Mystery Book Discussion Group

First lie wins: a novel DB118733

Author: Elston, Ashley

Reading Time: 9 hours, 20 minutes

Read by: Saskia Maarleveld

Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, Human Relations

“The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes-especially after what happened last time. Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to-her real identity-just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher-but then, Evie has always liked a challenge…” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

New York : Penguin Random House, [2024]

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The perfect divorce DB129724

Author: Rose, Jeneva

Reading Time: 9 hours, 31 minutes

Read by: Brittany Pressley, Andi Arndt, J. S. Arquin, Adam Lazarre-White, Andrew Eiden, Mozhan Navabi

Subjects: Bestsellers, Mystery and Detective Stories, Suspense Fiction, Legal Fiction, Psychological Fiction

“It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted…or is it? After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth. But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.

Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2025.

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The hiding place: a Mercy Carr mystery DB108064

Series: Mercy and Elvis mysteries; Munier, Paula Mercy and Elvis mysteries

Order in Series: 03

Author: Munier, Paula

Reading Time: 11 hours, 26 minutes

Read by: Kathleen McInerney

Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories

Mercy and her bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are called to the deathbed of her grandfather’s deputy, who hands them a cold case that has haunted him. At the same time, the man who murdered her grandfather has escaped prison. Mercy must forgive Vermont Game Warden Troy Warner in order to enlist his help to save her grandmother. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

New York : Macmillan Audio, 2021.

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Tell me who you are: a novel DB121783

“The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient”– OCLC. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

[S.l.] : Macmillan, 2024.

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6586522?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRlbGwlMkJtZSUyQndobyUyQnlvdSUyQmFyZSUyNTNBJTJCYSUyQm5vdmVsJTJC

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Fifty fifty DB130811

Series: Eddie Flynn

Order in Series: 05

Author: Cavanagh, Steve

Reading Time: 11 hours, 47 minutes

Read by: Adam Sims

Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories

“Alexandra Avellino has just found her father’s mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father’s mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom. Both women are to go on trial at the same time. A joint trial in front of one jury. But one of these women is lying. One of them is a murderer. Sitting in a jail cell, about to go on trial with her sister for murder, you might think that this is the last place she expected to be. You’d be wrong.” — Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

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Marti MacAlister DB84208

Series: Marti MacAlister mystery

Order in Series: 01, 02, 03

Author: Bland, Eleanor Taylor

Reading Time: 23 hours, 17 minutes

Read by: Madelyn Buzzard

Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories

The first three mysteries, written between 1992 and 1994, in the series featuring the only black female police detective in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois. Includes Dead Time, Slow Burn, and Gone Quiet, in which a colleague’s elderly stepfather is suffocated in his sleep. Some violence and some strong language. 1994.

New York, New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1992.New York, New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1994.New York, New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

The perfect marriage DB113854

Author: Rose, Jeneva

Reading Time: 8 hours, 54 minutes

Read by: Neil Hellegers, Teri Schnaubelt

Subject: Suspense Fiction

“Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At thirty-three years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home. Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress. But is Adam guilty or is he innocent?” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

[Holland] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020.

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

The Christmas murder game DB124994

Author: Benedict, Alexandra

Reading Time: 9 hours, 7 minutes

Read by: Ana Clements

Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories, Holidays, Women

“The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages’ grand family home. This year’s prize is to die for–deeds to the house itself–but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn’t been back to Endgame since her mother died twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game’s riddles will give her the keys not only to Endgame but to its darkest secrets, including the identity of her mother’s murderer. Now, Lily must compete with her estranged cousins for the twelve days of Christmas. the snow is thick, the phone lines are down, and no one is getting in or out. Lily will have to keep her wits about her, because not everyone is playing fair, and there’s no telling how many will die before the winner is declared” — Page 4 of cover. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Naperville, Illinois : Dreamscape Media, [2022]

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

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Dial A for aunties DB103081

Author: Sutanto, Jesse Q.

Reading Time: 10 hours, 24 minutes

Read by: Risa Mei

Subject: Human Relations

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her mother calls for her meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, the dead body is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to a wedding being planned by Meddy and her family. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

[New York] : Penguin Audio, 2021.

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

The only one left: a novel DB116090

Author: Sager, Riley

Reading Time: 12 hours, 36 minutes

Read by: Dawn Harvey, Christine Lakin

Subjects: Bestsellers, Suspense Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Occult and Horror Fiction

At seventeen, Lenora Hope hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife. Took her mother’s happy life. It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said. But she’s the only one not dead. As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.

New York : Books on Tape, 2023.

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Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].