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January 2023

The Lamplighters

Emma Stonex - Viking
Format: Book

What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent.It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls...

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February 2023

The Royal Wulff Murders

Keith McCafferty - Viking Adult; 1st Printing edition
Format: Book

The first novel in the clever and fast-paced Sean Stranahan Mystery Series. When a fishing guide reels in the body of a young man on the Madison, the Holy Grail of Montana trout rivers, Sheriff Martha Ettinger suspects foul play. It's not just the stick jammed into the man's...

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March 2023

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins
Format: Book

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's

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April 2023

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling ... .A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind." - David Wroblewski "A new Tom Franklin novel is always a reason to get excited,...
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May 2023

The Maid

Nita Prose - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating...

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June 2023

The Last Policeman

Ben Winters - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

The weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper TownsWinner of the 2013 EdgarAward Winner for Best Paperback Original!Whats the point in solving murders if were all going...

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July 2023

Murder in Old Bombay

Nev March - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Captain Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century:...
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August 2023

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji - Pushkin Vertigo
Format: Paperback

The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating the crime, putting their passion for solving mysteries to practical use, but before long there is a fresh...
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September 2023

Full Dark House

Christopher Fowler - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book

A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War II. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur’s identity, May finds...

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October 2023

The Alienist

Caleb Carr - Random House
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES"A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages." - Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when...
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November 2023

A Foreboding of Petrels

Steve Burrows - Point Blank
Format: Kindle Edition

On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bird hide, Danny's investigation escalates....

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December 2023

The Twelve Deaths of Christmas

Marian Babson - Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Format: Kindle Edition

"A top-notch thriller . . . The identities of the murderer and the twelfth victim come as a stunner" (Publishers Weekly) . At Maude Daneson's rooming house, the holiday season has everyone bustling about in anticipation, and Maude herself is planning a glorious Christmas...
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