Hello mystery fans! If I’d been told one of my all time favorite romance films would be an animated one, I would have had doubts and yet it’s now true: Entergalactic (Netflix).
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New Releases
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Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler
For fans of domestic thrillers, stories where the past is maybe coming to get you, and slow burn suspense! Annie Lin has had a difficult life recently, including losing her business. Now she, her husband, and her recently traumatized child move from New York to Kauai in the hopes of helping their son, bringing peace of mind to Annie, and fixing her marriage. But during a storm, a stranger seeks shelter at their home. Could this be a new friend that Annie desperately needs or has danger just arrived?
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Murder at Haven’s Rock (Haven’s Rock #1) by Kelley Armstrong
For fans of action, murder mystery, remote locations, and page-turners! This is a spinoff from Armstrong’s Rockton/Casey Duncan series, which takes the two main characters from that series and begins a whole new adventure for them — similar to the last. You can 100% start here.
Casey Duncan is a detective married to Eric Dalton, a sheriff. They’re taking what they know of a secret town that houses people who need refuge (sometimes from bad people, sometimes they are the bad people) and creating their very own hidden town in the Yukon wilderness. But things are definitely not starting out on a good note when two of the workers building the town ignore the rules and go into the forest. Soon the two missing crew members are a dead body and a missing person and Casey and Eric have to deal with a prickly architect, a crew with plenty of gossip, a woman with a wolf, and the dangers in the forest to figure out what happened — all while they try and settle into their new town, bring in Casey’s sister, and find out some residents can’t wait any longer to join…
Definitely pick this up if you need to be sucked into another world, want a missing person/murder mystery, and the pace of a thriller.
The audiobook is narrated by Thérèse Plummer, who I really enjoyed as she brings all the tension and action into her voice. She also narrated Armstrong’s previous series.
(TW briefly mentions past suicide, not detailed/ Parkinson’s discussions past and present)
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Riot Recommendations
I have an excellent library system because it is well funded — as should ALL library systems be — and I regularly use Hoopla and Overdrive so I thought I’d share the last two books added to each wishlist.
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Peg and Rose Solve a Murder (A Senior Sleuths Mystery) by Laurien Berenson
For fans of older MCs, amateur sleuths, and odd couple pairings. Rose Donovan is a former nun who has a hard time getting along with her sister-in-law Peg Turnbull. But when someone from their local bridge club is murdered, they’ll have to put their bickering aside — maybe — and team up to solve this murder.
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The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
For fans of adventure, mystery, history, and Dan Brown. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is holding a gala for the opening of their new exhibit, Treasures of the Vatican. This is where archaeologist Tess Chaykin is witness to four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights violently storming in and stealing a device. Now Tess and FBI agent Sean Reilly must figure out the who, what, why by learning the hidden history of the crusading Knights.
News and Roundups
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Julia Donaldson ends James Patterson’s reign as UK libraries’ most borrowed author
Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
One of Netflix’s best crime dramas is not being renewed, according to creator
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