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The Perfect Fraud: A Novel

Ellen LaCorte · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this propulsive debut thriller, two women with deep secrets are thrown together by an unexpected meeting that plunges both their lives into chaos. But it's a sick little girl whose fate hangs in the balance.Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire,...
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The Darwin Affair: A Novel

Tim Mason · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019 - an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication of On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes."Keep clear of his blade!" he cried. "Once cut, always...
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The Book Supremacy

Kate Carlisle · Berkley
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the latest in this New York Times bestselling series, San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright investigates a mysterious spy novel linked to a string of murders... Newlyweds Brooklyn and Derek are enjoying the final days of their honeymoon in Paris. As they're browsing...
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We Were Killers Once: A Thriller

Becky Masterman · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn, with her trademark toughness, raw humor, and human frailty, is back and better than ever in Masterman's latest novel. As Quinn is drawn into an infamous cold case with a possible link to the two killers immortalized by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood,...
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Something Borrowed, Something Mewed

Bethany Blake · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Daphne Templeton's sister Piper is getting married - and their mother is getting carried away. She insists on hiring Sylvan Creek's top event planner, Abigail Sinclair, who proposes an Independence Day theme complete with Statue of Liberty-inspired bridesmaid dresses. With all the bickering...
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The Right Sort of Man

Allison Montclair · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"A delightful immersion in the period and personalities, with that touch of depth that transforms a good series to a great one." -- Laurie R. KingFirst comes love, then comes murder.In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch...
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Murder with Cucumber Sandwiches

Karen Rose Smith · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Daisy's Tea Garden in Pennsylvania's Amish country is known for its elegant finger foods - but now owner Daisy Swanson has to finger a killer . . . Restaurant critic Derek Schumaker, notorious for his bitter reviews, is about to visit Daisy's Tea Garden, and Daisy and Aunt Iris are simmering...
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Girl in the Rearview Mirror: A Novel

Kelsey Rae Dimberg · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The young nanny for a prominent political family gets drawn into a web of deadly lies - including her own - in this stunning debut thriller with the menacing twists of Megan Abbott and the exquisite suspense of Laura Lippman.They are Phoenix's First Family: handsome Philip Martin, son of the sitting...
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China Dream

Ma Jian · Counterpoint
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

One of the year's most anticipated novels in translation, written by an acclaimed Chinese author whose entire body of work has been banned by his home country, and published in the thirtieth-anniversary year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just...
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The Shallows

Matt Goldman · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, "I want more of Nils Shapiro." New York Times Best Selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer Matt Goldman obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, stand-alone adventure in The Shallows.A prominent...
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The Body Lies: A novel

Jo Baker · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world--or in the pages of a book--when the stakes are dangerously high.When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote...
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Man of the Year

Caroline Louise Walker · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Beware the Man of the Year. You may praise him, resent him, even want to be him: but beneath the elegant trappings that define him, danger looms. Caroline Louise Walker's stunning debut novel, for fans of Herman Koch's The Dinner and Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door, delves into the increasingly...
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The Liar's Child: A Novel

Carla Buckley · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this intense and intimate family portrait that moves at a thriller's pace, a troubled woman faces a gripping moral dilemma after rescuing two abandoned children from a hurricane. On the outskirts of North Carolina's Outer Banks sits the Paradise, an apartment complex where renters...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan

Keisuke Matsuoka · Vertical
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback

Where did Sherlock Holmes go during his famous disappearance between his death at Reichenbach Falls and reappearance in Baker Street, three years later? God of mystery Keisuke Matsuoka contends that it was in the Far East - in Japan, to be exact.In 1891, Nicholas Alexandrovich, the Tsarevich...
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The Mad Hatter Mystery

John Dickson Carr · American Mystery Classics
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humorAt the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people -- but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible...
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