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Who Is Vera Kelly?

Rosalie Knecht · Tin House Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"The twisty, literary, woman-driven spy novel you've always wanted to read. Dazzling." -- Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits With Gun A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 at The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bustle, Autostraddle, and more.New York City, 1962....
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Desperate Girls

Laura Griffin · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"I love a strong, smart heroine, and defense attorney Brynn Holloran is exactly that. Desperate Girls is a nail-biting read from the very first page to the final, shocking twist. I could not put this book down." - Melinda Leigh, Wall Street Journal bestselling author New York...
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London Rules

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The fifth entry in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Slough House series featuring Jackson Lamb London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting...
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The Last Time I Lied: A Novel

Riley Sager · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their...
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Fugitive Red

Jason Starr · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Love on the Internet gone wrong Reminiscent of Nick and Amy in Gone Girl, Jack and Maria have a tortuous history. Currently, they live in a claustrophobic Manhattan apartment with their eight-year-old son, Jonah. Jack has quit booze, but his music career ended abruptly, and he isn't...
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The Ruin: A Novel

Dervla McTiernan · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind... When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel

Darcey Bell · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding, and directed by Paul Feig"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating...
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Lost Lake: A Detective Gemma Monroe Mystery

Emily Littlejohn · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An enthralling, atmospheric new novel from Emily Littlejohn, the author of acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, featuring Colorado police officer Gemma Monroe.On a bright Saturday in early spring, Detective Gemma Monroe responds to a missing person call at Lost Lake, near the small town of Cedar...
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Star of the North: A Novel

D B JOHN · Crown
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely allianceStar of the North opens in 1988, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach...
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Holy Ghost

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST ) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have been invented....
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Target: Alex Cross

JAMES PATTERSON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

TARGET: HEAD OF STATEA leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINETA...
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Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel

JOSEPH FINK · Harper Perennial
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead."This is not a story. It's a road trip."Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life...
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The Fox

Frederick Forsyth · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A new and timely thriller from the legendary Frederick Forsyth, "truly the world's reigning master of suspense" (Los Angeles Times) .The Fox is a riveting thriller that begins with separate disasters striking the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA. A massive cybercrime has been...
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The Man Who Came Uptown

GEORGE PELECANOS · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos' thrilling new novel, an ex-con must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another pathMichael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman...
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Broken Ground

VAL MCDERMID · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland...
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Ambush

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a set-up, taking an officer down-and it's not Michael Bennett. The life of New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct...
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Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar

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The Collector

Fiona Cummins
Format: Paperback(Mass Market Paperback)

"A crime novel of the very first order. " - David Baldacci   In Fiona Cummins' new novel of taut psychological suspense, an elusive psychopath meets his match in a detective who's just as ruthless - a woman who knows all too well that the best mind games are played in the dark...
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Watching You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the "riveting thriller" (PopSugar) Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect "for fans of Gone Girl, The Girl...
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