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Lisa Black · Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"Quite simply, one of the best storytellers around" Tess Gerritsen - Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site. A witness to the death - a young girl nicknamed Ghost - may be able to help....
 
 
The Lower River

Paul Theroux · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When...
 
 
The Blood of an Englishman: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

M. C. Beaton · Minotaur Books; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

"Fee, fie, fo, fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman..."Even though Agatha Raisin loathes amateur dramatics, her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local pantomime. Stifling a yawn at the production of "Babes in the Woods," Agatha...
 
 
Notorious

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan introduces an irrepressible heroine in her pulse-pounding new thriller Notorious, which Lisa Gardner says is, "Guaranteed to keep you up late at night."Maxine Revere has dedicated her life to investigating murders that the police...
 
 
Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner · Dutton; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Catch Me and Love You More, returns with a heart-thumping thriller about what lurks behind the facade of a perfect family.This is my family: Vanished without a trace ... Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages...
 
 
Over Your Dead Body

Dan Wells · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer...
 
 
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste: A Novel

Valerie Martin · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle,...