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• Lavender House

  Rosen, Lev AC,

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  June 2024 selection - "When your existence is a crime, everything you do is criminal, and the gates of Lavender House can't lock out the real world forever."

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  May 2024 selection - "Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties."

• More Than You'll Ever Know

  a Novel

  Gutierrez, Katie,

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  April 2024 selection - It's "[a]n evocative drama about a woman caught leading a double life after one husband murders the other, and the true-crime writer who becomes obsessed with telling her story".

• Under Lock & Skeleton Key

  Pandian, Gigi, 1975-

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  March 2024 selection - Her father's business, Secret Staircase Construction, brings the magic of childhood to clients' homes by installing sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks, but when Tempest Raj's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a Sister

  Garrett, Kellye, 1978-

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  February 2024 selection - When Lena Scott's estranged half-sister and Black reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found dead, no one except Lena distrusts the official story, and her search for the truth turns out to be a dangerous undertaking.

• The Postscript Murders

  Griffiths, Elly,

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  January 2024 selection - At first Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur finds nothing suspicious in the death of a ninety-year old woman with a heart condition. Then writers who thanked her in their postscripts begin to die.

• Miss Aldridge Regrets

  Hare, Louise,

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  December 2023 selection - In 1936 chanteuse Lena Aldridge leaves behind the grimy London nightclub where her singing dreams had stalled and heads to New York City and Broadway...with a murderer on her heels.

• Murder on the Red River

  Rendon, Marcie R.,

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  November 2023 selection - Set in Fargo in the 1970s, Murder on the Red River follows a young Ojibwe woman and the sheriff who helped her out of the foster care system as they work together to solve the murder of a family man from the Red Lake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Secret Identity

  a Novel

  Segura, Alex, 1980-

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  October 2023 selection - Carmen Valdez is at the center of "a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books" in the 1970s.

• And Then There Were None

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  August 2023 selection - Mystery icon Agatha Christie tells the tale of ten strangers invited to a private island only to begin dying one by one. [Mysteries at Milk Memorial will be on hiatus in September 2023.]

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  Adams, Douglas

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  July 2023 selection - Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Douglas Adams' tale of one detective's mission to save humanity from extinction.

• A Whisper of Bones

  Hart, Ellen

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  June 2023 selection - Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's latest finds Jane Lawless hired to help a client determine whether the cousin her whole family insists she fabricated ever existed.

• A Tempest at Sea

  Thomas, Sherry (Sherry M.),

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  May 2023 selection - "Charlotte Holmes's brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in the new mystery in the bestselling Lady Sherlock series."

• IQ

  Ide, Joe,

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  April 2023 selection - Isaiah aka IQ uses his blistering intellect to solve crimes the LAPD ignores while paying bills by taking clients who can do just that, and this time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger.

• The Widows of Malabar Hill

  Massey, Sujata

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  March 2023 selection - Visit 1920s Bombay and meet Oxford-trained lawyer-turned-sleuth Perveen Mistry as her investigation of suspect donations to a charity that may have exploited three secluded widows encounters a murder.

• Heaven, My Home

  Locke, Attica,

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  February 2023 selection - Texas Ranger Darren Matthews battles centuries-old suspicions and prejudices along with current threats as he works to find a missing boy.

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  a Novel

  Chabon, Michael

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  January 2023 selection [formerly December 2022 selection - December meeting canceled] - Detective Meyer Landsman seeks his neighbor's murderer and the truth about his sister's death.

• Cherokee America

  Verble, Margaret,

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  November 2022 selection - When a baby, a Black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a neighbor all go missing in the same corner of the Cherokee Nation West, wealthy farmer and matriarch Cherokee America Singer (aka Check) is none too pleased with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mango, Mambo, and Murder

  Reyes, Raquel V.,

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  October 2022 selection - When food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith agrees to a short-term job as the Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning show in Miami, she doesn't expect murder to be in the mix.

• Blanche Passes Go

  Neely, Barbara,

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  September 2022 selection - Meet Blanche White, former housekeeper and current amateur sleuth, as she lends a hand to family while seeking justice for a murdered young woman and herself.