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Ruler of the Night

David Morrell · Mulholland Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy.1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole...
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A Study In Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas · Berkley
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down ... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would...
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City on Edge: A Novel

Stefanie Pintoff · Bantam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Stefanie Pintoff shoots to thrill in her gripping new novel of suspense. ON THE DAY AMERICANS GIVE THANKS, A MADMAN GIVES THEM HELL. The night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a crowd gathers on Manhattan's Upper West Side to watch the giant balloons fill...
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Another Day, Another Dali

Sandra Orchard · Revell
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A Fast-Paced, Keep-You-Guessing Whodunit with a Dash of RomanceWhen a valuable Salvador Dali painting belonging to her grandmother's friend is mysteriously replaced by a forgery, FBI Special Agent Serena Jones is called in to investigate. Serena hopes finding the thief will also mean...
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A Christmas Message: A Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In the spirit of the season, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry presents readers with the gift of another holiday mystery, taking them to the Holy Land for an intriguing and miraculous journey of discovery. The year is 1900, and Victor Narraway is giving his wife, Vespasia,...
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The Inheritance.

Finch Charles. · Minotaur Books
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series."Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow...
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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

David Rosenfelt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy -- eager, even -- to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can't...
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City of Strangers: A Novel

Louise Millar · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From the author of Accidents Happen, The Hidden Girl, and The Playdate - called "a supremely accomplished debut thriller by a writer to watch" (Booklist, starred review) - comes a new, heart-pounding novel about a journalist set on discovering the identity of a stranger who has turned...
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Eggnog Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . . EGGNOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER When a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog...
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Death of a Toy Soldier: A Vintage Toyshop Mystery

Barbara Early · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father's vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality - and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean...
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Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter...
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Hot Start

David Freed · The Permanent Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

A notorious, international big game hunter and his beautiful, former flight attendant wife are gunned down at long range late one sweltering summer night while swimming naked on their seaside estate in opulent Rancho Bonita, California. Police investigators are convinced that the killer...
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Casting Bones: A new voodoo mystery series set in New Orleans

Don Bruns · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which...
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Dead to the Last Drop: A Coffeehouse Mystery

Cleo Coyle · Berkley Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Once Upon a Grind comes an exciting new installment in the "highly satisfying"* Coffeehouse Mystery series. *Publishers Weekly
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The Champagne Conspiracy: A Wine Country Mystery

Ellen Crosby · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Winter has come to the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the vineyard. But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn's uncle, turns up on their doorstep one afternoon, demanding help in solving the mystery...
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Assassins: A new British mystery series set in 1920s London

Jim Eldridge · Cre?me De La Crime
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

The first of a new mystery series featuring Winston Churchill and King George V: an intriguing departure for bestselling children's author Jim Eldridge. London, 1921. Prominent Cabinet minister Lord Amersham has been shot dead outside his Regents Park home, two bullets to the chest...
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Desolation Flats: A Mystery

Andrew E Hunt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1938, as war clouds loom overseas, auto racers from around the world gather at the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City, intent on breaking the land-speed record. But when Clive Underhill, a wealthy English motorist, mysteriously disappears, and his younger brother,...
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The children's home : a novel

Charles Lambert · Scribner
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

"For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a...debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes"--In...
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Grace : a Willie Black mystery

Howard Owen · Permanent Press

Life is cheap on the poor side of town. For more than two decades, young black kids have been disappearing from Richmond's East End. No bodies have ever been found, and the missing boys haven't received much attention from police or the media. When the uncle of the latest missing...
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Death in Cold Water

Patricia Skalka · The University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

On a bracing autumn day in Door County, a prominent philanthropist disappears. Is the elderly Gerald Sneider - known as "Mr. Packer" for his legendary support of Green Bay football - suffering from dementia, or just avoiding his greedy son? Is there a connection to threats against...
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Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: Gaslight Mystery

Victoria Thompson · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City ... In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding...
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