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August 13, 2020 by mcplteam

Whodunit? Find out in these recent mysteries!

Blood Oath: A Novel

Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the courtroom to do what she does best. As the seemingly disparate cases of her client, adversary, and friend start to intertwine, Alex finds herself in uncharted territory within Manhattan’s Rockefeller University, a premier research institute, hospital, and cornerstone of higher learning. But not even the greatest minds in the city can help her when unearthed secrets begin to collide in dangerous ways

Girls Like Us

Worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father?

Half Moon Bay

Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a child. No sooner has Clay begun to investigate than he receives a second call–this one from a local businessman, wondering if the body could belong to his sister. She went missing fifty years ago, the man says. Or at least I think she did. It’s a little complicated. And things only get stranger from there. Clay’s relentless search for answers will unearth a history of violence and secrets, revolution and betrayal. Because in thistown, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. It’s very much alive. And it can kill

Lakewood: a Novel

An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away.The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena Johnson is told, will change the world—but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family.

The Long Call

When Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again from his estranged father’s funeral, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back into the people and places of his past, and as deadly secrets are revealed, his new life is forced into a collision with the world he thought he’d left behind.

A Murderous Relation

Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Worse yet, London is gripped by hysteria in the autumn of 1888, terrorized by what would become the most notorious and elusive serial killer in history, Jack the Ripper–and Lady Wellie suspects Prince Albert Victor may be responsible.

Trouble Is What I Do

Phillip “Catfish” Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs private investigator Leonid’s help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist.But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past.

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