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Kjell Ola Dahl · Orenda Books
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

When the body of a woman turns up in a dumpster, scalded and wrapped in plastic, Inspector Frank Frølich is shocked to discover that he knows her - and their recent meetings may hold the clue to her murder. As he begins to look deeper into the tragic events surrounding her death, Frølich's...
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A Cold Day in Hell

Lissa Marie Redmond · Midnight Ink
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

Lauren Riley is an accomplished detective who has always been on the opposite side of the courtroom from her nemesis, slick defense attorney Frank Violanti. But now he's begging to hire her as a private investigator to help clear his client of murder. At first Lauren refuses, wanting nothing...
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In Her Bones: A Novel

Kate Moretti · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti's next "exceptional ... emotionally astute, [and] deliciously sinister" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) thriller follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the center of a murder investigation.Fifteen...
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Banana Cream Pie Murder

Joanne Fluke · Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress,...
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The Undesired: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center....
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Grandghost: A haunted house mystery

NANCY SPRINGER · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover

When she unearths the bones of a young child, Beverly Vernon's life is transformed in ways she never expected.Widowed Beverly Vernon, a displaced East Coast children's book illustrator and mother of two childless adult daughters, is finding it difficult to settle in rural Florida....
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The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT · Presevero Press
Format: Hardcover

NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama . . . where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop...
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Fiction Can Be Murder

BECKY CLARK · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

Mystery author Charlemagne "Charlee" Russo thought the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books were only the products of her imagination. That is, until her agent is found dead exactly as described in her new, unpublished manuscript. Suspicion swirls around her and her critique...
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A Mask of Shadows: A Novel

OSCAR DE MURIEL · Pegasus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Edinburgh's most unlikely detective duo -- "Nine-Nails" McGray and Inspector Ian Frey -- must try to solve a murder mystery on the Scottish stage, as a new production of Macbeth is attracting the machinations of a serial killer . . . Edinburgh, 1889. The Scottish Play is coming...
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A Criminal Defense

William L. Myers Jr. · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 380
Format: Paperback

Losing the trial of his life could mean losing everything.When a young reporter is found dead and a prominent Philadelphia businessman is accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds himself involved in the case of his life. The defendant, David Hanson, was Mick's close friend in law school,...
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes.The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department...
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Though This Be Madness

Penny Richards · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long and her reluctant partner, Cade McShane, travel to New Orleans to save a young widow from a fate worse than death ... 1881, Chicago. Assigned to her second case as a Pinkerton, Lilly still needs to prove herself - both as a novice...
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Murder on Trinity Place

Victoria Thompson · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The devil's in the details when a man is found murdered near Trinity Church in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series...The year of 1899 is drawing to a close. Frank and Sarah Malloy are getting ready to celebrate the New Year at Trinity Church when they...
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Every Last Lie

Mary Kubica · Park Row Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL, Mary Kubica is back with another exhilarating thriller as a widow's pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche. Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash,...
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The Blood: A Jem Flockhart Mystery

E. S. Thomson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In a hunt that takes Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain through the harrowing streets of Victorian London to the dangers of the seamen's floating hospital, The Blood, they will endeavor to solve a dark and terrible new mystery. Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note...
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