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Flamingo Road: A Mystery

Sasscer Hill · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Baltimore police officer Fia McKee is put on leave for excessive use of force after interfering in a crime that turns deadly. Given a second chance, she is sent to work undercover for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (TRPB) at the Gulfstream Park in Florida, where she works...
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Reykjavik Nights: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans a glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective.The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband ... And an unexplained...
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Wicked

Joanne Fluke · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A Killer Rivalry. . .When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published....
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Rock-a-Bye Bones

Carolyn Haines · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Sarah Booth Delaney knows the perfect way to begin recovering from both the recent attack on Scott Hampton s blues club and her broken heart. She s going to host a Thanksgiving feast for all of her friends at her ancestral home in Zinnia, Mississippi. But one bitterly cold night with the holiday...
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Abracadabra: A Novel

David Kranes · University of Nevada Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil, and the state of the union. The novel begins with a mystery,...
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As Good as Gone: A Novel

Larry Watson · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey, steely, hardened, with his own personal code, is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s,...
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The Curse of La Fontaine: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery

M L Longworth · Penguin Books
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

In the latest captivating installment of M. L. Longworth's acclaimed Verlaque & Bonnet Mystery series, the newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curseChef Sigisbert "Bear" Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine,...
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Dr. Death

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The life Dr. Dylan Reinhart saves may be his own Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene--along with a threatening message from the killer--it...
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Easy to Kill

Agatha Christie · Dodd
Pages: 224
Format: Book

An elderly lady suspected of murder in the sleepy village of Wychwood dies--another victim of an unseen hand. Since too many accidents and unexplained deaths have occurred, even for a town with a history of witchcraft, policeman Luke Fitzwilliam vows to discover the reason--and finds a very...
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The Mark

Kiki Swinson · Dafina Books
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

Her "unrelenting" (Publishers Weekly) and "tension-packed" (Library Journal) novels have made Kiki Swinson a bestselling chronicler of the Virginia's most glittering, treacherous streets. In the explosive follow-up to her high-octane The Score, amaster thief's...
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Ghosts of War

Brad Taylor · Dutton
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

"The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria...
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The Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery

Sally Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life...
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BIG: Beginnings

Greyson Bryan · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback

"International lawyer Bryan puts his professional experience to good use in his engrossing first novel...Readers will root for the sympathetic Duncan [Luke] as he morphs into a more grounded version of James Bond or Jason Bourne." --Publishers Weekly International business espionage...
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Hope's Peak

Tony Healey · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

Beyond the shores of Hope's Peak, North Carolina, evil waits as his next victim approaches. He'll make her a princess like the others ... Detective Jane Harper can't shake the image of the young woman discovered in a field - eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on her head. She expects...
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