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Stripped Bare: A Novel

Shannon Baker · Forge
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Stripped Bare by Shannon Baker is "A must read" (Alex Kava, New York Times bestselling author) mystery that stars a female Longmire in the atmospheric Nebraska Sandhills.

Kate Fox is living the dream. She's married to Grand County Sheriff Ted Conner, the heir to her beloved...

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The Curse of the House of Foskett: The Gower Street Detective: Book 2

M. R. C. Kasasian · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The much-anticipated second novel in the charming, sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson. 125 Gower Street, 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent...
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The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2014Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time--and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night...
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Things We Have in Common

Tasha Kavanagh · MIRA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Reader beware: You'll think you know what's happening, and you'll think you see what's coming next ... But you'll be very, very wrong.

Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Doner is a social misfit - obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers at school. With her father dead and her mother...

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The Twelve Clues of Christmas

Rhys Bowen · Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Book

She may be thirty-fifth in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year—before a Christmas killer wrings another neck…   On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara,...
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Mercy

Daniel Palmer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die -until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide,...

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Under the Knife: A Novel

Kelly Parsons · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife.

But first...

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The Martini Shot: A Novella and Stories

George Pelecanos · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fictions most revered writers. Whether theyre cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel

Darcey Bell · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent...

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The Last Wolf & Herman

Lszl Krasznahorkai · New Directions
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Two short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he wonThe Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true...
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Die Like an Eagle: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow...

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Bone Deep

Randy Wayne White · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover

The stunning new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along - but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for....
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The Undesired: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .

Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse...

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Insomnia

Stephen King · Gallery Books
Pages: 912
Format: Print book

Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of unimaginable proportions has began and Ralph has the one chance to beat it.
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The Spy: A novel

Paulo Coelho · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First...
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