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Persons Unknown: A Novel

Susie Steiner · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a complicated detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which those she loves most become suspects. Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding...
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Time of Death: A Stillwater General Mystery

Lucy Kerr · Crooked Lane
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

Welcome to Stillwater, a quiet town nestled on the banks of the Illinois River. Twelve years ago, Frankie Stapleton moved to Chicago, leaving behind her family, their struggling hardware store, and her fiance. Now she s back--an emergency room nurse with an adrenaline addiction and a string...
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The Crow Girl: A novel

Erik Axl Sund · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

The International Sensation It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving...
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The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime...
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Love & Death in Burgundy

Susan C. Shea · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From critically acclaimed author, Susan C. Shea, comes Love & Death in Burgundy, an atmospheric mystery novel filled with good Chablis, french cheese, and, of course, murder.After three years of living in the small town of Reigny-sur-Canne, all Katherine Goff really wants is to be accepted...
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The Sixth Victim

TESSA HARRIS · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

London's East End, 1888: When darkness falls, terror begins...The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to dread, but she is more preoccupied with...
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August Snow

Stephen Mack Jones · Soho Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit's bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay.Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American...
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My Darling Detective

Howard Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard NormanJacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle....
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How Will I Know You?: A Novel

Jessica Treadway · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A page-turner about the murder of a teenage girl, from the author of Lacy Eye.On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was,...
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The Unseeing

Anna Mazzola · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A thrilling debut based based on the real case of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother sentenced to hang for her alleged role in a shocking murder, bringing together the accused with an idealistic young lawyer assigned to investigate whether she is a guilty murderer or an unfortunate victim.Something...
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Deep Six: A Novel

D P Lyle · Oceanview Pub
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Ex-professional baseball player Jake Longly adamantly refuses to work for his father, wanting no part of Ray's PI world. He prefers to hang out at his beachfront bar and chase bikinis along the sugary beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. But Ray could be persuasive, so Jake finds himself...
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A Study In Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas · Berkley
Pages: 323
Format: Paperback

An NPR Best Book of 2016USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down ... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never...
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Forever and a Death

DONALD E WESTLAKE · Hard Case Crime
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese by tunneling under Hong Kong's bank vaults and stealing all their gold, then using a doomsday device to set off a "soliton...
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Ragdoll: A Novel

Daniel Cole · Ecco
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

"A gruesome delight! Daniel Cole's thriller Ragdoll, in which gritty detective William 'Wolf' Fawkes comes upon a single corpse stitched together out of six bodies, had me flipping pages furiously. It's an impressive debut, dark, propulsive, and surprisingly funny." - Gregg Hurwitz,...
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The Measure of the Moon

Lisa Preston · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"If you ever say anything to anyone, they all die."When eight-year-old Greer Donner falls off his horse in the Washington wilderness, he braces himself to face the long hike home alone. But screams pierce the darkness, and he stumbles upon a dead-end road where a man is beating...
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