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A Brilliant Death

Robin Yocum · Seventh Street Books, 2016.
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Amanda Baron died in a boating accident on the Ohio River in 1953. Or, did she? While it was generally accepted that she had died when a coal barge rammed the pleasure boat she was sharing with her lover, her body was never found. Travis Baron was an infant when his mother disappeared....
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After I'm Gone: A Novel

Laura Lippman · William Morrow; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

Library Journal? 11/15/2013 Rather than face 15 years in prison, Baltimore gambling boss Felix Brewer goes on the lam in 1976, leaving behind his wife, Bambi, the love of his life; his beloved daughters, Linda, 17, Rachel, 14, and Michelle, three; and his mistress, ex-stripper Julie Saxony....
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Minds of Winter

Ed O'Loughlin · Quercus
Pages: 500
Format: Print book

In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers...
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Crime Song

DAVID SWINSON · LITTLE
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Frank Marr ("a masterly piece of characterization" - Tana French) is back. Marr, a retired D. C. police detective working as a private eye for a defense attorney, has a serious problem. He is secretly a drug addict, and his long-time supply of cocaine is about to run out....
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A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison...
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A Grave Prediction: A Psychic Eye Mystery

Victoria Laurie · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In Victoria Laurie's new Psychic Eye mystery, Abby Cooper learns that following the money often leads to murder . . . Professional psychics learn to deal with skeptics, but Abby has to prepare herself for one steep uphill battle when she's sent to San Diego to help train FBI officers...
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The Discourtesy of Death: A Father Anselm Novel

William Brodrick · The Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, gripping thriller for readers of P.D. James and William BoydAn anonymous letter accuses a prominent academic, Peter Henderson, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years ago.Time has moved...
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Ghost Sniper: A Sniper Elite Novel

Scott Mcewen · Touchstone
Pages: 405
Format: Print book

In the next thrilling installment of the non-stop action Sniper Elite series from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper, a top secret band of elite warriors are forced to take a side in the Mexican narco wars.Bob Pope, the director of an American secret intelligence...
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The Guests on South Battery

Karen White · Berkley
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away... With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than...
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Missing: A Private Novel

James Patterson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist . . .Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company,...
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Come and Get Us

James Patterson · BookShots
Pages: 139
Format: Print book

What is her husband's secret? Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: "Be careful who you trust....
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Homesick for Another World: Stories

Ottessa Moshfegh · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle,...
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Lament for Bonnie

Anne Emery · ECW Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald the stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton s famed Clan Donnie family band is liked by everyone in the kind of town where everyone knows each other. After Bonnie vanishes from a family party, no one knows what to think there was no stranger...
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The Mouth of the Crocodile: A Mamur Zapt mystery set in pre-World War I Egypt

Michael Pearce · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

"A lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adams" Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident - or something more sinister? A visiting...
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Calamity Jayne and the Campus Caper

Kathleen Bacus · Gemma Halliday Publishing
Format: eBook

"Fans of Janet Evanovich will be glad to see that you don't always have to go to the burgh for mirthful murder and mayhem."- BOOKLIST What does a blonde get on her intelligence test?Drool. Ace cub reporter Tressa Jayne Turner is carrying a full load - and we're not talking post-holiday...
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