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Alter Ego

Brian Freeman · Quercus
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When a freak auto accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a "ghost," with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk-...
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Antique Blues: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

Jane K Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend's killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in the beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire.When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese...
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Bad Cops: A British police procedural

Nick Oldham · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

Two seemingly unconnected murders lead DCI Henry Christie to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this gritty police procedural.Two murders, apparently unconnected: one victim shot to death in his office, the other brutally stabbed in what appears to have been a road rage incident ... neither...
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru: A Poe and Dupin Mystery

KAREN LEE STREET · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Allan Poe and C. Auguste Dupin strive unravel a mystery involving old enemies, lost soul-mates, ornithomancy, and the legendary jewel of Peru.Philadelphia, 1844. As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety...
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Exit Strategy

Charlton Pettus · Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes you just need to escape. For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there's Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear...
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False Pride

VERONICA HELEY · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A brown leather briefcase containing priceless family jewels brings chaos and carnage to Bea's ordered life in the latest lively Abbot Agency mystery.Looking forward to a peaceful weekend, Bea Abbot's plans are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of one of her clients, bearing a brown leather...
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The Glass Room: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series. Published for the first time in the US."I do love Vera!" -- Val McDermid"Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers! I relish learning more about Vera...
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A Handful of Ashes: A Novel

ROB MCCARTHY · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new Dr. Harry Kent thriller, a whistleblowing doctor commits suicide -- or so it seems. When it turns out to be murder, Harry digs deeper to uncover the truth, in this perfect mix of detective novel and medical drama. Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss,...
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How It Happened

Michael Koryta · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie...
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IN DUST AND ASHES

ANNE HOLT · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne Wilhelmsen series--bestselling in Norway and throughout Europe--from Scandinavia's most celebrated female crime writer, Anne Holt. In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter...
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The Lonely Witness: A Novel

WILLIAM BOYLE · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she finds herself fascinated by the killer and decides to track him down herself. Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn....
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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

Alex Grecian · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Yard, a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog Bear are hunters: they travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them...
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Scot Free

CATRIONA MCPHERSON · Midnight Ink
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Lexy Campbell fell in love and left her native Scotland for a golden life in California -- hitched to a hunk, building her marriage counseling practice, living the dream. Six months later she's divorced, broke, and headed home. There's just one last thing. Lexy's only client -- sweet little...
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SHATTERED MIRROR

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Shattered Mirror, a new explosive thriller featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan.Iris Johansen returns with a thrilling novel of action and danger where fan favorite Eve Duncan is thrown once more into a deadly game of intrigue. It begins...
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Turbulence

Stuart Woods · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Stone Barrington is back in action--and back in the line of fire--in the newest thriller from perennial fan favorite and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
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Undercurrents

Mary Anna Evans · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

In Undercurrents, the eleventh Faye Longchamp archaeological mystery, Faye travels to Memphis, a city steeped in music, poverty, history, and the smoky tang of barbecue. When she uncovers a dying woman, buried alive, nobody would blame her for running hard and fast, but she can't bring...
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The Way I Die: A Novel

DEREK HAAS · Pegasus Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An explosive thriller from the acclaimed co-creator of "Chicago Fire" featuring his dynamic and compelling anti-hero, Columbus.The way I die is two taps to the head, stuffed in the trunk of a rental sedan, my body set on fire. The way I die is both arms broken, both legs broken,...
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Weeping Waters

KARIN BRYNARD · World Noir
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, ATKV Literature Prize, and twice winner of the M-Net Literature Awards"Brooding. Riveting. Brilliant." -- Deon Meyer, author of Blood SafariInspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing...
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The Word Is Murder: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · HarperLuxe
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried...
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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful...
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