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Black Fall: A Jessica Blackwood Novel

Andrew Mayne · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated series that began with self-published eBook phenomenon Angel Killer, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado...
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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.

A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad...
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The Catalyst Killing

Hans Olav Lahlum · Pan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

1970. Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen, known as K2, witnesses a young woman desperately trying to board a train only to have the doors close before her face. The next time he sees her, she is dead. As K2 investigates, with the help of his precocious young assistant Patricia, he discovers...
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Cruel Is the Night

Karo Ha?ma?la?inen · Soho Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen's English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world.

Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment....
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Date with Death: A Dales Detective Mystery

Julia Chapman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force -- quite unfairly, according to him. Now back in his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales, Samson sets up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe aren't entirely...

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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky · William Morrow
Pages: 433
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."

P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers.

STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.

And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary...

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Fast and Loose

Stuart Woods · Putnam
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington's newest foe has a short fuse . . . and it's just been lit.

Stone Barrington is enjoying a boating excursion off the Maine coast when a chance encounter leaves him somewhat the worse...
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From the Devil's Farm

Leta Serafim · Coffeetown Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A Greek American tourist, Lydia Pappas, stumbles upon a child's body in the ruins of an ancient temple, well hidden on the top of a cliff. The boy has been bled dry, though no blood is in evidence, leading the Greek police investigator, Yiannis Patronas, to believe the killer must have...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford · Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

Thanks...
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Heretics: A Novel

Leonardo Padura · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author

In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old...

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In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II

Rhys Bowen · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked...

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The Last Chance Olive Ranch

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him...

Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of the Huntsville prison...
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Less than a Treason

DANA STABENOW · HEAD OF ZUES
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carrires a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs...
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Long Black Veil: A Novel

Jennifer Finney Boylan · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There, a new novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past.
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The Lost Woman

Sara Blædel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Following the incredible success of Sara Blaedel's #1 international bestsellers The Forgotten Girls and The Killing Forest, Louise Rick-head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases-returns in Sara's latest twist-filled suspense...
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Murder, Stage Left

Robert Goldsborough · Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

It's curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case - but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is a suspect. When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius...
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No Easy Target

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller, No Easy Target

Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where...

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Old Bones: A Bill Slider British Police Procedural

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

DCI Bill Slider tackles the coldest of cold cases in this absorbing mystery.

A young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden...
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Ominous

LISA JACKSON · KENSINGTON PUB CORP
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare. NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering...
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One by One: A Danny Ryan Thriller

Sarah Cain · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Praise for the The 8th Circle:"This dark thriller is a fast-paced plunge. "--Kirkus starred review "Ryan is a perfect hero; with nothing left to lose, he's incorruptible. One can certainly see the brooding journalist making a compelling series lead. "--BOOKLIST "Cain's...
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One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Scottoline keeps the pace relentless as she drops a looming threat into the heart of an idyllic suburban community, causing readers to hold their breath in anticipation." -BOOKLIST

"Readers can be assured that the author nails the high school milieu, from...

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Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

ACE ATKINS · PUTNAM
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last.

Connie...

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The Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery

Sally Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life...
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The Secrets of Gaslight Lane: The Gower Street Detective: Book 4

M R C Kasasian · Pegasus Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

The new novel in the atmospheric Gower Street Detective series introduces a chilling locked room mystery to Detective Sidney Grice and his precocious ward March Middleton.

London, 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical...
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The Shivering Turn: A new series set in Oxford

Sally Spencer · Severn House Publishers Ltd.
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

"Spencer scores another top-notch hit with this new series, which features her usual skilful writing, clever plotting, and intriguing characters"BOOKLIST

Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new...
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Skeleton God

Eliot Pattison · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Eliot Pattison's Skeleton God, Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted...

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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.

When...

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Trumpet of Death: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Cynthia Riggs · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend,...

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A Twist of the Knife: A Novel

Becky Masterman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"A crime novel that transcends the genre -- a twisting, high-stakes story with characters so real and so recognizably human, that it breaks your heart a little. Brilliant."
-Shari Lapena, author of the New York Times bestseller The Couple Next Door

Ex-FBI...

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The Wages of Sin: A Novel

Kaite Welsh · Pegasus Books
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning tale of murder, subversion and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture.

Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University...
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