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Featured Mystery Author
Featured Mystery AuthorThis Month's Featured Author: Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter is the author of several international bestsellers. She enjoys hanging out in libraries, reading a good book and taking pictures of strange things and lying about what they really are. Scroll down the page for some of her favorite mysteries.
At first, I thought the conceit was too much to carry a full-length book. This is a lesson in never underestimating an author as talented as the woman who brought us Slammerkin.
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Garnethill (Garnethill Series #1)
The first in a trilogy about a nasty, damaged woman who is unlikable at times, but always has you rooting for her. Denise Mina excels at modern, psychological suspense.
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Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher Series #13)
Jack Reacher is a manly man, but he's also a feminist. The women in his life tend to be smart, strong and capable of going shoulder-to-shoulder against the bad guys.
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The Treatment (Jack Caffery Series #2)
If someone asked me to teach a masterclass in plotting a thriller, this would be the only textbook I'd need. But, please don't ask me to do that.
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Catch Me (Detective D. D. Warren Series #6)
I love stories where secrets from the past reverberate into the present. I've been a fan of Lisa Gardner's for a while now, and can honestly say her latest hits all the right notes.
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This was the first book by Michael Connelly that I ever read, and it made me want to read everything he's written before or since. There are a handful of authors who never disappoint, and Michael is one of them.
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There's a hat-tip to Louisa May Alcott's racier side in Little Women, where Jo makes fun of S.L.A.N.G. Northbury, an obvious reference to Alcott's contemporary, E.D.E.N. Southworth, who is considered the most widely read author of the antebellum period. This is how Alcott put food on the table while she was working on Little Women.
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The Dead Letter and the Figure Eight
It pains me that Metta Fuller Victor's name is lost to history. She is credited with writing the first American detective novel (Poe wrote the first short story) and was not only a prolific writer across all genres, but a very successful publisher.
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