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This list of titles fulfill the UBN 2024 category of a police or detective story.
Updated October 30, 2024
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BLACKWATER FALLS
KHAN, AUSMA ZEHANAT
Paper Book
From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. "A gripping and compulsive mystery, but much more than that: an exploration of faith, prejudice and fear of...
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The blue bar
Biswas, Damyanti
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On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession. After years of dancing in Mumbai's bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when...
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BURNING
CASTILLO, LINDA
Paper Book
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight...
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Celine : a novel
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The River and The Dog Stars comes another "gorgeously wrought story--equal parts character study and mystery--a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye, to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer" (...
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Death at the Sign of the Rook
Atkinson, Kate.
Paper Book
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY 'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon...
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A death in Tokyo
Higashino, Keigo
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The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo HigashinoOn the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The...
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Fortune favours the dead
Spotswood, Stephen
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The hypnotist
Kepler, Lars
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HE WILL TRAP YOU IN A WORLD OF TERROR The groundbreaking first novel in the bestselling Joona Linna thriller series. A TRAUMATISED WITNESS Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the...
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The Ides of April
Davis, Lindsey.
Paper Book
Falco: The Next Generation--Flavia Albia has taken up her father's profession. Only, now Rome is a more dangerous, mercurial place than it was back in dear old dad's day . . . Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how...
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The kind worth saving : a novel
Swanson, Peter
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"The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private...
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Lavender House
Rosen, Lev AC
Paper Book
A "Best Of" Book From: Amazon * Buzzfeed * Rainbow Reading * Library Journal * CrimeReads * BookPage * Book Riot * Autostraddle A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.<...
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The murder at the vicarage : a Miss Marple mystery
Christie, Agatha
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A quiet English village A shocking murder An unlikely detective Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe. So when he's found dead in the vicarage study, there's no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful...
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The raging storm
Cleeves, Ann
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Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with the extraordinary third in the Two Rivers series. Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.
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Reykjavík
Ragnar Jónasson
Paper Book
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BESTSELLING THRILLER WRITER AND A PRIME MINISTER WRITE A MYSTERY TOGETHER? THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT . . . 'A beautifully constructed mystery by two super smart partners in crime' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'Nordic noir at its most...
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Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
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