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To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs - "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) , faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling...
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Plum Tea Crazy

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local...
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The Rising Sea

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

Everywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than...
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Closer Than You Know: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant...
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The Echo Killing

Christi Daugherty · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer.A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks, and cobblestone streets, Savannah moves at a graceful...
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Ali Reynolds Mystery #13

Johann Sebastian Bach · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth book in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's popular series featuring Ali Reynolds, a former Los Angeles news anchor turned amateur sleuth.
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Green Sun

KENT ANDERSON · Mulholland Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited return of acclaimed novelist Kent Anderson. Oakland, California, 1983: a Vietnam veteran-turned-police officer strives to be both a good cop and a good man.Before Hanson arrived in Oakland, he had already seen some of the worst of humanity on a tour of duty in Vietnam...
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The Escape Artist

BRAD MELTZER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Meltzer is a master and this is his best. Not since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have you seen a character like this. Get ready to meet Nola. If you've never tried Meltzer, this is the one."--- Harlan Coben Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed...
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Raspberry Danish Murder

JOANNE FLUKE · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won't be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton - not after her husband suddenly disappears . . .Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their...
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Whiskey: A Novel

Bruce Holbert · MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288

Whiskey burns pleasantly as it goes down, but has a lasting, powerful effect. Brothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents' failed marriage and appetite for destruction, and find themselves in the same straits as adults--navigating not only their own marriages,...
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Beau Death

PETER LOVESEY · Soho Crime
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old...
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Truth or Dare

Fern Michaels · Zebra
Pages: 368
Format: eBook

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . . When the call comes,...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT · Presevero Press
Format: Hardcover

NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama . . . where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop...
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The Purloined Puzzle

Parnell Hall · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Amateur sleuth and crossword impresario Cora Felton is asked to solve a puzzle, only to find that it's been stolen -- and a murder weapon has been left in its place.When the obnoxious sixteen-year-old Peggy Dawson asks Cora Felton to solve a puzzle for her, Cora is delighted to find that...
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Full Curl: A Jenny Willson Mystery

Dave Butler · Dundurn
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback

When her park is threatened, warden Jenny Willson takes it very personally. Jenny Willson is a hard-edged, caustic-witted warden from Banff National Park who considers poachers and ladder-climbing bureaucrats equally repulsive and worthy of the same painful fate. Does keeping her promise...
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Dark Saturday: A Frieda Klein Thriller

NICCI FRENCH · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback

Recommended for summer reading by TIME magazineLOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique."Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday,...
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The Silent Second: A Chuck Restic Mystery

ADAM WALKER PHILLIPS · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Chuck Restic has achieved the American dream, but twenty years in Human Resources have pushed him into existential-crisis mode. Only when he sets out to find a missing employee from his L.A. firm does he feel alive again. Applying his HR skills and wit to his moonlight detective work, Chuck...
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