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Himself: A Novel

Jess Kidd · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"A highly unusual tale set in a highly unusual Irish village full of dark secrets ... Lushly imagined, delightfully original, and very, very funny, it hurtles along from the very first page" (M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans) .Having been abandoned on the steps...
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Pretty, Nasty, Lovely

ROSALIND NOONAN · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Sisterhood has a price . . .Pledging to Theta Pi at Merriwether University seemed to offer Emma Danelski a passport to friendship, fun, and popularity. But the excitement of pledge training quickly fades, as does the warmth of her so-called sisters. What's left is a stifling society...
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A Reckoning in the Back Country: A Samuel Craddock Mystery

TERRY SHAMES · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Acting Police Chief Samuel Craddock investigates the murder of a visiting physician, whose mangled body is found in the woods. When Lewis Wilkins, a physician with a vacation home in Jarrett Creek, is attacked by vicious dogs, and several pet dogs in the area around Jarrett Creek disappear,...
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French Pastry Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington
Format: Hardcover

"Reading a new Leslie Meier mystery is like catching up with a dear old friend." --Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author Lucy Stone is saying "Au revoir!" to Tinker's Cove, Maine, and "Bonjour!" to Paris to take in the sights, learn how to bake...
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Alan Bradley · Delacorte Press
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's...
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Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine

Quentin Mouron · Bitter Lemon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

After Joel Dicker, here is the latest literary sensation from Switzerland: brilliant twenty-five-year-old novelist Quentin Mouron with his first mystery novel, which garnered ecstatic reviews in the French-speaking world. This is the first time his work is available in English.Three Drops...
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The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel

Jeremy Massey · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish mob.Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected...
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The Daylight Marriage

Heidi Pitlor · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A page-turning exploration of unexpressed love and unnecessary loss. Riveting and heartbreaking." - GERALDINE BROOKS, author of Caleb's Crossing She still had time before work. She could go food shopping. She could fold the kids' laundry and get the car washed and return...
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Guilty Waters

Priscilla Masters · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot signals a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy. Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but it's...
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False Witness: A Novel

ANDREW GRANT · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Alabama police detective Cooper Devereaux chases a murderer who's been dubbed the "Birthday Killer" in this edge-of-your-seat thriller for readers of James Lee Burke, Craig Johnson, and Robert Crais. A woman disappears on the way to her twentieth birthday party. Three days later...
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Muzzled: A Kate Turner, DVM, Mystery

Eileen Brady · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Making rounds to homes one wet spring morning, veterinarian Dr. Kate Turner rescues a family's hamster from a vacuum cleaner, then visits an estate whose owners breed champion Cavalier King Charles spaniels. Instead of sharing traditional tea with the couple, she confronts a bloody...
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NYPD Puzzle: A Puzzle Lady Mystery

Parnell Hall · Minotaur Books
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

When young attorney Becky Balwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. Cora is just coming off a bad breakup, and finding out that Chief Harper testified at a parole hearing for a killer...
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A Distance to Death: A Tink Elledge Mystery

Holly Menino · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Tink Elledge is back in the saddle--and in more danger than ever. The race is a hundred miles through the Sierra Nevada against a backdrop of Darwin, evolution, and intelligent design. Smart, deftly plotted, and tuned to ongoing debate, this mystery is perfect for fans of Dick Francis.Tink...
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Sue Grafton · Putnam
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment.X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross....
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