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Fever in the Dark

Ellen Hart · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

On their one year wedding anniversary, Fiona and Annie return home from a trip together to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. The video is on the verge of going viral, and there's enormous media interest...
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The Whole Cat and Caboodle: Second Chance Cat Mystery

Sofie Ryan · NAL
Format: Paperback

Sarah Grayson is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine. At the shop, she sells used items that she has lovingly refurbished and repurposed. But her favorite pet project so far has been adopting a stray cat she names Elvis. The big black...
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Under Water

CASEY BARRETT · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Here be the beginnings of a superb series." - Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series Duck Darley should have been a winner. Once a competitive swimmer destined for Olympic gold, he drank away his gilded youth and followed his fraudster father's footsteps into prison....
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Another Man's Ground

Claire Booth · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

It starts out as an interesting little theft case. Branson, Missouri's new Sheriff Hank Worth is called out to look at stands of trees that have been stripped of their bark, which the property owner had planned to harvest for the booming herbal supplement market. At first, Hank easily balances...
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Murder in July: Historical mystery set in New Orleans

Barbara Hambly · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery. When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal,...
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Read to Death

Terrie Farley Moran · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The national bestselling author of Caught Read-Handed revisits Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where the proprietors of a local bookstore café occasionally take a stab at solving murder... At their seaside Read 'Em and Eat bookstore café, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield offer fresh scones,...
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Beach Bags and Burglaries

Dorothy Howell · Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Part-time sleuth and full-time fashionista Haley Randolph just won an all-expenses-paid vacay at the Rowan Resort, a ridiculously exclusive island getaway that caters to the whims of millionaires, royalty, and Hollywood A-listers. With her three BFFs--Marcie, Bella, and Sandy--along for the ride,...
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Willnot

James Sallis · Bloomsbury
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive....
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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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Mangrove Lightning

Randy Wayne White · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in the electrifying new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering...
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Murder, She Wrote: Death of a Blue Blood

Jessica Fletcher · NAL
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher is invited to ring in the New Year with British aristocracy. Too bad someones about to end the life of the party....Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited...
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By its Cover: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

Donna Leon's critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture....
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Antiques Fate

Barbara Allan · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"Well-drawn characters ... fun to read." --BOOKLIST Brandy Borne's exceedingly eccentric mother, Vivian, has been invited to perform her one-woman interpretation of "the Scottish play" (sometimes called Macbeth) --with different hats for different characters--at...
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The Secret Corps: A Thriller

Peter Telep · Ulysses Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A fasted-paced thriller whose characters represent the courage, honor, and commitment of a great nation!Their bond was forged in the crucible of combat. No matter what life threw at them, they were marines--ready to do anything for each other. But these four decorated veterans now have...
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Night Heron

Adam Brookes · Redhook
Format: Hardcover

Set in China, and ripped from todays headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British...
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