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The Night Tiger: A Novel

Yangsze Choo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." --Kirkus (starred review) From New York Times...
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The American Agent

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade) , investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When...
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Who Slays the Wicked

C. S. Harris - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....When the handsome...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz - Harper
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan...
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The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

KATE MORTON - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadow across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day. My real name, no one remembers. The truth...
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A Divided Loyalty: A Novel

Charles Todd - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career - a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow.Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge's, is sent to Avebury, a village...
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The international best seller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed...
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

Laurie R. King - Picador/Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Paperback

An Agatha Award Best Novel NomineeNamed One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers AssociationFrom New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The...
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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters

After her father's death, thirty-two-year-old Amelia Peabody eschews the role of Victorian spinster and travels to Egypt, where mysterious intruders, boorish archaeologists, and a disappearing two-thousand-year-old mummy test her sanity and independence
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

Sara Collins - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London - a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying...
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