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The Graveyard of the Hesperides

Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases---cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till---but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius...
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Zigzag

Bill Pronzini · Forge
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective """Zigzag "is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. "Grapplin,...
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Girl Unknown

Karen Perry · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel -- and how far will we go to protect it?David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle years -- raising two children; overseeing care for David's ailing mother; leaning into their careers,...
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Foretold by Thunder

E M Davey · The Overlook Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying debut thriller by E.M. Davey, a page-turning tale of ancient intrigue and modern-day perilWhen journalist Jake Wolsey stumbles upon a declassified file showing Winston Churchill's interest in the ancient, esoteric Etruscan civilisation his curiosity is piqued--but a series...
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Cimarron Rose

James Lee Burke · Pocket Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been...
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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child. No Middle Name begins with "Too Much Time," a brand-new...
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Badge of Evil

Bill Stanton · Regan Arts
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the same deadly crucible that forged Al Qaeda and ISIS, a new terrorist plot threatens to strike at the heart of America, and it'll take an uneasy alliance between New York's sharpest investigative journalist and one of its toughest private eyes to take them down. Badge of Evil...
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Black Valley: A Novel

Charlotte Williams · Bourbon Street Books
Format: Print book

Therapist-turned-reluctant detective Jessica Mayhew is on the trail once again in this smart, fast-paced novel of suspense from Charlotte Williams - author of the debut The House on the Cliff - a tautly written psychological thriller that ventures deep into the recesses of the mind.Jessica...
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The Ripper's Shadow: A Victorian Mystery

Laura Joh Rowland · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The year is 1888 and Jack the Ripper begins his reign of terror.Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local...
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Secrets of State

Matthew Palmer · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From a veteran insider with over twenty years' experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics.Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside...
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The Great Revolt: A Brother Athelstan novel of Medieval London

P C Doherty · Cre'€me de la Crime
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

Sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan discovers that past crimes can cause new murder in the latest intriguing medieval mysteryJune, 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London, determined to overturn both Crown and Church. The Regent, John of Gaunt, has headed north, leaving his nephew,...
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Reckless Creed

Alex Kava · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room;...
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The Secrets of Wishtide

Kate Saunders · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves...
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Daisy in Chains

Sharon Bolton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story -- he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.Maggie...
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Cold Cold Heart

Tami Hoag · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audio - Unabridged

Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she survived the ordeal, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred, racked with bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder and memory loss....
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