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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder: A Novel

Sarah J Harris · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia - a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds - who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.Thirteen-year-old...
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Certain American States: Stories

Catherine Lacey · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

One of Granta's Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking -- and failing to find -- the extraordinary...
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The Bouncer

David Gordon · Mysterious Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected -- from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes.Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly...
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Dead Man Running

Steve Hamilton · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from...
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Red, White, Blue: A novel

Lea Carpenter · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past--at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.Anna is the beloved...
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Poppy Harmon Investigates

LEE HOLLIS · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Lee Hollis begins a delightful new series in which Poppy Harmon and her friends find that life after retirement can be much busier - and deadlier - than any of them ever anticipated . . . When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, the idea of spending...
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Pieces of Her: A Novel

Karin Slaughter · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter - a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before.What if the person you thought you knew...
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A People's History of the Vampire Uprising: A Novel

RAYMOND A VILLAREAL · Mulholland Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this ambitious and wildly original debut--part social-political satire, part international mystery--a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young...
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Paradox

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

With unparalleled suspense and her trademark explosive twists, #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter delves into the terrifying mind of an escaped mental patient obsessed with revenge in this next installment of her riveting FBI series. When he fails to kidnap five-year-old...
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Our House

Louise Candlish · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From an internationally acclaimed author, a disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home...There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't...
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