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Hostage Taker: A Novel

Stefanie Pintoff · Bantam Books
Pages: 422
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE * From Edgar Award winner Stefanie Pintoff comes the start of an electrifying new thriller series featuring Eve Rossi, head of a secret division of the FBI - one made up of ex-convicts with extraordinary talents,...
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Vertigo 42: A Richard Jury Mystery

Martha Grimes · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In her latest Richard Jury mystery, Martha Grimes delivers the newest addition to the bestselling series The Washington Post calls "literate, lyrical, funny, funky, discursive, bizarre." The inimitable Scotland Yard Superintendent returns, now with a tip of the derby to Alfred...
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Ring In the Year with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery

AURALEE WALLACE · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

It's been a tough year for Erica Bloom. And with hours left on the clock and a killer crashing the party, it's not over yet ... This New Year's Eve, Erica's resolution is to have a great night -- even if it kills her. She is, after all, at the party to end all parties: a Great...
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Twisted Prey

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now more powerful than ever as a U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey seriesLucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before.A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate,...
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Alert

James Patterson · Vision
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"This is not a test"-every New Yorker's worst nightmare is about to become a reality. New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly. Why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective...
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A Skeleton in the Family

Leigh Perry · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Most families have skeletons in their closets ... Moving back into her parents' house with her teenage daughter had not been Georgia Thackery's "Plan A." But when she got a job at the local college, it seemed the sensible thing to do. So she settled in and began reconnecting...
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The God Gene: A Novel

F. Paul Wilson · Forge Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning of Panacea return in this next thriller by F. Paul Wilson and come across another impossible medical scenario -- the gene that makes us human. Or does it?Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, suddenly liquidates his assets and walks out of his job never...
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Fear the darkness

Becky Masterman · Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

"Retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn knows how difficult it can be to overcome one's past. But she is nothing if not a fighter. Even when the return of a serial killer from her past threatened to derail her new marriage, she managed to hold on to the life she's been trying to build...
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Razor girl.

Carl Hiaasen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Click Here For the Autographed Copy The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of "Skinny Dip" and"Bad Monkey" When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary...
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Steps to the Gallows

Edward Marston · Allison & Busby, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably well-informed and has therefore created a whole host of enemies. When the editor is killed and the printing press smashed to bits, the Invisible Detectives are hired...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary...
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Whispers of the Dead

Spencer Kope · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A series of bizarre murders -- the victims nearly unidentifiable -- forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered.A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in the house of a Federal judge in El Paso....
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Abracadabra: A Novel

David Kranes · University of Nevada Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil, and the state of the union. The novel begins with a mystery,...
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The English Teacher: A Novel

Yiftach Reicher Atir · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For readers of John Le Carré and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when...
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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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