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The King's Jar: A Dani O Rourke Mystery

Susan C. Shea · Top Five Books
Format: Paperback

Wickedly funny—Kirkus Reviews A layered, smart, surprising plot —Booklist Fresh, fast-paced, and great fun —Library Journal Acquisition of the King's Jar, a priceless African artifact, is a major coup for San Francisco's prestigious Devor Museum of Art and Antiquities—and...
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The Wrong Girl

Hank Phillippi Ryan · Forge Books
Pages: 366
Format: Print book

Now the AGATHA AWARD WINNER for Best Contemporary Mystery and the DAPHNE AWARD WINNER for Best Mystery/Suspense!Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart...
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The Red Line

Walt Gragg · Berkley
Pages: 514
Format: Paperback

WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War."Delta-Two, I've got tanks through the wire! They're everywhere!" World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored...
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The Body Snatchers Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

Marcia Muller · Forge
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's...
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Engaged in Murder

Nancy J. Parra · Berkley
Format: Book

There's no planning for murder ... Event planner Pepper Pomeroy is making the most of her current unemployment by arranging a surprise for her sister, Felicity. Warren, Felicity's boyfriend, plans to lure his lovely lady into a private jet, propose, and whisk her away on a romantic...
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The South Lawn Plot

Ray O'Hanlon · GemmaMedia
Format: Print book

Nick Bailey considers himself a hardboiled reporter for London's hungriest tabloid. But even Bailey is left reaching for answers when he gets a midnight assignment to investigate a body hanging from the infamous Blackfriars Bridge. Someone, it seems, is killing priests, and a mystery...
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Love's Alchemy

Bryan Crockett · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

"This well-wrought historical mystery pits the brilliant wordsmith John Donne against the Machiavellian politician Robert Cecil. The match is uneven; Cecil runs James I's kingdom while Donne struggles to make ends meet through the patronage of the alluring Countess of Bedford‚...
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Bear Bait

Pamela Beason · Berkley; Original edition
Format: Paperback

 Wildlife biologist and writer Summer “Sam” Westin loves the wilderness. But her latest attempt to protect nature may just get her burned… Sam Westin is working on a twelve-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and a volunteer firewatcher...
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The Quotient of Murder

Ada Madison · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Dr. Sophie Knowles loves using puzzles to make math fun for students. But when winter seizes Henley College, she must thaw out a cold case to track down a killer—her most difficult puzzle yet . . . Winter Intersession is in full swing, and campus is buzzing over the concert celebrating...
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A Catered Fourth of July

Isis Crawford · Kensington
Format: Hardcover

High noon on July Fourth in the quiet town of Longley, New York, and it's got to be one hundred degrees. Thankfully, sisters Bernie and Libby are setting up their yummy catering out of the sun in the gazebo for the reenactment of The Battle of Meadow Creek--and not baking in those Revolutionary...
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A Face to Die For

Andrea Kane · Bonnie Meadow Publishing LLC
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In A Face to Die For, New York Times bestselling author Andrea Kane explores the urban legend of the doppelganger, as the readers' favorite team of investigators (Forensic Instincts) find themselves in a conflict of interest between two clients. When one case unexpectedly intersects...
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Jaws

Peter Benchley · Random House
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time!
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The Missing Hours

EMMA KAVANAGH · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Murderers are rarely who you imagine them to be . . . " One moment, Selena Cole is at the playground with her children . . . the next, she has vanished without a trace. The body of Dominic Newell, a well-respected lawyer, is found on a remote mountain road, blood oozing from...
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The Sorbonne Affair: A Hugo Marston Novel

MARK PRYOR · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Someone is spying on American author Helen Hancock. While in Paris to conduct research and teach a small class of writers, she discovers a spy camera hidden in her room at the Sorbonne Hotel. She notifies the US Embassy, and former FBI profiler Hugo Marston is dispatched to investigate....
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The Long Deception

Mary McCluskey · Little A
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

The sudden death of a childhood friend forces a woman to rethink her own life - and make an impossible decision.Alison Eastlake has come a long way from the wild days of her youth in England. Now, instead of streaking her hair purple, dreaming of becoming an artist, and sneaking cigarettes...
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