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The Accordionist

FRED VARGAS · Random House UK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Louis Kehlweiler of the Three Evangelists trilogy returns, along with his beloved pet toad, Bufo. Vauquer Clement, a young accordionist in his thirties has disappeared, believed by police forces from Nevers to Paris to have killed two women, both shockingly violent murders. But Kehlweiler...
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The Big Get-Even

PAUL DI FILIPPO · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen,...
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Bloody January

ALAN PARKS · World Noir
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy.When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can't be a random...
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Cave of Bones

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor...
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City of Sharks

Kelli Stanley · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The blonde secretary was scared when she visited Miranda Corbie's office. A shove into a streetcar track, a box of poisoned chocolates ... hateful, violent letters.Someone was trying to kill her. Miranda isn't sure of anything at first except that Louise Crowley, the blonde who works as an assistant...
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Date with Malice: A Samson and Delilah Mystery

Julia Chapman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The second book in a delightful new English village mystery series set in the Yorkshire Dales.When a pensioner turns up at the Dales Detective Agency and tells Samson O'Brien that someone in her old people's home is trying to kill her, he dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused...
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Death Comes in through the Kitchen

Teresa Dovalpage · Soho Crime
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipesHavana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old...
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Greeks Bearing Gifts

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives...
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Holmes Entangled

Gordon McAlpine · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback

From the Edgar®-nominated author of Hammett Unwritten and Woman with a Blue Pencil comes a startling meta-fiction tale told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1920s' London, Cambridge, and Paris, Holmes's final adventure leads him through labyrinths of crime and espionage...
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Phoenix Burning

Isabella Maldonado · Midnight Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The battle between Veranda Cruz and the Villalobos cartel turns Phoenix into a war zone Homicide Detective Veranda Cruz will stop at nothing to take down the Villalobos cartel. But when a wave of violence in the city escalates, she fears that the secrets of her past will take her down...
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In Prior's Wood: A Max Tudor Mystery

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

"G. M. Malliet has crafted the English village of our dreams." -- Charlaine HarrisAgatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers, cozy fans, and Agatha Christie devotees with her critically acclaimed mysteries, and this newest one featuring handsome spy-turned-cleric...
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Killing in C Sharp

Alexia Gordon · Henery Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

She saved Carraigfaire - but can she save her friends? Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago. This ghost's...
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Last Ferry Home

Kent Harrington · Polis Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"No one writes about the heart of darkness like Kent Harrington" -Michael Connelly Since his wife's death at sea, San Francisco Police Detective Michael O'Higgins has been paralyzed by grief and shame - unable to care for their teenaged daughter, who saw her mother swept away,...
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The Master Key

Masako Togawa · Pushkin Vertigo
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback

The prizewinning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers.The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil.Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved...
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Murder at Half Moon Gate

ANDREA PENROSE · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A wealthy lord who happens to be a brilliant scientist . . . an enigmatic young widow who secretly pens satirical cartoons . . . a violent killing disguised as a robbery . . . Nothing is as it seems in Regency London, especially when the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane join forces...
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Queen Anne's Lace

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

China Bayles hunts for answers when a ghost begins to haunt her shop in the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert.It's August in Pecan Springs, and Ruby has decided that it's time to clean out the loft over Thyme and Seasons and the Crystal...
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Resurrection Bay

Emma Viskic · Pushkin Vertigo
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

The acclaimed debut thriller from Australia's most exciting new crimewriting talent.The 2nd Caleb Zelic title, AND FIRE CAME DOWN, will be published October, 2018, and the author is already writing a 3rd installment.Caleb Zelic can't hear you but he sees everything.CALEB ZELIC IS ON THE HUNT...
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Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums....
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Shot in the Dark

CLEO COYLE · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when...
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Twisted Prey

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now more powerful than ever as a U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey seriesLucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before.A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate,...
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