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The Satapur Moonstone

SUJATA MASSEY · Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic...
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The Night Before

Wendy Walker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The night before...and the nightmare after. Rosie and Laura are as different as two sisters can be. One is stable and has the perfect family. The other struggles to break free from her troubled past. When Laura disappears after going on a blind date, Rosie takes matters into her own hands. But...
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The awkward squad

Sophie He?naff · MacLehose Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Officer Anne Capestan's team of misfits will have to work together to investigate a decades-old unsolved murder . . . and in the process uncover a trail of corruption that leads to the top of the Paris police force."Marvelous . . . An absorbing, sometimes laugh-out-loud mystery."...
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Disappearing Earth: A novel

Julia Phillips · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,...
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The Body in the Wake: A Novel

Katherine Hall Page · William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"The twenty-five mysteries that Katherine Hall Page has cooked up for her sleuth, Faith Fairchild, make for delectable reading. What a body of work! Dig in."-- Gregory Maguire, author of WickedAmateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage...
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Her Father's Secret

Sara Blaedel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A woman's murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind--before she becomes the next victim--in the latest emotionally gripping novel from Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author with over 3 million copies sold worldwide.After...
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Dying for Devil's Food

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley
Pages: 288
Format: Book

As the New York Times bestselling series continues, it's going to take every recipe the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew has to whip up a quick defense for Mel Cooper when her high school reunion goes from a cake walk to a car wreck... Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year...
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Thunderbolt: A Novel

Dale Brown · William Morrow
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting, visionary, and all-too-plausible next chapter in the legendary Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling techno-warfare series, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron must fight the Russians on a dangerous, untested battlefield: outer space.The previous administration's...
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A Deadly Feast: A Key West Food Critic Mystery

Lucy Burdette · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

National bestselling author Lucy Burdette's intrepid food critic Hayley Snow must sniff out a killer in the ninth Key West Food Critic mystery.Key West food critic Hayley Snow scents-es something fishy when a customer falls stone-crab cold dead on a seafood tasting tour.Thanksgiving is nearly...
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The Last Time I Saw You

Liv Constantine · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous husband...
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Only Ever Her

Marybeth Mayhew Whalen · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

It was to be the perfect wedding - until the bride disappeared.Annie Taft's wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going...
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The Scent of Murder

Kylie Logan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

First in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Scent of Murder is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains cadaver dogs. The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She's thirty-five years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland's most...
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The Paris Diversion: A Novel

Chris Pavone · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Kate Moore is back in a pulse-pounding thriller to discover that a massive terror attack across Paris is not what it seems - and that it involves her familyAmerican expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her shopping rounds, and meets her husband Dexter at their...
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Sidney Sheldon's A Silent Widow: A Sidney Sheldon Novel

Sidney Sheldon · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, continuing the enduring legacy of #1 bestselling suspense author Sidney Sheldon, is back with a new tale of glamour, suspense, and unexpected twists in Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow.A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes...
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The Woman in the Blue Cloak

Deon Meyer · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain...
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Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery

Nora Page · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Death, deadly omens, and a decades-overdue book put senior librarian Cleo Watkins on a collision course with a killer in the second Bookmobile mystery.Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins believes in gracious manners, sweet tea, and justice -- library justice. For over forty years, Cleo...
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The Stone Circle

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past,...
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The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery

Jean-Luc Bannalec · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." -- M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany "Very satisfying ... along the lines of Martin Walker's novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth's Aix-en-Provence mysteries." -- BOOKLIST on Murder on Brittany ShoresThe Missing...
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The Missing Years

Lexie Elliott · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The French Girl captivated readers with a twisting tale of psychological suspense. Now author Lexie Elliott heads to the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, where a woman's tangled family history comes back to haunt her...An eerie, old Scottish manor in the middle of nowhere that's now hers.Ailsa...
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Mrs. Jeffries Delivers the Goods

Emily Brightwell · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

When poison fells an arrogant and rude businessman in public, Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon both realize they are looking for a deranged maniac in this all new installment in the beloved Victorian Mystery series On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's ball festivities...
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Odd Partners: An Anthology

Mystery Writers Of America · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Unlikely pairs join forces to crack a slew of intriguing cases in an anthology edited by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, featuring original stories by Jacqueline Winspear, Jeffery Deaver, Allison Brennan, Charles Todd, and many more, including Perry herself. Throughout the annals...
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A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary: A Samuel Craddock Mystery

Terry Shames · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A FAVORITE SERIES CHARACTER FINDS HERSELF IN HARM'S WAY.After using an online dating site for senior citizens, town favorite Loretta Singletary--maker of cinnamon rolls and arbiter of town gossip--goes missing.Chief Samuel Craddock's old friend Loretta Singletary--a mainstay of the Jarrett...
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The Girl at the Border

Leslie Archer · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

One girl missing, one woman searching, both equally lost. Will a shared tragedy help them find their way home - even in the face of imminent danger?Renowned archaeologist Richard Mathis is half a world away on the island of Crete when he learns his daughter, Bella, has gone missing. Within...
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Little Lovely Things: A Novel

Maureen Joyce Connolly · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

"A shattering adventure." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, bestselling author of The Deep End of the OceanIf only things had been differentIt is the wrong time to get sick. Speeding down the highway on the way to work, her two little girls sleeping in the back seat, medical resident Claire...
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The Woman in the Dark

Vanessa Savage · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Couple Next Door, a debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up -- and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered.Sarah and Patrick are happy. But after her mother's death,...
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The Poison Bed: A Novel

Elizabeth Fremantle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder -- but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime? A marriage. A murder. One of them did it. Which of them will die for it? In the autumn of 1615, scandal...
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The Book Artist: A Hugo Marston Novel

Mark Pryor · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. Embassy in Paris, puts his life in danger when he investigates the murder of a celebrated artist, all the while fending off an assassin looking to settle an old score against him.Hugo Marston accompanies his boss, US Ambassador J. Bradford Taylor,...
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