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Dark Sacred Night

MICHAEL CONNELLY · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets....
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Long Road to Mercy

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces a remarkable new character: Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life...
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Murder in Paradise

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Mass Market Paperback

3 pulse-pounding stories from the world's #1 bestselling writer in one book!THE LAWYER LIFEGUARD with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes...
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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

Helene Tursten · Soho Crime
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing...
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Princess: A Private Novel

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

#1 BESTSELLING WRITER, #1 BESTSELLING SERIESJack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse...When the head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight...
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now: The First Lady Adelaide Mystery

Maggie Robinson · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard.Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold...
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The Waiting Room

Emily Bleeker · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of When I'm Gone and Working Fire comes a gripping novel about a mother, her missing daughter, and the dark secrets that engulf them.Ever since her husband's death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton....
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The Negotiator: A Novel of Suspense

Brendan DuBois · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

"The mysterious George has lots of clout, and the Negotiator has to make some exceptionally sharp and unexpected deals in his quest for payback. DuBois wraps up his clever tale with a few nifty twists. Readers will hope for a sequel." -- Publishers Weekly For the Negotiator, calling...
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The Colors of All the Cattle: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns...
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The Lies We Told

Camilla Way · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The highly acclaimed author of Watching Edie returns with a new novel of dark psychological suspense that explores how those closest to us have the most to hide...A daughterBeth has always known there was something strange about her daughter, Hannah. The lack of emotion, the disturbing...
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Vendetta

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller.With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter,...
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Sea of Greed

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident. January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue...
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You Don't Own Me

MARY HIGGINS CLARK · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Book

"Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor...
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Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly) . Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic...
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Red War

VINCE FLYNN · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia's gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill...
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30 Red Dresses

Johan Twiss · Independently published
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Veata did not expect any special surprises for her eighth birthday, especially the surprise of being sold into slavery."An Outstanding read." - San Francisco Review of Books"Fast-paced and exciting. Highly recommended." - Readersfavorite.com"A page turner with rich...
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The Best Bad Things: A Novel

Katrina Marie Carrasco · MCD
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco's debut will leave you thirsty for more." -- Lyndsay Faye,...
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Kingdom of the Blind

LOUISE PENNY · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Book

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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Murder in the Oval Library

C M GLEASON · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

April 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River, only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincoln - but a murderer is even closer . . . With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun - and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia...
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Mycroft and Sherlock

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR · Titan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however,...
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