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Celebrating May is Mystery Month

The real mystery is...why haven't you picked up these great titles yet?!

Belleville Public Library

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  • The Expectant Detectives is first in a delightful new mystery series following a group of pregnant women who meet at a prenatal class and team up to solve the murder of someone in their village.
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Minotaur Books, 2024. — FICAile #1
  • How to Write a Mystery

    a Handbook From Mystery Writers of America

    From the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers.
    Book, 2021New York : Scribner, 2021. — 808.3 How
  • A twist-and-turn whodunit, set in a five-star hotel, from the perspective of the maid who finds the body. Think Clue. Think page-turner.” (Glamour)
    Book, 2022Toronto : Viking, 2022. — FIC PRO
  • In 1965, Frances and her best friends go to a fortune-teller who predicts Frances' murder, causing her to start tracking friends and enemies alike. Decades later, Annie Adams has arrived from London to meet Great-Aunt Frances at her vast country…
    Book, 2024New York : Dutton, 2024. — F MYS PER
  • A Mystery of Mysteries

    the Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    Dawidziak, Mark, 1956-
    A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — BIO 818 POED
  • McKevett's heart-wrenching sequel to 2018's Murder in Her Stocking explores the early career of California PI Savannah Reid, the author's main series lead, while living as a child with her headstrong grandmother, Stella Reid, in McGill, Ga., in the…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2019. — FICMcKe #2
  • A Side of Murder

    a Cape Cod Foodie Mystery

    Pershing, Amy
    Samantha Barnes was always a foodie. And when the CIA (that's the Culinary Institute of America) came calling, she happily traded in Cape Cod for the Big Apple. But then the rising young chef's clash with another chef (her ex!) boils over and goes…
    Book, PBK MYS PER
  • The Poison Pen, is the ninth installment in the Scottish Bookshop series by Paige Shelton, set in a specialty bookstore in Edinburgh called The Cracked Spine.
    Book, 2024St. Martin's Press 2024
  • An autistic book editor stumbles into a murder mystery while attempting to claim her inheritance in this wonderful series launch from historian Schillace. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2024Toronto, ON : Hanover Square Press, 2024. — F MYS SCH
  • On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, 2024. — F MYS STE