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The Absolution: A Novel

Jonathan Holt · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this mesmerizing finale to the revolutionary Carnivia Trilogy - following The Abomination and The Abduction - Venetian police captain Kat Tapo and U.S. Army intelligence analyst Holly Boland embark on their most dangerous and disturbing journey yet.On Venice's popular Lido beach,...
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All Dressed in White: An Under Suspicion Novel

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride.Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college...
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Away in a Manger

Rhys Bowen · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and twelve-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen...
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A Blossom of Bright Light

Suzanne Chazin · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Latino police detective Jimmy Vega must strike a precarious balance between the local immigrant community and his hometown's most powerful and privileged citizens during a dangerous murder investigation"--Dust jacket flap.When a body is found near a gathering place for immigrants...
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The Chocolate Falcon Fraud: A Chocoholic Mystery

JoAnna Carl · New American Library
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown Corpse, it's murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives aren't so black and white ... The Warner Pier tourism board is kicking off its Tough Guys and Private...
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The Crossing

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 388
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Harry Bosch crosses the line to team up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.
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Dark Corners: A Novel

Ruth Rendell · Scribner, 2015.
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life's fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendell - "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People) - writing at her most acute and mesmerizing.When his father...
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Double Fudge Brownie Murder

Joanne Fluke · Kensington Publishing Corp., 2015.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama--especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery--let alone...
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Find Her

Lisa Gardner · Dutton
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

Flora Dane is a victim.

Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.

Flora Dane is a survivor.

Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent...
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Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Harbour Street is the next spellbinding installment in Ann Cleeves' series of crime novels about Vera Stanhope, played in the TV detective drama VERA by Brenda Blethyn.As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective...
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Home by Nightfall: A Charles Lenox Mystery

Charles Finch · St Martin'S Press, 2015.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely,...
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Murder by Suspicion: An Ellie Quicke British Murder Mystery

Veronica Heley · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Ellie Quicke finds herself the target of a local cult-like church, but are their motives truly Christian or is there darkness at their heart?Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after their elderly housekeeper, whose health is failing. But employing a carer found by Ellie's difficult...
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The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel

Robert Crais · Putnam
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais.

Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice...
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Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery

Sally Andrew · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Pages: 419
Format: Print book

A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first entry in a delicious crime set in rural South Africa - a flavorful blend of The #1 Ladies Detective Agency and Goldie Schulz series, full of humor, romance, and recipes and featuring a charming cast of characters.Tannie Maria (Tannie...
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A Specter of Justice: A Sam Blackman Mystery

Mark de Castrique · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twin boys, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys' parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key witness against the twins' father....
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Stillwater: A Jack McBride Mystery

Melissa Lenhardt · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 298
Format: Print book

Big secrets run deep.Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier.With a low crime rate and a five-man police force,...
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The Sundown Speech

Loren D. Estleman · Forge
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A hot new Amos Walker mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel.Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It's one of Walker's...
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Tricky Twenty-Two: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles) , hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta...
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