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Last Stop in Brooklyn: A Mary Handley Mystery

LAWRENCE H LEVY · Broadway Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island. In the midst of her investigation, Mary is contacted by a convicted man's brother to reopen a murder case. A prostitute was killed by a Jack the Ripper copycat...
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A Death in the Dales

Frances Brody · Minotaur Books
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton make A Death in the Dales an absorbing 7th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie.A murder most...
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Tell Tale: Short Stories

JEFFREY ARCHER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries...
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The Fallen

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling Southern crime master Ace Atkins comes a rollicking, suspenseful tale of bank robbers, good ole boy politicians, truck stop women, and one decent man crazy enough to fight them all. Tibbehah County Sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers...
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Written Off: A Mysterious Detective Mystery

E J COPPERMAN · CROOKED LANE Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Rachel Goldman writes mysteries in which Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor's office, helps find missing persons. Rachel is busy finishing up her next book, when a man calls out of the blue asking for help in a missing persons case. The caller's name? Duffy Madison.Is...
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Give the Devil His Due

Steve Hockensmith · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Reformed con artist-turned-tarot reader Alanis McLachlan gets paid for predicting the future -- too bad she didn't see all the trouble in hers. First a figure from her past tries to drag her back into the life of crime she thought she'd left behind. Then a new suitor tries to sweep Alanis...
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Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

Martin Edwards · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 358
Format: Paperback

Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the 'golden age of murder' between the two world wars....
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Tightening the Threads (Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series #5)

Lea Wait · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"In the coastal town of Haven Harbor, blood runs thicker than water and just as freely . . ." Antique dealer Sarah Byrne has never unspooled the truth about her past to anyone not even friend and fellow Mainely Needlepointer Angie Curtis. But the enigmatic Aussie finally has the one thing...
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The Unforgotten: A Novel

Laura Powell · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Louise Penny and Tana French, this haunting debut novel "with a slight Broadchurch feel" (Sunday Herald) explores the devastating repercussions of a long-ago crime as it delves into forbidden relationships, the emotional bond between mothers and daughters, and the dark...
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Death on Nantucket

FRANCINE MATHEWS · Soho Crime
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Spencer Murphy is a national treasure. A famous correspondent during the Vietnam War who escaped captivity in Southeast Asia, he made a fortune off of his books and television appearances. But Spence is growing forgetful with age; he's started to wander and even fails to come home one night....
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The Woman From Prague

ROB HART · Polis Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the Best Books of the Summer by Publishers Weekly Named a Hot Summer Read by the Boston Globe Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna's time is about to expire -- on his visa, that is. Having fled the demons that haunted him in the U.S., Ash has been laying low in Prague...
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Full Service Blonde

Megan Edwards · Imbrifex Books
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

A working girl is found dead in the desert. Can a calendar girl uncover the truth? In this prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it's Christmastime in Sin City. Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of Nevada's legal brothels....
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Perdition: A Novel of Suspense

R. Jean Reid · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Nell McGraw struggles with being a newly widowed mother and running the paper founded by her husband's grandfather. But a paper can't ignore the stories others turn away from, like the badly decomposing body of a child found in the gulf. At first it seems tragic, a child lost because...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel

Darcey Bell · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent...
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Beneath the Mountain: A Novel

Luca D'Andrea · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In Luca D'Andrea's atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making...
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