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Among the Wicked: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English"...
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City of Jackals: A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal · Bloomsbury
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Mourad Hafiz appears to have dropped out of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and find him, Makana comes to believe that the Hafiz boy became involved in some kind of political activity just prior to his disappearance. But before he can discover more, the investigation...
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Return to Umbria: A Rick Montoya Italian Mystery

David P Wagner · Poisoned Pen Press

Orvieto -- its very name brings to mind priceless art, colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most famous cathedral façade in Italy, a structure of gothic spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as well.When...
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Crowned and Dangerous: A Royal Spyness Mystery

Rhys Bowen · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Nothing is simple when you're thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side, and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau Darcy O'Mara hope to bypass a few royal rules...With Darcy driving me out of London in a borrowed motor car,...
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The Book of Spies

Gayle Lynds · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible's magnificent Library of Gold - a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies,...
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Kodiak Sky

Stephen W. Frey · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

For decades, the top-secret Red Cell Seven unit has operated beyond the reach of the law—defending the United States by any means necessary, with absolute impunity. But the tables have turned, and the untouchable anti-terror squad is under attack. Determined to end Red Cell Sevens ruthless,...
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Death of a Pumpkin Carver

Lee Hollis · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costume parties and holiday treats - until a killer crashes the party...This Halloween, Hayley can't imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor. Her kids may be happy...
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Silk Stalkings

Diane Vallere · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Fabric shop owner Polyester Monroe can get tangled up in textiles, but it's murder that really throws her for a loop in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Crushed Velvet.The time has come for San Ladrón, California's annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Poly...
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Stalking ground

Margaret Mizushima · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snow storm is brewing over the high country. And they're already too late. By the time they find her body, the storm...
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Odessa Sea

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones", Dirk Pitt responds to a mysterious Mayday signal from a deserted ship that will draw him toward a deadly secret leftover from the Cold War arms race in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Dirk Pitt, the director of the National...
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