Sherwood Adult Winter Reading Challenge #2: MysteriesLike this list

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• The Family Chao

  a Novel

  Chang, Lan Samantha,

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maid

  a Novel

  Prose, Nita

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  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.

• One Step Too Far

  a Novel

  Gardner, Lisa,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Game of Cones

  Collette, Abby,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Aosawa Murders

  Onda, Riku, 1964-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Happened to the Bennetts

  Scottoline, Lisa,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Know Tough

  Cranor, Eli, 1988-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Couple

  Hendricks, Greer,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arsenic With Austen

  Hyde, Katherine Bolger,

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  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.

• Run, Rose, Run

  a Novel

  Parton, Dolly,

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  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.

• The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

  Nesbø, Jo, 1960-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reckless Girls

  Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-

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  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.

• The American Agent

  a Maisie Dobbs Novel

  Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-

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  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.

• The Verifiers

  Pek, Jane,

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  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.

• Hot and Sour Suspects

  Chien, Vivien,

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  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.

• This Might Hurt

  Wrobel, Stephanie,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Then There Were None

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  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.

• The Dry

  Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth),

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  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.

• The Match

  Coben, Harlan, 1962-

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  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.