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Jassy Mackenzie · Soho Crime
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate...
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Cold Earth: A Shetland Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Ann Cleeves, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger Award, comes Cold Earth. In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea.At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water...
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Crime Song

DAVID SWINSON · LITTLE
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Frank Marr ("a masterly piece of characterization" - Tana French) is back. Marr, a retired D. C. police detective working as a private eye for a defense attorney, has a serious problem. He is secretly a drug addict, and his long-time supply of cocaine is about to run out....
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The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich. Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate...
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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. The calls go unanswered...
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Devil's Breath: A Max Tudor Mystery

G. M. Malliet · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers, cozy fans, and Agatha Christie devotees with her critically acclaimed mysteries featuring handsome spy-turned-cleric Max Tudor. In The Haunted Season, Max's former life as an MI5 agent caught up with him, threatening...
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The Devil's Feast

M J Carter · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England's first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest...
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Every Night I Dream of Hell

Malcolm Mackay · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of The Glasgow Trilogy, comes Every Night I Dream of Hell, a dark and thrilling Glaswegian crime drama.Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be afraid of. But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead...
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Exit Strategy: A Nick Mason Novel

Steve Hamilton · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible:...
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A Fever of the Blood: A Novel

Oscar De Muriel · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

This riveting new detective novel evokes a spellbinding concoction of crime, history, and horror -- perfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and P.D. James. New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local...
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Give the Devil His Due

Steve Hockensmith · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Reformed con artist-turned-tarot reader Alanis McLachlan gets paid for predicting the future -- too bad she didn't see all the trouble in hers. First a figure from her past tries to drag her back into the life of crime she thought she'd left behind. Then a new suitor tries to sweep Alanis...
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Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

JOE R LANSDALE · TACHYON PUBNS
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A new novel celebrating the second season of the Sundance TV Hap and Leonard series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire) , James Purefoy (The Following) , and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) .Hap Collins is becoming a man - just not the man he's expected to be. His East Texan childhood...
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Heat Storm

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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Indecent Exposure

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Trouble always seems to find Stone Barrington, but with his debonair charm, unflappable composure, and cunning foresight, he always gets his man (and his lady....) .
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The Jukebox Kings

DOUG ALLYN · STARK HOUSE PR
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

It all starts when Mick Shannon Irish Mick loses to a knockout punch. His manager had bet heavy, and now Mick owes the mob, and more specifically, Moishe Abrams, who runs the jukes and collections in Detroit s 8 Mile. Moishe is part of the Old Guard, and not to be trifled with. But first...
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The Language of Solitude: A Novel

Jan-Philipp Sendker · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Jan-Philipp Sendker's Whispering Shadows was "a darkly beautiful, heart-wrenching" (BOOKLIST , starred review) journey through bustling Hong Kong's sinister underbelly. The captivating second book in the high-stakes Rising Dragon series plunges...
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The Long Drop

Denise Mina · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A standalone psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes the dark hearts of the guilty...and the innocent.In 1950's Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast iron alibi but police...
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Marathon

Brian Freeman · Quercus

"On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city's biggest annual event: the Duluth Marathon. Exhausted runners push to reach the finish line and spectators line the streets to cheer them on. Then, in a terrifying echo of the Boston bombing,...
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Murder in the Bowery

VICTORIA THOMPSON · BERKLEY PUB GROUP
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The latest Gaslight Mystery from the bestselling author of Murder in Morningside Heights finds Sarah Brandt and Frank Malloy searching for a connection between a murdered newsie and a high society woman with dangerous habits.Frank Malloy's latest client is the well-dressed Will Bert. He's...
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My Darling Detective

Howard Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard NormanJacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle....
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No Middle Name

Lee Child

This hard-hitting collection of Jack Reacher fiction includes an original novella leading into The Midnight Line alongside eleven reader favorites: Small Wars, Not a Drill, High Heat, Second Son, Deep Down, Guy Walks into a Bar, James Penney's New Identity, Everyone Talk
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Shallow End: A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Brenda Chapman · Dundurn
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Still waters run deep. English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. Moving into student housing, she takes a minimum wage job and begins her life in the shadows while she bides her time. One month later, the bludgeoned body...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments of rust...
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A Welcome Murder

Robin Yocum · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went...
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