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Fatal Decree: A Matt Royal Mystery

H. Terrell Griffin · Oceanview Publishing
Format: Unabridged]

When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key, Florida after a twelve year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. The first woman killed on Longboat Key has ties to a secretive government agency for which Matts best friend Jock Algren works. Was this a coincidence or was she a targeted kill? Matts...
 
 
Carthage LP: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates · HarperCollins
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback

Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins his frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects - a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family....
 
 
A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Alan Bradley · Bantam
Pages: 415
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlan Bradley, author of the most award-winning series debut of any year, returns with another irresistible Flavia de Luce novel In the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman...
 
 
The Splendour Falls

Susanna Kearsley · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback

Praise for New York Times bestseller The Firebird: "Kearsley blends history, romance and a bit of the supernatural into a glittering, bewitching tale." - Kirkus An Ancient Castle, a Tragic Love, and a Web of Secrets Begins to Unravel... Emily Braden has stopped believing in fairy...
 
 
Die Easy: A Charlie Fox Thriller

Zoë Sharp · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In the sweltering heat of New Orleans, former Special Forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlie Fox faces her toughest challenge yet. Professionally, she’s at the top of her game, but her personal life is in ruins. Her lover, bodyguard Sean Meyer, has woken from a gunshot-induced coma...
 
 
Leaving Annalise

Pamela Fagan Hutchins · SkipJack Publishing
Format: Paperback

Multi-awardwinning, Bestselling Romantic Mystery SeriesLeaving Annalise picks up the Katie Annalise series with more romance, hilarity, and thrills.One unexpected and hotly fought-over little boy, two dead bodies, and a series of home vandalisms throw Texas attorney turned island chanteuse...
 
 
Stay Close

Harlan Coben · Dutton Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even...
 
 
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child. No Middle Name begins with "Too Much Time," a brand-new...
 
 
Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel

John le Carre · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Watch a video The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter...
 
 
A Scourge of Vipers: A Mulligan Novel

Bruce DeSilva · Forge Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose--or gain--if gambling is made legal...
 
 
The Arsonist

Sue Miller · Vintage
Format: Paperback

After fifteen years working in East Africa, Frankie Rowley returns to the New Hampshire village where her family has always spent their summers. But the tranquility she’s expecting proves short lived when, on the very night she arrives, a mysterious arsonist begins targeting the homes...
 
 
Faux Paw: A Magical Cats Mystery

Sofie Kelly · Penguin Books, 2015.
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

Magical cats Owen and Hercules from A Midwinter's Tail are back and ready to help librarian Kathleen Paulson pounce on a killer art thief ... Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator...
 
 
The Laws of Murder: A Charles Lenox Mystery

Charles Finch · Minotaur Books
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months...
 
 
The House That Death Built

John Llewellyn Probert · Atomic Fez Publishing; Trade Paperback edition
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

The Dark Manor isn't just any old haunted house. Built on the site of a stone circle, from bricks saturated with pain and agony, windows that have seen terror beyond insanity, and doors that would scream if the wood from which they were fashioned could voice the appalling acts to which...