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The American Agent

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade) , investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...
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Broken Bone China

LAURA CHILDS · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally....
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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest...
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Unto Us a Son Is Given

DONNA LEON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary,"...
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A Beautiful Corpse: A Mystery

Christi Daugherty · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped...
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Murder Once Removed

S. C. Perkins · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients'...
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The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly bewitching. This atmospheric, intricate thriller, a pitch-perfect modern Gothic, chilled my blood and warmed my heart. As unforgettable as it is original." - A.J. Finn "Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting, in every sense. I loved this book! And you will too."...
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The Last Act: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry) , a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks....
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Lights! Camera! Puzzles!: A Puzzle Lady Mystery

Parnell Hall · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

This new mystery in this ever-popular series sparkles with a new film being produced about our famous heroine, but it's almost a relief when the first dead body shows up on set, if only it didn't come with a crossword puzzle . . .It's murder on the movie set!It was no surprise...
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Santa Fe Mourning: A Santa Fe Revival Mystery

AMANDA ALLEN. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Brilliant new heroine Maddie Vaughn-Alwin makes her daring debut, discovering that speakeasies conceal more than just liquor.Madeline Vaughn-Alwin's picture-perfect life fades to gray when her childhood sweetheart perishes in the Great War. The aspiring painter leaves her wealthy New York...
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Who Killed the Fonz?

James Boice · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty 1980s noir. Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. Crockett and Tubbs are leading men everywhere to embrace pastels. And Richard Cunningham? Well,...
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Though the Heavens Fall: A Collins-Burke Mystery

Anne Emery · ECW Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The latest riveting Collins-Burke Mystery set during Ireland's 1990s troubles.As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and "peace walls" segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it's...
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A Borrowing of Bones

PAULA MUNIER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The first in a gripping new mystery series by literary agent Paula Munier, about a retired MP and bomb-sniffing dog who become embroiled in an investigation in the beautiful Vermont wildernessIt may be the Fourth of July weekend, but for retired soldier Mercy Carr and Belgian Malinois Elvis,...
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The Girl from Berlin: A Novel

Ronald H Balson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the newest novel from internationally-bestselling author Ronald. H. Balson, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secretsAn old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian...
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