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Sherwood Adult Winter Reading Challenge #2: Mysteries

Winter is the perfect time to cozy up with a good book. We invite you to participate in the Sherwood Public Library Adult Winter Reading Challenge to expand your reading life and explore new voices, genres, and cultures. Find out more at www.sherwoodoregon.gov/library. #SherwoodLibrary #WinterReading

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  • The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
  • A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery.
    Book, 2022New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]
  • Frankie Elkin learns of a young man who has gone missing in a national forest. Law enforcement has abandoned the search, but a crew of people led by the young man's father are still looking. Sensing a father's desperation, Frankie agrees to…
    Book, 2022[New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
  • Bronwyn Crewse is delighted that Crewse Creamery, the ice cream shop her family has owned for decades, is restored to its former glory, but when a big city developer comes to town intent on building a mall, a killer with a frozen heart takes him…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired…
    Book, 2020London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2020.
  • Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own…
    Book, 2022New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
  • The born-again Christian head coach of small-town Arkansas high school football team feels a divine calling to save his star running back, Billy Lowe, whose dangerous aggression on the field stems from anger about his troubled home life. When…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2022]
  • A maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, Avery agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marisas cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course because the biggestand most…
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.
  • Emily Cavanaugh discovers that her aunt might have been murdered over real estate and notices a similarity in the situation while reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.
    Book, 2016New York : Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, 2016.
  • On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but its also where the darkness shes fled might find herand destroy her.
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
  • A collection of short stories by a master of mystery and suspense includes tales about a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father contemplating vengeance after a pandemic brings about the collapse of…
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
  • When they arrive at Meroe Island, a remote island paradise in the South Pacific despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism and murder, six people find their dream vacation turning into a nightmare when history starts repeating itself.
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.
  • Coordinating an effort between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2019.
  • Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit.
    Book, 2022New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
  • When a speed-dating contest at Ho-Lee Noodle House results in the murder of a participant, Lana Lee, piecing together the events of that night, delves into the past of this man who has too many scorned lovers and mistreated colleagues to count.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2022.
  • When she receives an email from Wisewood, an off-the-grid facility where her sister is learning to become her Maximized Self, threatening to expose her darkest secret, Natalie heads North to come clean and soon discovers that Wisewood wont let…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022.
  • A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution, set to a sinister nursery rhyme.
    Book, 2011New York : Harper, [2011]
  • Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
    Book, 2017New York : Flatiron Books, 2017.
  • When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after an epic fall from grace, Wilde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
    Book, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.