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Murder, She Wrote

Welcome to Central Coast Library's reader's advisory themed month: female accidental sleuths!
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Murder and Mendelssohn

Phryne Fisher is 1920's Melbourne's most elegant, determined and outspoken sleuth, on her 20th and most perplexing mystery to date. In this adventure, our unflappable heroine is called upon by Detective Inspector Jack Robinson to aid him in uncovering the flamboyant murderer of a much-disliked orchestral conductor. Or is it  murderers ?

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Everything began with the death of Isaiah, a child terrified of heights mysteriously fallen from a roof.

My Favourite Thing is Monsters, v1

In the turbulent political times of late '60s Chicago,  My Favorite Thing Is Monsters  is the fictional diary of Karen Reyes, a 10-year-old girl in love with B-movie horror and trashy pulp monster magazines iconography.

Death comes as Epiphany

Come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar excited to learn under the convent's fabled abbess, Heloise.

Silent in the Grave

"LET THE WICKED BE ASHAMED, AND LET THEM BE SILENT IN THE GRAVE."  This ominous missive is the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer on the eve of his murder.

Girl waits with gun

In the summer of 1914 in rural New Jersey, the lives of Constance Kopp and her sisters take a dramatic turn. Uncommonly tall, disinterested in domestic affairs and shut away from the world by a closely-held family secret, she is hardly a woman to be trifled with until belligerent silk factory owner Henry Kaufman arrives on the scene.

The Boy in the Suitcase

When Nina Borg, Red Cross nurse, bleeding heart and refugee aid worker, gets a frantic call from estranged friend Karin begging her to pick up a package in one of the lockers at Copenhagen train station, she has no idea of the dangerous underworld she's about to be pulled into.

The Good Daughter

Decades after a shattering attack on her family that left her mother dead and her sister traumatised, New York lawyer Charlotte Quinn returns to her hometown of Pikeville to confront her past demons and reconnect with her father, Rusty.

Sharp Objects

Immediately after being discharged from psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker is faced with a troubling assignment: she is to return to her tiny hometown in the wake of the murders of two preteen girls.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

An elderly Sherlock Holmes, retired and engaged in the study of bees, meets a youthful half-American student of theology, one Mary Russell.