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Dying on the Vine: A Mystery

Marla Cooper · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

When wedding planner Kelsey McKenna goes to the Wine Country Wedding Faire, the last thing she expects to do is take on new clients. After all, she's just there to help out her friend Brody and maybe score some free cupcakes. But when a young couple in a pinch asks for her help, she just...
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Shallow Grave: A Matt Sinclair Mystery

Brian Thiem · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

When the Oakland coroner's office uncovers a body buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of the city, homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair expects to find a drug dealer caught in the crosshairs of a turf war. Instead, the victim is identified as Phil Roberts, the commander of the police...
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The Daylight Marriage

Heidi Pitlor · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A page-turning exploration of unexpressed love and unnecessary loss. Riveting and heartbreaking." - GERALDINE BROOKS, author of Caleb's Crossing She still had time before work. She could go food shopping. She could fold the kids' laundry and get the car washed and return...
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Unraveling Oliver: A Novel

Liz Nugent · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this "compelling, clever, and dark" (Heat magazine) thriller, a man's shocking act of savagery stuns a local community - and the revelations that follow will keep you gripped until the very last page. This work of psychological suspense, a #1 bestseller in Ireland, is perfect...
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A Burnable Book: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger · William Morrow
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover

*WINNER OF THE JOHN HURT FISHER PRIZE*SHORT-LISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS'S YEAR'S BEST IN CRIME FICTION
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Heat Storm

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese...
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Hunted

James Patterson · BookShots
Pages: 20
Format: Print book

Evil has a new game....Someone is luring men from the streets to play a mysterious, high stakes game in the English countryside. Former Special Forces officer David Shelley will go undercover to shut it down--but this might be a game he can't win.BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...
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The Readymade Thief

AUGUSTUS ROSE · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"The most must-read of all must-reads." - Marie Claire"A kickass debut from start to finish." - Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground RailroadLee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run. Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds...
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The Black Book

James; Ellis David Patterson · Little
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing...
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Unknown Remains: A Novel

Peter Leonard · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

Jack McCann is a high-stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; he knows he's in trouble, deep legal trouble, a fact highlighted by the urgent phone calls from his boss. Outside his office window, Jack hears...
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The Valley

John Renehan · Dutton; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"You're going up the Valley."Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth....
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Pressure

Brian Keene · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Off the coast of tropical Mauritius, an ecological catastrophe with global implications is occurring. The ocean's floor is collapsing at a rapid rate. World-champion free diver and marine biologist Carrie Anderson joins a scientific expedition determined to discover the cause-and how to stop...
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Prophets of Eternal Fjord: A Novel

Kim Leine · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, internationally best-selling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fate.From the swarming streets of Copenhagen to the frozen villages of Greenland, The Prophets of Eternal...
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A Good Killing: A Novel

Allison Leotta · Touchstone Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Former federal prosecutor and critically acclaimed author Allison Leotta's spellbinding thriller follows prosecutor Anna Curtis as she heads home to Michigan to defend her sister in a case that will bring her to her knees.How far would you go to save your sister? Anna Curtis is back...
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The Ice Queen: A Novel

Nele Neuhaus · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpses...
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