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Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel

Christopher Moore · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore - an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard's most performed play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice,...

 
 
Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match

Mike Lupica · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Robert B. Parker's beloved PI Sunny Randall returns on a case that blurs the line between friend and foe...and if Sunny can't tell the difference, the consequences may be deadly.When Sunny's long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for help, Sunny is surprised--after...
 
 
The Shooting at Chateau Rock: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel

Martin Walker · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

When a local's troubling death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces one of his toughest cases yet, one that brings together a French notary and a rock star--and, of course, Bergerac red and white.

It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a PĂ©rigordian...
 
 
The War Widow

Tara Moss · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young immigrant man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in glamorous postwar Sydney. Sydney,...
 
 
From the Grave: A McKenzie Novel

David Housewright · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A past case comes back to haunt Twin Cities P.I. McKenzie as a stolen sum of money threatens to resurface in From the Grave, the next mystery in David Housewright’s award-winning series.

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire...