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• Missing White Woman

  Garrett, Kellye, 1978-

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  Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything for their romantic getaway weekend in New York City, but when she comes downstairs on the final morning of their trip, there's a stranger lying dead in the foyer and Ty is nowhere to be found. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arsenic and Adobo

  Manansala, Mia P.,

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  When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, she's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love (and judgment). But when a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Razorblade Tears

  Cosby, S. A.,

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  Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's Elementary

  Bryant, Elise,

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  Mavis Miller has a lot on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she finds herself in charge of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead of Winter

  Jones, Stephen Mack,

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  Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican Town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  Vera Wong is a lonely lady of a certain age who lives above her once thriving, now forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. She likes nothing more than a good cup of Wulong and extensive, loving detective work on the Internet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Glory Be

  Arceneaux, Danielle,

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  It’s a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mango, Mambo, and Murder

  Reyes, Raquel V.,

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  Food anthropologist Miriam moves from New York to Miami, putting her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language TV…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under Color of Law

  Clark, Aaron Philip,

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  Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against the Currant

  Matthews, Olivia,

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  Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her roots, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trouble in Queenstown

  Pitts, Delia, 1950-

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  Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now she's back in Queenstown, New Jersey, her childhood home, in search of solace and recovery. As a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As the Wicked Watch

  Hall, Tamron,

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  Crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago. She is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Armed with a master's degree in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silent City

  Segura, Alex, 1980-

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  Pete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil in a Blue Dress

  Mosley, Walter,

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  Easy Rawlins, a tough-as-nails black WWII veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he's wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Line

  Lyerly, Scott,

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  The new production at Ellie Marlowe’s community theater could save her from financial ruin, but her overbearing lead, Reginald Thornton IV, is determined to antagonize every cast member. Nervous and with her Tourette’s syndrome flaring, Ellie is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death by Dumpling

  Chien, Vivien,

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  The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devotion of Suspect X

  Higashino, Keigo, 1958-

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  Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter, the situation quickly escalates into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen of Bones

  Dovalpage, Teresa, 1966-

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  Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Song Dog

  McClure, James, 1939-2006,

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  The year is 1962. Young South African police lieutenant Tromp Kramer has been ordered up to a small, dusty town in northern Zululand, to investigate the "hero's death" of the town's chief detective, Maaties Kritzinger, another Afrikaner maverick,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Widows of Malabar Hill

  Massey, Sujata,

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  Inspired by the real first female lawyer in India. Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from…Read moreRead more of this annotation