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Walking by Night: A Joe Plantagenet police procedural

Kate Ellis · Crème de la Crime; First World Publication edition

Fifth intriguing mystery in the atmospheric Joe Plantagenet police procedural seriesTaking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the centre of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a mysterious nun-like figure watching her from the shadows....
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After the Storm: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition

In this electrifying thriller by New York Times bestseller Linda Castillo, Kate Burkholder must uncover a familys long-hidden past to solve a brutal murderWhen a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself tasked with the responsibility...
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Badlands: A Novel

C. J. Box · Minotaur Books

Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers wont soon forget.Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie...
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The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories

Ian Rankin · Little, Brown and Company

There is no detective like Ian Rankins Detective Inspector John Rebus, a man The New Yorker calls the ideal sleuth. Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades....
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Deadly Election: A Flavia Albia Mystery

Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books

In the first century A.D., during Domitians reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So despite the oppressive July heat, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, the famed private informer now retired,...
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Death by Tiara

Laura Levine · Kensington

Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought she knew what she was getting herself into when she landed a gig working behind the scenes at a teen beauty pageant. But between the vicious stage moms, exacting judges, and trash-talking teens, shes not sure shes the woman for the job—especially...
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The Fraud: A Mystery

Brad Parks · Minotaur Books

In the most thrilling entry yet in Brad Parkss award-winning series, investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live him or his unborn child.A rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable,...
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Green Hell

Ken Bruen · Mysterious Press

The award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen, called the best-kept literary secret in Ireland by the Independent, is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic, mixing high and low with hypnotic mastery. In the previous book in the series, Purgatory, ex-cop Jack Taylor...
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House Rivals: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press

As a fixer for influential congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarco has found himself in plenty of unexpected and dangerous situations. In House Rivals, the tenth book in Mike Lawsons award-winning series, DeMarco is taken further out of his element than ever before, sent...
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Little Pretty Things

Lori Rader-Day · Seventh Street Books

OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO.Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, shes still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel...
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Long Upon the Land

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing

Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, returns to Colleton County with an exciting new Deborah Knott mystery . . . LONG UPON THE LANDOn a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knotts father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote...
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Lord of the Wings: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad, and The Emus.The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The eighteenth book...
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The Naked Eye: A Novel

Iris Johansen , · St. Martin's Press

How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks hes dead?Kendra Michaels was instrumental in bringing serial killer Eric Colby to justice. And yet, despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The problem is that she cant prove it. Even her razor-sharp...
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Open Grave: A Mystery

Kjell Eriksson · Minotaur Books

Already a star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics raving. In this new book in the Ann Lindell series, Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood....
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The Redeemers

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons

One of the best crime writers at work today.—Michael ConnellyThe electrifying new novel in New York Timesbestselling author Ace Atkinss acclaimed series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless—voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah...
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Scents and Sensibility: A Chet and Bernie Mystery

Spencer Quinn · Atria Books

When a mysterious case of illegal cactus smuggling comes to their attention, Chet and his human P.I. companion, Bernie Little, find themselves in a prickly situation in this eighth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. In the latest entry in the immensely popular Chet and Bernie...
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Silent Creed

Alex Kava · G.P. Putnam's Sons

Ryder Creed and his K9 search-and-rescue dogs return in the second installment of an exciting new series, teaming up once more with FBI profiler Maggie ODell in their riskiest case yet.   When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference...
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