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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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Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg: A Thriller

MishkÌ£ah Ben-DavÌ£id · The Overlook Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

What does it take for a Mossad agent to defy his bosses? What will they do to bring him back?Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad--ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely, until he meets Anna. Neither is quite...
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Under the Shadows

Gwen Florio · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

A story assignment becomes a murder investigation for troubled journalist Lola Wicks Lola Wicks is in bad shape. A family tragedy has nearly flattened her in a way that her years reporting from war zones never did. Her friends, alarmed by signs that Lola is in the grip of a destructive...
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The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich. Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate...
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Pleasantville

Attica Locke · Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX's Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter - hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising - return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power...
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Cop Town: A Novel

Karin Slaughter · Delacorte Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKarin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as "one of the best crime novelists in America" (The Washington Post) . Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval,...
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Stasi Child: A Karin Müller Thriller

DAVID YOUNG · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member...
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The City Under the Skin: A Novel

Geoff Nicholson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A cartographic thriller with so many twists and turns it requires its own mapA cartography-obsessed misfit clerk from an antique map store in a district thats not quite trendy yet. A bold young woman chasing the answer to a question she cant quite formulate. A petty criminal hoping the parking...
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Vengeance: A Novel

ZACHARY LAZAR · Catapult
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"I am stunned by the daring, meticulous, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork, the most important American book I've read this year, and the most moving and mesmerizing. -- Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name "More than...
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The Moonlit Door: a contemporary British village mystery

Deryn Lake · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A new puzzle for the Reverend Nick Lawrence . . . It is May in the sleepy village of Lakehurst, Sussex, and Nick Lawrence has organised a Medieval Fair, complete with maypole dancing, archers and Mr Grimm's men, a group of Morris dancers. The fair is enjoyed by all and a great success,...
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Skies of Ash

Rachel Howzell Hall · Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after...
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See Also Deception: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery

Larry D Sweazy · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

In a small North Dakota town in 1964, indexer Marjorie Trumaine investigates the alleged suicide of the local librarian, uncovering a web of secrets that puts her own life in jeopardy. October 1964 - Just months after freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine helped solve a series of murders...
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Monument Road: A Florida noir mystery

Michael Wiley · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Introducing former death-row inmate turned private investigator Franky Dast in the first of an intriguing new crime noir series. Having spent eight years on death row for a crime he didn't commit, Franky Dast now works as an investigator for the Justice Now Initiative, seeking to help...
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The Night Bell: A Novel

Inger Ash Wolfe · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The brilliantly paced and irresistibly suspenseful new novel in the Detective Hazel Micallef series takes this "perfectly original" (Gillian Flynn) detective into the maelstrom of two murder cases. The new novel in this acclaimed series is brilliantly paced, addictively suspenseful...
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Quick and The Dead: A contemporary British mystery

Susan Moody · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Introducing outspoken female sleuth Alex Quick in the first of a brand-new mystery seriesWhen her business partner, acclaimed art historian and university professor Dr Helena Drummond, disappears, Alexandra Quick is consumed by guilt. Shortly before she vanished, Helena had complained of being...
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