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Two Girls Down: A Novel

Louisa Luna · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"This is such a terrific read. High stakes, relationship-driven, perfectly paced. Two Girls Down has something else worth noting: three dimensional female characters. Alice Vega could give Jack Reacher a run for his money. Maybe Louisa Luna should write all the thrillers."--New...
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Death Below Stairs

Jennifer Ashley · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered...
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey · Soho Crime
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree...
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The Glamorous Dead

SUZANNE GATES · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . . The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway - no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub,...
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The Persian Always Meows Twice

EILEEN WATKINS · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Cat lovers are thrilled to welcome an expert groomer to the picturesque town of Chadwick. But scratch below the surface, and unmasking a killer becomes a game of cat and mouse . . .Professional cat grooming isn't all fluff - when the fur starts flying, Cassie McGlone, owner of Cassie's...
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The Birdwatcher

WILLIAM SHAW · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Police Sergeant William South has a good reason to shy away from murder investigations: he is a murderer himself.
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What My Body Remembers

Agnete Friis · Soho Crime
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

Twisty and brimming with the emotional power of beautifully drawn characters, the solo debut by the coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision course with her past in order to save her son's future. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been...
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I See You

Clare Mackintosh · Berkley
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

"[A] well-told suspense story...refreshingly realistic." - The New York Times Book Review "Danger feels real in the brilliant I See You ... Mackintosh seems destined to do important work for many years to come." - The Washington Post "Mackintosh allots her characters...
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The Shadow District: A Thriller

Arnaldur Indridason · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason.THE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough...
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Bringing Maggie Home: A Novel

KIM VOGEL SAWYER · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Decades of Loss, an Unsolved Mystery, and a Rift Spanning Three Generations Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears....
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LoveMurder

SAUL BLACK · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover

When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming -- and utterly...
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Down on Cyprus Avenue

Paul Charles · Dufour Editions
Format: Hardcover

In this new series from Paul Charles, formerly retired policeman Brendy McCusker is forced to return to work following his wife's flight to America with their nest-egg. On his first major case in Belfast he partners with DI Lily O'Carroll to locate the two missing sons of a wealthy...
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The Prague Sonata

Bradford Morrow · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 682
Format: Library Binding

From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript Music and war, war and music--these are the twin...
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Boundary: The Last Summer

Andre?e A Michaud · Biblioasis
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Where deep woods cover the Maine border, blending together two countries and two languages, the summer of 1967 is a time of fear. Teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, attracting the attention of boys and men, before...
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The Last Girl

Jane Casey · Minotaur Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Maeve Kerrigan is a fascinating and plausible characterWhat she has is persistence, integrity and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a readers affections.--The Irish Independent UKVast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things...
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