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Renowned Sherlockian, Les Klinger discusses Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, with Nicholas Meyer, his sixth”edit” of a heretofore undiscovered manuscript by John H. Watson M.D. The stakes are always high, but especially so in tracking down the Zimmerman telegram. Should it not be intercepted the consequences could be nothing less than Great Britain’s loss in the War to End All Wars

 

Nicholas Meyer will be touring coast to coast—from Los Angeles to Boston, New York City, Washington D.C. and points in between—to talk about Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell.

Check here to see if Nicholas Meyer is coming to a city near you!

 

 

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Everyone needs more Will Trent in their lives. In This Is Why We Lied, Karin Slaughter’s 12th Will Trent mystery, Will and his bride Sara Linton are off on their honeymoon at the off-the-grid McAlpine Lodge. It’s an idyllic setting—until the screams start when the manager of the lodge is brutally murdered

 

 

 

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Tom Straw’s The Accidental Joe: The Top Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef, blends murder, mirth, high-stakes espionage, gastronomic highs and lows and killer locales for an appetizing thriller that launches a new series featuring peripatetic bad boy chef Sebastian Pike and his CIA handler Cammie Nova. Tasty, indeed

 

 

 

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Fans of Don Winslow are—understandably—in denial that City in Ruins is his final crime fiction novel. But if it’s true, if Don has put away the keyboard to devote himself to political activism, City in Ruins, the third and final installment of his Danny Ryan trilogy, just might prove that he saved the best for last. And to also leave the audience wanting more…

 

 

 

 

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In Past Lying, the seventh novel in Val McDermid’s series featuring Karen Pirie, the action—or restriction thereof—is in and about Edinburgh during lockdown in Spring 2020, as Karen and her team investigate whether or not a partial manuscript found in the papers of a recently deceased crime fiction writer is a roadmap to the disappearance of college student Lara Hardie the previous year

 

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Crime fiction fans rejoice: with The Spy Coast, Tess Gerritsen launches a new series featuring retired CIA Maggie Bird and her fellow former intelligence officers, all of whom now reside in Purity, Maine. And, while members of the Martini Club—as the ex-spooks call themselves—may be retired from active duty, their combined skills are formidable. And they’ll need them when the past comes calling in the form of the corpse of a young woman on Maggie’s doorstep

 

 

 

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In The Last Applicant, Rebecca Hanover’s debut adult thriller, a parent desperate to secure her son’s admission to an exclusive Manhattan private school, in Rebecca’s words, “goes there” and stalks the school’s admissions director. To tell you anymore would spoil any one of the many twists and turns the story takes

 

 

 

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The stakes couldn’t be higher for Junie Lagarde, the protagonist in The Beautiful Risk, Lynn Hightower’s new thriller. Her dog Leo—who, as Junie’s hearing dog, is much more than a pet—survived the plane crash in the French Alps that killed her husband. Nothing will stop Junie from finding Leo and looking into the plane crash … but not everyone wants Junie to succeed. In fact, not everyone wants Junie to survive

 

 

 

 

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In a case of Herculean wordsmithing, Denise Mina is scheduled to publish two novels on August 1, 2023: The Second Murderer, which continues the story of Raymond Chandler’s immortal Philip Marlowe; and Three Fires, the story of the late 15th century Florentine Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola—he of the original Bonfire of the Vanities—that has resonance in the culture wars of today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sheriff Titus Crown, the protagonist in All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby’s recently published thriller, is not a man to be trifled with. He’s a man who, when he ran and—surprising himself, won—the election for sheriff “had made a choice to live in a no-man’s-land between people who believed in him, people who hated him because of his skin color, and people who believed he was a traitor to his race.” As tough as he is, though, nothing—even his experience as an FBI agent—could have prepared him for the evil he uncovered

 

 

 

 

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