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A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself: A Novel

William Boyle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Goodfellas meets Thelma and Louise when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts. After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes...
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Before She Was Found

Heather Gudenkauf · Park Row
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence.For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary...
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First, Kill the Lawyers: A Holland Taylor Mystery

DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

P.I. Holland Taylor returns in David Housewright's Edgar Award-winning series with First, Kill the Lawyers, where Taylor is hired to recover stolen files before they are leaked, ruining more than just the careers of five local lawyers. Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their...
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In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917

Leslie S. Klinger · Pegasus Books
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

Before Agatha Christie became the world's Queen of Crime, she stood on the talented shoulders of the female crime authors who came before her. This splendid new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger brings these exceptional writers out of Christie's shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve....
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes.The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department...
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The Wall: A Novel

John Lanchester · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall -- an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task:...
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The Lost Traveller: A County Cork Mystery

SHEILA CONNOLLY · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Danger comes to Cork in the seventh County Cork mystery from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly, and it's up to Maura Donovan to find a way to protect all she's worked for.Pub owner Maura Donovan is settling into a charmed life in Ireland -- until a mutilated body on her property...
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Looker: A Novel

Laura Sims · Scribner
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge.I've never crossed their little fenced-in garden, of course. I stand on the sidewalk in front of the fern-and-ivy-filled planter that hangs from the fence - placed...
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The Eighth Sister: A Thriller

Robert Dugoni · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

A pulse-pounding thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series.Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting...
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Miracle Creek: A Novel

Angie Kim · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go to protect our families -- and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn't even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental...
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Saving Meghan

DANIEL PALMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer. Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl, claim she's obsessed and can't stop the vicious...
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Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Novel

David R. Dow · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A thrillingly suspenseful debut novel, and a fierce howl of rage that questions the true meaning of justice.Rafael Zhettah relishes the simplicity and freedom of his life. He is the owner and head chef of a promising Houston restaurant. A pilot with open access to the boundless Texas horizon....
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Crewel and Unusual: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery

Molly MacRae · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The latest mystery in this charming mystery series finds the ever-resourceful Kath Rutledge and shop ghost Geneva tangled up in an embroidery rivalry -- and a murder. Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is looking forward to the grand opening of the Blue Plum Vault, a co-op of small shops on Main...
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They All Fall Down

Rachel Howzell Hall · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A surprise invitation to a luxurious private islandSeven strangers, each harboring a secretOdd accidents stir suspicionAs one by one . . .They all fall down
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Death Waits in the Dark

Julia Buckley · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Writer's apprentice Lena London is back and better than ever when her friend bestselling suspense novelist Camilla Graham needs help solving a town murder that hits a little too close to home...It's summertime, and Lena and Camilla are busy working away while a town vandal runs amok. Things...
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Loch of the Dead: A Novel

Oscar de Muriel · Pegasus Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Edinburgh's most famed detective duo -- "Nine-Nails" McGray and Inspector Ian Frey -- face their most metaphysical mystery yet, as they investigate a series of crimes surrounding the miraculous waters in the remote Loch Maree.A mysterious woman pleads for the help of Inspectors...
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Double Exposure

Alfred Gough · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of Smallville comes an action-packed debut thriller about a war veteran and CIA officer in the 1960s swept up into a global conspiracy that may prove Hitler is still alive. David Toland, a decorated Korean War veteran, has done all he can to leave a life of combat behind....
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In the Blink of an Eye

Jesse Blackadder · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Intimate, raw and beautiful." -- Bryan Reardon, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Jake"A captivating, visceral, beautifully written story ... The characters were so real and relatable that I was riveted." -- Robyn Harding, international bestselling author...
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Murder Once Removed

S. C. Perkins · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients'...
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Save Me from Dangerous Men: A Novel

S. A. Lelchuk · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore's shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she also tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to love. And Nikki likes to teach...
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House on Fire: A Novel

Bonnie Kistler · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead - and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter. Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett...
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A Beautiful Corpse: A Mystery

Christi Daugherty · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped...
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The Smiling Man: A Novel

JOSEPH KNOX · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed crime writer Joseph Knox and his damaged detective hero Aidan Waits return with a mind-bending new thriller about a corpse found without a single identifying mark except the smile on his face, and a deadly threat from Aidan's own past who will stop at nothing to keep him off the case.Aidan...
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Mercy River

Glen Erik Hamilton · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Helping a fellow veteran accused of murder, Van Shaw is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth involving smuggled opioids, ruthless mercenaries, and deadly family secrets that will challenge his notions of brotherhood, and justice in this riveting thriller from Anthony, Macavity and Strand Critics...
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Rupture: An Ari Thor Thriller

Ragnar Jónasson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the fourth book in the Ari Thor thriller series from a spectacular new crime writer. Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing, author Ragnar Jonasson's books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex....
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The Echo Killing: A Mystery

Christi Daugherty · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer in Christi Daugherty's new novel The Echo Killing.A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks, and cobblestone...
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