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should pay big bucks for a piece of land that’s the site of great love and tragedy, railroad magnate Frank Springer. Readers
Glen owns, Bigelow Junction, because a depending on one’s point of view, and will want to see more of the appealing
Vegas developer is going to build a casino Ann Cleeve’s “The Return,” set, as readers Maddie, whose next adventure is hinted at
on it and raise its value. Complications of her Inspector Jimmy Perez series will in the epilogue. (Mar.)
arise when Glen’s parole officer insists be pleased to discover, on the remote
that his stated intention to reopen the Shetland Islands. (Perez makes the Death of an Unsung Hero
motor lodge on the Bigelow Junction briefest of cameos.) The story is more Tessa Arlen. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p)
land be backed up by actual progress. Di mythological than procedural, drawing ISBN 978-1-250-10144-0
Filippo, best known for his science fiction, on the connection of the islands—and In Arlen’s satisfying fourth mystery
proves equally adept at crime fiction. Fans the protagonist—to the old Norse gods. set in early-20th-century England (after
of Ocean’s Eleven will find plenty to like. Perhaps the standout is Denise Mina’s 2017’s A Death by Any Other Name),
Agent: Richard Curtis, Richard Curtis “Nemo Me Impune Lacessit” (Latin for Clementine Talbot, the Countess of
Associates. (Mar.) “no one provokes me with impunity”). Montfort, embarks on a controversial
Focused on parenting, nature, and what is new venture in 1916—a hospital at her
This Is How It Ends beyond one’s control, this harrowing tale family’s Haversham Hall dedicated to
Eva Dolan. Bloomsbury, $27 (336p) ISBN 978- will leave readers feeling as gutted as the treating soldiers who have returned from
1-63557-052-6 day’s fishing catch. Other notable con- France with mental scars, overseen by
British crime writer Dolan (the Zigic tributors include Stuart MacBride and her loyal servant, Mrs. Jackson. The
and Ferreira series) delivers an intriguing Christopher Brookmyre. Fans of contem- phenomenon of shell shock is still not
standalone about a crime involving a porary Scottish crime fiction will be well widely accepted, and Clementine
London police official’s daughter and pleased. (Mar.) encounters resistance from those who
secret motives. Narrator and protagonist view the apparently fit men as cowards.
Ella Riordan, a police academy dropout Santa Fe Mourning: When one of their charges, Capt. Sir
and aspiring writer, meets the novel’s A Santa Fe Revival Mystery Evelyn Bray, who received numerous
second narrator, Molly Fader, a photogra- Amanda Allen. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) accolades for his bravery under fire, is
pher who documents protest movements, ISBN 978-1-68331-547-6 bludgeoned to death while working in
when a policeman bashes Ella during a Set in 1922, this auspicious series the kitchen garden, suspicion quickly
peaceful demonstration. The two, now launch from the pseudonymous Allen falls on another patient. Clementine and
friends united by their revolutionary (the Kate Haywood series, as Amanda Mrs. Jackson must solve the case before
spirit, join forces to protest the real estate Carmack) introduces Madeline “Maddie” the other patients suffer further psycho-
developers taking over Molly’s apartment Vaughn-Alwin, an artist and war widow logical damage as a result of the added
building in order to build more expensive who has turned her back on her wealthy stress. The surprising solution will
high-rise buildings while the dwindling New York family for the beauty and reward careful readers. The way Arlen
tenants put up with horrific conditions. freedom of Santa Fe, N.Mex. Soon after integrates the traumas of WWI into a
Ella, hoping to make the place a cause settling in, Maddie hires Juanita and golden age whodunit plot will please
célèbre to enhance her revolutionary cre- Tomas Anaya, a married couple, to help Charles Todd fans. Agent: Kevan Lyon,
dentials, throws a party there. Someone around her new house. When Tomas’s Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (Mar.)
from Ella’s past crashes the party and ends bloody body is
updead by Ella’s hand—in self-defense, found in an The Missing Hours
Ella claims to Molly. Molly believes Ella’s alley behind La Emma Kavanagh. Kensington, $26 (336p)
claim and helps her make it look like an Fonda, the city’s ISBN 978-1-4967-1371-1
accident. Is Ella who she says she is, or are foremost hotel, The remote borderland between
her real intentions nefarious? The novel is the police arrest England and Wales provides the atmo-
cleverly plotted; Dolan nicely ramps up the Anayas’ spheric setting for this intricately plotted
suspense on the way to its shocking rebellious crime novel from British author
ending. (Mar.) 14-year-old son, Kavanagh (Falling). Det. Constable Leah
Eddie, for his Mackay investigates when Selena Cole
Bloody Scotland father’s murder. goes missing from a playground, leaving
Edited by James Crawford. Pegasus Crime, Convinced of her children behind. Hours later, Selena
$25.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-68177-654-5 Eddie’s innocence, Maddie turns amateur reappears with no memory of what hap-
The dozen entries in this fine anthology sleuth to prove it. Maddie’s detecting pened to her and blood on her sweater.
of original crime stories edited by takes her all over town, from poor neigh- Meanwhile, Det. Sgt. Finn Hale, Leah’s
Crawford (Fallen Glory) all feature actual borhoods to posh nightclubs and even the brother, looks into the murder of defense
Scottish landmarks, from castles to largely forgotten underground tunnels lawyer Dominic Lowell, whose body was
weaving mills. Highlights include Val linking plaza stores. Along the way, she found alongside a mountain road. As Lean
McDermid’s “Ancient and Modern,” a meets such real-life locals as Olive Rush, a and Finn pursue their respective cases, the
revenge tale set around a secret structure patron of Native American artists, and officers begin to wonder if they’re linked.

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