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Off the Grid

Robert McCaw · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux

A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police Chief Detective Koa Kane to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it's the second gruesome homicide...
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A Reckoning in the Back Country: A Samuel Craddock Mystery

TERRY SHAMES · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Acting Police Chief Samuel Craddock investigates the murder of a visiting physician, whose mangled body is found in the woods.

When Lewis Wilkins, a physician with a vacation home in Jarrett Creek, is attacked by vicious dogs, and several pet dogs in the area around Jarrett Creek...
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The Singing Bone: A Novel

Beth Hahn · Regan Arts
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A convicted killer's imminent parole forces a woman to confront the nightmarish past she's spent twenty years escaping.

I found you. That's what Mr. Wyck told her: I found you.

1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate from high school so she can escape...
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The Strangler Vine

M.J. Carter · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover

Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, this dazzling historical thriller introduces Blake and Avery - an unforgettable investigative pair.

India, 1837: William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah...
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Liar, Liar

LISA JACKSON · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting page-turner from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a woman searches for the mother she hasn't seen in twenty years, and uncovers a nightmare of greed and deception . . .

In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity...
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Coal River

Ellen Marie Wiseman · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town. . .As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never...
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The Lying Room: A Novel

Nicci French
Format: Paperback


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Below the Line: A Charlie Waldo Novel

Howard Michael Gould · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Eccentric private eye Charlie Waldo is back in another wildly fun and fast-paced thriller lampooning Southern California.

Former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo was living in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions, until his PI ex-girlfriend...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.

Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling....
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Fool's Moon

Diane A. S. Stuckart · Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback

Two tarot-savvy cats and their tenderhearted human outwit a cruel criminal in this animal-centric whodunit.Most days, Ruby Sparks feels like the sign that says "Tarot Card Reader Extraordinaire" should say "Tarot Card Reader Fairly Competent." But as challenging as it is to take...
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House of Secrets

V. C. Andrews · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes a shivery gothic tale of romance, class divisions, and the secrets that haunt families for generations.

Ever since Fern could remember,...
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Dead Man's Mistress: A McKenzie Novel

David Housewright · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An investigation of missing property takes a darker turn near Lake Superior in Dead Man's Mistress, the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning McKenzie series.

Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over...

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The Rumor: A Novel

Lesley Kara · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"Keeps you guessing until the final page." - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
"A rollercoaster ride to the very last sentence." - Fiona Barton, author of The Widow
"Everyone will be talking about The Rumor." - Shari...
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BLOOD IS BLOOD

WILL THOMAS · ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Format: Print book


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The Gun

Fuminori Nakamura · Soho Crime, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university...
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