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The Black Book

James; Ellis David Patterson · Little
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing...
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The Cruiser: A Dan Lenson Novel

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

Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's...
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The Girl in the Ice

Lotte Hammer · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Under the heartless vault of Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her.When Detective Chief Superintendent...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls - "think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl" (TheSkimm) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all.Confronted by a restraining...
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The Muse: A Novel

Jessie Burton · Ecco
Pages: 393
Format: Print book

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women - a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain - and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien...
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The Secrets of Lake Road: A Novel

Karen Katchur · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A haunting story about the destructive power of secrets, The Secrets of Lake Road is an accomplished and gripping suspenseful women's fiction debutJo has been hiding the truth about her role in her high school boyfriend's drowning for sixteen years. Every summer, she drops her children...
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Murder Most Malicious

Alyssa Maxwell · Kensington Pub Corp, 2015.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, step outside of their social roles and put their lives at risk to apprehend a vicious killer. . .December 1918: As a difficult year draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old...
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Knot Guilty: A Crochet Mystery

Betty Hechtman · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Molly Pink and her pals, the Tarzana Hookers, are ready to bring the craft of crochet to the masses. But when one of their members finds herself the prime suspect in a murder, the Hookers are going to have to switch their focus to fighting her bad rap ... Molly and her friends can't...
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No Good Deeds: A Tess Monaghan Novel

Laura Lippman · Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan finds herself facing the most complicated case of her career ... When Tess Monaghan begins her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper, she's handed the case of an unsolved homicide of a young federal prosecutor. But she never...
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year

Michael Farquhar · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

National Geographic and author Michael Farquhar uncover an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From Caligula's blood-soaked end to hotelier Steve Wynn's unfortunate run-in with a priceless Picasso, these 365 tales of misery...
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Silver Moon Rising

Ethan J Wolfe · Five Star
Format: Print book

"Emmet Lang is a very unique type of outlaw. A veteran of the Civil War, he returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Bitter and disillusioned, he wandered the south and west and struck upon an ideal way to make a living, to steal from criminals.Lang...
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Nantucket Red Tickets

Steven Axelrod · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol. No visions, no ghosts-just the exhumed skeleton of his old partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger pistol in its skull. Ted was a horribly...
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Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill · Knopf
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover

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The Magician's Lie: A Novel

Greer Macallister · Sourcebooks Inc
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A USA Today Bestseller!"[A] well-paced, evocative, and adventurous historical novel..." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review"This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat."...
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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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