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BARRY LANCET · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting international thriller featuring Japanese antiques art dealer and PI Jim Brodie, a double-murder at the Kennedy Center forces Brodie into a dangerous game of espionage - putting him in the crosshairs of the Chinese, North Korean, and American governments.Jim Brodie is an antiques...
 
 
The Birthday Girl

SUE FORTIN · HarperImpulse
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

'Sue Fortin writes with skill and pace, filling her pages with tension. With great characters and a gripping storyline, I was immediately pulled in and found myself desperate to turn the pages' - Amanda JenningsTwo sisters. Only one is telling the truth.As birthday girl Joanne turns...
 
 
Raw Wounds: An action thriller set in rural Louisiana

Matt Hilton · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

Tess Grey and Nicolas 'Po' Villere return to Louisiana to confront Po's tormented past in this tense, action-packed thriller.Ex-con Nicolas 'Po' Villere has no love for the mother who abandoned him as a child. Yet when she asks to see him on her deathbed, he returns...
 
 
Death of a Lobster Lover

LEE HOLLIS · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is off on a girls' getaway with her two best friends. But soon they'll have to get away from a killer...The quaint fishing village of Salmon Cove, Maine, seems like the ideal location for a girls' weekend with Hayley's gal pals, Liddy and Mona....
 
 
The Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery

Sally Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life...
 
 
Mister Memory: A Novel

Marcus Sedgwick · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. A dazzling psychological puzzle that reveals the strange connection between memory and fate. In Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Després is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to the famous...
 
 
Take Out

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Following the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald.
 
 
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...
 
 
Copper Kettle

Frederick Ramsay · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

It's 1920. Jesse Sutherlin has returned to Buffalo Mountain a war hero, having after survived the trenches of World War I. Not only did he fight the enemy, reaching the rank of officer, he went a few rounds with some of his fellow soldier who viewed him as a hillbilly.Jesse is glad...
 
 
Liar in the Library, The

SIMON BRETT · Crème de la Crime
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new Fethering mystery.Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven?t...
 
 
IN DUST AND ASHES

ANNE HOLT · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne Wilhelmsen series--bestselling in Norway and throughout Europe--from Scandinavia's most celebrated female crime writer, Anne Holt. In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter...
 
 
Night of Fire: A Novel

Colin Thubron · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants - including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...
 
 
Beau Death

PETER LOVESEY · Soho Crime
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old...
 
 
Assault and Buttery

Kristi Abbott · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

With her poodle, Sprocket, popcorn entrepreneur Rebecca Anderson must bag a killer in the latest Popcorn Shop Mystery from the author of Pop Goes the Murder.Repairs are under way at Rebecca Anderson's gourmet popcorn shop. With production of her tasty treats on hold, Rebecca has plenty...
 
 
Bad to the Bone

LINDA O JOHNSTON · MIDNIGHT INK
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Veterinary technician Carrie Kennersly, owner of the Barkery & Biscuits bakery for dogs, is reluctant to sell her recipes to pet food manufacturer VimPets. Jack Loroco, a VimPets representative, assures Carrie that it would be a great opportunity to grow her business. His promising...