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Amanda Flower · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Magic, books, and cats collide in a village near Niagara Falls in the latest mystery from the author of Crime and Poetry...

In Cascade Springs, New York, Violet Waverly and her grandma, Daisy, are the proprietors of Charming Books, where the power of the written...
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Murder by Gravity

Barbara Graham · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

Snow before Halloween shocks the residents of tiny Park County Tennessee While dealing with a multitude of minor issues Sheriff Tony Abernathy is contacted by a charter pilot who claims his passenger jumped without a parachute into the most remote spot in the county After riding mules into...
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The Forgotten Girls

Owen Laukkanen · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star.

She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train...
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A Pleasure and a Calling: A Novel

Phil Hogan · Picador; First U.S. Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A DELICIOUSLY UNSETTLING TALE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE THAT DELVES INTO THE MIND OF A MAN WITH A CHILLING DOUBLE LIFE.Mr. Heming loves the leafy English village where he lives. As a local real estate agent, he knows every square inch of the town and sees himself as its protector, diligent...
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The Lake House: A Novel

Kate Morton · Atria Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

One of People magazine's Best Books of Fall - "Morton's moody, suspenseful latest is the perfect page-turner for a chilly night."

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours,...
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Signature Kill: A Novel

David Levien · Doubleday Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Taut and edgy, Signature Kill is a riveting exploration of a killer next door - a tour de force from acclaimed author David Levien.

The quiet of the Indianapolis night is broken when an unidentifiable body is found in a local park, deliberately arranged in such a way that...
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The Baklava Club: A Novel

Jason Goodwin · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award-winning seriesIn four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire. Now, in The Baklava...
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The Gangster

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.

It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective...
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The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.

Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a...

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Brooklyn Graves: An Erica Donato Mystery

Triss Stein · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 236
Format: Book

A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning stained glass windows is now off limits....
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Unmanned: A novel

Dan Fesperman · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, timely, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, expanding world of drone warfare. Not very long ago, Darwin Cole was an F-16 fighter pilot. He was a family man. He was on top of the world....
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House Reckoning: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didn't understand that Gino had been a hit man until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Gino's former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something...
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The Secret Soldier

Alex Berenson · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

John Wells goes undercover in Saudi Arabia in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. John Wells may have left the CIA, but it hasn't left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the aged monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah....
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The zig zag girl

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick--the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They served together in a shadowy...
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The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes

Denis O. Smith · Running Press
Format: Book

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most beloved detectives ever created and many have been inspired to continue his adventures after Sir Conan Doyle’s death. In that spirit, The Mammoth Book of The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes brings together some of the more than two dozen stories...
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