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The Age of Olympus: Duncan Forrester Mystery 2

Gavin Scott · Titan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war, while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens he witnesses the poisoning of a Greek poet, who it appears may have not been the intended...
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Outfoxed

David Rosenfelt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them...
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Dakota

Gwen Florio · The Permanent Press; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being downsized from her job in Kabul. Then Judith Calf Looking, a local Blackfeet girl missing for several months, turns up dead in a snowbank with a mysterious...
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Puppet Master

Dale Brown · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In Dale Brown s Puppet Master, intelligent machines take center stage as America battles the Russian mafia in Eastern EuropeLouis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing...
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Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel

Andrew H Vachss · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

Dell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found a place of peace in a deceptively idyllic small town on the Oregon coast. But early one morning, just before daybreak, a body washes up on the town's pristine beach. The dead man's...
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The Coaster

Erich Wurster · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman -- albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster.Bob's...
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Bittersweet: A Novel

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore · Random House Inc
Pages: 385
Format: Book

Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded...
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I Refuse

Per Petterson · Graywolf
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

A masterful new novel from Per Petterson, who "provides one of literature's greatest gifts ... a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world" (NPR) Per Petterson's hotly anticipated new novel, I Refuse, is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers....
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The Confessions of Frances Godwin

Robert Hellenga · St Martins Pr
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

The Confessions of Frances Godwin is the fictional memoir of a retired high school Latin teacher looking back on a life of trying to do her best amidst transgressions -- starting with her affair with Paul, whom she later marries. Now that Paul is dead and she's retired, Frances Godwin thinks...
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The White Magic Five and Dime

Steve Hockensmith · Midnight Ink
Format: Print book

Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot...
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Smooth Operator

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From #1 bestselling author Stuart Woods comes an extraordinary new series starring an old fan favorite: Teddy Fay. When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate...
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Killing Cupid

Laura Levine · Kensington; First Kensington Hardback Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny, they always make me laugh out loud." --Joanne FlukeLove is in the air as freelance writer Jaine Austen begins a new job at the Dates of Joy matchmaking service--but between juggling her boss's...
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The Boy Who Killed Demons

Dave Zeltserman · Overlook
Pages: 288
Format: Book

"My name's Henry Dudlow. I'm fifteen and a half. And I'm cursed. Or damned. Take your pick. The reason? I see demons." So begins the latest novel by horror master Dave Zeltserman. The setting is quiet Newton, Massachussetts, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until...
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The Drowned Detective

Neil Jordan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Jonathan is a private detective in a decaying eastern European city. He is drowning in his work, his failing marriage, and the corrupt landscape that surrounds him. One day, he is approached by an elderly couple to investigate the disappearance of their daughter, who has been missing for nearly...
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