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The Last Act: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry) , a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks....
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Ararat

Christopher Golden · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel "An extremely gripping story, with echoes of John Carpenter's The Thing...It's a creepy, chilling book." -- Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan"Part psychological horror,...
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The Kill Fee

Fiona Veitch Smith · Lion Fiction
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Poppy Denby, arts and entertainment editor at the Daily Globe, covers an exhibition of Russian art, hosted by White Russian refugees, including members of the surviving exiled Romanov royal family. There is an armed robbery, a guard is shot, and the largest Faberge egg in the collection...
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Leave No Trace: A Novel

MINDY MEJIA · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the "compelling" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.There is a place in Minnesota with...
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Hidden Depths: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

ANN CLEEVES · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered....
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Blood Crime

Sebastia? Alzamora · Soho Crime
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A multi-genre gothic novel of the horrific early days of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, perfect for fans ofRoberto Bolano andMario Vargas Llosa. It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist...
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The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel

ALAN BRADLEY · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times) .Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective "with...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE · Ecco
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations." - Gillian FlynnSince We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who,...
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Unpunished

Lisa Black · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders in this powerful new thriller by the bestselling author of That Darkness. It begins with the kind of bizarre death that...
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Ambush

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a set-up, taking an officer down-and it's not Michael Bennett. The life of New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct...
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The Nine-Tailed Fox

Martin Limo?n · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary thousand-year-old nine-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects...
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The White Book

Han Kang · Hogarth
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International PrizeFrom Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color whiteWhile on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin...
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What My Body Remembers

Agnete Friis · Soho Crime
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

Twisty and brimming with the emotional power of beautifully drawn characters, the solo debut by the coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision course with her past in order to save her son's future. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been...
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Breach of Crust: A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery

Ellery Adams · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Plate up another slice of Southern magic and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Lemon Pies and Little White Lies . . . PIE SHELLS AND DEATH BELLES Ella Mae LeFaye's delicious pies are still drawing long lines - as well as the attention of Beatrice Burbank, president...
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Swiss Vendetta: A Mystery

Tracee de Hahn · Minotaur Books
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

Swiss Vendetta, Tracee de Hahn's mesmerizing debut, is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter.Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent...
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