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The Shameless

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins.Twenty years ago, teenager Brandon Taylor walked into the Big Woods north of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, and never returned. For former Army...
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First Tracks

Catherine O'Connell · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When experienced ski patroller Greta Westerlind awakes in hospital having almost been killed in an avalanche, she is devastated to learn that her close friend, bond trader Warren McGovern, perished in the slide. With no memory of the incident, Greta is at a loss to explain why the two of them...
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Killer in the Carriage House

Sheila Connolly · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the Victorian Village Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters....
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The Stories You Tell

Kristen Lepionka · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." -- BOOKLIST (starred review) on What You Want to SeeThe Stories You Tell is Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's heart-pounding third novel that will keep readers...
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Killing with Confetti

Peter Lovesey · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious...
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Bad Axe County: A Novel

John Galligan · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago - all as a winter...
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The Scarred Woman

JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN · Dutton
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet - perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest...
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Murder in Bel-Air

Cara Black · Soho Crime
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Cara Black's riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, people's resistance movements, and neighborhood secrets in Paris's...
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Shamed: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new thriller in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling series, Kate Burkholder races against the clock to find a missing Amish girl. An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges...
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

Sara Collins · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London - a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful."--The New York Times Book Review"Perfect for fans of Barbara...
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Their Little Secret

Mark Billingham · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something...
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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs

Rhys Bowen · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya's Happy Valley, but murder crashes the party in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series.Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon....
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The Last Breath

Danny Lopez · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For fans of John D. MacDonald and his coastal Florida mysteries, The Last Breath by Danny Lopez will rekindle the flame. Unemployed newspaper reporter Dexter Vega is hired to investigate the drowning of Liam Fleming, the son of a wealthy real estate investor in Siesta Key. Vega's search...
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Restaurant Weeks Are Murder

Libby Klein · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Cape May, New Jersey, is the site of a big culinary competition - and the knives are out . . . Poppy McAllister is happy about opening a Jersey Shore B&B - but working in a professional kitchen has always been her real dream. Now it's coming true, at least briefly, as she teams up with...
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Alibis & Angels

Olivia Matthews · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Giving up murder for Lent won't be easy . . . With the Lenten season fast approaching, Sister Louise "Lou" LaSalle looks forward to a final day of indulgence before giving up her favorite sweets. But one Briar Coast resident won't get the chance to repent. Opal Lorrie, the mayor's...
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