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Mystery Fiction Internet Sites for Mystery Readers Mystery Collection Guide Cozy Mystery List Fiction http://www.cozy-mystery.com Here’s where you can find mystery series listed in order and ___________________________ more about the authors, books, and the genre. Your Guide to the Mystery Genre CrimeSpace http://crimespace.ning.com/ A place for readers and writers to meet and discuss all things mystery. InkSpot http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/ A blog with posts by authors published by Midnight Ink press. Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com A site featuring mystery writers cooking up crime & recipes. Mystery Writers of America http://www.mysterywriters.org/ Not just for writers, this site has news about upcoming titles and info about authors. Masterpiece Mystery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mystery/ index.html Learn more about mysteries adapted from some favorite authors. Coming in 2016 are Arthur & George and the return of Sherlock. The Poisoned Martini http://thepoisonedmartini.com A blog about mysteries, writing, and more. Visit the Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville Stop, You’re Killing Me! or search the online catalog at: http://stopyourekillingme.com www.CLDandJ.org A resource for all things mystery with books, authors, awards, and more. 5110 Jamesville Road DeWitt, NY 13078 315-446-3578 www.CLDandJ.org 4/20 BJA Recent Titles Mysteries on Film The CLD&J offers a selection of classic and current murder mystery NEW in 2020... films. Look for the Mystery sticker on the spine of DVDs in our Kelly, Diane. collection. Looking for other mystery titles on DVD? Ask us to reserve a copy for you. Dead in the Doorway House flipper Whitney Whitaker scores a perfect piece of real estate in downtown FEATURE FILMS TV SERIES Nashville. The only unexpected problem is the dead body at the bottom of the The Oxford Murders (2010) Poirot stairs inside. Whitney sets out to learn Elijah Wood stars as a David Suchet stars as the the truth about how a corpse ended up in young graduate stu- Belgium sleuth in this the locked, unoccupied house. dent at Oxford. Arthur acclaimed mystery series. Seldom (John Hurt) is The CLD&J has the complete series Mina, Denise. a prestigious professor available for checkout. Conviction of logic who, along with Bored housewife anna McDonald listens Martin (Wood) discover Midsomer Murders to a true crime podcast and realizes that the body of a murdered Veteran DCI Tom Barnaby and his she knows one of the victims and is con- woman. The killer has young sergeant investigate murders vinced that she knows what really hap- just begun and announces each vic- in the regional British commu- pened. When an unexpected visitor ar- tim with mathematical symbols that nity of Midsomer. rives, Anna’s life is upended and the past must be decoded by professor and she tried to leave behind comes back student. Based on the book by Prime Suspect with a vengeance. Guillermo Martinez. Revisit this gritty and compel- Mosley, Walter. ling police procedural series Dial M for Murder (1955) starring Helen Mirren. Trouble is What I Do In this Alferd Hitchcock P.I. Leonid McGill is back, and in his sixth case, McGill is tasked with a film, starring Grace Endeavour seemingly simple favor: deliver a letter. But an heiress’ powerful father will Kelly, Ray Milland, and In this 2012 follow-up to the go to any length to bury the letter’s contents and anyone who knows the Robert Cummings, a popular Inspector Morse secret it contains. husband plots his (1987—2000) and Lewis se- Swanson, Peter. wife’s murder, but the ries, a young Constable Morse Eight Perfect Murders plot goes awry when a begins his career in Oxford- Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a phone number is di- shire. list of what he deemed the most ingenious murders in fiction that would be aled. considered impossible to solve in the real world. Now, the FBI are knocking C.B. Strike: the Series on his door because a very real killer is using his list to commit eight perfect Murder is Easy (1981) A war veteran turned private murders. Luke Williams (Bill Bixby) meets investigator, Cormoran Lavinia Fullerton (Helen Hayes) on a Strike unravels three com- COMING SOON! train to London. Lavinia is on her plex cases. Based on the Wolfe, Gene. way to reveal the identity of a mur- books by Robert Galbraith Interlibrary Loan derer to Scotland Yard, but is killed (aka J.K. Rowling). In the late Gene Wolfe’s last novel, E. A. Smithe is a before she gets there. Luke will trav- borrowed person (the clone of fictious mystery writer) el to the English village where a who sits on a library shelf until he can be checked out or spate of murders have occurred. If loaned to other branches. When Smithe is loaned to no one suspects you, murder is another library, he meets a girl who wants to save her easy. Adapted from the Agatha mother, a father who may not be dead, and another clone Christie novel. of himself who is very much dead. This sequel to Wolfe’s 2 A Borrowed Man is due out at the end of June 2020. 