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After the Fire

Henning Mankell · Vintage
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only...
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Eggs on Ice

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club café is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series.Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type....
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Murder in July: Historical mystery set in New Orleans

Barbara Hambly · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery. When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal,...
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Thirty-Six and a Half Motives: Rose Gardner Mystery #9

Denise Grover Swank · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 428
Format: Paperback

Rose Gardner should be celebrating the arrest of her fiercest enemy, J.R. Simmons. But problems are like weeds - pluck one and five more spring up. Rose's boyfriend is on the verge of leaving her for good, her best friend, Neely Kate, is grappling with marriage problems, and her sister...
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Over My Dead Body: A Father Frank Mystery

James R Callan · Pennant Publishing
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

A large corporation is seizing land by eminent domain. Syd Cranzler stands in its way, threatening a court battle. After a heated meeting with the corporation representative, Syd is found dead from an overdose of heart medication. The police call it suicide. Case closed. But Father...
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The Paris Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery

SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL · Bantam
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this bestselling series - "a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers...
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The Lying Game: A Novel

RUTH WARE · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's chilling new novel, The Lying Game.On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten...
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Silence of the Jams

Gayle Leeson · Berkley
Pages: 291
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In the latest Southern cozy from the author of The Calamity Café, small-town chef Amy Flowers can't take her freedom for granted when she's served up as a murder suspect... It's Independence Day in Winter Garden, Virginia, and the residents are gearing up for their annual celebration....
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Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From one of America's most important writers, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where...
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The Black Painting: A Novel

Neil Olson · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed There were four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive,...
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Pressed to Death

Kirsten Weiss · Midnight Ink
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

"Paranormal museum owner Maddie Kosloski thinks she has the perfect paranormal exhibit for the harvest festival--a haunted grape press. But before she can open the exhibit, she's accused of stealing the antique press. And when her accuser is found murdered, all eyes turn to Maddie....
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A Conspiracy of Ravens

TERRENCE MCCAULEY · Polis Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn. The War Has Begun.The riveting new James Hicks thriller by award-winning author Terrence McCauleyJames Hicks has spent his entire life and career fighting on the front lines of terrorism for the clandestine intelligence organization known as The University....
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Crisis

FELIX FRANCIS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis returns with his newest edge-of-your seat horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition.Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses,...
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A Crafter Knits a Clue: A Handcrafted Mystery

HOLLY QUINN · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Betty Hechtman and Maggie Sefton, the latest craft frenzy is Holly Quinn's Handcrafted series debut. Sammy Kane just moved back to her hometown to run a craft store. But when the owner of a nearby yarn shop is murdered, Sammy will needle little help finding the killer.When a heartbroken...
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