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All Men Fear Me: An Alafair Tucker Mystery

Donis Casey · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

The U.S. has finally entered the First World War and scheduled the first draft lottery. No one in Boynton, Oklahoma, is unaffected by the clash between rabid pro-war, anti-immigrant "patriots" and anti-conscription socialists, who are threatening an uprising rather than submit...
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Crucifixion Creek

Barry Maitland · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

"A meth-addicted biker shoots a woman during a police siege. An elderly couple commit suicide on the terrace of their favorite caf©Â™Â­. An unidentified white male is stabbed to death in the street. For Sydney homicide detective Harry Belltree, not long out of the military...
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Extreme Prey

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation - no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor...
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Family Jewels

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington is back and better than ever in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Stone Barrington's newest client seems to be a magnet for trouble. A poised lady of considerable wealth, she's looking for help discouraging the attentions of a tenacious...
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Heirs and Assigns: A new British country house murder mystery series

Marjorie Eccles · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon in a new mystery series, set in the Downton Abbey period.November, 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate the retired wealthy businessman's 60th birthday. But the morning...
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Hide away

Iris Johansen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney, a young girl with ruthless enemies...
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Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling." "Young Jane Steele's favorite book, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, mirrors her life...
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Killing Trail: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery

Margaret Mizushima · Crooked Lane
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

NOMINATED FOR RT BOOK REVIEW'S REVIEWER'S CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERYWhen a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, life-long resident Officer Mattie Cobb and her partner, K-9 police dog Robo, are assigned to the case that has rocked the small Colorado town.With...
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King Maybe

Timothy Hallinan · Soho Crime
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, Junior realizes the danger is far from over. He's gotten himself on the wrong side of a man whose...
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The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins

Antonia Hodgson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In a new Georgian-era mystery by Antonia Hodgson, a "truly spellbinding" (Guardian) author, Tom Hawkins prays for a royal pardon as he relives the espionage, underground dealings, and murder accusations that sent him to the gallows. London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows,...
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A Likely Story: A Library Lover's Mystery

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A new hardcover in the Library Lover's mystery series from the New York Times bestselling author of On Borrowed Time. Small-town librarian Lindsey Norris must solve a murder and a missing person's case involving two reclusive brothers.NOT HIS BROTHER'S KEEPERDelivering books...
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Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories

Andrea Camilleri · Penguin Books, 2016.
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved detective's career Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri...
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The murder of Mary Russell : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Laurie R King · Bantam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Laurie R. King's bestselling Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature's most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all? Mary...
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Night Shift: A Novel of Midnight, Texas

Charlaine Harris · Ace Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - "the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"* - comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day... At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying...
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The Quality of Silence: A Novel

Rosamund Lupton · Crown Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter's quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sister and AfterwardsThrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist,...
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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 Waters of Eternal Youth

Donna Leon · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case...
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When Falcons Fall: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

C.S. Harris · New American Library
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The much-anticipated new entrée in the Sebastian St. Cyr "simply elegant"* historical mystery series, from the national bestselling author of Who Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess.Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful...
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