15 Story Anthologies Recommended Reads Look for these anthologies shelved at the end of our Cleeves, Ann. Mystery collection in the lower level of the Library. The Long Call The author of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland Island series intro- Various. duces a new mystery series featuring Detective Matthew Venn. The Best American Mystery Stories of the Set in North Devon, Venn is called in on a case involving the body 19th Century of a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 813.087 BEST Elliott, Lauren. Explore the earliest examples of mystery and suspense Prologue to Murder fiction from such illustrious American authors as Na- Addie Greybourne may be dating the police chief, but that doesn’t thaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack stop a mysterious gossip columnist from accusing her of having London, Stephen Crane, and more. murdered a local librarian. It’s up to Addie to find out whodunnit Various. and what connection the librarian’s death may have to a local leg- Manhattan Mayhem end of a pirate’s buried treasure. Mystery Writers of America, 2015. 813.087 MYS James, Miranda. For the 70th Anniversary of the MWA, members of File M for Murder the MWA turn their pens to Manhattan. “From Wall Street and Librarian Charlie Harris is drawn into investigating the murder of a Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem, and beyond, the playwright when his daughter, Laura, becomes the prime suspect. streets and skyscrapers are brimming with crimes and misde- Along with his feline sidekick, Diesel, Charlie will follow a trail of meanors. Featuring such authors as: Lee Child, Jeffrey love letters, bitter enemies, and library research to unmask the Deaver, Margaret Maron, T. Jefferson Parker and S.J. Rozan. killer. 3rd in the series. Edited (and featuring a story) by Mary Higgins Clark. Jones, J. Sydney. Various. The Keeper of Hands USA NOIR In Vienna 1901, lawyer Karl Werthen takes on two cases, the Akashic Books, 2013 murder of a nineteen year-old prostitute and a vicious assault on 810.8 BLO a playwright. The 4th book in the Werthen and Gross Viennese Collecting the best stories from the Akashic Noir series, this Mysteries. anthology features stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Con- nelly, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child and more. Other city-themed Malliet, G.M. titles in Akashic’s line of books include, Boston Noir, Lone Star Wicked Autumn Noir, Philadelphia Noir, and even foreign cities like Copenha- In a quaint English village, ex-MI5 agent Max Tudor hopes to live gen Noir and Moscow Noir. an idyllic life. But his newfound serenity is shattered when an Various. unpopular president of the Women’s Institute turns up dead at a The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties village fair. Now, Max becomes embroiled in the investigation Whodunnits which stirs memories he’d rather not revisit. Carroll & Graf, 2004. 813.087 ASH Sundtøl, Vidar. Presenting 23 stories set in the euphoric Roaring Twenties by The Land of Dreams authors past and present. The 1st in the Minnesota trilogy by critically acclaimed Norwegian crime author Sundstøl. An FBI agent and Norwegian detective Various. team up to solve the murder of a tourist “brutally murdered near a Death Dines at 8:30 stone cross on the shores of Lake Superior.” Berkley Prime Crime, 2001. 813.087 DEA 16 stories of crime and cuisine (with recipes!), featuring mysteries 14 by Claudia Bishop, Tamar Myers, and more. 3 Recommended eBook Mysteries Nonfiction Sadly, there isn’t room on the Library’s physical shelves for every About the Mystery Genre mystery. With so many new cozy mystery series, titles that have gone out of print, and other sundry reasons, readers may not find a particu- Edwards, Martin. lar mystery they are looking for. The Golden Age of Murder 823.087 EDW Bruen, Ken. Take a look at the detective stories of the 1920s and 1930s Purgatory and the “golden age” authors who helped craft the mystery The 10th book in the popular Jack Taylor series finds the for- genre and continue to inspire today’s crime fiction. mer cop recovering from past physical and mental wounds. In the midst of this recovery, Taylor starts receiving notes from a James, P.D. vigilante killer, C33, who is targeting the scum of Galway. Talking About Detective Fiction Meanwhile, a tech billionaire is buying up large sections of Gal- 823.8 JAM way with claims of a brighter future for the Irish city.
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