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Last Song Sung: A Cullen and Cobb Mystery

David A. Poulsen · Dundurn
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to become famous as Joni Mitchell. During a cigarette break...
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Trumpet of Death: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Cynthia Riggs · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha....
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DOUBLE BLIND

IRIS JOHANSEN
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors are back with an electrifying new novel that will leave your heart racing. Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant...
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series.It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime...
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Pale as Death

Heather Graham · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the dark depths of Hollywood's pastThe crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning's new case is high-profile and difficult - there's no evidence to work with. And it's a disturbing echo of the infamous Black...
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The Lonely Witness: A Novel

WILLIAM BOYLE · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she finds herself fascinated by the killer and decides to track him down herself. Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn....
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Dead Girl Running

Christina Dodd · HQN Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Look for Dead Girl Running, the exciting new novel from Christina Dodd, available from HQN books Apr 24, 2018. Pre-order your copy today!
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The Word Is Murder

ANTHONY HOROWITZ · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried...
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Murder on Union Square

VICTORIA THOMPSON · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When a murder hits close to home, Frank finds himself in an unusual position--the prime suspect in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series...Frank and Sarah Malloy are enjoying married life and looking to make their family official by adopting Catherine,...
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Allmen and the Dragonflies

MARTIN SUTER · New Vessel Press
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

A thrilling art heist escapade infused with European high culture and luxury that doesn't shy away from the darker side of human nature.Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted his family fortune by living in Old World grandeur despite present-day...
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The Woman in the Woods

JOHN CONNOLLY · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover

"Fans will agree that this is Connolly's masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) *Includes a free soundtrack download* From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre"...
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So Pretty a Problem

Francis Duncan · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Love is deadlyAdrian Carthallow, a dramatic and talented artist, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it's not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity -- it's the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife...
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See Her Run

PEGGY TOWNSEND · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback

Running for her life could leave her breathless.A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove...
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Gentlemen Formerly Dressed

Sulari Gentill · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

There's an Evelyn Waugh-meets-Agatha Christie feel about this series.Handsome, wry, and witty despite his impeccable manners, and the dedicated black sheep of his conservative, wealthy Australian family, Rowland Sinclair prefers to leave managing the immense family fortune and politics...
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The Fairfax Incident

TERRENCE MCCAULEY · Polis Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Manhattan, 1933. Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after The Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor, his private detective business is booming. Catering to the city's wealthy elite, Doherty is making a good living chasing down wayward spouses and runaway...
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Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies

Darci Hannah · Midnight Ink
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"The first in an amusing new series features a fearless, reckless sleuth who unravels a complicated mystery while juggling her sex life and her future plans." -- Kirkus Reviews "Whitney is a well-drawn, sympathetic character, and the small-townframe, with a close-knit community...
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White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6

John Verdon · Counterpoint
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The next installment of Verdon's internationally bestselling series featuring retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney, who must solve a deadly puzzle amidst murder and racial strife in one small town. Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the one-year anniversary of a fatal...
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The Thief of All Light

BERNARD SCHAFFER · Kensington
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Tense, fast, and excellent - I loved this book." - Lee ChildFrom veteran police detective Bernard Schaffer comes a powerful new thriller that crackles with authenticity, page-turning suspense, and spellbinding glimpses into the criminal mind . . . "It was one thing to fantasize...
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Stay Hidden

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in this intricately-plotted new thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator...
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