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Visitation Street

Ivy Pochoda · Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds,...
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The Alias Man

Bill Pronzini · Walker & Company; No Edition Listed edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The women in his life call him the Alias Man. From Santa Fe to Pennsylvania, from Vancouver to San Francisco, he has seduced and charmed, stolen and disappeared, leaving unbearable hurt in his wake. Then his three most recent victims-- Jessie, Sarah, and Morgan-- find one another and collectively...
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The Fall Guy: A Novel

James Lasdun · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic...
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Bruja Brouhaha

Rochelle Staab · Berkley; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback

Practical psychologist Liz Cooper and occult professor Nick Garfield are enjoying the sixteenth wedding anniversary celebration for their charming hosts Paco and Lucia Rojas, devout Santeria practitioners who own the historic Botanica Rojas near MacArthur Park. But the small group of friends...
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Lake of Sorrows: A Novel

Erin Hart · Scribner; First Edition edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed by the critics for her luminous first novel, "Haunted Ground," Erin Hart returns with a magnificent new tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery.American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological...
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That Old Black Magic

Mary Jane Clark · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary French Quarter.Aspiring actress...
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Baring Arms: A Me and Mr. Jones Mystery (Me and Mr. Jones Mysteries)

Jo-Ann Power · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

All politics is loco!  Especially for Texas Congresswoman Carly Wagner.Lately, she’s been polishing her profile.  Two months ago, she walked into her office in the Rayburn Building and found that a powerful man had been murdered in her chair. With the help of a young, yummy...
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The Last Templar

Raymond Khoury · Dutton Adult
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

When a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal a particular artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly teams up with Tess for an investigation that takes them through three continents. A first...
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The Moonpool: A Novel

P. T. Deutermann · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

I remembered it from high school chemistry, one of those experiments where we made hydrogen. It was more of an acidic sensation on the palate than a real smell, but I recognized it. The pile of spent fuel at the bottom was beginning to outgas. Next would come the fire to end all fires....
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The Bequest

NANCY BOYARSKY · Light Messages Publishing
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Nicole Graves, still reeling from her kidnapping in London, is struggling to balance work at L.A.'s most prestigious law firm and a long-distance romance with her English lover. Things go sideways when she tracks down a missing colleague. The murder of the firm's in-house investigator,...
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Deadly Cure: A Novel

Lawrence Goldstone · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable new historical thriller by New York Times notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone that evokes the New York City of 1899. In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms....
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The Strangler: A Novel

William Landay · Delacorte Press
Format: Kindle Edition

Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this widely acclaimed second novel of crime and suspense, which was named a Favorite Crime Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers.   Boston, 1963. Meet the charming,...
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The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery

Clare Langley-Hawthorne · Penguin Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A gripping mystery of scandal and intrigue starring a spirited and beautiful Edwardian heiressIt?s the end of 1911 and Ursula Marlow, struggling to maintain control over her father?s textile empire, finds her business trip to Egypt interrupted by two violent deaths. The first victim is her new friend,...
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Keep You Close: A Novel

Karen Cleveland · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A woman must confront her sense of right and wrong when the one person she loves most is accused of an unimaginable crime. From the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. . . . A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even...
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