Welcome in 2017!

2016 has been a rough year in many ways, with losses and challenges, but we have somehow gotten through it. 2017 can only be better, right? So I’ve got some great books to escape into.

Let’s look at which books made it to the top five bestsellers in Oxford for 2016. Needless to say if you haven’t read them, they make a great book list for 2017.

At number 5 is BRUNO CHIEF OF POLICE ($15.99) by Martin Walker. This story about a small town policeman set in South West France is a perennial favorite.
DIE LIKE AN EAGLE ($24.95), the newest Meg Langslow humorous mystery by Donna Andrews, is at number 4.
At number 3 is CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: STORM WARNING ($14.95) short stories by members of the Chesapeake authors.
HARDBOILED ANXIETY ($24.95) by our own Easton librarian Karen Karydes about the lives of author Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler is in the number 2 slot.
Finally at number one is HAUNTED MID-SHORE ($19.99) by Mindie Burgoyne a travel guide for spotting ghosts on the Mid-shore of Maryland. Ian Fleming of the Robert Morris Inn wrote the foreword and the Inn is prominently featured.

New This Month In Hardcover

Hy Conrad continues his traveling murder mystery series with DEATH ON THE PATAGONIAN EXPRESS ($25.00) with some smart sleuthing. Alyssa Maxwell takes us to post WWI Britain with A PINCH OF POISON ($25.00) as Lady Renshaw and her maid uncover the clues. Elizabeth Buzzelli continues her Little Library series with SHE STOPPED FOR DEATH ($25.99). The Library starts receiving poetry from a reclusive poet. Salem serves as a mysterious seductive location in Brunonia Barry’s THE FIFTH PETAL ($27.00). Then, exceptional writing of Rennie Airth keeps us riveted to the end of the fifth John Madden mystery THE DEATH OF KINGS ($27.00) as Inspector Madden takes on a cold case for Scotland Yard.

Paperback Finds This Month

Sally Solari may not be happy managing her father’s old-style Italian restaurant in Santa Cruz, but she can’t resist solving the murder of her aunt in DYING FOR A TASTE ($15.99) by Leslie Karst. The best of Peter Lovesey’s short stories are compiled in MOTIVES FOR MURDER ($19.99). TWO DAYS GONE ($15.99) by Randall Silvis left a deep impression on me. The location deep in the woods in Pennsylvania was fascinating and the tension and suspense never falters as a college professor is accused by, and then flees from police after a book he is writing is used as a blueprint for a murder. A Faith Hunter Scrapbook mystery by Chris Freeburn is always fun. Aurora Anderson deals with a homeless case in PALETTE FOR MURDER ($15.99) by Sybil Johnson.The newest is MASKED FOR DEATH ($15.99). It is Fiesta Week and Aggie Mundeen is on the spot in Nancy G.West’s mystery RIVER CITY GONE ($15.99).

You are never far away from adventure in Steve Barry’s historical Cotton Malone mysteries in THE 14^TH COLONY ($9.99); Cotton takes readers on a race from frozen plains of Russia to the center of the White House. Vivian, a London milliner, is off to Paris in ASSAULT AND BERET ($7.99) by Jenn McKinlay. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is opening and a chocolatier is found dead in FUDGE AND JURY ($7.99) by Ellie Alexander. Emma Raines can talk to ghosts and when her high-school nemesis dies, she can’t wait to chat in A GHOSTLY REUNION ($7.99) by Tonya Kappes. Faith Fairchild joins her friend Sophie in Savannah and finds A BODY IN THE WARDROBE ($7.99). Then, Maine is the setting for Barbara Ross’ Maine Clambake mystery ICED UNDER ($7.99). A mysterious package arrives, and a case of murder.

Vintage Reissues

Harper Collins continues its series begun in 1929, The Detective Story Club, with four new reissues in hardcover with great retro covers for $15.99 each. They include: THE HOUSE OPPOSITE by J. Jefferson Farjeon; THE BLACKMAILERS by Emile Gaboriau; THE CRIME CLUB by Frank Froest; and THE LEAVENWORTH CASE by Anna Katherine Green. Take a look! British Crime Classics issues two new ones this month: CRIMSON SNOW: Winter Crimes stories edited by Martin Edwards, and MURDER IN THE CHANNEL by Freeman Wills Crofts both $12.95.

You can always call in your order to 410-226-0010 or we are online anytime at www.mysterylovescompany.com

Most of all, we are thankful in 2016 for your support of our indie store for 26 years.

Mystery Loves Company wishes you and your family the Happiest and Healthiest of New Years for 2017. We hope you can visit us in beautiful Oxford soon.

-Kathy

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