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Closer Than You Know: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant...
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Séance Infernale: A novel

JONATHAN SKARITON · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel - dark, fast-paced, thrilling - set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city...
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Inherit the Bones: A Mystery

Emily Littlejohn · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"I couldn't put down Inherit the Bones. Small town Colorado police detective Gemma Monroe is a human and fallible heroine I can't wait to meet again, and Littlejohn's prose is lyrical and gripping -- the book is a sure bet for one of the finest debut novels of the year."...
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A Useful Woman

Darcie Wilde · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 357
Format: Print book

Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society - including who among the ton is capable of murder... The daughter of a baronet and minor heiress,...
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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply...
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The Last Day of Emily Lindsey

Nic Joseph · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A bone-chilling novel about a woman found holding a hunting knife, covered in blood that is not her own, who communicates with a single, ominous drawing, and the man who must get inside her head to solve a mystery without a crime.Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long...
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Full Curl: A Jenny Willson Mystery

Dave Butler · Dundurn
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback

When her park is threatened, warden Jenny Willson takes it very personally. Jenny Willson is a hard-edged, caustic-witted warden from Banff National Park who considers poachers and ladder-climbing bureaucrats equally repulsive and worthy of the same painful fate. Does keeping her promise...
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The Mitford Murders

Jessica Fellowes · Minotaur Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"A real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. I loved it." -- Julian Fellowes, creator and writer of Downton Abbey and BelgraviaSet amid the legendary Mitford household, a thrilling Golden...
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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The Terminal List: A Thriller

Jack Carr · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Double the trouble, twice the action, and quadruple the enjoyment. Careful while reading this one, it could leave a mark." - Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Order A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers...
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No Safe Place: A gripping thriller with a shocking twist

Patricia Gibney

There's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face... As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is
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Sirens: A Novel

Joseph Knox · Crown
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The breathtakingly propulsive and stunningly assured debut thriller, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane The mission is suicide. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle...
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A Fatal Collection

MARY ELLEN HUGHES · Midnight Ink
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Callie Reed makes a long overdue visit to her aunt Melodie, who lives in a fairy-tale cottage in quaint Keepsake Cove, home to a bevy of unique collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Just as they're beginning to reconnect, Callie discovers her aunt's body on the floor of her music...
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Wilde Lake: A Novel

Laura Lippman · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Computer file

An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl. A vengeful father. A courageous attorney. A worshipful daughter. Think you know this story? Think again. Laura Lippman, the "extravagantly gifted" (Chicago Tribune) New York Times bestselling author, delivers...
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The Countess of Prague: Book One

Stephen Weeks · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on a ten-book set of investigations that begins in 1904 and finishes in 1914. The assassination...
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