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• The Widows of Malabar Hill

  Massey, Sujata,

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  Introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl Waits With Gun

  Stewart, Amy,

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  Living in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance Kopp is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the norm for early twentieth-century women.

• Darktown

  a Novel

  Mullen, Thomas

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  Hired resentfully into the Atlanta Police Department of 1948, war veterans Lucious Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers and are significantly limited in their ability to do their jobs before confronting a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ides of April

  Davis, Lindsey

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  Working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a fatal accident, an investigation that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Churchill's Secretary

  MacNeal, Susan Elia

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• The Hangman's Daughter

  [a Historical Novel]

  Pötzsch, Oliver

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  Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town.

• Lady in the Lake

  a Novel

  Lippman, Laura, 1959-

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  A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl.

• The Alice Network

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate,

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  In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Knew Too Much

  Quick, Amanda

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  Discovering the body of a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool at an exclusive California hotel, rookie reporter Irene Glasson investigates the victim's secret about an up-and-coming man and becomes drawn to a once-famous master…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crocodile on the Sandbank

  Peters, Elizabeth, 1927-2013

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  After her father's death, thirty-two-year-old Amelia Peabody eschews the role of Victorian spinster and travels to Egypt, where mysterious intruders, boorish archaeologists, and a disappearing two-thousand-year-old mummy test her sanity…Read moreRead more of this annotation