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Every Day Above Ground: A Van Shaw Novel

GLEN ERIK HAMILTON · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in this emotionally powerful and gritty thriller from the award-winning author of Past Crimes and Hard Cold Winter.It sounds like a thief's dream to Van Shaw: A terminally ill ex-con tells him of an easy...
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The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!: A Novel

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In the sequel to internationally-bestselling Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, the League of Pensioners are up to their old tricks, this time swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish...
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A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11)

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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Persons Unknown: A Novel

Susie Steiner · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a complicated detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which those she loves most become suspects. Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding...
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Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall: A Honeychurch Hall Mystery

Hannah Dennison · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

When the only copy of Ravished, Iris Stanford's new manuscript, never arrives at her London publisher's office, her daughter Kat investigates the tiny local village post office, where it appears the package never left the building. Iris is on tenterhooks -- not only is her novel...
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Knife Creek

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed...
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Shiver Hitch

Linda Greenlaw · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle...
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A Game of Ghosts: A Charlie Parker Thriller

JOHN CONNOLLY · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series.It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob...
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Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel

Susan Spann · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer...
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City of Masks: A Somershill Manor Mystery

S D SYKES · PEGASUS Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Young Lord Somershill flees England for the wonders of Venice, where he becomes involved in a bizarre murder investigation that plunges him into the depths of this secretive medieval city. It's 1358, and young Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is delayed in Venice as he awaits a pilgrim...
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