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Funeral Owl

Jim Kelly · Crème de la Crime; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal or so-called Funeral owl, the papers editor Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. Its already proving to be one of the most eventful weeks in The Crows...
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Long Time Gone: A Novel of Suspense

J. A. Jance · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as it's more commonly called, the SHIT squad. But the more things change,...
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The Hidden Man

Robin Blake · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip...
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Cry Wolf: A Mafia thriller set in rural Italy

Michael Gregorio · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Introducing resourceful park ranger Sebastiano Cangio in the first of a brand-new crime series set against the glorious landscape of Italy's Umbria region. Sebastiano Cangio has just accepted his dream job as a park ranger in the stunning Sybilline Mountains National Park in central...
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A Bat in the Belfry: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery

Sarah Graves · Bantam; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to home repair, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree  is a fervent wielder of power drills and paint brushes. And when catching criminals, she’s been known to really bring down the hammer. But when a shocking murder rocks the small town of Eastport, Maine, Jake may be the next...
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The Lesser Dead

Christopher Buehlman · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEARAs much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs, Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his genre-bending California Literary Review...
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Cartwheel: A Novel

Jennifer duBois · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSlate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPageWritten with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel...
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The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

Lilian Jackson Braun · Jove Book
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Jim Qwilleran is not exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he's supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses...
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The Whistler

John Grisham · Random House Large Print
Pages: 496
Format: Large print book

Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, takes on a case involving a corrupt judge, a Native American casino, and the mafia when a previously disbarred lawyer approaches her on behalf of a client who claims to know the truth.
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Black Skies: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Arnaldur Indridason, whom The Sunday Times calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers around the world with his series set in Reykjavik. In Black Skies, Indridason further cements his position as one of today's top international...
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You and I, Me and You

MaryJanice Davidson · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

You and I, Me and You is the final book in Davidsons laugh-out-loud trilogy featuring an unconventional FBI agent who finds love in the most unexpected placesCadence and her sisters has moved in with Patrick and everything is more than she could have ever dreamed. Except why does the dreamy...
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Past Crimes: A Van Shaw Novel

Glen Erik Hamilton · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, an Army Ranger must plunge into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer and uncover a shocking family secret in this atmospheric and evocative debut thriller.Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at eighteen he suddenly...
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Tripwire

Lee Child · Putnam
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when a stranger comes looking for him. When the man is found dead, Reacher follows the trail to New York, where he discovers an opponent more vicious than any he's ever faced.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · Vintage
Format: Paperback

Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international...
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