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The Gates of Evangeline

Hester Young · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015*From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her . . .When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates...
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Brighton: A Novel

Michael Harvey · Ecco
Pages: 357
Format: Print book

"The f**king bomb! I loved it." - Stephen King"I couldn't stop reading." --John GrishamA gritty and suspenseful Boston thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane and The DepartedAn extraordinary thriller - gripping, haunting, and marvelously told - about two friends growing...
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A Shameful Murder: A Reverend Mother mystery set in 1920's Ireland

Cora Harrison · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Introducing the Reverend Mother Aquinas in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.Cork, Ireland. 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel washed up after a flood 'like a mermaid in gleaming silver satin',...
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Journey to Death

Leigh Russell · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

Lucy Hall arrives in the Seychelles determined to leave her worries behind. The tropical paradise looks sun-soaked and picture-perfect - but as Lucy soon discovers, appearances can be very deceptive. A deadly secret lurks in the island's history, buried deep but not forgotten. And it is about...
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The Far Empty

J Todd Scott · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

"J. Todd Scott's The Far Empty is so good I wish I'd written it. The poetic and bloody ground of west Texas has given birth to a powerful new voice in contemporary western crime fiction." - Craig Johnson, New York Times-bestselling author of the Walt Longmire series In this gritty...
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Missing, Presumed: A Novel

Susie Steiner · Random House
Format: Print book

"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge...
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All the Missing Girls: A Novel

Megan Miranda · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Ten years after leaving Cooley Ridge, Nicolette Farrell returns to care for her ailing father. A decade ago, she, her brother Daniel, her boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne's boyfriend Jackson were suspects when Corinne-- Nic's best friend-- disappeared without a trace. Within days of Nic's...
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Once a crooked man

David McCallum · Minotaur Books
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

A deliciously quirky crime novel from David McCallum, the beloved actor known for his portrayal of Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS. Crime pays. And pays well.Sal, Max and Enzo Bruschetti have proved this over a lifetime of nefarious...
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The Best of Enemies

Jen Lancaster · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Bridesmaids meets Big Little Lies in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who define the term frenemies - from New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. Jacqueline Jordan knows conflict. A fearless journalist, she's spent the past decade embedded in the world's...
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Scalp Dance

Lu Clifton · Five Star Publishing
Format: Hardcover

This mystery mingles Choctaw culture, science, and murder and features Lieutenant Sam Chitto of the Oklahoma Choctaw Tribal Police. A series of seemingly unrelated incidents come together to help solve a mysterious case involving beheaded men, but he is forced to make a decision that could...
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The Devils of Cardona

Matthew Carr · Riverhead Books
Pages: 416

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near...
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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Kirsten Weiss · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Maddie Kosloski's career flatlines, she retreats to her wine-country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, she's certain the rumors of its haunting are greatly exaggerated. But a new ghost may be on the loose. A fresh corpse...
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American Blood: A Novel

Ben Sanders · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In Ben Sanders's American Blood, a former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman; film rights sold to Warner Bros with Bradley Cooper attached to star and produce.After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall...
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Murder Most Malicious

Alyssa Maxwell · Kensington Pub Corp, 2015.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, step outside of their social roles and put their lives at risk to apprehend a vicious killer. . .December 1918: As a difficult year draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old...
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The Drum Within

James R Scarantino · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Santa Fe detective Denise Aragon must outsmart and outrun corrupt lawyers and judges to stop a celebrity artist who kills for his supplies. The latest victim is the wife of a man she hates: the cold-hearted criminal lawyer, Walter Fager. For the first time in his life he wants the police...
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Midnight on the Mississippi

Mary Ellis · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 347
Format: Print book

Midnight on the Mississippi begins the new Secrets of the South Mysteries from bestselling author Mary Ellis. These complex crime dramas follow an investigator's quest to make the world a better place...solving one case at a time. New Orleans--Hunter Galen, a stock and securities broker,...
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Black Cat Crossing

Kay Finch · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In the first in this cat-filled cozy series, aspiring mystery author Sabrina Tate is about to discover that when it comes to solving murders, her new feline friend Hitchcock is a master of sleuthing ... Sabrina has never been the superstitious type. Still, when she moves to Lavender, Texas,...
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Warlock Holmes - A Study in Brimstone

G S Denning · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart...
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Five Minutes Alone: A Thriller

Paul Cleave · Atria Books

"Breaking Bad reworked by the Coen Brothers." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) In the latest thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an edge-of-your-seat, cat-and-mouse chase between old friends,...
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Cold Girl: A B.C. Blues Crime Novel

R M Greenaway · Dundurn
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

engIt's too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock while the disappearances add up. A popular rockabilly singer has vanished in the snowbound Hazeltons of northern B.C. Lead RCMP investigator David Leith and his team work through...
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