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Endgame

Bill Pronzini · Forge Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years ... and this is one for the books. Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air...more to the point, love gone awry. One case involves a woman whose husband who died accidentally in a remote cabin...
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When the Dead Awaken

Steffen Jacobsen · Quercus
Format: Hardcover

A crane cable breaks while loading a ship in Naples, sending a container crashing to the ground and disgorging its grisly contents the corpses of illegal workers destined for a discreet burial at sea as well as the remains of two Italian citizens from the witness protection program. Assigned...
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Burn What Will Burn: A Novel

C B McKenzie · Minotaur Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town, not entirely welcome and not entirely on good footing with the sheriff. So far, he's kept his head down, mostly over the bar at the Crow's Nest. But he has other interests...
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Chip Off the Ice Block Murder

Jessie Chandler · Midnight Ink; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

It’s the dead of winter in Minnesota, and Shay O’Hanlon can’t wait to close up her coffee shop and get out of town with her girlfriend, Minneapolis cop JT Bordeaux. But when she receives a call informing her that her dad is missing, Shay’s plans for a romantic getaway...
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Heart attack and vine : a Crush novel

Phoef Sutton · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Praise for "Crush" "As slick as a switchblade with a pearl handle. " Lee Child, "New York Times "best-selling authorLos Angeles bodyguard/bouncer Caleb Rush (Crush) is back in this second Crush novel. When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished...
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To Helen Back: A River Road Mystery

Susan McBride · Witness Impulse
Format: Print book

In this fun and sassy new mystery, USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride introduces us to Helen Evans, a modern-day Miss Marple who must expose a murderer in a town full of suspects!When Milton Grone turns up dead in tiny River Bend, Illinois, nearly all the would-be suspects have...
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The Missing One

Lucy Atkins · Quercus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In her gripping debut novel, Lucy Atkins takes us on one woman's journey to the beautiful and rugged Pacific Northwest to discover the dark secrets of her family's past so that she can understand and accept herself. Kal McKenzie was never close to her mother Elena, whose coldness...
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The Other Side of Silence

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as "the best crime novels around today." Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray...
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The Black Hour

Lori Rader-Day · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question...
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Kill or Be Killed: Thrillers

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 446
Format: Print book

Four first-rate thrillers--one killer collection A BOOKSHOTS special edition THE TRIALAn accused murderer called Kingfisher is on trial. And Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are in for a courtroom shocker you'll never see coming. LITTLE BLACK DRESSCan a little black dress...
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Midnight Sun: A novel

Jo Nesbø · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 273
Format: Print book

The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls...
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Field of Prey

John Sandford · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky.He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity...
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The Goodbye Witch: A Wishcraft Mystery

Heather Blake · NAL
Format: Paperback

As Enchanted Villages resident Wishcrafter, Darcy Merriweather has the power to make other peoples wishes come true, but what she really wishes is that she had the power to uncloak the invisible man whos stalking her best friend.... Darcys closest friend and fellow witch, Starla Sullivan,...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team...
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Notorious

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan introduces an irrepressible heroine in her pulse-pounding new thriller Notorious, which Lisa Gardner says is, "Guaranteed to keep you up late at night."Maxine Revere has dedicated her life to investigating murders that the police...
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