Summary: A collection of the twenty best mystery short stories of 2022 as selected by Sara Paretsky.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Karp, Marshall

Summary: Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Only it's not snow. It's cocaine. Four thousand pounds of it. Uncut. Blanketing meadows and treetops. Knocking birds from the sky, dropping carriage horses to the pavement, and cutting a swath of death through the thousands of unsuspecting joggers, cyclists, and picnickers enjoying a summer afternoon in Central Park. So begins the war between...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Coleman, Reed Farrel

Summary: Nick Ryan is the mayor's private cop, the fixer, with conflicted loyalties and a divided soul. But what happens when the man who knows all the city's secrets becomes a threat to both sides of the law?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Leon, Donna

Summary: While trying to unlock the secrets around the death of an undocumented immigrant, Commissario Brunetti discovers that a connection to own past might just be the key.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Detective Grace Makutsi has domestic troubles involving her husband's furniture store and a friend's troubled son. She must turn to Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani to set it right.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Kenda, Joe

Summary: In this first novel, rookie Detective Joe Kenda, mentored by his veteran partner Detective Lee Wilson, investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Patterson, James

Summary: French Kiss: "Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start—but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York."--jacket.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Rosenfelt, David

Summary: All through the house, five dogs are stirring, and so is lawyer Andy Carpenter, who must save the rescue organization's best volunteer, recently arrested for murder.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Keene, Carolyn

Summary: Attending the annual Greek mythology gala at Oracle College, Nancy, Bess, and George race to assist when a student falls from a balcony in the middle of her speech, an accident the sleuthing trio links to collegiate sabotage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test their limits, even as Detective Ulf Varg struggles to contain his feelings for colleague Anna Bengsdotter.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

Summary: Nate the Great: "When Nate gets an urgent call from Annie about a lost picture, he immediately plunges into his new and baffling case with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade. Nate, the boy detective who likes to work alone, solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat"--Publisher.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Bunce, Elizabeth C.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

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Cameron, Josephine

Summary: As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of the famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Johnson, Varian

Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Penny, Louise.

Summary: On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018

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