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Barry Maitland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

"One of the best books of 2015!" -- Kirkus Reviews on Crucifixion Creek Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree is back on the job after a near-fatal confrontation with corrupt colleagues and his presence has become a departmental embarrassment. Because of what happened, he can't -- and doesn't...
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Below the Belt

Stuart Woods · Putnam
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington is back in the newest breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington and the gang are back in the line of fire, but with his usual unflappable aplomb, Stone always comes out on top.
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Black Widow: A Jack Parlabane Thriller

Christopher Brookmyre · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder.From Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any moment, to end everything....
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Blood of the Oak: A Mystery

Eliot Pattison · Counterpoint
Pages: 417
Format: Print book

The fourth entry in the Bone Rattler series advances the protagonist Duncan McCallum to 1765 and into the throes of the Stamp Tax dissent, which marked the beginning of organized resistance to English rule. Duncan follows ritualistic murders that are strangely connected to both the theft...
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Brazen

Loren D. Estleman · Forge
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen.UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells...
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The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha

Joanna Carl · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the national bestselling author of The Chocolate Falcon Fraud comes an Easter candy caper featuring chocolatiers Lee Woodyard and her Aunt Nettie, and a killer who's hopping mad... The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee and her Aunt Nettie...
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Dangerous ladies affair

Marcia Muller · Forge
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot...
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Desolation Flats: A Mystery

Andrew E Hunt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1938, as war clouds loom overseas, auto racers from around the world gather at the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City, intent on breaking the land-speed record. But when Clive Underhill, a wealthy English motorist, mysteriously disappears, and his younger brother,...
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Forgotten City: A Claire Codella Mystery

Carrie Smith · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

NYPD Detective Claire Codella is chomping at the bit for a new case. Lieutenant McGowan is determined to keep her out of the news, but she's about to be back in the public eye in a big way.Broadway legend Lucy Merchant has tragically succumbed to early onset Alzheimer's. At age fifty-six,...
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The Hanging Club: A Novel

Tony Parsons · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug...
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The Ice Beneath Her: A Novel

Camilla Grebe · Ballantine
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling. Winter's chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies...
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Mary Russell's War

Laurie R. King · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic story collection. In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery -- available...
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A Most Novel Revenge: A Mystery

Ashley Weaver · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Amory and Milo Ames are drawn into the investigation of a years-old murder by a salacious novelist in the English countryside in the latest installment in this smart and sophisticated ("Library Reads") series from a bright new voice in traditional mysteries. With two murder...
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Murder Underground: A British Library Crime Classic

Mavis Doriel Hay · Poisoned Pen Pr
Pages: 270
Format: Print book

"This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail." -- Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934When Miss Pongleton is found...
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No Witness but the Moon

Suzanne Chazin · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"A tremendous talent." - Lee ChildIn this powerful novel from award-winning author Suzanne Chazin, a tense stand-off between a Hispanic police officer and an undocumented immigrant leads to the shooting death of one, the shattered life of the other, and the shocking connection...
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Out of Bounds

Val Mcdermid · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

"McDermid excels in putting the reader at the center of the action . . . A tightly paced mystery . . . My bones tell me we haven't seen the last of Inspector Pirie - or at least I hope not." - Janet Napolitano, Los Angeles Times on The Skeleton RoadInternationally bestselling...
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Quarry in the Black

Max Allan Collins · Hardcase Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

WHERE DOES A HIT MAN DRAW THE LINE? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate...
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Rhythm and clues

Sue Ann Jaffarian · Midnight Ink
Format: Print book

Amateur sleuth Odelia Grey tries to get a band back together -- and get her mother off the hook -- in book eleven of the award-winning series It's a rockin' flashback for Odelia Grey when her mother asks her to look into the disappearance of her neighbor Bo Shank, the former lead singer...
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Strong Cold Dead: A Caitlin Strong Novel

Jon Land · Forge
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plotThe terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate...
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A Voice in the Night

Andrea Camilleri · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling seriesMontalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging...
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