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Just for You! - High Stakes Mysteries

If you enjoy intricately plotted mysteries with a strong sense of time and place, your next read may be on this list!

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  • The whereabouts of a renowned German painter's final work, seized by Nazis from the original owning family, is a mystery that ambitious reporter Jules must solve before a mercenary art collector can.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — FICTION BARR
  • Dunning peels back the layers of the world of rare book collecting while delivering a satisfyingly dramatic whodunnit set in Denver in this first in a series featuring Cliff Janeway.
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2017. — FICTION DUNNING
  • Rose can't believe that her sister's death was a suicide and after her family's 1944 relocation to Chicago from a Japanese American concentration camp in California, she begins an investigation to unravel the complicated truth.
    BookNew York, NY : Soho Crime, [2021] — FICTION HIRAHARA
  • When the evidence doesn't add up, Dr. Lydia Weston vows to solve the mystery surrounding the death of chambermaid Anna Ward in this atmospheric novel set in 1870's Philadelphia.
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2023] — FICTION MUKERJI
  • World War I Nurse Bess Crawford's mission to deliver a dying man's last request to his family leads her directly into the heart of dangerous family secrets.
    BookNew York : Harper, 2010, c2009. — FICTION TODD
  • The boldest and most famous art thefts in history are explored in this fascinating 14-part series.
    DVD[Silver Spring, Maryland] : Athena, [2015] — DVD 364.16287 ART