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The Dante Chamber

MATTHEW PEARL · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murderThe year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around...
 
 
The House Swap: A Novel

REBECCA FLEET · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A hypnotic domestic noir novel in which a house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a crumbling marriage, a torrid affair, and the fatal consequences that unfoldBe careful who you let in . . .When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap--from their city flat to a townhouse in a leafy,...
 
 
How It Happened

Michael Koryta · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie...
 
 
Death of an Alchemist

Mary Lawrence · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the mid sixteenth century, Henry VIII sits on the throne, and Bianca Goddard tends to the sick and suffering in London's slums, where disease can take a life as quickly as murder. . .For years, alchemist Ferris Stannum has devoted himself to developing the Elixir of Life, the reputed...