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Burials: A Faye Longchamp Mystery
Burials: A Faye Longchamp Mystery

Mary Anna Evans · Poisoned Pen Press

Mary Anna Evans and the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries have received recognitions including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Florida Literature Award, the Mississippi Author Award in fiction, a writer's residency from The Studios of Key West, and three medals from the Florida...
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A Climate of Fear
A Climate of Fear

Fred Vargas · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the #1 bestselling French author and four-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police...
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Conviction
Conviction

Julia Dahl · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on.Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter:...
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The Crow Trap: A Vera Stanhope Mystery
The Crow Trap: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 535
Format: Hardcover

Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss,...
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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Elementary, She Read: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery
Elementary, She Read: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

Vicki Delany · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop--located at 222 Baker Street--specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of Moriarty...
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The English Agent
The English Agent

Phillip DePoy · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe -- student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright -- has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in the corner of a very disreputable Cambridge bar is a humiliating flop, and then he's attacked on the streets while in the company...
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The Fifth Element: A Novel
The Fifth Element: A Novel

Jørgen Brekke · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun. Next to him is a corpse. But what events led him to this point? And how did he get here? A few weeks earlier, Felicia, his wife, disappeared....
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The Fifth Element: A Novel
The Fifth Element: A Novel

Jørgen Brekke · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun. Next to him is a corpse. But what events led him to this point? And how did he get here? A few weeks earlier, Felicia, his wife, disappeared....
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The Killing Bay: Faroes novel 2
The Killing Bay: Faroes novel 2

Chris Ould · Titan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely...
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Man Overboard
Man Overboard

J.A. Jance · Touchstone
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's gripping new thriller, Man Overboard, two tech geniuses face off - one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them.Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of struggling with depression. But when...
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Mangrove Lightning
Mangrove Lightning

Randy Wayne White · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in the electrifying new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering...
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Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the history of Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian mystery series, the stakes have never been greater than now - as a mission for queen and country places the future of the British Empire squarely in Thomas Pitt's hands. It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive...
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Old Bones
Old Bones

Trudy Nan Boyce · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community - set in a city at its boiling point - from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College,...
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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

Adrian Mckinty · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where...
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Prussian Blue
Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, our compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting for the next move in the cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues...
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Reservations
Reservations

Gwen Florio · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Journalist Lola Wicks would much rather pursue a story than spend time with people she barely knows. So when an eco-terrorist bombing escalates the controversy surrounding a new coal mine on Arizona's Navajo Reservation, she's almost relieved to have the distraction from meeting...
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Rusty Puppy
Rusty Puppy

Joe R Lansdale · Mulholland Books
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover

Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma
Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma

Larry Millett · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Dogged by depression, doubt, and - as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed - emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer,...
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Spook Street
Spook Street

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask when his grandfather, a Cold...
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Say Nothing: A Novel
Say Nothing: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Terrific book. Truly terrific. Tension throughout and tears at the end. What could be better than that?" - Sue Grafton "Outstanding - starts with a bang and gets tenser and tenser. Say Nothing shows Parks is a quality writer at the top of his form." - Lee Child Judge...
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Saratoga Payback
Saratoga Payback

Stephen Dobyns · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular...
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Vicious Circle
Vicious Circle

C J Box · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box.The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then...
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The Violated: A Novel
The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime...
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What You Break
What You Break

Reed Farrel Coleman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month for FebruaryFormer Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island's darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman's critically acclaimed,...
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The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Lyndsay Faye · Mysterious Press
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes...
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