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Full Curl: A Jenny Willson Mystery

Dave Butler · Dundurn
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback

When her park is threatened, warden Jenny Willson takes it very personally. Jenny Willson is a hard-edged, caustic-witted warden from Banff National Park who considers poachers and ladder-climbing bureaucrats equally repulsive and worthy of the same painful fate. Does keeping her promise...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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In the Blood: A Novel

Lisa Unger · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Book of 2014, Amazon Best Book of the Month, Sun Sentinel Best Mystery Novels of 2014, Suspense Magazine Best Books of 2014 and Indie Next pick!Liar, liar, pants on fire . . . College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that...
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The Nightingale Before Christmas: A Meg Langslow Christmas Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house--each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour. Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with...
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The Eulogist

Jeffrey B Burton · Permanent Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

FBI Special Agent Drew Cady is reluctantly drawn into investigating the assassination of a sitting United States Senator. Strangely, the senator's death is linked to a murdered Baltimore junkie with an identical M.O.--a single stab wound to the heart and a typed eulogy left at the scene.As...
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Don't Look for Me

Loren D. Estleman · Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message...
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The Good People

HANNAH KENT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Shorlisted for theWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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The Day of the Dead

Nicci French · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

LOUISE PENNY says the Frieda Klein novels are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique."Now the final book in this extraordinary series is here. And it's an ending you'll never forget.A...
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The Reckoning

James Patrick Hunt · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

Tracy Coughlin is a nurse and a mother. She lost her husband in the Iraq war and for reasons she doesn't even understand holds her father-in-law Lee responsible for it. Lee Coughlin is a proud man and a quiet one. He too grieves the loss of Tracy's husband and his son but he can't...
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Gwendy's Button Box

STEPHEN KING · Gallery Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide...
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel

Kaitlyn Greenidge · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel slips a very skillful knife under the skin of American life. This is a story about family, about language, about history and its profound echoes." - Colum McCann Frustrated by the limitations of cross-race communication in her predominantly...
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The Forsaken

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins acclaimed series about the real Deep South—a joy ride into the heart of darkness The Washington Post. Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes...
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Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery

D M QUINCY · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In 1810, Atlas Catesby, a brilliant adventurer and youngest son of a baron, is anxious to resume his world travels after a carriage accident left him injured in London. But his plans are derailed when, passing through a country village, he discovers a helpless woman being auctioned off to the highest...
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The 17th Suspect

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong...
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Steeped in Evil

Laura Childs · Berkley; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Sweet Tea Revenge, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is about to learn the true meaning of terroir…Theodosia Browning has never considered herself a wine connoisseur—tea has always been her forte. But that...
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