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The Chosen: A Novel

Kristina Ohlsson · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

In her phenomenal #1 international bestseller - fifth in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Fredrika Bergman series - "one of Sweden's best younger writers" (Los Angeles Times Magazine) delivers a tense, atmospheric mystery featuring an enigmatic killer rooted...
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme MaCrae Burnet · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent...
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The Ghosts of Misty Hollow

Sue Ann Jaffarian · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The author of Ghost in the Guacamole returns as a spiritual medium and her spectral sidekick encounter murder and mystery in a Massachusetts farmhouse - Mysterious plots abound when spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle offers aid to a famous novelist, but her spectral sidekick Granny Apples...
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The Authentic William James

Stephen Gallagher · Subterranean Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Sebastian Becker's position as Special Investigator for the British Crown requires a subtle touch: gathering evidence that determines whether or not someone is a Chancery Lunatic afflicted with madness making them unfit to manage their fortunes without tipping the hand of those whose...
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The Oslo Conspiracy: A Thriller

Asle Skredderberget · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The main character in Asle Skredderberget´s crime novels is Milo Cavalli. Half Norwegian and half Italian, he is definitely not your typical depressed Nordic noir investigator. In fact he´s quite the opposite. Milo is successful and attractive AND extremely rich. He goes to confession....

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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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Spook Street

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask when his grandfather, a Cold...
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The Singing Bone: A Novel

Beth Hahn · Regan Arts
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A convicted killer's imminent parole forces a woman to confront the nightmarish past she's spent twenty years escaping.

I found you. That's what Mr. Wyck told her: I found you.

1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate from...
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Elementary, She Read: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

Vicki Delany · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop--located at 222 Baker Street--specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of Moriarty...
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The unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Dorothy Gilman · Fawcett Books
Format: eBook

A widowed matron decides to pursue her lifelong desire to be a spy, finds herself useful to the CIA, and successfully completes an assignment which takes her from New Jersey to Mexico City to Albania.
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Sorrow Road

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In 1944, three young men from a small town in West Virginia are among the American forces participating in D-Day, changing the fortunes of the war with one bold stroke. How is that moment aboard a Navy ship as it barrels toward the Normandy shore related to the death of an old man in an Appalachian...

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Stone Coffin: A Mystery

Kjell Eriksson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Shortlisted for the Prize for Best Swedish Crime Novel.

On a sunny morning in June, a young woman and her six-year old daughter are run over by a car on the road to Uppsala. Both are killed immediately. Is it an accident, or did someone kill them on purpose?

The same morning...

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The Murder of Willie Lincoln: A Novel

Burt Solomon · Forge
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White...
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The Sleepwalker: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire - the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children...
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