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Elizabeth Zelvin Author Of Death Will Help You Leave Him

From Elizabeth's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Elizabeth Zelvin Why Elizabeth loves this book

A place and time new to me with an appealing and original heroine. I not only learned a lot but wanted to know more. After reading the first book, I immediately got and read the whole series. Each one took me deeper into Singapore under the British, then the Japanese, then after the War as Su Lin's story unfolded as well as providing a fresh mystery and an expanded cast of characters. What I learned about the Japanese and the Chinese in Singapore and the Philippines led me to some fascinating mysteries in my own extended family.

By Ovidia Yu ,

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3 authors picked The Frangipani Tree Mystery as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth Su Lin, a local girl stepping in as governess for the Acting Governor of Singapore.

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl Su Lin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place.

But then another murder at the residence occurs and it…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Elizabeth Zelvin Author Of Death Will Help You Leave Him

From Elizabeth's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Elizabeth's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Elizabeth Zelvin Why Elizabeth loves this book

This is a witty police procedural, latest in a series that does New York City better than any crime fiction writer since Lawrence Block. The protagonists are a gay couple, one a detective on the cold case squad, the other a forensic artist. Both have traumatic pasts to overcome. The cases are gruesome, but the relationship is touchingly romantic. Thanks to the writing, the read is loads of fun, but as a New Yorker, what I loved most of all was immersion in a New York that is real as real can be in all its savor and liveliness and glitter and joy as well as its grit and stink and shadows and despair.

By C.S. Poe ,

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1 author picked Hudson River Homicides as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The Cold Case Squad has a problem: Someone won’t stop taunting Detective Everett Larkin. He’s been able to apprehend some of the worst criminals to ever stalk the streets of New York City, thanks in great part to forensic artist and boyfriend, Ira Doyle, but after their last case, events have taken a turn for the worse.A body recovered from the Hudson River bears a message addressed to Larkin and another token from Victorian mourning culture. As nineteenth-century hair jewelry leads Larkin deeper into the growing tangle of interconnected crimes, it becomes evident that solving these mysteries will come at…


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