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At Rope's End: A Dr. James Verraday Mystery

Edward Kay · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Dr. James Verraday is a professor of forensic psychology specializing in eyewitness recall and criminal profiling. He's a brilliant original thinker with a passion for social justice and a very antagonistic relationship with authority, especially the police force. So when Detective...
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One Last Breath

LISA JACKSON · Zebra
Pages: 480
Format: Mass Market Paperback

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS Rory Abernathy's wedding to Liam Bastian turned into a bloodbath. She fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter...
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Dead at Breakfast: A Novel

Beth Gutcheon · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing, More Than You Know, and Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators - a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its center, set in small-town...
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A Royal Pain

Rhys Bowen · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry.But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little,...
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Sent to the Devil: A Mystery

Laura Lebow · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In 1788 Vienna, Court Poet Lorenzo Da Ponte is putting some finishing touches on the libretto for the premiere of his new opera with Mozart, Don Giovanni. A huge success when it debuted in Prague, the Emperor has decreed that it shall be performed in Vienna. But Joseph II is off prosecuting...
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Stoner: The 50th Anniversary Edition

John Williams · New York Review Books; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover

The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams's Stoner "is something much rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel," and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale of a Midwestern college professor has been embraced by readers all over the world....
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Monument to Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman · Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton so when he agrees to take on a year-old murder case he figures hes got nothing to lose Its not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannahs power elite and right into the lap of a secret...
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Black Order: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins · Morrow
Pages: 426
Format: Hardcover

A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany...and to horrific...
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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky · William Morrow
Pages: 433
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.Before...
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Red Dog: A Slim in Little Egypt Mystery

Jason Miller · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Pitbull fighters, shadowy ne'er-do-wells, and murder mark Jason Miller's wry, darkly atmospheric second novel in his Little Egypt series - perfect for fans of Frank Bill and Greg Iles.One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt - a Midwest...
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Dance for the Dead

Thomas Perry · Ivy Books
Pages: 418
Format: eBook

"Compelling . . . Nobody writes a chase better than [Thomas] Perry." - The Washington Post Book WorldJane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American "guide" who specializes in making victims vanish. Calling on the ancient wisdom of the Seneca tribe...
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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Laurie R. King · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In a stunning follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger present a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie...
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Grist Mill Road: A Novel

Christopher J Yates · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called "The smart summer thriller you've been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight" (NPR's All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly Must-List...
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