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The Semi-Sweet Hereafter

Colette London · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

As an authority on all things chocolate, Hayden Mundy Moore is traveling across the pond to lend her expertise to the owner of a posh London "chocolaterie-patisserie. "From coconut truffles to chocolate flapjacks, Hayden s mouthwatering creations quickly impress her client. But her knowledge...
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Willful Disregard: A Novel About Love

Lena Andersson · Other Press, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Winner of the August Prize, Sweden's most prestigious literary award: a novel about a perfectly reasonable woman's descent into the delusions of unrequited love Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on famous...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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The Infidel Stain

M.J. Carter · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Blake and Avery return in the stunning sequel to M. J. Carter's lauded fiction debut, The Strangler Vine. London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance...
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Nitro Mountain

Lee Clay Johnson · Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

An astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, "a natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his characters - the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth." Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia,...
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Inside V

Paula Priamos · Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

When Ava wakes up in an empty hotel room to find her husband missing, she must question her own responsibility in his disappearance. He has been accused of a reprehensible crime and up until this moment everything she thought about him and their life together could well be a lie. When she digs...
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Drawing Dead: A Cross Novel

Andrew H Vachss · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series and two collections of short stories, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker,...
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Summit: A Novel

Harry Farthing · Blackstone Audio Inc
Pages: 418
Format: Print book

An action-packed mountaineering adventure in which a mysterious discovery leads to breathtaking revelations about the world's highest peak.A summit is a summit, and the truth is the truth. But the view from 8,848 meters isn't always so clear. Two men, seventy years apart, push for the top of Mount...
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Marshall's Law: A Novel

Ben Sanders · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in California when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now?Marshall's undercover work gave him a long...
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Murder Most Wholesome

Staci McLaughlin · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Business has never been better at the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa in Blossom Valley, California. But a murder has two of its top employees ploughing for clues at a commune where tree-huggers are wary of the modern world--and a killer may be disturbing their peace ... When Dana Lewis...
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Dial M for Mousse

Laura Bradford · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Murder takes the cake in an irresistible Emergency Dessert Squad mystery from the national bestselling author of The Silence of the Flans. The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake,...
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The Curse of La Fontaine: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery

M L Longworth · Penguin Books
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

In the latest captivating installment of M. L. Longworth's acclaimed Verlaque & Bonnet Mystery series, the newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curseChef Sigisbert "Bear" Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine,...
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The Old Man

Thomas Perry · The Mysterious Press
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move "almost faster than a speeding bullet" (Wall Street Journal) . The Old Man is his latest whip-smart standalone novel.To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown...
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Mission Hill

Pamela Wechsler · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Abby Endicott is chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, where she investigates and prosecutes the city's most dangerous killers. She attended the elite Winsor school, graduated from Harvard Law School, and has been known to change into an evening gown amidst bodies in the morgue....
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The Last Time She Saw Him

Jane Haseldine · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In Jane Haseldine's gripping and brilliantly crafted debut, a reporter searching for her kidnapped son must untangle the connection to her brother's long-ago disappearance.Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother...
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