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The Sinners

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel from New York Times-bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle.The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem....
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard

Paul Collins · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting...
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Baby Teeth: A Novel

ZOJE STAGE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sweetness can be deceptive.In the tradition of THE DINNER and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a "bad seed" debut about a mom desperate to find help for her mute young daughter, whose disturbing behavior grows increasingly dangerous."Unnerving and unputdownable, Baby Teeth...
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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

MIKE SCARDINO · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James PattersonBad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers...
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Give Me Your Hand

MEGAN ABBOTT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From "one of the greatest crime writers of our time" (Mary Kubica) comes a mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever...or rip them apart. Kit Owens thought that she would never see Diane Fleming again. The pair were best friends...
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The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder King James I

BENJAMIN WOOLLEY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing account of the conspiracy to kill King James I by his handsome lover, the Duke of Buckingham, an historical crime that has remained hidden for 400 years.The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber...
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The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

SEANAN MCGUIRE · DAW
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer--the immortal Bobby Cross.Once and twice and thrice around, Put your heart into the ground. Four and five and six tears shed, Give your...
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

Jean Guerrero · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood,...
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Four Dominions: A Testament Novel

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER · Forge Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A new, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Jason Bourne series and The Testament. The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years, but now it is upon us.Emma and Bravo Shaw have rescued the Testament of Lucifer from nefarious hands,...
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The Disappearing: A Novel

LORI ROY · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two time Edgar Award winning-author Lori Roy returns with her latest suspense, a dark tale about a small present-day Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.When Lane Fielding fled north Florida after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she never thought she'd...
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