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The Chef

James Patterson - Blackstone Pub
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A New Orleans police detective by day and celebrity food truck chef by night, Caleb Rooney has a new title -- Louisiana's Most Wanted -- in this shocking thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes...
 
 
The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal

Chris French - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena?...
 
 
The Truth about the Devlins

Lisa Scottoline - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.. TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their...
 
 
Murder by Lamplight

Patrice McDonough - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop a sadistic killer in this dark, atmospheric, historically rich mystery for readers of Andrea Penrose...
 
 
Once Upon a Murder (A Lady Librarian Mystery)

Samantha Larsen - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Miss Tiffany Woodall must sleuth the slaying of a footman to clear her beloved's name in the second Lady Librarian mystery, in the vein of Deanna Raybourn and perfect for fans of Bridgerton.. 1784 England. Officially hired as the librarian for the Duchess of Beaufort, Miss Tiffany Woodall...
 
 
The Woman Who Lowered the Boom

David Handler - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

This new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth finally on the precipice of reclaiming his previous literary fame when threats against his editor appear to put both his career and her life in jeopardy. Stewart "Hoagy"...
 
 
Black Wolf (Antonia Scott Book 2)

Juan Gómez-Jurado - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling sensation Antonio Scott, along with Jon Gutierrez, return in the much anticipated sequel to Red Queen.Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself.....
 
 
The Unquiet Bones: A Novel

Loreth Anne White - Montlake
Format: Hardcover

A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case - and rips apart the lives of a group of friends - in a riveting novel by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Maid's Diary.When human bones are found beneath...
 
 
The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL * From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime,...
 
 
The #1 Lawyer: Patterson's greatest southern legal thriller yet

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Move over, John Grisham! Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his wife is murdered, and he becomes the nation's #1 suspect.. Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished...