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The Black Hills

M. J. Trow · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Private detectives Grand & Batchelor embark for the Wild West - and headlong into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping Victorian mystery. March, 1875. Although he has never had much time for George Custer, hero of the American Civil War and Commander of the 7th Cavalry,...
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A Small Town

Thomas Perry · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town -- burning down homes and businesses....
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Overthrow: The War with China and North Korea--Fall of an Empire

David Poyer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series.World War III continues in David Poyer's Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed series featuring Admiral Dan Lenson as the Allies...
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The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter

Larkin, Shabazz · Readers to Eaters
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A LOVE POEM FROM A FATHER TO HIS TWO SONS, AND A TRIBUTE TO THE BEES THAT POLLINATE THE FOODS WE LOVE TO EAT."Sometimes bees can be a bit rude.They fly in your face and prance on your food."And yet ... without bees, we might not have strawberries for shortcakes or avocados for tacos!...
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The Art of Possession: NULL

Cari Z · Dreamspinner Press LLC
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

When a treasure-hunting black ops soldier and a disgraced, reckless archeologist team up in search of a priceless artifact, they might get more than they bargained for. Ever since leaving the Green Berets to work in private security, Alex Tucker has longed for some excitement - and he's...
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Lethal Pursuit: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

London, 1892 -- Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister himself in the newest mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series.Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker,...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes: NULL

Amy Rae Durreson · Dreamspinner Press LLC
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

A workaholic teacher and a cranky blacksmith investigate a haunted orphanage in the remote Scottish Borders. What they find together might help them heal the wounds of their pasts ... if they survive. When the charity Leon works for inherits the orphanage, he travels north to see if the site...
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Music Macabre

Sarah Rayne · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Researching a biography of the composer Franz Liszt, Phineas Fox uncovers evidence of a brutal murder - and finds his own life in danger. Music researcher Phineas Fox has been enjoying his latest commission, gathering background material for a biography of Franz Liszt. But although he has - as anticipated...
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Strangers at the Gate

McPherson, Catriona · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Agatha Award-winning author of Quiet Neighbors comes a twisty, fascinating standalone that begs the question: how well can we ever know the people around us? When Finn and Paddy decide to move from their home in the city to the small town of Simmerton, it feels like everything...
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Bloody Genius

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review) .At the local state university,...
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