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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] Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6463922?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUZpcnN0JTJCbGllJTJCd2lucw

BARD annotation   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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6518895?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQnBlcmZlY3QlMkJkaXZvcmNl

BARD annotation   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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6892942?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQmhpZGluZyUyQnBsYWNl

BARD annotation Tell me who you are: a novel DB121783 Author: Luna, Louisa Reading Time: 10 hours, 49 minutes Read by: Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Megan Tusing, Robb Moreira Subjects: Psychological Fiction, Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories “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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6586522?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRlbGwlMkJtZSUyQndobyUyQnlvdSUyQmFyZSUyNTNBJTJCYSUyQm5vdmVsJTJC

BARD annotation 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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6842067?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUZpZnR5JTJCZmlmdHk   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

BARD annotation   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.   Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/85126?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPURlYWQlMkJ0aW1l   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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6309347?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQnBlcmZlY3QlMkJtYXJyaWFnZQ   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] Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6322340?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQkNocmlzdG1hcyUyQm11cmRlciUyQmdhbWUlMkI Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

Bard Annotation 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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4574299?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPURpYWwlMkJBJTJCZm9yJTJCYXVudGllcyUyQg   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

BARD annotation 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. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6738923?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQm9ubHklMkJvbmUlMkJsZWZ0JTI1M0ElMkJhJTJCbm92ZWw   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

BARD annotation Blind search: a Mercy and Elvis mystery DB97170 Series: Mercy and Elvis mystery Order in Series: book 2 Author: Munier, Paula Reading Time: 12 hours, 11 minutes Read by: Kathleen McInerney Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories Lost in the woods, nine-year-old Henry sees something terrible–but his autism keeps him silent. When a young woman is found shot through the heart with a fatal arrow, Mercy and canine Elvis team up with their crime-solving friends to find the killer–before the killer finds Henry. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. New York : Macmillan, 2019. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4520040?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUJsaW5kJTJCc2VhcmNoJTI1M0ElMkJhJTJCTWVyY3klMkJhbmQlMkJFbHZpcyUyQm15c3Rlcnk Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

NLS annotation Parents weekend: a novel DB129263 Author: Finlay, Alex Reading Time: 7 hours, 28 minutes Read by: Pressley, Brittany Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, School Fiction   “In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids–five residents of Campisi Hall–never show up at dinner. At first, everyone thinks that they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella–The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them–come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within?”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   New York : Macmillan, 2025. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6581215?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVBhcmVudHMlMkJ3ZWVrZW5kJTI1M0ElMkJhJTJCbm92ZWwlMkI   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

NLS annotation I know who you are DB94880 Author: Feeney, Alice Reading Time: 10 hours, 21 minutes Read by: Stephanie Racine Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories, Suspense Fiction   When actress Aimee Sinclair comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s hiding something–and they’re right. Aimee has a secret she’s never shared, yet she suspects that someone knows. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.   [New York, NY] : Macmillan Audio, 2019. Bookshare This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/3582809?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUFsaWNlJTJCRmVlbmV5

The NLS annotation follows:   Lies he told me: she’s in love–with a liar DB124519 Authors: Patterson, James, Ellis, David Reading Time: 8 hours, 8 minutes Read by: Stephanie Németh-Parker, Corey Carthew Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories, Suspense Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Women   “An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband’s secret life, and it might cost them all their lives.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   [Ashland, Oregon] : Hachette Book Group, [2024]   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6191775?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUxpZXMlMkJoZSUyQnRvbGQlMkJtZQ   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].

The NLS annotation follows:   The note DB126523 Author: Burke, Alafair Reading Time: 9 hours, 35 minutes Read by: Catherine Ho Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories   “A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn’t call her the Little Sheriff for nothing. But even good girls have secrets. And regrets. When it comes to her friendship with Lauren and Kelsey, she’s had her fair share of both. Their bond–forged when May was just twelve years old–has withstood a tragic accident, individual scandals, heartbreak and loss. Now the three friends have reunited for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun in the Hamptons. But a chance encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes horribly awry. When she finds herself at the center of an urgent police investigation, May begins to wonder whether Lauren and Kelsey are keeping secrets from her, testing the limits of her loyalty to lifelong friends. What had they gone and done? A propulsive thriller that explores of-the-moment social issues, The Note is a page-turner of the highest order from one of our greatest contemporary suspense writers.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   New York : Penguin Random House, 2025.   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6362576?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQm5vdGU   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].