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The Black Painting: A Novel

Neil Olson · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed There were four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive,...
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Murder Has Nine Lives

Laura Levine · Kensington Books
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne FlukeThe future is looking bright for freelance writer Jaine Austen. She's signed up for a new job, she's looking forward to a tropical vacation, and her cat Prozac is slated to star...
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Murder Most Fowl

Edith Maxwell · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Spring may be just around the corner, but a cold-blooded killer has put the big chill on the residents of Westbury, Massachusetts. It looks like organic farmer-turned-sleuth Cam Flaherty will have to set aside her seedlings for the time being as she tills the soil for clues in the mysterious...
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel

Keith Donohue · Picador Usa
Pages: 273
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack...
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Wink of an Eye: A Mystery

Lynn Chandler Willis · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy...
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An Act of Murder

Mary Angela · Camel Press
Pages: 236
Format: Print book

In the sleepy college town of Copper Bluff, South Dakota, English professor Emmeline Prather is enjoying the start of a new semester. But when one of her students dies working on the fall musical, it disrupts life on the small, quiet campus. Although the police rule the death accidental,...
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A Burnable Book: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger · William Morrow
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover

*WINNER OF THE JOHN HURT FISHER PRIZE*SHORT-LISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS'S YEAR'S BEST IN CRIME FICTION In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's...
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Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists

Louis L'Amour · Bantam
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The first of its kind, a unique volume of twenty-one unpublished gems from one of the twentieth century's most popular and prolific writers Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures project will uncover the hidden history behind the author's...
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Desolation Flats: A Mystery

Andrew E Hunt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1938, as war clouds loom overseas, auto racers from around the world gather at the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City, intent on breaking the land-speed record. But when Clive Underhill, a wealthy English motorist, mysteriously disappears, and his younger brother,...
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The Murder of a Queen Bee

Meera Lester · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

All abuzz about murder . . . Former police officer Abigail Mackenzie has made a fresh start as a beekeeper and farmer in picturesque Las Flores, California - but she never suspected her new hometown would prove to be a hive of criminal activity. When Abby invites her free-spirited friend,...
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The Gardener of Eden: A Novel

David Downie · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A haunting and luminous novelthat explores the dark secrets lurking beneath the stunning natural beauty of a dying timber town. A mysterious beachcomber appears one day on the coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville, a place whose best days are long behind it. Who is he, and why has he returned...
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Caribbean Rim

RANDY WAYNE WHITE · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in the thrilling new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series.Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like...
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The Perfect Mother: A Novel

Nina Darnton · Plume

When an American exchange student is accused of murder, her mother will stop at nothing to save her.A midnight phone call shatters Jennifer Lewis's carefully orchestrated life. Her daughter, Emma, who's studying abroad in Spain, has been arrested after the brutal murder of another...
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Taken In

Elizabeth Lynn Casey · Berkley
Format: Print book

When a trip to the Big Apple ends in murder, the sewing circle searches for a killer who’s rotten to the core. . . Winning an appearance on a top-rated, New York based morning show means the trip of a lifetime for librarian Tori Sinclair and the Sweet...
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Of Books and Bagpipes: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

Paige Shelton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Delaney Nichols has settled so comfortably into her new life in Edinburgh that she truly feels it's become more home than her once beloved Kansas. Her job at the Cracked Spine, a bookshop that specializes in rare manuscripts as well as other sundry valuable historical objects, is everything...
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