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Cathy Pickens Author Of True Crime Stories of the South Carolina Midlands

From Cathy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Storyteller True crime writer Lover of mysteries Reader Walker

Cathy's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Cathy Pickens Why Cathy loves this book

Martin Edwards, as a researcher and reader, knows Golden Age mystery fiction. With Rachel Savernake, he's created a worthy, strong, intriguing central character and given her a setting with arresting details and a solid puzzle to solve. Love how her mysterious past unfolds -- and how she takes all comers.

By Martin Edwards ,

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1 author picked Mortmain Hall as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020

ENGLAND, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London's Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose.

But Rachel Savernake is not one of the mourners. She hopes to save a life - the life of a man who is supposed to be cold in the grave. But then a suspicious death on the railway track spurs her on to investigate a sequence of baffling mysteries: a death in a…


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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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Cathy Pickens Author Of True Crime Stories of the South Carolina Midlands

From Cathy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Storyteller True crime writer Lover of mysteries Reader Walker

Cathy's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Cathy Pickens Why Cathy loves this book

This is the 3rd of 4 books (so far) featuring detective Harbinder Kaur. If you love a real puzzle of a mystery, multiple viewpoints with interesting characters, and good writing, start with the first in the series (Stranger Diaries, which won MWA's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2020) and enjoy your way through this exceptional series. Then give her Ruth Galloway series a try. Her crime novels are on my short list of go-to delights.

By Elly Griffiths ,

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1 author picked Bleeding Heart Yard as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES

A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police.

DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret. When she was at school, she and her friends were responsible for the death of a fellow pupil. Decades later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.

Her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and…


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