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Under Occupation: A Novel

Alan Furst · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occupied Paris is based on true events of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who smuggled valuable intelligence to Paris and the resistance.

Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city...
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While You Sleep: A Novel

Stephanie Merritt · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A modern-day ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, While You Sleep is a page-turning, chillingly erotic Hitchcockian thriller evoking the dark atmospheric of a house that may be more than it seems . . .

It begins, they say, with a woman screaming . . .

On a remote...
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An Ale of Two Cities

Sarah Fox · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this intoxicating mystery by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox, a winter carnival becomes a recipe for disaster when a Shady Creek celebrity gets iced.

The Winter Carnival always brings holiday cheer, Christmas joy - and tourists with cash - to picturesque...
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Task Force Baum

James D. Shipman · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Saving Private Ryan and Bridge Over the River Kwai, bestselling author James D. Shipman delivers a powerful, action-packed novel that illustrates the long-buried secrets and unending costs of war - based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine...
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Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder

Jessica Fletcher · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague, while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder - that of the high school principal.

Young...
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Task Lyst

Scott Hylbert · Turner
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

"Intriguing and timely debut..." -- Publishers Weekly

Elliott is a struggling musician who is trying to piece together enough cash every month to keep his dream of performing alive while also paying his rent. That's when he discovered the new app TASK LYST. As a service...

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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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Killing Eve: No Tomorrow

Luke Jennings · Mulholland Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Eve and Villanelle plan for a high-stakes showdown in this sophisticated follow-up to the spy thriller that inspired the hit TV series Killing Eve.
"If you want us to remain silent -- if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation -- you need to tell us everything,...
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Exit Fee: A Pike Logan Novella

· William Morrow Impulse
Pages: 160
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Taylor is one of today's premiere authors writing about the world of special ops."

- Associated Press

Former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new novella sets Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill against a Serbian gang that makes the mistake of kidnapping...

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Dead Blow: A Horseshoer Mystery

Lisa Preston · Skyhorse
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Terrific second in the new Horseshoer Mystery Series, featuring the incorrigible female horse shoer, Rainy Dale.

A dead blow hammer leaves little to no mark on the surface it strikes. It's not a shoer's tool, but horseshoer Rainy Dale knows them and knows there are more questions...
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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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The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel

Kris Waldherr · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale.

All love stories are ghost stories in disguise.

When famed...
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Murder with Cherry Tarts

Karen Rose Smith · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In Pennsylvania's Amish country, Daisy Swanson has a tea shop to run, a daughter to marry off - and a murder to solve . . .

Daisy's worried one of her employees at Daisy's Tea Garden may be in a spot of trouble. Lately Karina's been loading up on soup and second-day baked...
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The Secrets We Bury

Debra Webb · MIRA
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Nothing stays buried forever ...

Doctor Rowan Dupont knows death. She grew up surrounded by it in her family's Victorian funeral home, and it's haunted her since the day her twin sister drowned years ago. Between her mother's subsequent suicide and the recent murder of her father,...
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I Am Watching

Emma Kavanagh · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From a distance, they seem to be sleeping. Three bodies, sitting propped up against the ancient stones of Hadrian's Wall. A closer look reveals the horror of their too-white faces, and the ring of vivid red bruises around each neck.

The victims were found by schoolgirl Isla Bell,...
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The Dog Who Knew Too Much

Krista Davis · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When a famous pooch comes to Wagtail for some downtime, inn owner Holly Miller learns that murder never rests in this all-new Paws & Claws mystery in the New York Times bestselling series.

America's favorite dog comes to pet-friendly Wagtail for some rest and relaxation,...
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No Man's Land

Sara Driscoll · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue dog are on the trail of a killer hiding where others fear to tread ...

For Meg Jennings and her K-9 companion, Hawk, exploring the ruins of a deserted building is an exciting way to sharpen their skills without the life-or-death...
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A Dream of Death

Connie Berry · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

On a remote Scottish island, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton wrestles with her own past while sleuthing a brutal killing, staged to recreate a two-hundred-year-old unsolved murder.

Autumn has come and gone on Scotland's Isle of Glenroth, and the islanders gather for the Tartan...
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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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The Stranger Inside

Laura Benedict · Mulholland Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

What if you came home to find a stranger living inside your house? An "oustanding, ever-twisting, surprise-filled" psychological drama (Publishers Weekly) , in the tradition of Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, from Edgar- and Thriller Award-nominated...
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A Murderous Tangle

Sally Goldenbaum · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Birdie, Nell, Cass, and Izzy are prepping their coziest handiwork for a holiday gathering in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts. But as murder makes waves in their tightly knit coastal village, can the Seaside Knitters prevent a deadly trend from catching on?

While the Seaside Knitters...
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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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