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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

MATTHEW SULLIVAN · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Goodreads Debut Author of the Month and an Indie Next Pick! "Sullivan's debut is a page-turner featuring a heroine bookseller who solves a cold case with clues from books - what is not to love?" - Nina George, author of The Little French Bistro, and the New York Times bestselling...
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Banana Cream Pie Murder

Joanne Fluke · Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress,...
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My Sister's Bones: A Novel of Suspense

NUALA ELLWOOD · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In the vein of Fiona Barton's The Widow and Renée Knight's Disclaimer, a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convinced that all is not well in the house next door - but is what she's seeing real or a symptom...
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Blue Labyrinth

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTHA long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast.It begins with murder. One of Pendergast's...
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Revival : a novel

Stephen King; David Morse; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World LLC. · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church...
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Under the Harrow: A Novel

Flynn Berry · Penguin Books
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE SUMMER'S BEST BOOKS BY ELLE · VOGUE · COSMOPOLITAN · GOOD HOUSEKEEPING · REAL SIMPLE · THE HUFFINGTON POST · REFINERY29 · PUREWOW · MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE · AND MORE"An exquisitely taut and intense debut thriller." - Maureen Corrigan,...
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Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman: A Mystery

Tessa Arlen · Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, 2015.
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's...
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My Darling Detective

Howard Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard NormanJacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle....
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The Lost Boy: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 493
Format: Print book

From the #1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation, Camilla Lackberg's latest psychological thriller ensnares Detective Patrik Hedstrom in a confounding new murder case. Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka's dead financial...
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The Other Side of Everything: A Novel

Lauren Doyle Owens · Touchstone
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in this suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a crime.Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed....
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The Color of Fear

MARCIA MULLER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller's captivating new mystery, private detective Sharon McCone's investigation hits closer to home than ever before...THE COLOR OF FEARWhen a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying...
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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

David Rosenfelt · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy -- eager, even -- to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue...
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The Dying Detective: A Mystery

Leif G W Persson · Pantheon
Pages: 426
Format: Hardcover

LARS MARTIN JOHANSSON is a living legend. Cunning and perceptive, always one step ahead, he was known in the National Criminal Police as "the man who could see around corners." But now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind him. Or so he thinks. After...
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Method 15/33

Shannon Kirk · Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

2015 National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Best Suspense Novel Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old whos just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. KidnappedAloneTerrified. Now forget her Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy....
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Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

Ahmed Saadawi · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A prizewinning novel of literary horror from war-torn Iraq - and the debut in English of "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times) From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café - collects human...
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