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The Pope of Palm Beach: A Novel

Tim Dorsey · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Florida's king of mayhem - "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey - comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge A. Storms....
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The Gatekeeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York...
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Two Girls Down: A Novel

Louisa Luna · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"This is such a terrific read. High stakes, relationship-driven, perfectly paced. Two Girls Down has something else worth noting: three dimensional female characters. Alice Vega could give Jack Reacher a run for his money. Maybe Louisa Luna should write all the thrillers."--New...
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The English Wife

LAUREN WILLIG · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor...
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey · Soho Crime
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree...
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Hidden, The: A British police procedural set in the 1970s

SALLY SPENCER · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover

Monika Paniatowski knows exactly who the killer is - but there's no way she can tell anyone else! DCI Paniatowski's team are increasingly convinced that the girl found dead in the woods is the victim of a ritual killing, carried out by a secret society which has been established in the very...
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The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Stewart Hoag Mystery

David Handler · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

HARLAN COBEN calls it "One of my all-time favorite series! ...David Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after another that he makes it look easy." Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't yet discovered wisecracking sleuth...
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Gin and Panic: A Mystery

MAIA CHANCE · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibtion-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client,...
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Gone Gull: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Andrews soars into summer with a crafty new Meg Langslow mystery.Gone Gull brings readers yet another knee-slapping adventure filled with New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews' cast of wacky characters.Meg is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother...
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FELIX FRANCIS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 375
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis is back in the newest thrilling adventure in the Dick Francis tradition. A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come...
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Ruined Stones: By the author of The Guardian Stones

Eric Reed · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback

Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius - named for the Emperor...
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A Cold Case

PETER TURNBULL · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Maurice Mundy, retired detective constable at the Met; a maverick who's back and about to raise the temperature on a ten-year-old unsolved murder of a young boy. Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard's...
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Other Countries: A British police procedural

Jo Bannister · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Detective Constable Hazel Best's latest assignment takes an unexpected turn in the compelling new Gabriel Ash mystery. Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, DC Hazel Best's first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who has arrived in Norbold to open a new museum....
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Wagging through the Snow

LAURIEN BERENSON · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" - Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer surprise she finds...
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A Place in the Wind

SUZANNE CHAZIN · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The disappearance of a teenage girl in upstate New York sets off a powder keg of accusations, bigotry, and fear - with deadly results - in Suzanne Chazin's stunning new thriller featuring Hispanic police detective Jimmy Vega . . . On a frigid, January night, a blond, blue-eyed high school...
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Desert Remains: A Gus Parker and Alex Mills Novel

Steven Cooper · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Someone is filling the desert caves around Phoenix with bodies--a madman who, in a taunting ritual, is leaving behind a record of his crimes etched into the stone. With no leads and no suspects, Detective Alex Mills sees a case spinning out of control. City leaders want the case solved...
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A Study in Gold: A contemporary British mystery set in Oxford

Annie Dalton · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover

A Second World War-themed murder mystery weekend ends in murder for real. Having reluctantly agreed to make up the numbers at a World War II-themed murder mystery weekend at Mortmead Hall, Anna Hopkins and her fellow dogwalkers, Isadora and Tansy, enjoy themselves far more than they'd...
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The Property of Lies: A 1930s' historical mystery

MARJORIE ECCLES · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover

DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls' boarding school. 1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate....
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Beyond Absolution: A mystery set in 1920s Ireland

CORA HARRISON · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all,...
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Promise Not to Tell

JAYNE ANN KRENTZ · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea - but she'll leave some of her secrets behind... Seattle gallery owner...
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The Nine-Tailed Fox

Martin Limo?n · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary thousand-year-old nine-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects...
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Wychwood

George Mann · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother's house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong. Then a body is found in the neighbouring Wychwoods: a woman ritually slaughtered, with cryptic...
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