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Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core.

Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with dreams of making it big as a model/actress...
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Under Occupation: A Novel

Alan Furst · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From "America's preeminent spy novelist" (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler.

Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo...
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The Second Sleep: A novel

Robert Harris · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before.

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor....
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The Chaos Function

Jack Skillingstead · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of the best‑selling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, high‑stakes thriller with a science‑fiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions?
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Guilty Not Guilty

Felix Francis · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman...
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Priest of Lies

Peter McLean · Ace
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster...and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series.

People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become--until they can't...
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The Bridal Suite

Rochelle Alers · Dafina
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Rochelle Alers' returns to romantic New Orleans in this uplifting series featuring four very different friends embarking on the dream of a lifetime . . .

With her besties in the Big Easy, Nydia Santiago is second-guessing staying behind in New York...
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The Last Affair

Margot Hunt · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Love may be blind, but obsession's a real killer.

Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another.

Abby...
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Fight or Flight

Samantha Young · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A series of chance encounters leads to a sizzling new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series.

The universe is conspiring against Ava Breevort. As if flying back to Phoenix to bury a childhood friend wasn't hell enough, a cloud of volcanic...
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Active Measures

Marc Cameron · Pinnacle
Pages: 576
Format: Mass Market Paperback

OLD ENEMIES NEVER DIE

Cuba and the United States are in talks to normalize relations, something the old guard on the Communist-controlled island has vowed to stop - by any means necessary. Zayda de la Guardia, a rogue general in the Cuban security services, has gotten his hands...
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Murder at Icicle Lodge

J.D. Griffo · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Seasoned Italian-American Alberta Scaglione can whip up a traditional dish for any occasion. But when an impromptu vacation turns deadly, can she sift out the deadly ingredient?

When her granddaughter lands a reporting gig at the grand opening of the luxurious Icicle Lodge, Alberta...
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'Tis the Season Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Christmas has come to Tinker's Cove, Maine, and sleuthing skills are at the top of Lucy's Stone's wish list in these two beloved mysteries - now collected in one festive volume for the very first time! . . .

NEW YEAR'S EVE MURDER

After the annual parade of Christmas presents...
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We Met in December: A Novel

Rosie Curtis · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Following a year in the life of a twenty-something British woman who falls hard for her London flat mate, this clever, fun, and unforgettable romantic comedy is the perfect feel-good holiday read.

Two people. One house. A year that changes everything.

Twenty-nine-year-old...

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Murder Cuts the Mustard

Jessica Ellicott · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay . . .

The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint...
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Murder Off the Page: A 42nd Street Library Mystery

Con Lehane · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The third book in an amazing series that features crime à la library at America's most famous institution of higher reading.

A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off on a murder investigation,...

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The Devil's Due

Bonnie MacBird · HarperCollins
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird's critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself.

It's 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date...

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White Christmas Wedding: A Novel

Celeste Winters · Howard Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This heartwarming, feel-good holiday romance brings together a loveable cast of characters who find hope where they thought it had been lost and romance where no one ever expected it.

Returning home to her family's farm in the Midwest for her Christmas wedding was never Beth Dean's...
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The Secrets of Paper and Ink

Lindsay Harrel · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Brought together across time by a love of story, three women in England fight to defy expectations, dream new dreams, and welcome love into their lives.

As a counselor, Sophia Barrett is trained to help people cope with their burdens. But when she meets a new patient whose troubles...

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Lady Takes the Case

Eliza Casey · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series.

England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette...
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel

Olivia Hawker · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 495
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.

Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other...

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Crashing into Her: Love on Cue

Mia Sosa · Avon Impulse
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Mia Sosa delivers wish fulfillment with off-the-charts sparks." - Entertainment Weekly

Relationships are a thing of the past for Eva Montgomery. Her current motto? You can't spell "manipulative" without man. But Eva has needs, and a one-night-stand at her best...

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The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films

Otto Penzler · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 1200
Format: Paperback

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.

Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that...
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The Glovemaker: A Novel

Ann Weisgarber · Skyhorse
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A Publishers Weekly starred review

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks...
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Red Oblivion

Leslie Shimotakahara · Dundurn
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Family secrets surface when two sisters travel to Hong Kong to care for their ill father.
When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister, Celeste, catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they...

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Swimming in Darkness

Lucas Harari · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre's thesis. The mountain...
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Thread and Buried

Lea Wait · Kensington
Pages: 272
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town - which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it's become the scene of a crime . . .

Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot in their little New England...
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