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High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread

Joyce Carol Oates · Grove
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals - a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway - in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the title...
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Dark Matter: A Novel

Blake Crouch · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy-"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped...
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Old Bones: A Bill Slider British Police Procedural

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

DCI Bill Slider tackles the coldest of cold cases in this absorbing mystery. A young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden two decades before, and was never...
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Hades

Candice Fox · Kensington; Reprint edition
Format: Book

"Compelling . . . A chilling read." - Sydney Morning HeraldTwenty years ago, two children were kidnapped and left for dead.Raised by a master criminal, they grew up to become cops. Very unusual cops . . .Homicide detective Frank Bennett has an intriguing new partner. Dark,...
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Chain of Events: A Novel

Fredrik T. Olsson · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity - and the only man can crack it.William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist pursuing cutting-edge research, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and hes succumbed to a dark depression....
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Mystery in the Channel

Freeman Crofts · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer's crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck ... Two bodies...
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Spirits Revived

Alice Duncan · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

When a real live or dead spirit invades Daisy Gumm Majesty?s body as she?s conducting a séance, claiming he was murdered, Daisy is not only shocked and afraid, but curious. She?s a fake spiritualist, for heaven?s sake. How did a real spirit manage to speak through her? And who killed Eddie...
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Who Thinks Evil: A Professor Moriarty Novel

Michael Kurland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 286
Format: Print book

In London, 1892, a well-guarded young nobleman goes missing under distressing circumstances. The nobleman, one Baron Renfrew, is actually Prince Albert Victor, eldest grandson of Queen Victoria. He disappeared while he was visiting a house of ill repute, with bodyguards both inside and outside...
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The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon · Random House Inc
Pages: 320
Format: Book

"Inspired by a real-life unsolved mystery, this mesmerizing novel features characters that make a lasting impression."--PEOPLE MAGAZINE"More meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays off."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW They say behind every great man,...
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An Air of Treason

P. F. Chisholm · Ingram Pub Services
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

After his hair-raising adventures in London, Sir Robert Carey has finally tracked down Queen Elizabeth, who is about to make a state visit to Oxford. But instead of giving the Courtier his much-needed warrant and fee for being Deputy Warden of the West March with Scotland, Her Majesty orders...
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Baby Doll

Hollie Overton · Redhook
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"What a compulsive read A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page. " -- Tess Gerritsen, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Die Again" Escape was just the beginning. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown...
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The Father: Made in Sweden, Part I

Anton Svensson · Quercus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious...
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Gangsterland: A Novel

Tod Goldberg · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal,...
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The Last Tudor

Philippa Gregory · Touchstone
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead...
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Trouble Rides Tall / Cross the Red Creek / Desert Stake-Out

HARRY WHITTINGTON · STARK House PR
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

TROUBLE RIDES TALL Bryant Shafter is the trouble marshal. Town leaders call him in when they need a gun to quiet things down. Which is why Bry settled in Pony Wells. But now the town is under control. They don t need him anymore more particularly, they don t need to be paying his salary....
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