Reading Ahead: November 2018, part 4

It's mystery season! If you're looking for a suspenseful tale to keep you company on a chilly November night, here are a few you can look forward to!

You Don't Own Me, by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke. This sixth novel in Clark's bestselling Under Suspicion series (and the fifth co-authored by Burke) finds the cold-case television show host Laurie Moran happily planning her future with her fiance. Then she's approached by the Bell family, who are desperate to have their son's case, that of a distinguished doctor who was shot dead in the driveway of his Greenwich Village home five years earlier, featured on Laurie's show. Since Dr. Bell's murder, his widow has lived under a cloud of suspicion, depicted as a mentally unstable gold-digger by the media. She sees the show as an opportunity to clear her name once and for all. But once Laurie dives in, she'll find that the good doctor had secrets of his own... Series fans are already lining up for this one--have you placed your request yet?

Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penny. Penny's hugely popular Inspector Gamache series continues in this latest entry, following 2017's Glass Houses, after which Gamache found himself suspended from the force. Of course, suspension or no, when Gamache is enlisted to be an executor for a stranger's estate and a key beneficiary turns up dead, he cannot help but investigate. Series fans who have been waiting for an entry that features psychologist-turned-bookseller Myrna Lander more prominently during one of Gamache's cases in Three Pines will be delighted with this newest title.

Look Alive Twenty-Five, by Janet Evanovich. Trenton's Red River Deli is one of the best around--famous for its pastrami and coleslaw...and now for its disappearing managers, as three of them have gone missing in the last month. The only clue? For each of them, one shoe has been found. The police are baffled. Locals have speculated that it might be aliens. But one thing's for sure--their new manager, Stephanie Plum, is going to get to the bottom of it.