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Murder Past Due
Murder Past Due

Miranda James · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback

There's a cat in the stacks... ...and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth. Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris-and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous bestselling...
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Warburg in Rome
Warburg in Rome

James Carroll · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war’s end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d’Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg’s...
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The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer: A Fresh-Baked Mystery
The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer: A Fresh-Baked Mystery

L J Washburn · Obsidian, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

In the latest from the national bestselling author of Trick or Deadly Treat, Phyllis Newsom returns with a festive Christmas recipe that's to die for ... 'Tis the season in Weatherford, Texas, and everyone in town is gearing up for the annual holiday parade and tree-lighting ceremony in the town...
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Ratlines
Ratlines

Stuart Neville · Soho Crime; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within...
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Blowback: A Vanessa Pierson Novel
Blowback: A Vanessa Pierson Novel

Valerie Plame · Signet Select; Reissue edition
Format: Book

Introducing Blowback, an exhilarating new espionage thriller by former CIA ops officer Valerie Plame and thriller writer Sarah Lovett.  Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing Bhoot, the world’s most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer....
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By Gaslight: A Novel
By Gaslight: A Novel

Steven Price · Farrar
Pages: 731
Format: Print book

A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminalBy Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends...
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The Bride Box: A mystery series set in Egypt at the start of the 20th century
The Bride Box: A mystery series set in Egypt at the start of the 20th century

Michael Pearce · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past . . . At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor - and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedives Secret Police,...
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A Study in Detail
A Study in Detail

Michael Guillebeau · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

Sharp dialog, peculiar but fleshed out characters, an absorbing story, and finally, a depth of understanding of human complexities, desires, and foibles... Five well-deserved stars. --Heather Haven, award-winning author of The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries --Paul is a simple outdoorsman...
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Burn
Burn

James Patterson · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 11
Format: Book

Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City--and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career.At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family...
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A Time of Change: A Trading Post Novel
A Time of Change: A Trading Post Novel

Aim?e Thurlo · Forge Books
Format: Kindle Edition

A Time of Change is a perfect example of the Thurloss ability to combine passion with tension as they introduce readers to Josephine Buck and other employees at a New Mexico trading post. When The Outposts owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart,...
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Raging Heat
Raging Heat

Richard Castle · Kingswell
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook....
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Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel

James Grippando · Harper
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense - based on shocking true-life events - from the New York Times bestselling...
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Sinner Man
Sinner Man

Lawrence Block · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another...
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Police: A Harry Hole Novel
Police: A Harry Hole Novel

Jo Nesbo · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Finalist -- GoodReads Choice Award -- Mystery/ThrillerHarry Hole returns--or does he?--in a terrifyingly paced, vertiginous new roller coaster of a thriller by the internationally best-selling author of The Snowman and The Redeemer, "the king of Scandinavian crime fiction" (Kirkus). The...
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The Gamal: A Novel
The Gamal: A Novel

Ciarán Collins · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book

Meet Charlie. People think hes crazy. But hes not. People think hes stupid. But hes not. People think hes innocent...Hes the Gamal.Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he cant tell it yet, at least not til hes worked...
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