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The Amber Shadows: A Novel

Lucy Ribchester · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

During the dangerous days of World War II, Honey Deschamps is spending her days transcribing decrypted messages at Bletchley Park, when she starts to receive bizarrely coded packages. When everyone is keeping secrets, who can you trust? Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey...
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Beach, Breeze, Bloodshed: A Teddy Creque Mystery

JOHN KEYSE-WALKER

"Sun, Sand, Murder by John Keyse-Walker is a winner. It is written with the coral clarity of a Caribbean atoll, and evokes an edgy rhythm that suits the protagonist, Teddy Creque, and his wholly authentic domain, the Virgin Islands." -- Randy Wayne White
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The Bloody Black Flag: A Spider John Mystery

STEVE GOBLE · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm...
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Cast Iron

Peter May · Quercus Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now,...
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A Christmas Return: A Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

'Tis the season of giving - and with this wonderful book, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry shares a brand-new holiday mystery filled with bygone relationships and hidden secrets. As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying,...
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Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily Mystery

TASHA ALEXANDER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen....
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Deep Freeze

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Class reunions: a time for memories - good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly - in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned...
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The Devil's Wedding Ring

Vidar Sundstøl · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg...
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Doom with a View: A Merry Ghost Inn Mystery

KATE KINGSBURY · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited Grand Opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie's dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests.Everyone...
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Killing Season

Faye Kellerman · William Morrow
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying novel of suspense as a young man s investigation into his sister s death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.The more you know, the more...
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The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel

LEE CHILD
Format: Hardcover

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Mind Game

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

With Iris Johansen's trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller that's impossible to put down.Scotland holds a treasure that Jane MacGuire has been hunting for years. But as she scours the highlands in search of it, she's plagued by dreams of a girl...
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Much Ado About Murder: A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery

ELIZABETH J. DUNCAN. · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax has another murder on her hands as she prepares for the latest performance of the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company, Much Ado About Nothing. The company's steady growth enables them to cast star British actress Audrey Ashley, who arrives on scene...
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Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery

CAY RADEMACHER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers a beautifully atmospheric new story with a captivating main character in Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery.Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption-unit of the French...
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On Copper Street: A Victorian police procedural

CHRIS NICKSON · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Detective Inspector Tom Harper finds answers hard to come by in his latest, most challenging, investigation to date. Leeds, England. March, 1895. The day after his release from prison, petty criminal Henry White is found stabbed to death at his terraced home on Copper Street. Pursuing...
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Parting Shot

LINWOOD BARCLAY · Doubleday Canada
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes a new, standalone blockbuster thriller that spins off from the events of the explosive Promise Falls trilogy.If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you? After...
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Pulse

Felix Francis

New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis is back in the newest thrilling adventure in the Dick Francis tradition. A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But wh
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The Quality of Mercy

Katayoun Medhat · Leapfrog Press
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback

"Move over Walt Longmire. Make room for Franz Kafka, aka 'K.' Expertly plotted, beautifully written, eloquent, colloquial, wry, insightful . . . Medhat demonstrates a keen sense of place and Navajo culture and history, with superior attention to language; smart, witty, often...
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Quick & Dirty

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington gets entangled in the intricate and rarefied art business in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will...
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Random Road: Introducing Geneva Chase

Thomas Kies · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper.The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene 'Slaughterhouse."...
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Righteous

JOE IDE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year and nominee for the Best First Novel Edgar Award, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus.For ten years, something has gnawed at Isaiah Quintabe's gut and kept him up nights,...
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Trace

ARCHER MAYOR · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother. Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case....
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Two Kinds of Truth

MICHAEL CONNELLY · Little
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world...
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Wolf's Revenge

Lachlan Smith · Mysterious Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Leo Maxwell is no ordinary attorney. He spends as much time tracking corrupt politicians and gangland leaders across the Bay area to piece together the facts of a crime as he does crafting courtroom rhetoric. But Leo has never quite recovered from discovering his mother's murdered corpse...
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A Cajun Christmas Killing: A Cajun Country Mystery

ELLEN BYRON. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B....
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A Cajun Christmas Killing: A Cajun Country Mystery

ELLEN BYRON. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B....
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