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Ho-Ho-Homicide

Kaitlyn Dunnett · Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Business is booming at the Scottish Emporium in Moosetookalook, Maine, and Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin couldn't be happier--or busier. A romantic getaway at a rustic Christmas tree farm is just what she needs. But the property's mysterious past has her feeling less than merry. . .Liss...
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Walk Into Silence

Susan McBride · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is something darker at play?When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen's desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it's a case of a bored housewife running away.But as she digs deeper into...
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What the Dead Leave Behind

David Housewright · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn't...
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Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

Ahmed Saadawi · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A prizewinning novel of literary horror from war-torn Iraq - and the debut in English of "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times) From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café - collects human...
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The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon Books
Pages: 227
Format: Print book

"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open...
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The Hush

JOHN HART · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Set in the world of his most beloved novel The Last Child ("A magnificent creation" -- The Washington Post) , John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen.It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown...
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Brooklyn Graves: An Erica Donato Mystery

Triss Stein · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 236
Format: Book

A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning stained glass windows is now off limits....
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The Devil's Muse: A Maureen Coughlin Novel

BILL LOEHFELM · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

New Orleans's toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi GrasNow that she's back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rolls around, that is. New Orleans's biggest and most infamous party, Mardi Gras may be fun for the revelers...
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Less than a Treason

DANA STABENOW · HEAD OF ZUES
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carrires a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs...
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Death on Delos

Gary Corby · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Greece, 454 BC: It is illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos. It's also illegal to give birth there. Yet when murder is committed, the only available detective to solve the crime is the priestess Diotima, and she is heavily pregnant.Delos is the holy birthplace of the divine twins Apollo...
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Fateful Mornings: A Henry Farrell Novel

TOM BOUMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A woman's chilling disappearance haunts a rural Pennsylvania county in the eagerly awaited new Henry Farrell mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dry Bones in the Valley.Tom Bouman's Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book...
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Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill · Knopf
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover

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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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Manhunt: A Michael Bennett Story

James Patterson · BookShots
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback

Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive.Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television news called it "holiday terror"--Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is on....BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...
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A Nest of Vipers

Andrea Camilleri · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Cosimo Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses and family secrets.Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious...
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