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The Postman Always Purls Twice

Anne Canadeo · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In the seventh installment in the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) Black Sheep Knitting Mystery series, the knitters see the darker side of Hollywood when Maggie's shop is used as a set for a big budget, star-studded movie.When the cast and crew of a Hollywood movie arrive...
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Death of an Unsung Hero: A Mystery

Tessa Arlen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Lady Montfort and her pragmatic housekeeper Mrs. Jackson investigate a murder of a WWI officer with amnesia in the 20th-century English countryside.Building on the success of her last three mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe in Death of an Unsung Hero...
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A Rising Man: A Novel

ABIR MUKHERJEE · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately...
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Sycamore: A Novel

Bryn Chancellor · Harper
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

"Masterful. . . . What a joy to find a book that is both propulsive and perfectly composed." - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest"Riveting. . . .This is a movingly written, multivoiced novel examining how one tragic circumstance can sow doubt about fundamental things....
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In the Crosshairs

JACK COUGHLIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Central Intelligence Agency is under attack, and so is its top field operative, Kyle Swanson. The highly decorated former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant is attending the funeral of a friend when a terrorist blows up the grave. A week later, he narrowly survives a grenade attack in Berlin....
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Shot in the Dark

CLEO COYLE · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when...
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Death of an Honest Man

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.DEATH OF AN HONEST MANNobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English....
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Last Will

William McIntyre · Sandstone Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Blood is thicker than water - but it's not as hard as cash. The trial of Robbie Munro's life: one month to prove he's fit to be a father. No problem. Apart, that is, from the small matter of a double-murder in which Robbie's landlord, Jake Turpie, is implicated. Psycho-Jake...
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The Oracle Year: A Novel

CHARLES SOULE · Harper Perennial
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future - perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome...
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A Cast of Vultures

Judith Flanders · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

There was every possibility that I was dead, and my brain hadn't got the memo. Or maybe it was that I wished I were dead. On reflection, that was more likely.Usually clear-headed editor Samantha Clair stumbles through her post-book-party morning with the hangover to end all hangovers. But before...
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Better Late Than Never

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In this Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Likely Story, a decades-overdue book puts library director Lindsey Norris hot on the trail of a cold case ... When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day - no fines for late...
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A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing: Stories

TIM WEED · Green Writers Press
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

A high mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies is the point of departure for these stories of dark adventure, in which vividly drawn landscapes provide an immersive setting for narratives about coming of age, altered states, moral slippage, romantic love, sexual jealousy, and impenetrable...
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The Lies We Tell

Theresa Schwegel · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In THE LIES WE TELL by Theresa Schwegel, Chicago police detective Gina Simonetti is keeping a secret from the department: she has multiple sclerosis. Raising her young niece on her own, Gina hides her disease; she can't afford to lose her job. Anyway, she is healthier than most of the cops...
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Say No More

Hank Phillippi Ryan · Forge
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Say No More: The Thrilling Next Installment in Hank Phillippi Ryan's Award-Winning Jane Ryland Series!When Boston reporter Jane Ryland reports a hit and run, she soon learns she saw more than a car crash -- she witnessed the collapse of an alibi. Working on an expose of sexual assaults...
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Boar Island

Nevada Barr · Minotaur Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair...
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