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A Wedding to Die For

Leann Sweeney · Signet; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

From the author of Pick Your Poison comes a crazy case of matrimonial murder and a broken-hearted bride-to-be when a family guest gets hit over the head with a gift. The bad reception only gets deadlier for Houston PI Abby Rose, enlisted to resolve the wedding fiasco.
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Con Ed

Matthew Klein · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This darkly comic debut is about the worlds greatest con man (before he got busted), the con mans son (whos in debt to the Russian mob), and a billionaires beautiful wife (whos got an evil plan). Great fun . . . very, very hard to put down.--"New York Times."
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Crime School: A Mallory Novel

Carol O'Connell · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

Over the course of six novels, Carol O'Connell has become one of our most acclaimed writers of suspense. Her heroine, Kathy Mallory, is "stunningly unique" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) . "O'Connell conjures up a world of almost Faulkerian richness and complexity,"...
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The Terror of Living: A Novel

Urban Waite · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Phil Hunt is in deep trouble.Hunt is on the run from two men: Drake, the deputy sheriff who intends to catch him, and Grady, the vicious hitman who means to kill him. For twenty years Hunt has lived in Washington State, raising horses with his wife on his small farm. He's tried to stay...
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Retro (The Amos Walker Series #18)

Loren D. Estleman · Forge Books; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Loren Estleman is the quintessential noir detective writer, and Amos Walker is his quintessential noir detective. Walker has made a lot of friends--and a few enemies--in his years as a detective in Detroit, but he has never had to deal with quite the trouble he finds when he agrees to grant...
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The Footprints of God : A Novel

Greg Iles · Scribner
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a cutting-edge new thriller rich with imagination and vision. In the heart of North Carolina's Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory much like the others nearby. But behind its walls, America's top scientists...
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The Beauty of the End

Debbie Howells · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Bones of You comes a haunting and heartbreaking new psychological thriller about a man thrust into the middle of a murder investigation, forced to confront the secrets of his ex-lover's past. "I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess. . ."So...
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Hekla's Children

James Brogden · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned - Olivia - starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she'd been. After a body is found in the same woodland where they disappeared, it is first believed to be one of the missing...
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The Front

Patricia Cornwell · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 180
Format: Book

Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead...
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Hangman

Faye Kellerman · William Morrow
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats

LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Teresa McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is interrupted by the suspicious death of a young health care worker.
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The Art of War: A Novel

Stephen Coonts · St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell...
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The Defense

Steve Cavanagh · Flatiron Books, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant AngelEddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't...
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Cold Vengeance

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wifes betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous...
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Funeral Owl

Jim Kelly · Crème de la Crime; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal or so-called Funeral owl, the papers editor Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. Its already proving to be one of the most eventful weeks in The Crows...
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