, and ended with...
Posted by Adult Services on October 29, 2018
The Woman in Cabin 10
Travel journalist Lo Blacklock leaves for the assignment of a lifetime: a one week luxury cruise with only ten cabins. What she hoped would be a week of relaxation, turns...
Posted by Adult Services on October 15, 2018