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The Darkness Knows

Cheryl Honigford · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

It's October 1938, and radio is king. Vivian Witchell is determined to be a star, and with her new role in the popular detective serial The Darkness Knows, everything she's dreamed of is finally within her grasp. Until the night she steps into the employee lounge and stumbles upon the body...
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Our House

Louise Candlish · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From an internationally acclaimed author, a disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home...There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't...
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Camino Island: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM · Doubleday
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino...
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Keller's Fedora

LAWRENCE BLOCK · SUBTERRANEAN PRESS
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

A NEW HAT. FOR A NEW HIT.Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having...
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A Game for All the Family: A Novel

Sophie Hannah · William Morrow
Pages: 447
Format: Print book

Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling...
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Antique Blues: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

Jane K Cleland · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend's killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in the beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire.When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese...
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Knife: A New Harry Hole Novel

Jo Nesbo · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage--once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career.Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel--the only woman he's ever loved--has...
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Outrage

T R Ragan · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The happy life Faith McMann knew as a wife, mother, and teacher was destroyed when vicious criminals murdered her husband, kidnapped her children, and left her for dead. After paralyzing grief, fear, and despair, there was nothing left for her to feel ... except fury. But striking a staggering...
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Give the Devil His Due

Steve Hockensmith · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Reformed con artist-turned-tarot reader Alanis McLachlan gets paid for predicting the future -- too bad she didn't see all the trouble in hers. First a figure from her past tries to drag her back into the life of crime she thought she'd left behind. Then a new suitor tries to sweep Alanis...
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Cold Pressed Murder

Kelly Lane · Berkley Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Eva Knox and her quirky Southern family are back in the second in the "intriguing"* culinary mystery series. It's the pits for the attendees of the annual Farm Family Fare in Abundance, Georgia, when olive oil farmer Eva Knox finds herself in the middle of a murder case... Eva and the residents...
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Death in Dark Blue

Julia Buckley · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An aspiring suspense author finds herself writing mysteries by day and solving them by night in the second Writer's Apprentice Mystery by the author of A Dark and Stormy Murder and the Undercover Dish Mysteries.In the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana, Lena London is settling into her dream...
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Paradox

CATHERINE COULTER · Gallery Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

With unparalleled suspense and her trademark explosive twists, #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter delves into the terrifying mind of an escaped mental patient obsessed with revenge in this next installment of her riveting FBI series. When he fails to kidnap five-year-old...
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Beside Myself

Ann Morgan · Bloomsbury, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and...
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Trace

ARCHER MAYOR · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother. Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case....
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By Familiar Means

Delia James · Berkley Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the latest from the author of A Familiar Tail, a witch and her familiar find trouble brewing at a coffee house. After discovering her mystical heritage - and being adopted by furry feline familiar Alistair - artist Annabelle Britton has decided to make picturesque Portsmouth, New Hampshire,...
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