Mystery novels are full of professional detectives, whether they wear a police department badge or hang out their own shingle as a private investigator. But crime fiction is full of amateur sleuths as well: people whose usual profession doesn’t involve solving crimes, but get drawn into it for a variety of reasons: to clear someone’s name, to find out who harmed someone near and dear to them, or simply because they take a genuine interest in crime and detective work.
Margaret Winterbottom is an eighty-nine-year-old widow who’s called the neighborhood of Garnon Crescent home for her whole life. (Well, almost her whole life, but that’s something she won’t talk about.) Her memory isn’t what it once was; she knows that her friend and neighbor Barbara has told her something important, but she can’t remember just what it is. But then, Barbara is found dead, in what appears to be a murder. Margaret, with her grandson James, sets out to find out what happened. In the meantime, strange things begin happening in Margaret’s home, like objects seeming to move around by themselves. Some would say that Margaret’s memory is getting worse, but Margaret is convinced someone doesn’t want her to find out the truth of what happened to Barbara.
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Not much happens in Marchfield Square: a tiny residential neighborhood in London. That is, until a small-time criminal is murdered. Celeste van Duren, the landlady of Marchfield Square, takes matters into her own hands and hires a most unlikely Holmes and Watson: Audrey, the cleaner who works for her, and Lewis, a struggling crime writer. Lewis, not happy with work or life in general, doesn’t want anything to do with Audrey or the investigation, but Celeste has the last word. So Audrey and Lewis set to work, and soon they discover that almost everyone in Marchfield Square has some skeletons in their closets–maybe even in the literal sense?
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When Ruth-Ann Baker was a young girl, her best friend Beth was kidnapped from their small town and later found murdered. The likely suspect was notorious serial killer Ethan Oswald. Nineteen years later, history repeats itself when another young girl disappears from that same town. Ruth-Ann, now a bartender with an interest in true crime, begins her own investigation. She learns that while Oswald is now dead, he may not have acted alone. Her search leads her to three different women who may have had some connection to Beth, to the new missing girl, and maybe others as well.
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In 1953, Carmelite nun Nora Breen is concerned when her former novice and longtime pen pal Frieda suddenly stops writing to her. There is a line in one of Frieda’s letters that has convinced Nora that something terrible has happened. So Nora does something drastic: she asks to be released from her vows, and she heads to the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea, where she takes up lodging at the Gulls Nest boarding house. It is during her time there that one of the other residents is found dead under suspicious circumstances. And it’s clear that Nora is not the only person at Gulls Nest hiding a secret.
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Libby was seven years old when, on that January day in 1985, her life turned upside down for good. Her mother and sister were killed at the family farm in Missouri, and Libby’s testimony sent her fifteen-year-old brother Ben–known in town as an outsider and a misfit–to prison. The past is unearthed when a true-crime club, the Kill Club, reaches out to Libby. They are convinced that Ben was in fact innocent. This causes Libby to question everything she knew–or thought she knew–about the murder, and about her own family as well.
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Erin Roll is a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader. Her favorite genres to read are mystery, science fiction, and fantasy, and her TBR pile is likely to be visible on Google Maps. Before becoming an editor, Erin worked as a journalist and photographer, and she has won far too many awards from the New Jersey Press Association.Erin lives at the top floor of a haunted house in Montclair, NJ. She enjoys reading (of course), writing, hiking, kayaking, music, and video games.
