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The Lonely Witness: A Novel

WILLIAM BOYLE · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she finds herself fascinated by the killer and decides to track him down herself.

Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn....
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Pretty Guilty Women: A Novel

Gina LaManna · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Four Women. Four Confessions. One Murder.

Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime -- alone.

Ginger is holding her family together by a thread, and this...

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Gold of Our Fathers

Kwei Quartey · Soho Crime
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

Darko Dawson, Chief Inspector in the Ghana police service, returns in this atmospheric crime series often compared to Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels.

Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service - the promotion...
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The Lake of Learning

Steve Berry · Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Pages: 141
Format: Paperback

For over a decade Cassiopeia Vitt has been building an authentic French castle, using only materials and techniques from the 13th century. But when a treasure is unearthed at the construction site - an ancient Book of Hours - a multitude of questions are raised, all pointing to an ancient...
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The Alienist: A Novel

CALEB CARR · Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES

"A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages." - Entertainment Weekly

"Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment...
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Teeth of the Wolf

Dan Rabarts · Raw Dog Screaming Press
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback

Scientific consultant Penny Yee has barely drawn breath before Detective Inspector Tanner assigns her another suspicious death, with Matiu tagging along for the ride. That's fine as long as he stays outside the crime scene tape, but when one of Matiu's former cronies turns up dead,...
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The Darkness: A Thriller

RAGNAR JONASSON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir.

The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After...

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Slay Bells Ring

KAREN ROSE SMITH · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially now that Caprice De Luca has wrapped up her holiday-themed staging gig at a stunning historic home in downtown Kismet, Pennsylvania. Behind all the red ribbon and glowing string lights, homeowners Chris and Sara Merriweather have it all....
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The Inn

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

James Patterson's strongest team since the Women's Murder Club are the first responders when their seafront town is targeted by vicious criminals.
The Inn at Gloucester stands alone on the rocky shoreline. Its seclusion suits former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, novice owner...
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Nightblind: A Thriller

RAGNAR JONASSON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson.

Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland...

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The Wife: A Novel

Alafair Burke · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

His Scandal
Her Secret

From New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, a stunning domestic thriller in the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Woman in Cabin 10 - in which a woman must make the impossible choice between defending her husband and saving herself.

When...

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Deep State: A Thriller

Chris Hauty · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Deep State is a propulsive, page-turning, compelling, fragmentation grenade of a debut thriller." - C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wolf Pack and The Bitterroots

"The plot...rings eerily true...will keep you turning...
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Zigzag

Bill Pronzini · Forge
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective """Zigzag "is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. "Grapplin,...
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme MaCrae Burnet · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down...
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