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A Darkness Absolute: A Novel

Kelley Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet,...
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Death of a Ghost

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton is back with a new mystery featuring Scotland's cleverest but most unambitious policeman, Hamish Macbeth.
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Rush of Blood: A Novel

Mark Billingham · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.In the standalone novel Rush of Blood, internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham puts a sinister twist on a deceptively innocent topic: the beach vacation.Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday...
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The Clairvoyants: A Novel

Karen Brown · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical giftOn the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from...
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Jerome F Buting · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth...
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You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters

Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world. What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know...
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Because You're Mine

Colleen Coble · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Alanna has been plagued by tragedy. So it should come as no surprise that in the beauty that surrounds Charleston, all is not as it seems. When her husband is killed by a car bomb while their band is on tour in Charleston, Alanna doesn't know where to turn. Her father-in-law is threatening...
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What You Break

Reed Farrel Coleman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island's darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman's critically acclaimed series. Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's...
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

Patricia Cornwell · Thomas & Mercer

From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert...
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The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel

Margaret Drabble · Farrar
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelistFrancesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . She wants...
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Power Game

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · BERKLEY PUB GROUP
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews) . Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust - or who will come out on top... When members of a United...
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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · W W Norton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Introducing an instant classic -- master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura...
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Right Behind You

Lisa Gardner · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Lisa Gardner's next thriller following her runaway New York Times bestseller Find Her takes her wildly popular brand of suspense to new heights. Is he a hero? Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both...
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Setting Free the Kites

Alex George · Putnam
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976,...
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The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death

Kim Harrison · Gallery Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce fans and readers to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!Can science save us when all else fails?...
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

With every book, Sally Hepworth becomes more and more known for her searing emotional portraits of families -- and the things that test their bonds. In The Mother's Promise, she delivers her most powerful novel yet: the story of a single mother who is dying, the troubled teenaged daughter...
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The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff · Mira Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being...
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Always: A Novel

Sarah Jio · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violets of March comes a gripping, poignant novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart's capacity to remember. While enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fiancé, Ryan, at one of Seattle's...
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Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel

Faye Kellerman · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

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Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.
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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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Devil in Spring

Lisa Kleypas · Avon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas combines the worlds of the Wallflowers with Marrying Winterborne in this irresistible story of how Sebastian's son Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, meets his match in the eccentric and headstrong Lady Pandora.
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A Piece of the World: A Novel

Christina Baker Kline · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World. "Later he told me that he'd been afraid to show...
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Robert B. Parker's Revelation

Robert Knott · Putnam
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return to confront an escaped criminal in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch thought things had finally calmed down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black's murder...
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Rusty Puppy

Joe R Lansdale · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town. While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office to tell...
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On Turpentine Lane

Elinor Lipman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An endearing romantic comedy from the beloved best-selling author of The Family Man and The View from Penthouse B At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really,...
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The Lost Book of the Grail: A Novel

Charlie Lovett · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In an English cathedral city, obsessive bibliophile and Holy Grail fanatic Arthur Prescott works to uncover a long-lost secret about the cathedral's past - and its connections to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. . . . Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases,...
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Close Enough to Touch: A Novel

Colleen Oakley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the author of Before I Go comes an unconventional but beautiful love story perfect for fans of the emotional novels of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes.One time a boy kissed me and I almost died... And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating...
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A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates · Ecco
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities...
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The Impossible Fortress

Jason Rekulak · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A dazzling debut novel - at once a charming romance and a moving coming-of-age story - about what happens when a fourteen-year old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soulmate.Billy Marvin's first love was a computer....
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Echoes in Death

Nora Roberts · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES . . . The chilling new suspense novel from the author of Brotherhood in Death.After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away,...
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Copycat

Kimberla Lawson Roby · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The new standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author who "writes with high-octane levels of emotion" (USA Today) . Email: kim@kimroby.comFacebook.com/kimberlalawsonrobyTwitter.com/KimberlaLRobyInstagram.com/kimberlalawsonrobyPeriscope.com/kimberlalawsonroby
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!" As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town...
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The World to Come: Stories

Jim Shepard · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers...
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Desperation Road

Michael Farris Smith · Lee Boudreaux Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman...
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Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Charles Todd · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series.On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last...
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The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

Ellen Umansky · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

One very special work of art - a Chaim Soutine painting - will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter...
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