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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

MARIO GIORDANO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For fans of A Man Called Ove and the novels of Adriana Trigiani, a charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily's newest amateur sleuth An Auntie Poldi Adventure On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest...
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Crimson Lake: A Novel

Candice Fox · Forge Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place - this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!" -- Lee ChildCrimson Lake by Sydney-based, Ned Kelly award-winning author Candice Fox is a thrilling...
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Cut You Down

Sam Wiebe · Quercus
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds, and her professor, Dana Essex, hires Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland to track down the student she just can't forget. When Wakeland discovers...
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Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

SARAH GRAVES · Kensington
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Life just got a little sweeter in the island fishing village of Eastport, Maine. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend Ellie are opening a waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose, where their tasty treats pair perfectly with the salty ocean breeze. But while Jake has moved...
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Death of an Honest Man

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.DEATH OF AN HONEST MANNobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English....
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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Force of Nature: A Novel

JANE HARPER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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Free from all Danger: An 18th century police procedural

Chris Nickson · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover

Richard Nottingham discovers that a new, more ruthless breed of criminal has colonised the city when he returns as Constable of Leeds. October, 1736. Lured out of retirement to serve as Constable once again, Richard Nottingham finds Leeds very different from the place he remembers. Many...
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The Gate Keeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Charles Todd · HarperLuxe
Format: Paperback

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York...
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The Greek Wall

Nicolas Verdan · Bitter Lemon Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction. It is a mystery...
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

DONALD E WESTLAKE · Hard Case Crime
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants...
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Her Beautiful Monster: The Ravi PI Series

Adi Tantimedh · Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Enjoy another "exhilarating roller-coaster ride of unusual cases" (Publishers Weekly) in this second book of the Ravi PI series, featuring detective Ravi Chandra Singh and his team at the gleefully amoral, unfailingly dangerous secret agency Golden Sentinels.When Ravi's colleagues...
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House Witness

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The new novel in Mike Lawson's acclaimed series takes political fixer Joe DeMarco to New York for behind-the-scenes work on a high-stakes murder case, as the five witnesses, one by one, start to withdraw
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The Hush

JOHN HART · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Set in the world of his most beloved novel The Last Child ("A magnificent creation" -- The Washington Post) , John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen.It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown...
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The Legacy: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel. The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where...
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Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel

Carter Wilson

Now under option with Legendary Television for development as a TV series How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender?At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man calle
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Plum Tea Crazy

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local...
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The Purloined Puzzle

Parnell Hall · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Amateur sleuth and crossword impresario Cora Felton is asked to solve a puzzle, only to find that it's been stolen -- and a murder weapon has been left in its place.When the obnoxious sixteen-year-old Peggy Dawson asks Cora Felton to solve a puzzle for her, Cora is delighted to find...
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Raspberry Danish Murder

JOANNE FLUKE · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won't be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton - not after her husband suddenly disappears . . .Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their...
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Seven Dead

J Farjeon · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDSTed Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.Detective Inspector...
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Sunburn: A Novel

LAURA LIPPMAN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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This Is What Happened

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London,...
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Walking the Bones

Randall Silvis · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

When long-buried secrets come back to the surface...The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been roped into investigating during what is supposed to be a healing...
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Wild Justice

Priscilla Royal · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It is Spring 1282. England is at war again with Wales. As Baron Hugh of Wynethorpe, a veteran of fighting in Outremer, prepares to join his King's army, he begs his sister, Prioress Eleanor, a favor. On her journey home to Tyndal Prior in Norfolk, she is to carry a gift of rents from the Wynethorpe...
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The Woman in the Water

Charles Finch · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This chilling new mystery in the New York Times bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox's very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London's most brilliant detectives.London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox...
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