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Into the Water

PAULA HAWKINS · Riverhead Books
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train"Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors - think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott - who have reinvigorated...
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Boar Island

Nevada Barr · Minotaur Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair...
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Blood on the Water: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us to London's grand Mayfair mansions, where the arrogant...
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The Long Room

Francesca Kay · Tin House Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Award-winning novelist Francesca Kay's new novel tells the story of a man who falls for the wrong woman.London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined...
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Police: A Harry Hole Novel

Jo Nesbo · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Finalist -- GoodReads Choice Award -- Mystery/ThrillerHarry Hole returns--or does he?--in a terrifyingly paced, vertiginous new roller coaster of a thriller by the internationally best-selling author of The Snowman and The Redeemer, "the king of Scandinavian crime fiction" (Kirkus). The...
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A Crack in the Wall

Claudia Pineiro · Bitter Lemon Press
Format: Paperback

Praise for Claudio Piñeiro:"An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society."—José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Thursday Night Widows is a gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin...
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Cell

Robin Cook · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous...
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Death's Dark Shadow - A novel of murder in 1970's Yorkshire

Sally Spencer · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for Monika Paniatowski.Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is - and no one seems to know. Even when her daughter Louisa provides...
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The Bloody Black Flag: A Spider John Mystery

STEVE GOBLE · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm...
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The Night Bird

Brian Freeman · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 362
Format: Print book

Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco - as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks - Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie's controversial therapy...
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Damned by Logic

Jeffrey Ashford · Severn House Publishers
Format: Book

On-board the MV Helios, cruising around the Mediterranean, copywriter David Ansell is seeking inspiration to write a glowing account of his voyage for the ship’s owner, Rex Cruising Company. His inspiration comes in the form of the blonde and beautiful Melanie Caine and they are inseparable...
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The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery

MARTHA GRIMES · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes's New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are "utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels" (Washington Post) . In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard...
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The Plot is Murder

V. M. Burns · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The small town of North Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to have a new mystery bookstore. But before the first customer can browse its shelves, the store's owner is suspected of her own murder plot . . . Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore...
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That Darkness

Lisa Black · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this tour de force of psychological suspense, bestselling author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic investigator to create two of the most fascinating characters in crime fiction: a killer with a unique sense of justice and a woman in a lifelong relationship with death...
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The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

Martin Walker · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff...
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