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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].  

    The NLS annotation follows:   The last one at the wedding: a novel DB124569 Author: Rekulak, Jason Reading Time: 11 hours, 17 minutes Read by: John Pirhalla Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Family   “From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father trying to save his daughter from a life-altering decision that will put everything he loves on the line. Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things right. He arrives to find that the wedding is at a private estate-very secluded, very luxurious, very much out of his league. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she’s marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it’s difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn’t seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Frank needs to know more about this family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever. An edge-of-your-seat thriller that delves deep into the heart of one family, The Last One at the Wedding is a work of brilliant suspense from a true modern master”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   New York : Macmillan, 2024.   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6248075?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQmxhc3QlMkJvbmUlMkJhdCUyQnRoZSUyQndlZGRpbmc   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].  

The NLS annotation follows: Shamed: a Kate Burkholder novel DB95613 Author: Castillo, Linda Reading Time: 9 hours, 15 minutes Read by: Kathleen McInerney Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories The peaceful town of Painters Mill is shattered when an Amish grandmother is brutally murdered on an abandoned farm. When Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on the scene, she learns that the woman’s seven-year-old granddaughter is gone, abducted in plain sight. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. New York : Macmillan Audio, 2019. This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2842803?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVNoYW1lZCUyNTNBJTJCYSUyQkthdGUlMkJCdXJraG9sZGVyJTJCbm92ZWwlMkI 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 braille killer: an Alice Bergman novel DB124174 Author: Kuhnley, Daniel Reading Time: 10 hours, 44 minutes Read by: Daniel Kuhnley, TJ Spehar Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories, Disability, Women   “Blind at birth, Alice Bergman’s sight has been restored–but her childhood struggles and the assault she endured have never been forgotten. For the last ten years, she’s been secretly receiving letters from her attacker-letters written in Braille. Now a homicide detective, Alice is assigned a murder case. The victim? A blind girl. The scene is preternaturally clean, far more than can be explained in any rational way. Alice is able to relive the girl’s last moments-but she can’t see the girl’s killer. That doesn’t matter, though. Alice knows the killer is the same person who attacked her as a teen.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.   Albuquerque, NM : Drezhn Publishing LLC, 2019.   This book is not available on Bookshare.     Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].  

The NLS annotation follows:   A borrowing of bones DB92541 Author: Munier, Paula Reading Time: 12 hours, 0 minutes Read by: Kathleen McInerney Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories   Injured military policewoman Mercy Carr and her dead fiancé’s bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are sent home to the Vermont wilderness. When they discover an abandoned baby while hiking, the duo pairs with game warden Troy Warner and his search-and-rescue Newfoundland Susie Bear to investigate. Some violence. Commercial audiobook. 2018. [New York] : Macmillan Audio, 2018.   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5276455?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUElMkJib3Jyb3dpbmclMkJvZiUyQmJvbmVz   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].  

The NLS annotation follows:   A cup of holiday fear DB97199 Author: Alexander, Ellie Reading Time: 6 hours, 43 minutes Read by: Mare Trevathan Subjects: Holidays, Mystery and Detective Stories   When Ashland baker Jules Capshaw invites her overworked staff from Torte to celebrate the holidays at the Winchester Inn’s Dickens feast, one of the guests ends up dead. Now they must figure out who’s guilty of murder. Includes recipes. 2019. New York, NY : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2019.   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5751039?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPUElMkJjdXAlMkJvZiUyQmhvbGlkYXklMkJmZWFyJTJC   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 truth about the Devlins DB120098 Author: Scottoline, Lisa Reading Time: 9 hours, 43 minutes Read by: Edoardo Ballerini, Lisa Scottoline Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories   “TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin. TJ plunges into the investigation, seizing the chance to prove his worth and save his brother. But in no time, TJ and John find themselves entangled in a lethal web of deception and murder. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. [New York] : Penguin Random House, [2024]   This book can be found on Bookshare at the following link:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5943381?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPXRoZSUyQnRydXRoJTJCYWJvdXQlMkJ0aGUlMkJkZXZsaW5z   Shelly Kane is the facilitator of the Mystery Book Discussion Group. Shelly can be contacted by email at [email protected].