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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

Ben Blum · Doubleday
Pages: 432
Format: Book

NONFICTION

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other

Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life:...

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Dead Woman Walking

SHARON BOLTON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There's just one survivor. She's seen the killer's face - but he's also seen hers. And he won't rest until he's eliminated the only witness to his crime....
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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

BREN BROWN · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Book

NONFICTION

A life-changing book that uses new research to challenge old beliefs about belonging - from the author of the landmark bestsellers Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection.

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The Seagull: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

ANN CLEEVES · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From CWA Diamond Dagger winner Ann Cleeves comes The Seagull, the eighth installment in the Vera Stanhope series.

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace...

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Don't Let Go

Harlan Coben · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Thriller master Harlan Coben, with over 70 million books in print worldwide and ten consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers to his name - including 2017's smash hits Fool Me Once and Home - returns with his most provocative and gripping novel to date.
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Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet

REED FARREL COLEMAN · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone.

Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through...
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The Romanov Ransom

CLIVE CUSSLER · PUTNAM
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free...
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The Child Finder: A Novel

RENE DENFELD · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.

"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming,...

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The Woman Who Couldn't Scream

CHRISTINA DODD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the newest thriller in this, "Remarkable, mesmerizing series" (Library Journal starred review) ...

Merida Falcon is a world-class beauty, a trophy wife who seems to have it all...except she has no voice....
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Lie to Me: A Psychological Suspense

J.T. Ellison · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Domestic noir at its best. Readers will devour this stunning page-turner about the disintegration of a marriage as grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. New York Times bestselling author J.T....

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Dark Legacy

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · BERKLEY PUB GROUP
Pages: 400
Format: Book

In a thrilling Carpathian novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a woman fights to free herself from the grip of the vampire trying to possess her...
 
In a beautiful compound hidden away...

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Enemy of the State

Vince Flynn · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 400
Format: Book

In the #1 New York Times bestselling series' latest installment, Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America's closest allies.

After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals...

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A Column of Fire

KEN FOLLETT · Viking
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with the first two books of his Kingsbridge series, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire.
...
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I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

TESS GERRITSEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Advance praise for I Know a Secret

"Tess Gerritsen's...
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Y is for Yesterday

Sue Grafton · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Book

Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment.

The darkest...

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The Last Tudor

Philippa Gregory · Touchstone
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.

Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days, dying on the scaffold for her faith....
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Camino Island: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM · DOUBLEDAY
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Bestselling author John Grisham stirs up trouble in paradise in his endlessly surprising new thriller.

Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them; a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than...

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The Saboteur

ANDREW GROSS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 432
Format: Book

February, 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war.

Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée,...

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Keep Her Safe: A Novel

SOPHIE HANNAH · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

LIANE MORIARTY says that "No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah." Packed with twists and clues, simmering with tension, this electrifying new thriller shows why.

She's the most famous murder victim in America. What if she's not dead?

...

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Sleep Like a Baby

CHARLAINE HARRIS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the latest installment of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Charlaine Harris's Aurora Teagarden series, Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia...

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The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel

Eleanor Henderson · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma...

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Proof of Life: A J. P. Beaumont Novel

J A JANCE · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Book

J. P. Beaumont's latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.

Be careful what you wish for . . .

Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself....

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The Western Star

CRAIG JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Book

The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire

Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming...

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The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line."

How...
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To Be Where You Are

JAN KARON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't...

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Crime Scene

JONATHAN KELLERMAN · BALLANTINE
Pages: 352
Format: Book

A former star athlete turned coroner's investigator is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) .

Natural causes or foul play? That’s...

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The Good People

HANNAH KENT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Shorlisted for theWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 

From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller [that] takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy"...

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Forest Dark: A Novel

NICOLE KRAUSS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth

"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly...

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Sulfur Springs: A Novel

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER · ATRIA Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In William Kent Krueger's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear.

On the Fourth...
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Book

From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Lisbeth Salander, the girl with...

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Good Me Bad Me

ALI LAND · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Book

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
HOW FAR DOES THE APPLE REALLY FALL FROM THE TREE?

Good Me Bad Me is dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land: "Could not be more unputdownable if it was slathered...

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A Legacy of Spies: A Novel

JOHN LE CARRE · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book - his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family...

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The Proving

Beverly Lewis · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Amish Fiction's #1 Author Presents a Touching Story of Perseverance and Second Chances

Amanda Dienner hasn't spoken a word to her Old Order mother or twin sister in five years when she receives word that her mother has passed away and left her Lancaster County's most...
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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover


A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger,...
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You Say It First

Susan Mallery · HQN Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool's Gold romances invites you to visit Happily Inc., a wedding destination founded on a fairy tale

Sculptor Nick Mitchell grew up in a family of artists and learned from his volatile father that passion only...

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The Unquiet Grave: A Novel

Sharyn McCrumb · Atria Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history - the case of the Greenbrier Ghost.

Lakin, West Virginia, 1930
...
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of the Irish-American experience in the 1940s and 1950s, by the National Book Award-winning author

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove -- to the subway bosses who have recently...

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Need to Know

Fern Michaels · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Book

The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.  

Through...

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Caroline: Little House, Revisited

SARAH MILLER · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before - Caroline...

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Lightning Men: A Novel

Thomas Mullen · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times, on Darktown

"Reads like the best of James Ellroy." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) , on Darktown

"Mullen...
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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives


"I read LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance...
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Haunted

JAMES PATTERSON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Book


You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett.

Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic,...

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Secrets in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

J D ROBB · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced.

The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would...

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The Golden House: A Novel

SALMAN RUSHDIE · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Told in Salman Rushdie's unparalleled prose, this inventive and timely new novel follows a real-estate tycoon and his mysterious, powerful family. In scope and literary ambition, it's The Great Gatsby meets The Bonfire of the Vanities - a contemporary saga with wonderful,...
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Sourdough: A Novel

Robin Sloan · MCD
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions....

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The Right Time: A Novel

DANIELLE STEEL · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's wildest dreams.

Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in the mysteries...
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My Absolute Darling: A Novel

GABRIEL TALLENT · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Book

A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.

Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky...

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Without Fear or Favor

ROBERT K TANENBAUM · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the twenty-ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling Karp-Ciampi series featuring "the best fictional prosecuting attorney in literature" (Mark Lane, #1 New York Times bestselling author) , Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization...
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Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it—officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford.

Though the Great War is nearing its end,...

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Emma in the Night: Wendy Walker

Wendy Walker · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist...

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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward.

In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America....
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Devil's Cut: A Bourbon Kings Novel

J R WARD · BALLANTINE
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

In #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward's thrilling finale of the Bourbon Kings series, the Bradford family dynasty teeters on the edge of collapse after the murder of their patriarch - and a shocking arrest.

At first, the death of William Baldwine, the head...
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Map of the Heart: A Novel

Susan Wiggs · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Love and family. War and secrets. Betrayal and redemption.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a deeply emotional and atmospheric story that spans oceans and decades, from the present-day Delaware...

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Yesterday

Felicia Yap · Mulholland Books
Pages: 400
Format: Book

How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday?


Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory; elite Duos...

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Young Jane Young: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

From the bestselling author of the beloved The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes another perfect fable for our times--a story about women, choices, and recovering from past mistakes.

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional...

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The Blood Card

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the third Magic Men mystery, the first partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II's coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy...
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The Blood Card

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the third Magic Men mystery, the first partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II's coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy...
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Untitled Inspector Gamache #13: A Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.

From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief...

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Glass Houses: A Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.

From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief...

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