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The Black Life - a novel of Jewish collaborators in the Holocaust
The Black Life - a novel of Jewish collaborators in the Holocaust

Paul Johnston · Crème de la Crime; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The story is told in alternating chapters, a narrative set in the present day and also a first person harrowing account of the persecution of the Holocaust years. Whilst it is an indictment of the wartime collaboration and subsequent profiteering to which many countries turned a blind...
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A Spring Betrayal
A Spring Betrayal

Tom Callaghan · Quercus
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the color of dried blood and the spring air turned sharp and cold . . . Inspector Akyl Borubaev of the Bishkek Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgyzstan,...
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The Singularity Race
The Singularity Race

Mark de Castrique · Poisoned Pen Press

The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the Singularity. He only knows that after the deadly...
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The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller
The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller

John Connolly · Atria/Emily Bestler Books; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series.The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own....
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The Monster of Florence
The Monster of Florence

Magdalen Nabb · Soho Crime; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case—a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades.Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri—the local Florentine police—usually...
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The Symmetry Teacher: A Novel
The Symmetry Teacher: A Novel

AndreiÃŒ? Bitov · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

From one of the greatest Russian writers of the past half century comes a metaphysical mystery novel that defies categorization and confounds expectation. Andrei Bitov's The Symmetry Teacher presents itself as the "echo" of an older British novel Bitov once read and had long...
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Dead for a Spell
Dead for a Spell

Raymond Buckland · Berkley
Format: Book

Bram Stoker business manager for Londons Lyceum Theatre is never surprised to find the supernatural waiting in the wingsespecially when a chilling murder appears to have origins in the occultMarch The Lyceum is abuzz with the news that American actor Edwin Booth is going to be sharing...
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Command Authority
Command Authority

Tom Clancy · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 739
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the modern day thriller returns with his All-Star team.There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source,...
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Secret Combinations
Secret Combinations

Gordon Cope · TouchWood Editions
Format: Book

FBI Agent Jack Kenyon is an expert at cyber warfare, in which hackers and secret government agencies leverage weak spots in the Internet to cause carnage to their enemies. Assigned to uncover an industrial spy ring trying to steal Cyberworm, a US secret code, Jack is sure the murder of a double...
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Suspicion at Seven: A Lois Meade Mystery
Suspicion at Seven: A Lois Meade Mystery

Ann Purser · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Lois Meade has done enough buffing and polishing over the years with her cleaning business, New Brooms, to know that all that glitters is not gold. So when a bag of costume jewellery is the main clue in a murder, she has a strong suspicion that appearances may be deceiving ... After a woman...
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I, Ripper: A Novel
I, Ripper: A Novel

Stephen Hunter · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

"[A] dark, bloody triumph...convincingly mad, alternatively even-tempered, hallucinatory and cackling...the book's characters are great, its race to capture the murder is beautifully tense, and it has one of the best twists I can remember in any recent historical thriller."...
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Dead Lions
Dead Lions

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Format: Book

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted...
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Exercise is Murder
Exercise is Murder

Janis Patterson · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

Forced out of the Dallas Police Force after a brutal shootout set up by her dirty cop ex-lover, Rebecca Cloudwebb now works as an antiques dealer. While making a delivery to Flora Melkiot at Madam Norina's Temple of Health exercise salon in the exclusive Olympus House condominium highrise,...
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Come to Harm: A Novel
Come to Harm: A Novel

Catriona McPherson · Midnight Ink
Format: Print book

For Keiko Nishisato, leaving Tokyo is a rare adventure, but it's living in the quiet little town of Painchton, Scotland, that shows her how far she is from home. Keiko has never met friendlier people than the Painchton Traders. Only the Pooles, the butchers below her second-floor...
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