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If I Die Tonight: A Novel

Alison Gaylin · William Morrow
Pages: 13
Format: Hardcover

Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben - with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things - an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling...

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The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Stewart Hoag Mystery

David Handler · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

HARLAN COBEN calls it "One of my all-time favorite series! ...David Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after another that he makes it look easy." Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't yet discovered wisecracking sleuth...
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Evan Only Knows: A Constable Evans Mystery

Rhys Bowen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they're not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father several years earlier...
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Southern Ghost

Carolyn G Hart · Bantam Books
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

Down south to solve a missing person case the local police cannot crack, Annie and Max Darling discover that the secretive, aristocratic Tarrant family may be trying to cover up a forty-year-old murder. By the author of the award-winning Something Wicked.
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The Sixth Victim

TESSA HARRIS · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

London's East End, 1888: When darkness falls, terror begins...

The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to dread, but she is more preoccupied...
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Truth or Die

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The truth will set you free - if it doesn't kill you first. After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when...
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The Law of Similars: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Harmony
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Midwives comes a startlingly powerful story of three people whose lives are irrevocably changed by illness, healing, and love. Two years after his wife's sudden, accidental death, a Vermont deputy state prosecutor, Leland Fowler, finds that the stress...
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Death of an Addict (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 15)

M. C. Beaton · Mysterious Pr
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover

Former heroin addict Tommy Jarret was writing a book about recovery when he was found dead of an apparent drug overdose. Surprised to hear of his death, Hamish Macbeth becomes suspicious of the church that Tommy had joined. Posing as homeless and depressed, he joins the church and volunteers...
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Turkey Trot Murder

LESLIE MEIER · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's late autumn in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and the last surviving flowers on Lucy Stone's porch have fallen victim to the first frost of the season. But as the part-time reporter learns, this cold November morning will claim more than potted plants . . .

Besides the annual...
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Outside Wonderland: A Novel

Lorna J Cook · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback

Alice, Griffin, and Dinah Stenen's mother and father died tragically when they were quite young. The loss haunts them into adulthood. Alice is a stage actress in New York who can't commit to a relationship. When she meets Ian she's smitten, but suspects it's Ian's four-year-old...
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Devil's Gate

Clive Cussler · Putnam Adult
Format: Hardcover

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world?As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special...
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Stay Hidden

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in this intricately-plotted new thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.

A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator...

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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel

Dean Koontz · Bantam
Format: Paperback

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible...
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Under Orders

Dick Francis · Putnam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than one eyebrow."

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Last seen in 1995's Come to Grief,...

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For Time and All Eternities

Mette Ivie Harrison · Soho
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim knows a bit about the LDS church's history of polygamy, but for mainstream Mormons, that epoch ended in the 1890s. However, there are still sects of fundamentalist Mormons who still practice "the Principle of plural marriage" - in fact,...
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