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Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

Amy Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters. Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges...
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Away in a Manger

Rhys Bowen · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and twelve-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen...
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The House of Rumour: A Novel

Jake Arnott · Little A / New Harvest
Format: Hardcover

Mixing the invented and the real, The House of Rumour explores WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science-fiction set (Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick all appear), and the new wave music scene of the ’80s. The decades-spanning,...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Emus: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series. Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited...
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Nantucket Grand: A Henry Kennis Mystery

Steven Axelrod · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic summer cottage burns down in an arson fire, and a teenage girl lies...
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You Fit the Pattern

Jane Haseldine · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this gritty, riveting new novel, Detroit reporter Julia Gooden tracks down a serial killer - only to realize she has become his obsession . . . Crime writer Julia Gooden has just completed the most important story of her life - a book about her beloved brother's childhood abduction...
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Four Dominions: A Testament Novel

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER · Forge Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A new, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Jason Bourne series and The Testament. The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years, but now it is upon us.Emma and Bravo Shaw have rescued the Testament of Lucifer from nefarious hands,...
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Red Tide: A Billy Knight Thriller

Jeff Lindsay · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback

From Jeff Lindsay, the bestselling author of the Dexter series, comes the long-awaited sequel to his debut novel, Tropical Depression, featuring ex-cop Billy Knight. Billy Knight wants to ride out Key West's slow-season with the occasional charter and the frequent beer. But when he discovers...
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If There Be Thorns

V.C. Andrews · Pocket Books; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Print book

Now a major Lifetime movie event - Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic - the novel of forbidden love that captured the world's imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.They hide the shocking truth to protect their children....
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A Handful of Ashes: A Novel

ROB MCCARTHY · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new Dr. Harry Kent thriller, a whistleblowing doctor commits suicide -- or so it seems. When it turns out to be murder, Harry digs deeper to uncover the truth, in this perfect mix of detective novel and medical drama. Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss,...
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I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

TESS GERRITSEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series - continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives."Suspense doesn't get smarter than this." - Lee Child...
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Close to the Bone

Stuart MacBride · HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The third consecutive No.1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker?...
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Christmas carol : the original manuscript edition

Charles Dickens · W W Norton
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Excerpt: ... have endeavoured to diffuse in vain. For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball
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The Good Suicides: A Thriller

Antonio Hill · Crown
Format: Hardcover

Unrelenting hero of The Summer of Dead Toys, Inspector Hector Salgado returns in another riveting crime thriller After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only...
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Half Past: A Novel

Victoria Helen Stone · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback

At forty-five, Hannah Smith is at a crossroads. That's her spin on it. The reality is she's divorced, jobless, and moving back to her family home in Iowa to keep an eye on her mother, who's slipping into dementia. Her return stirs up the same unnerving sense of disconnect Hannah...
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