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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. (USA Today) *Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel**Coming soon...
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Close to Home: A Novel

Cara Hunter - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A truly original psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath, brilliantly plotted with a shocking twist.

 
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The Dime

Kathleen Kent - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight. The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series.
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley - Mulholland Books
Format: Book

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.
 
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Lethal in Old Lace: A Consignment Shop Mystery

DUFFY BROWN. - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown's fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover.There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside...
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The Master Key

Masako Togawa - Pushkin Vertigo
Format: Paperback

The prizewinning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers.The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil.Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved...
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Raspberry Danish Murder

JOANNE FLUKE - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won't be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton - not after her husband suddenly disappears . . .Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left...
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The Mangle Street Murders: The Gower Street Detectives: Book 1

M. R. C. Kasasian - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

After her father dies March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian Sidney Grice the country s most famous private detective It is 1882 and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant wealthiest yet most poverty stricken No sooner does March arrive than a case presents...
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Murder On the Orient Express

Agatha Christie - Bantam Books, Inc.
Format: Book

Debonair Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot searches for a killer among a disparate group of suspects aboard the Orient Express. 
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Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr - Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, a compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting...
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To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs - "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) , faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling...
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Critical Biography 
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. Author Michael Sims traces the rich, true tale of the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story. Sherlock Holmes devotees will find much of interest...
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Lawrence P Jackson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

Winner of the Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award .  Explores Himes' middle-class origins, imprisonment, creative experiences during World War II, and eventual escape to Europe, where he became famous for his Harlem detective series. 
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From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

MATTIAS BOSTRM - Mysterious Press
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Boström recreates the full story behind the legend for the first time. 
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Manderley Forever

Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier.  
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York's City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of the Kirkus Star, Awarded to Books of Exceptional MeritA 2017 True Crime Book for Summer, The New York Times Sunday Book Review"An express train of a story." -Kirkus Reviews"Heroic...her inspiring story demands a hearing."...
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True Crime Stories 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

MONICA HESSE - Liveright
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.  
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential...
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris

Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Book

Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the case that captivated...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON - Viking
Format: Hardcover

As heard on NPR's This American Life"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever."...
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The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace

Molly Caldwell Crosby - Berkley
Format: Book

In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London's perpetual smoggy dusk, two brilliant minds are pitted against each other - a celebrated gentleman thief and a talented Scotland Yard detective - in the greatest jewel heist of the new century. Thoroughly researched, compellingly colorful,...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best...
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

Cutter Wood - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage...
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James - Scribner
Format: Book

Mystery Writers of America 2018 Edgar Award Nominee. Using unprecedented, dramatically sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and writer Bill James applies his analytical skills to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest...
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The Patriot: The Stunning True Story of Aaron Hernandez: His Rise and Fall as a Football Superstar, His Two Explosive Trials for Murder, His Shocking Death

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book


The world's most popular thriller writer presents the definitive, never before told account of the Aaron Hernandez case.

 
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Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures

Nancy Moses - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book

Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. 
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