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Patricia Cornwell · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed...

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Fifty Fifty

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The Instant #1 Bestseller
What are the chances that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career, Detective Harriet Blue accepts a risky reassignment to a remote town where a diary found...
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Burn What Will Burn: A Novel

C B McKenzie · Minotaur Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town, not entirely welcome and not entirely on good footing with the sheriff. So far, he's kept his head down, mostly over the bar at the Crow's Nest. But he has other interests...

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Murder at Morrington Hall

Clara McKenna · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match - and a murderer . . .

Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside,...
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Murder at the Manor: A British Library Crime Classic

Martin Edwards · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes...
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You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.

It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among...
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The Art of Murder: A Dead-End Job Mystery

Elaine Viets · Obsidian
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale's famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer . . .

The art world is a happening place - but a brush with death shouldn't be in the picture. Unfortunately...
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Vendetta

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller.

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate:...

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

James M Cain · Vintage Books
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism,...
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Guillermo Saccomanno · Open Letter
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid,...
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The New Annotated Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · Liveright
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley's classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro) .

"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel,...

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Unti Constantine #2: A Novel

Liv Constantine · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.

Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous...

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The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel

David J Casarett · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

As a nurse ethnicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death."
But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across Thailand, Detective Wiriya Mookjai fears...
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The Birthday Girl: A Novel

Melissa de la Cruz · Dutton
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the thrilling, suspenseful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, all of Ellie de Florent-Stinson's secrets come to light in one eventful evening full of twists, turns, and surprises.

Before she became a glamorous fashion designer,...
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

Jonathan Lethem · Mariner Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, "one of America's greatest storytellers" (Washington Post) , selects the best short mystery and crime fiction...
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