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A Hangman for Ghosts

Andrei Baltakmens · Top Five Books
Format: eBook

"We are transported. We are consigned to the ends of the Earth. And we are therefore as good as dead to the realm and its judges. There can be no hope of reprieve ... "Gabriel Carver, the convict hangman of Sydney Prison, knows that none of his kind may depart Australia's...
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Where They Found Her: A Novel

Kimberly McCreight · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An idyllic suburban town.A devastating discovery.Shocking revelations that will change three lives forever.At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of a newborn is found in the woods fringing the campus of the town's prestigious university. No one knows...
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Kilt at the Highland Games

Kaitlyn Dunnett · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

It's July in Moosetookalook, Maine, and Scottish Emporium proprietress Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is prepping her wares for the annual Celtic heritage festival. But as a sinister crime wave washes over the quiet town, this year's celebration might prove a wee bit more eventful--and deadly--than...
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The Ruin: A Novel

Dervla McTiernan · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind... When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell...
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12th of Never

James Patterson · Vision; Reprint edition
Format: Book

It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby daughter is born! While Lindsay and Joe are at home in bliss, San Francisco gets hit with multiple killings. An eccentric English professor has been having...
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The Deep Dark Descending

Allen Eskens · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent...
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Dark Chocolate Demise

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling Cupcake Bakery Mysteries bake up sweet surprises, but as the series continues, Mel and Angie are in for a fresh batch of trouble ... Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it's never been as dead as this. Hundreds of fans have...
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The Friendship of Criminals: A Novel

Robert Glinski · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Former criminal defense attorney Robert Glinski's THE FRIENDSHIP OF CRIMINALS explodes off the page with the crackling intensity of Scorsese's THE DEPARTED. When a new head of the Italian mob threatens Port Richmond's long entrenched Polish crime boss Anton Bielakowski the various...
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Identical

Scott Turow · Vision; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon...
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Pride v. Prejudice: A Claire Malloy Mystery

Joan Hess · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Claire Malloy is one of the most engaging narrators in mystery."-Deadly Pleasures Claire Malloy has always been known in Farberville, Arkansas, as the owner of the Book Depot whose teenage daughter, Caron, speaks in ALL CAPS. But Claire's life has changed dramatically...
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Her Nightly Embrace: Book I of the Ravi PI Series

Adi Tantimedh · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The first in a trilogy of whip-smart novels - currently in development as a TV series set to star Sendhil Ramamurthy (NBC's Heroes and Heroes Reborn) - about a destructive private investigator and his eccentric coworkers, who handle cases so high-profile that they never make the headlines.Ravi...
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Marbeck and the Privateers

John Pilkington · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Summer 1604: England is on edge, as a high-powered Spanish delegation arrives in London to start vital and long-awaited treaty talks. King James, a year into his reign, wants to be seen as The Peacemaker King, bringing an end to nearly twenty years of warfare with Spain which has left both...
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Sleeping Dogs: A Spike Sanguinetti Novel

Thomas Mogford · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women, Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti loses himself in his work. After much persuasion, he joins an old flame, Detective Sergeant Jessica Navarro, for a well-earned rest at a friend's villa on Corfu's beautiful...
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Bring Her Home

David Bell · Berkley
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father's worst nightmare.... Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price's fifteen-year-old...
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A Most Curious Murder: A Little Library Mystery

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jenny Weston moves home to Bear Falls, Michigan, to nurse her bruised ego back to health after a bitter divorce. But the idyllic vision of her charming hometown crumbles when her mother's Little Library is destroyed.The next-door neighbor, Zoe Zola, a little person and Lewis Carroll enthusiast,...
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