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The Authentic William James

Stephen Gallagher · Subterranean Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Sebastian Becker's position as Special Investigator for the British Crown requires a subtle touch: gathering evidence that determines whether or not someone is a Chancery Lunatic afflicted with madness making them unfit to manage their fortunes without tipping the hand of those whose...
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Dark Fissures: A Rick Cahill Novel

Matt Coyle · Oceanview Pub
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Private Investigator Rick Cahill fears the next knock on his door will be a cop holding a warrant for his arrest. For murder. La Jolla Chief of Police Tony Moretti is convinced Rick killed a missing person. No body has been found, but the evidence that's piling up says murder and it all points...
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A Dreadful Past: A Hennessey and Yellich British Police Procedural

Peter Turnbull · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The discovery of a damaged vase takes Hennessey and Yellich back to a twenty-year-old murder case, with consequences for the present. A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team to take a fresh look at a twenty-year-old...
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Fields where they lay.

Timothy Hallinan · Soho
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

It's the week before Christmas and Hollywood's fast-talking fixer for the felonious - Junior Bender - is up to his ears in mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and, 'tis the season: murder. It's Christmas in Tinsel Town. Well, it's the week leading up to Christmas,...
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Inherit the Bones

Emily Littlejohn · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Secrets and lies can't stay buried forever in Cedar Valley.In the summer, hikers and campers pack the small Colorado town's meadows and fields. And in the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. Season by season, year after year, time passes and the lies, like the aspens...
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The Kashmir Trap: A Max O'Brien Mystery

Mario Bolduc · Dundurn
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

Con man Max O'Brien takes a personal investigation into his own hands. Max O'Brien's nightmare has begun again. Eleven years after the tragic disappearance of his brother, an ambassador in Central America, Max's nephew, also a diplomat, is assassinated in New Delhi. Max is on the run from...
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The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything: A Novel

Dror Mishani · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Inspector Avraham Avraham is back in this sequel to the acclaimed thrillers A Possibility of Violence and The Missing File - internationally bestselling author D. A. Mishani's The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything is a hauntingly psychological domestic noir, perfect for fans of Alafair...
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A Memory of Muskets

Kathleen Ernst · Midnight Ink
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment -- but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic...
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Moth Catcher, The: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane -- a lonely...
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Murder in Style: An Ellie Quicke British Murder Mystery

Veronica Heley · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy's wealthy father hadn't liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time...
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Ruler of the Night

David Morrell · Mulholland Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy.1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole...
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Smile and Be a Villain: A Dorothy Martin Investigation

Jeanne M Dams · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin. When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they hope...
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Sinner Man

Lawrence Block · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another...
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Skin and Bone: A Mystery

Robin Blake · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls...
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The Sleeping Beauty Killer

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke - television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully...
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Smoke and Mirrors

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about...
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A Study In Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas · Berkley
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down ... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would...
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A Taste of Blood and Ashes

Jaden Terrell · Permanent Pr Pub Co
Format: Print book

When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known...
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Terrible Beauty, A: A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this gripping new novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily travels to Greece where a ghost from her past returns to haunt her amid the ruins.On a quest to distract her lifelong friend Jeremy from his recent heartbreak, Lady Emily organizes a holiday in Greece. As a lover...
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We Wish You a Murderous Christmas

Vicki Delany · Berkley
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

A grinch is spoiling the holiday cheer and causing fear in the latest from the author of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen...It's Christmastime three hundred sixty-five days a year in Rudolph, New York, and as Christmas Day approaches, shop owner Merry Wilkinson is enjoying a rare evening off at the Yuletide...
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