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• Six Wakes

  Lafferty, Mur,

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  A taught, locked room mystery! A group of clones wake up on a spaceship with no memories and have to work together to solve a murder.

• Storm Front

  Butcher, Jim, 1971-

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  A private detective story with a magical twist! The Chicago P.D. pull Harry Dresden, wizard for hire, into a homicide with magical origins and things head downhill fast.

• Resident Alien. Welcome to Earth!

  Hogan, Peter

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  A modern noir graphic novel! An alien "Harry Vanderspeigle" crash lands on Earth and disguises himself as small town doctor and detective. Features both episodic stories and Harry's ongoing efforts to evade the FBI.

• The Eyre Affair

  a Novel

  Fforde, Jasper

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  Part scifi, part fantasy, part alternative history, and all fun! In the world of this genre-defying mystery, literature is revered and when someone tampers with the original copy of "Jane Eyre" (changing all other copies), Thursday Next, special…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Altered Carbon

  Morgan, Richard K., 1965-

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  Edgy cyberpunk mystery! In the 25th century Takeshi Kovacs, U.N. Envoy and recently deceased, is "resleeved" into a new body to investigate the strange death of a wealthy aristocrat.

• Witchmark

  Polk, C. L.,

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  Wartime mystery in a magical world! Miles Singer, doctor and secret magician, seeks to uncover a dark mystery haunting his veteran patients, and along the way falls in love in this WWI magical alternate history.

• The Disappeared

  a Retrieval Artist Novel

  Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

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  Cop procedural in an alien legal system! Miles Flint is a newly minted Retrieval Artist, a cop who deals with crimes against alien cultures, but when his first case involves separating a mother and her child, he begins to question what is the law,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Say Nothing of the Dog, Or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

  Willis, Connie

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  A witty, romantic time travel story! Two time travel agents, Ned and Verity, have to work together to keep history from altering when something is brought back from the Victorian era to the 21st century.

• Blood of the Lamb

  a Novel of Secrets

  Cabot, Sam

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  A mystery-thriller of art, religion, and secret societies! Jesuit priest, Thomas Kelly, is called to Rome and tasked with retrieving a stolen document harboring a dark secret. He is joined by Livia, an art historian, who is harboring mysterious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  a Novel

  Chabon, Michael,

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  An alternate history mystery! Following the Holocaust, the Federal District of Sitka is set up in Alaska to shelter Jewish survivors. Now, as the district is preparing to reincorporate, Detective Meyer Landsman investigates a last murder for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Terrier

  Pierce, Tamora

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  A YA fantasy cop procedural! Beka Cooper might be one of the newest trainees in the Provost's Guard but she still came from the Lower City. When she begins to suspect danger is stalking the streets she grew up on, she must use to street smarts and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Caves of Steel

  Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992,

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  A classic scifi buddy cop mystery! Earthan Detective Elijah Baley struggles to solve a murder while dodging his arrogant Spacer superiors and new robot partner.

• Four & Twenty Blackbirds

  Lackey, Mercedes

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  A serial killer stalks a fantastic city! No one takes Tal Rufen seriously when he starts to connect a series of murdered lower-class women, so he takes the hunt for the magical murderer into his own hands.

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

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  A slap-stick, scifi-light mystery! Dirk Gently is a detective, or he plans to be, who is going to prove the interconnectedness of all things by solving a murder and saving humanity. Free of charge.

• Soulless

  Carriger, Gail

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  A Victorian comedy of manners with vampires! When a vampire attacks Alexia, breaking all proper social decorum, she accidentally kills him and things get rather tricky after that.

• Bimbos of the Death Sun

  McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-

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  A comedic whodunnit! When a popular and famously ill-tempered author turns up dead at a scifi convention, the problem isn't who killed him, but who wouldn't have?