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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel

Mark Haddon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic....
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The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran...
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The Day I Died: A Novel

Lori Rader-Day - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance - at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy...
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Defending Jacob: A Novel

William Landay - Delacorte Books
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly * The Boston Globe * Kansas City Star "A legal thriller that's comparable to classics such as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent . . . Tragic and shocking, Defending Jacob is sure to generate buzz."...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson - Alexandria Library
Format: Hardcover

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's...
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Don't Ever Get Old

Daniel Friedman - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly...
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The Grave Tattoo

Val McDermid - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In a novel reminiscent of The Rule of Four, The Dante Club and The Historian, suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty. After torrential summer...
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In the Woods

Tana French - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post) . "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching...
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The Monster of Florence

Douglas J Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

Documents the author's discovery that his new family home in Florence had been the scene of a double murder, his relationship with the investigative journalist co-author, and how they both became targets of the police investigation into the murders.
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The Paris Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller!"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." -- Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming...
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Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. Abridged.
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Something Missing: A Novel

Matthew Dicks - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he's been able to steal from the same people for years on end - virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed...
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The Spellman Files: A Novel

Lisa Lutz - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel "Izzy" Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.Meet...
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Still Life

Louise Penny - St. Martin's Minotaur
Format: Paperback

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Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print]

"Tell your story walking." St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects), Frank Minna is a savior....
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Tourist Season

Carl Hiaasen - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned...
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The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury Series #1)

Martha Grimes - Onyx Books
Format: Paperback(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)

At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pub's sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help....
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