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The Tesla Legacy

Rebecca Cantrell · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell's sequel to the award-winning The World Beneath, software genius, Joe Tesla, confronts an equally brilliant and far more powerful foe. Still crippled by agoraphobia and confined to the tunnels under New York City, Joe is haunted...
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No Comfort for the Lost: A Mystery of Old San Francisco

Nancy Herriman · New American Library
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In 1860s San Francisco, gold buys the best life has to offer. Without it, not even justice is guaranteed.After serving as a nurse in the Crimea, British-born Celia Davies left her privileged family for an impulsive marriage to a handsome Irishman. Patrick brought her to San Francisco's...
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Last Words

Michael Koryta · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Markus Novak just wants to come home. An investigator for a Florida-based Death Row defense firm, Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the midst of a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murderer is still at large, and Novak's attempts to learn...
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Back Channel: A novel

Stephen L. Carter · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. Warships and submarines are on the move. Planes are in the air. Troops are at the ready. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama - and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias' garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet...
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The Jezebel Remedy: A novel

Martin Clark · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

When an unpopular local dies in a suspicious accident, the husband-and-wife legal team of Joe and Lisa Stone are entangled in a corporate conspiracy that threatens their lives and Lisa's desperate secret.
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A Circle of Wives

Alice LaPlante · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

* An Indie Next Pick* A LibraryReads Selection* An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mysteries & Thrillers) * A Daily Candy Best Book of March* One of More Magazine's "Five Thrillers Not to Read After Dark"When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police...
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The Breaking Point: A Body Farm Novel

Jefferson Bass · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series.It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body...
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Down Don't Bother Me: A Novel

Jason Miller · Bourbon Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A hugely entertaining debut - the first novel in a wickedly funny gothic mystery series set in the withering landscape of the southern Illinois coal country known as "little Egypt" - that blends the wry humor of Kevin Wilson, the dark violence of Urban Waite, and the electric...
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Ruined Abbey: A Collins-Burke Mystery

Anne Emery · ECW Press
Format: Hardcover

"Emery skillfully blends homicide with wit, music, theology, [and] quirky characters." - Kirkus Reviews on Blood on a SaintIt's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home...
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