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Nitro Mountain: A novel

Lee Clay Johnson · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 207
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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Shadow Girl

GERRY SCHMITT · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that's just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can't save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing...
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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful...
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

DONALD E WESTLAKE · Hard Case Crime
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants...
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The Coldest Fear: A Thriller

Debra Webb · MIRA
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A killer with nothing left to lose ... Afraid or not, Detective Bobbie Gentry has a monster to confront. The pain of losing her family and nearly her life to a criminal's vile hunger is still fresh, but now the landscape is different. Now she's not alone. Now she has Nick Shade...
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Crepe Factor: A Scrapbooking Mystery

Laura Childs · Berkley
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn't taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace... The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand - but not so hectic that she doesn't...
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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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The Cracked Spine

Paige Shelton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator to assist us in our search for things thought...
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Death in the Stars: A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A delightful traditional British cozy featuring private investigator and "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton, in the vein of MC Beaton. Frances Brody's ninth book in the Kate Shackleton cozy mystery series continues to capture the atmosphere and language...
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The Apartment

S L Grey · Blumhouse Books/Anchor
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A haunting thriller about a troubled married couple whose vacation to Paris leads them into a nightmare. Mark and Steph have a relatively happy family with their young daughter in sunny Cape Town until one day when armed men in balaclavas break in to their home. Left traumatized but physically...
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Shattered

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's two series collide in Shattered, a powerful, enthralling read about the craving for revenge and the desire for justice.Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave....
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The Flimflam Affair

Bill Pronzini · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding

The Flimflam Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series.Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear,...
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The Collector

Fiona Cummins · Pinnacle
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"A crime novel of the very first order." - David Baldacci In Fiona Cummins' new novel of taut psychological suspense, an elusive psychopath meets his match in a detective who's just as ruthless - a woman who knows all too well that the best mind games are played in the dark...
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MatchUp

Lee Child · Simon & Schuster

"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist:...
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Heart of Barkness

Spencer Quinn · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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