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Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond

Graeme Davis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial era -- including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraft -- are presented anew to the contemporary reader. This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense...
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Edgedancer

BRANDON SANDERSON · Tor Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive (previously published in Arcanum Unbounded) .Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted....
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Mummified Meringues

Leighann Dobbs · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue...
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Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall: A Mystery

Hannah Dennison · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall is the second charming and witty whodunit in Hannah Dennison's amazing cozy series. Set at an English manor house, fans of British mysteries and Downton Abbey are sure to enjoy this contemporary take on murder at the manor house.When the body of a transport...
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The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

LIV CONSTANTINE · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train." - Library Journal (starred review) The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple,"...
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The Girl Who Dared to Think

Bella Forrest · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

An unforgettable tale brimming with suspense, mystery and romance - The Girl Who Dared to Think will thrill fans of The Gender Game, Divergent & The Hunger Games... How do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind?A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over...
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A Lady in Shadows: A Madeleine Karno Mystery

Lene Kaaberbøl · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Madeleine's inquisitive mind and candid voice are enough to keep us reading." - The New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling author Lene Kaaberbøl returns with her beloved protagonist Madeleine Karno - an ambitious young woman who shatters the confines of nineteenth...
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The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventure

WILBUR SMITH · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action,...
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Need You Dead

Peter James · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

What does it take for a decent man to turn into a killer? Greg, a married man, has been having an affair for three years with another man's wife. One evening, after a fight with her at their rented love nest, he storms out. When he returns an hour later she is dead. Did he kill her in a fit of rage...
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Solitude Creek

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue...
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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: A Novel

Matthew Dicks · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She's a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids) , Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. Asserting herself, taking the reins, or facing life head-on are not in her repertoire. So when Caroline suddenly cracks and screams "Fuck...
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Ties That Bind: A Novel

Cindy Woodsmall · WaterBrook
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Ariana's comfortable Old Order Amish world is about to unravel. Will holding tightly to the cords of family keep them together - or simply tear them apart?Twenty-year-old Ariana Brenneman loves her family and the Old Ways. She has two aspirations: open a café in historic Summer Grove...
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The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus

Terry Goodkind · Tor Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

A prequel to the Sword of Truth series follows the experiences of Magda Searus, who is shunned by her community members when she makes unsettling discoveries about her powerful husband's suicide and ventures out into a war-stricken world.Safe among those gifted with great ability, Magda...
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Old Bones

Trudy Nan Boyce · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community - set in a city at its boiling point - from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College,...
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From Distant Stars

Sam Peters · Gollancz
Pages: 439
Format: Paperback

Inspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife Alysha in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her - Liss - that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security...
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