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Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?: A Novel

Stephen Dobyns · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 351
Format: Book

Stephen Dobyns--whom Stephen King has described as "the best of the best"--is back with his newest novel Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?, a comic suspense novel about a small-time con operation, a pair of combative detectives, and the pride, revenge, and deception that guide...

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Tenacity: A Thriller

J. S. Law · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Suicide must be investigated--especially when a Royal Navy sailor kills himself on a nuclear submarine, only days after his wife's brutal murder. Now Lieutenant Danielle Lewis, the Navy's finest Special Branch investigator, must interrogate the tight-knit, male crew of HMS Tenacity...

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A Beeline to Murder

Meera Lester · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 288
Format: Book

After an injury forced her to leave the police department, Abigail Mackenzie started a second career as a farmer. Raising chickens, harvesting honey from her bee colony, and growing heirloom vegetables on her farmette in the beautiful Bay Area town of Las Flores, Abby has embraced all the benefits...

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Murder at the Courthouse: A Hidden Springs Mystery

A. H. Gabhart · Fleming H. Revell Company
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

After a few years as a police officer in Chicago, Michael Keane has no trouble relaxing into the far less stressful job of deputy sheriff in his small hometown. After all, nothing ever happens in Hidden Springs, Kentucky. Nothing, that is, until a dead body is discovered on the courthouse...

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Blue Avenue

Michael Wiley · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Book

Introducing homicide detective Daniel Turner and his troubled friend "BB" in the first of this atmospheric crime noir series.

Summoned by his old friend, homicide detective Daniel Turner, to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman, found wrapped in cellophane...

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Supposed to Die

Hugh Dutton · Five Star
Format: Book

If there is such a thing as a fate worse than death‚ Joe Tree found it. Sentenced to the hell of Florida's state prison for a murder he didn't commit‚ with the wife he worships cheering on the prosecution and then deserting him to marry the man who set him up. His long-coveted...

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Nine Lives: A Lily Dale Mystery

Wendy Corsi Staub · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Book

In this warm and witty series debut from New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub, a widowed young mom plans a fresh start in Chicago--but instead finds her way to a quirky lakeside village that just happens to be populated by mediums.

When reluctant road trippers...

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Cursed in the Act

Raymond Buckland · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!

Bram Stoker, business manager for London's Lyceum Theatre, always expects the supernatural to be lurking around the corner. But investigating the murder of a cast member might be enough to make even him lose his head ...

1881. When the star...
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Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

Kenneth Wishnia · PM Press
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

A unique collection of all-new stories by award-winning authors. This anthology includes the work of numerous authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman) , Wendy Hornsby, Charles Ardai, and Kenneth Wishnia. The stories explore...
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The drowning ground

James Marrison · Minotaur Books, 2015. Â2015
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

"Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is a long way from his native home of Argentina, heading up the police department in the English Cotswolds. But he isn't far enough to escape the memories of his past, or to lose the baggage he carries from the loss of someone close to him. So when...
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Rubbernecker

Belinda Bauer · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Breathtaking. I read this and wished I'd written it." - Val McDermidBelinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has won the CWA's Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year and garnered rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner...
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Last Words

Michael Koryta · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Markus Novak just wants to come home. An investigator for a Florida-based Death Row defense firm, Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the midst of a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murderer is still at large, and Novak's attempts to learn...
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The Fold: A Novel

Peter Clines · Crown
Format: Hardcover

STEP INTO THE FOLD. IT'S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn't much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts,...
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Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything: A Mystery

Nancy Martin · Minotaur Books, 2015.
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient-her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas Cattle Cur, not a cuddly lapdog,...
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Black Run: A Novel

Antonio Manzini · Harper
Format: Hardcover

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery - the first in a sensational crime series - set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell.Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police...
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