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Here's a list of the Top 20 most-read titles from Saratoga's catalog, cross-referenced with most-borrowed titles in the Southern Adirondack Library System database.
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Here are the most-borrowed new & popular mysteries released in the last six months, based on holds placed in the Southern Adirondack Library System database.
Click a book cover to view the title in the library's online catalog.
Two female coworkers at an international fashion agency enter an elevator on the 30th floor, but only one woman is alive when the doors open in the lobby.
The launch party for the most spectacular of all the celebrity homes in the Home Group -- Island Home -- has pushed the mansion's staff to their limit. Tempers fray, behavior worsens, and the body count piles up.
OTHER FORMATS: eBook, eAudiobook
As the town of Lochdubh gets ready to celebrate Hamish's wedding to the town's gorgeous new constable, Hamish finds himself with a new murder on his hands. If he doesn't find the killer fast, his dream wedding could become a nightmare.
OTHER FORMATS: CD, Large Print
When the secrets tucked away in a hidden town in the Yukon wilderness start to come out, people start turning on one another. One of the loudest complainers turns up barely alive, and it's clear there's a murderer in their midst.
OTHER FORMATS: CD
Someone wants Finley Donovan's ex-husband out of the picture. Permanently. Saving him will send Finley down a rabbit hole of soccer mom hit-women and involvement with the Russian mob.
OTHER FORMATS: eBook, eAudiobook
When Chloe was twelve, her father went to prison for killing six teenage girls. 20 years later, Chloe is preparing for her wedding when a series of girls goes missing. Is she imagining things, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a serial killer?
OTHER FORMATS: eBook, Large Print
Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
A woman's life starts to unravel as the result of a friendship with an unpredictable single mother. Greenwich Park explores the consequences of guilt, the complexity of friendship, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish.
OTHER FORMATS: eBook, eAudiobook
Cheltenham Spa is hardly the relaxing sojourn Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra envisioned. But Jane's interference might prevent a terrible crime from taking place during the 16-month volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in the South Pacific.
A heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
When a DNA match in an ancestry database leads to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after a fall from grace, Wilde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. None of them have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until bad things begin happening to people on the list.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
Broke and alone, Jess shows up at her half-brother's apartment to find that he's not there. All the neighbors are suspects, and everyone knows something they’re not telling.
OTHER FORMATS: CD, Large Print
When Lux and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island, they don't expect to find another boat when they arrive. One person goes missing and another turns up dead. Will anyone make it off the island alive?
OTHER FORMATS: CD, Large Print
Rising politician Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is fighting a tight primary race while dealing with death threats from hundreds of suspects. As the primary nears, it’s up to a surprise ally to ensure she is safe.
OTHER FORMATS: CD, Large Print
A police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma. But an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death.
OTHER FORMATS: CD, Large Print
A dark, thrilling novel about two sisters--one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies--and the lengths they will go to save each other.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
Violinist Ray McMillian's Stradivarius is stolen and a ransom is demanded weeks before a worldwide competition. But who really owns the violin? Members of Ray's own family claim it, but so do the descendants of those who enslaved his ancestors, presenting a penetrating look at racism and the classical music world.
OTHER FORMATS: Large Print
Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple -- until Marissa cheats. When Marissa reveals her infidelity during therapy with maverick therapist Avery Chambers, the three are set on a collision course. It's not just a marriage that's in danger.
OTHER FORMATS: Print, Large Print, Playaway
When her husband of one year disappears, Hannah learns he's not who he said he was. She's left to sort out the truth with just one ally -- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her.
OTHER FORMATS: Print, Large Print
Recovery agent Garbriela Rose is reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But her latest job to find the fabled Ring of Solomon has a huge problem attached to it -- her ex-husband. It's going to take teamwork to defeat the drug lord who's searching for the same ring -- and who doesn't mind leaving a body count to get it.
OTHER FORMATS: Print, Large Print, Playaway
On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her -- and destroy her.
OTHER FORMATS: Print, Large Print, Playaway, CD
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is investigating the brutal murder of a fishing guide while also helping his wife solve a mystery about a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi officer. When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth wonder who is after the album and how they'll solve its mystery before someone hurts them or their girls.
OTHER FORMATS: Print, Large Print