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Murder at the Chase: A locked room mystery set in 1950s England

Eric Brown · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is faced with the classic locked-room conundrum in this engaging historical mysteryJuly, 1955. Donald Langham has interrupted his romantic break in rural Suffolk with the delectable Maria Dupre to assist a fellow writer. Alastair Endicott has requested...
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Swimming in the Shadows: A contemporary romantic suspense

Diane Janes · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A young woman's past is about to catch up with her in this gripping tale of suspenseSusan McCarthy is a health centre manager in the Yorkshire Dales, engaged to be married to geography teacher Rob Dugdale. Her life couldn't be happier. Except Susan McCarthy isn't Susan McCarthy...
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Never Look Back

Clare Donoghue · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In Never Look Back, three young women have been found brutally murdered in south London, their bodies discarded in plain view, the victims only yards away from help during each attack. And each time, the murderer gets a little bit bolder.Detective Inspector Mike Lockyer is the head of homicide...
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Death in an Ivory Tower

Maria Hudgins · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

FOR FANS OF: Carolyn Hart, Laura Childs, Miranda JamesIt s a scholarly conference at Oxford and the subject is The Lingering Effects of the King Arthur Tales on Life in Elizabethan England, but two participants don t fit in. Dotsy Lamb, PhD candidate from Virginia, has inadvertently invited...
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Paradime: A Novel

Alan Glynn · Picador
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

From Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Limitless, comes a novel of a twenty-first-century identity crisis that will thrill you from page one.

Danny Lynch didn't sign up for this, but right now, it's all he's got. Three weeks ago, he was working at a chow hall...

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War Hawk: A Tucker Wayne Novel

James/ Blackwood Grant Rollins · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood.

Tucker...

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Cane and Abe

James Grippando · Harper
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, in which Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in his wife's disappearance, which may have a chilling connection to the woman he can't forget.Unbelievable was the word for her....
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Rob Thy Neighbor

David Thurlo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

Charlie Henry and his friends are enjoying a cookout on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. But when a gunshot rings out in the neighborhood, Charlie is abruptly brought back to a world he's all too familiar with.

As he and best friend Gordon run to the source of the shot, they happen...

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Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s: The Way Some People Die / The Barbarous Coast / The Doomsters / The Galton Case:

Ross Macdonald · Library of America
Format: Hardcover

At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collectors edition Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar brought to the crime novel new levels of social realism and psychological...
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Ghostly : a collection of ghost stories

Audrey Niffenegger · Scribner
Pages: 449
Format: Print book

Collected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry - including her own fabulous new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger - this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories...
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Missing You

Harlan Coben · Dutton Books
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben, a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past...and the lies that bind us together. It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture,...
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We Eat Our Own: A Novel

Kea Wilson · Scribner
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

"An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film...
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Chain of Custody

Anita Nair · Bitter Lemon Press
Pages: 365
Format: Paperback

Bangalore's Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller. What does thirteen-year-old Nandita's disappearance have to do with the murder of a well-known lawyer in a gated community? Gowda is soon embroiled in the investigation of a child-trafficking racket. Negotiating...
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Secret World: A Tudor mystery featuring Christopher Marlowe

M.J. Trow · Cre'€me de la Crime 2015. ©2015
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Christopher Marlowe tackles his most baffling case yet.

June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed...
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Go Down Hard

Craig Faustus Buck · Brash Books
Format: Print book

Sex, Thugs, and Rock-n-Roll The wild, daring, sexy and outrageously original crime novel from Anthony Award and Macavity Award nominee Craig Faustus Buck. Nob Brown is a divorced, disillusioned thirty-something ex-cop turned bottom-feeding tabloid writer. His best friend and occasional...
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