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Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

Leif GW Persson · Vintage; Mti edition
Format: Paperback

From a master of Scandinavian crime fiction--the first in a brilliant series of novels centered around the investigations of one irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Swedish police officer: Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckstrom of the National Murder Squad. Detective Bäckstrom is Persson's...
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The Detective

James Patrick Hunt · Five Star (ME)
Pages: 299
Format: Hardcover

Chicago, 1979. On the heels of one of the harshest blizzards ever to hit the city, five people have been murdered at a train stop. One of the victims is Rabbi Nathan Wald, a political activist who may have been targeted by the Illinois Neo-Nazis. Detective David Beckman is assigned to the case...
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The Tarantulas' Parlor: And Other Unkind Tales

Leon Bloy · Snuggly Books
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Praised by Borges, the Unkind Tales of LEon Bloy were produced in a phase of literary evolution that was exploratory and experimental, and hence intrinsically exciting. Lingering on the frontiers of Decadence, Naturalism, and Symbolism, these stories of the damned and the foolish, of terrible...
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The Legend of Sleepy Harlow

Kylie Logan · Berkley
Format: Book

It takes more than a lurid legend to scare off the League of Literary Ladies… For Halloween, the Literary Ladies have chosen to read Washington Irving’s spooky classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its infamous headless horseman. But South Bass Island has its own headless...
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Bound by Mystery: Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press

Kerry Greenwood · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback

In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television...
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The Castle of Kings

Oliver Potzsch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

An epic tale of murder, treachery, bravery, and love In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl,...
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Edited Out: A Mysterious Detective Mystery

E J COPPERMAN · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Mystery author Rachel Goldman is getting used to the idea that her fictional creation Duffy Madison has somehow taken flesh-and-blood form and is investigating missing person cases not far from where Rachel lives. Wait. No. She's not getting used to it at all, and the presence of this real-life...
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Green and Pleasant Land

Judith Cutler · Severn House, 2015. Â2014
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

Retired police detective Fran Harman discovers that someone doesn't like her digging up the past when she re-opens a 20-year-old cold case. Newly-retired, ex-Chief Superintendent Fran Harman and her partner Mark have volunteered to assist West Mercia police in reinvestigating an unsolved...
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The Catch: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel

Taylor Stevens · Crown; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Stevens excels at depicting pulse-pounding danger Her writing places her heads above most authors working in the thriller genre. Only Dan Brown and Lee Child come close. —Dallas Morning NewsVanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done—often...
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Nothing in Her Way / River Girl

Charles Williams · Stark House Press, 2014.
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Nothing in Her Way presents a convoluted story of two con artists, while River Girl is a classic backwoods thriller about a man who falls for the wrong woman. Both of these novels were originally published in the early 1950's by Gold Medal Books.
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Borderline: An Annika Bengtzon Thriller

Liza Marklund · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The inspiration for the hit film series, Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, now available on Netflix. In the newest thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Liza Marklund, dubbed the "Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction," Annika Bengtzon tracks an unknown adversary through...
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Purebred Dead: A canine mystery

Kathleen Delaney · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

This lively cozy, set in smalltown California, is the first in a brand-new dog mystery seriesPillar of the community, Mary McGill has a finger in every pie, a place on every committee. She's the one the townsfolk can count on when they need help. Everything Mary organizes runs smoothly...
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Threads of Evidence

Lea Wait · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

It's hard to imagine anything bad ever happening in picturesque Haven Harbor, Maine--until a famous face rolls into town and unthreads some very dark secrets. . .Angie Curtis and the Mainely Needlepointers are all too familiar with the Gardener estate. The crumbling Victorian...
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Beyond the Wild River: A Novel

Sarah Maine · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disappeared from her family's estate the night of a double...
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Coma

Robin Cook · Mulholland Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were...
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