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Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

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The Room of White Fire

T. Jefferson Parker · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, a stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker: The Room of White Fire is the tale of a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war....
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Little Boy Lost

J. D. Trafford · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

In a city divided and broken, this revelation will set it on fire ... Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change...
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Leona: The Die Is Cast

Jenny Rogneby · Other Press
Format: Paperback

This best-selling Scandinavian thriller follows its troubled heroine as she investigates a high-profile robbery for Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division.Naked and bloody, a seven-year-old girl walks into a bank in central Stockholm in broad daylight and gets away with millions. Leona Lindberg...
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The Devil's Triangle

Howard Owen · Permanent Press
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

When a twin-engine Beechcraft crashes into one of Richmond's watering holes and turns happy hour into Hell, theories run rampant. Was it terrorists who, for some reason, decided to vent their spleens on unsuspecting Richmond? Was it a statement by homegrown killers less-than-thrilled...
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The Last Girl

Danny Lopez · Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to murder, nothing is as it seems After being laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter in a coastal Florida town, Dexter Vega meets a wealthy retiree who hires him to find his daughter who is supposed to be attending the local college. When Vega visits his client to inform...
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The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel

LAURENT BINET · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the prizewinning author of HHhH, "the most insolent novel of the year" (L'Express) Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies -- struck by a laundry van -- after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic...
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See What I Have Done

SARAH SCHMIDT · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Or did she? In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile...
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The Devil's Cup: A Medieval mystery

Alys Clare · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Sir Josse d'Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th - and final - Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreign army has invaded England. The country is divided. Some support the rebel barons and Prince Louis of France; others remain loyal to the king. His rule...
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City of Saviors

RACHEL HOWZELL HALL · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child"Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognized as every...
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The Good Daughter: A Novel

Karin Slaughter · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed, bestselling author of the "genuinely exciting . . . hell-raising thriller" (New York Times Book Review) Pretty Girls, delivers another stand-alone novel in which a lawyer returns to the South to defend a teenage girl of a heinous crime.Decades after a horrific...
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Shadow Girl

GERRY SCHMITT · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that's just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can't save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing...
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