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Virgo Season: Time for Mysteries and Mayhem

August 22 to September 23 marks Virgo season on the Zodiac calendar. Virgos are natural problem solvers, and are known for their analytical minds and practical sense of self. Mysteries are the perfect genre for Virgo season, so if you enjoy a good whodunnit or are new to the genre, check out these scintillating titles!

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  • When a parent is found dead at a school fundraiser, all eyes turn to the suburban housewives at the scene of the crime. Was it an accident, or was it murder?
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. — FIC MORIARTY
  • A wealthy family's daughter was discovered missing from her summer camp in 1975. There have been other Van Laar child disappearances in the area before. The intricate secrets of the Van Laar family and the community that resides in its…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — M-MOORE, L
  • An avalanche spoils a mindfulness and teamwork-focused company retreat, making the corporate hierarchy meaningless and uniting people at the expense of survival.
    BookNew York : Scout Press, 2020. — F-WAR
  • Maya hopes to catch up with old friends and remember her college days when she returns to Princeton for her reunion. She finds out later that Naomi, her sister, has died. The police are claiming it was an accident, but then Maya discovers…
    BookNew York : Bantam, [2024] — M-BRO
  • The Thursday Murder Club, made up of four unlikely friends, meets once a week in a retirement community to talk about unsolved murders. A developer is discovered dead, and they are faced with their first real case. Even though they are…
    Book[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2020] — M-OSM
  • In 1950, a small all-female boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. called Briarwood House is haunted by secrets. The women of Briar Club must determine who their real enemy is when violence breaks out between themselves.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FICTION Quinn K.
  • Claudia Castro, a well-known teen who has thousands of Instagram followers, a trust fund and a spot in NYU's freshman class, vanishes. The city finds it difficult to reconstruct the events of that dreadful night.
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2021. — M DAHL
  • A dark secret is revealed by Louise Manson, a working-class student at Dublin's upscale Highfield Manor. Thirty years later, Lou testifies about privilege, exploitation, and retaliation in a lawsuit against the school, which is demanded by…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — FIC MCPHILLIPS
  • Thirty years ago, Baby Charlotte disappeared with her parents in 1995. As investigators learn more about the Margolis family, it becomes clear that the answers they seek are buried in a graveyard of secrets that some will do anything to…
    eBookHarperCollins, 2013