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Blood in Eden

Peter Tremayne · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Ireland, AD 671. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden, with its prosperous farms and close-knit, friendly community. But after a local farmer, his wife and two sons are murdered, a fanatical new priest orders the villagers to lynch the man accused of the crime. The only...
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Doing It at the Dixie Dew: A Mystery

Ruth Moose · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Who says you can't go home again?When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown and attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a bed and breakfast called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than cleric black is found...
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Out Comes the Evil: A Cotswold murder mystery

Stella Cameron · Creme de La Crime
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Second in the traditional British mystery series featuring rural inn owner and amateur sleuth Alex Duggins: an intriguing departure for bestselling romantic suspense author Stella Cameron.

Once again Alex Duggins and her veterinarian friend Tony Harrison are thrown into a major...
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Stillhouse Lake

Rachel Caine · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller.

Gina Royal is the definition of average - a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen...

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Old Bones

Trudy Nan Boyce · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community - set in a city at its boiling point - from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all.

A senseless act of violence.

During a vigil calling for police reform,...
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A Death in the Dales

Frances Brody · Minotaur Books
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton make A Death in the Dales an absorbing 7th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie.

A...

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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting...

Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told...
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Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

James Lee Burke · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life - connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to heroic acts at the Battle of the Bulge and finally to the high-stakes gambles and cutthroat...
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Fellow Mortals: A Novel

Dennis Mahoney · FSG Originals
Format: Print book

An affecting story about how relationships are built -- and burned -- by desperate needs and obligationsWhen Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights...
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Death and the Olive Grove: An Inspector Bordelli Mystery

Marco Vichi · Pegasus
Format: Print book

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Death in August, which finds Inspector Bordelli facing a nightmarish murder mystery April 1964, and the cruelest month is breeding bad weather and worse news. And plenty of disturbing news is coming to Florence detective Inspector Bordelli. Bordelli’s...
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Fallen Mountains

Kimi Cunningham Grant · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his tightly knit hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only ones that threaten to emerge. Something terrible happened seventeen years ago. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by it. Possum, the victim of that...
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The Killing Habit: A Tom Thorne Novel

MARK BILLINGHAM · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn) , The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases.

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More Bitter Than Death: A Novel

Camilla Grebe · Simon & Schuster; Original edition
Format: Paperback

It’s a rainy evening in a Stockholm suburb and five-year-old Tilda is hiding under the kitchen table playing with her crayons when a man enters and beats her mother to death in cold blood. The only witness, Tilda can’t quite see the murderer or figure out who he is. But she’s...
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The Wild Inside: A Novel of Suspense

Christine Carbo · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park about a man who finds himself at odds with the dark heart of the wild - and the even darker heart of human nature.It was a clear night in Glacier National Park. Fourteen-year-old Ted Systead and his father were camping beneath the rugged...
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Mercy Snow: A Novel

Tiffany Baker · Little, Brown & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake.June McAllister is the wife of the local mill...
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