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The Circus Train Conspiracy

EDWARD MARSTON · Allison and Busby
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travellingby train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with acouple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animalsescaping into the night.When the body of a woman is discovered...
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Presidio: A Novel

Randy Kennedy · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being...
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Dressed to Confess

Diane Vallere · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn faces a deadly conspiracy when a small-town festival turns into big-time trouble.

It's no secret around Proper City, Nevada, that the Sagebrush Festival, the town's annual family-friendly event, is the place to be. This year's theme of board games...
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The Last Chance Olive Ranch

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him...

Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of the Huntsville prison and appears...
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Quantum: A Thriller

Patricia Cornwell · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers pulse-pounding thrills in a series featuring a brilliant and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge cybertechnology, and stakes that are astronomically high.

On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects...

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Tightening the Threads (Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series #5)

Lea Wait · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"In the coastal town of Haven Harbor, blood runs thicker than water and just as freely . . ." Antique dealer Sarah Byrne has never unspooled the truth about her past to anyone not even friend and fellow Mainely Needlepointer Angie Curtis. But the enigmatic Aussie finally has the one thing...
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A Deadly Betrothal: An Elizabethan mystery

FIONA BUCKLEY · Crème de la Crime
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Queen Elizabeth's proposed engagement to a Catholic Duke is causing turmoil throughout the kingdom in the gripping new Ursula Blanchard mystery.

July, 1579. Called upon to help a family friend who is horrified at the return of her errant husband after an absence of thirty...
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Dead If You Don't

Peter James · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Shortly after Kipp Brown and his teenage son, Mungo, arrive at the stadium for their team's biggest-ever football game, Mungo disappears. A short while later Kipp receives a text with a ransom demand and a warning not to go to the police if he and his wife want to see their son alive again....
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Neighborly: A Novel

Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouwbedrijven. · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

A not-to-be-missed novel of suspense about the secrets hidden in a young couple's new neighborhood.Kat and Doug felt like Aurora Village was the perfect community. Minutes from the city, affluent without pretension, low crime with a friendly vibe - it's everything Kat never had,...
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All the Way Down

Eric Beetner · Down & Out Books
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

Dale is a crooked cop. It started slow, but grew like a cancer and now he can't get out from under the thumb of Tat, a would-be kingpin in every vice he can turn a profit with. And now Dale's number is up - the top brass knows. But instead of getting busted, Dale gets an offer....
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Condor: The Short Takes

James Grady · MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The legendary CIA spy is back - in a "superb" collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor (Publishers Weekly, starred review) .

James Grady, "king of the modern espionage thriller"...
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The Awkward Squad

Sophie He?naff · MacLehose Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many", Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving old cold cases....
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One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Mystery

David Rosenfelt · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"ONE DOG NIGHT [IS] A GEM." -- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that the life he rebuilt could be shattered at any moment. His dread becomes a certainty when he's arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six...
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Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery

D M QUINCY · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

In 1810, Atlas Catesby, a brilliant adventurer and youngest son of a baron, is anxious to resume his world travels after a carriage accident left him injured in London. But his plans are derailed when, passing through a country village, he discovers a helpless woman being auctioned off to the highest...
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I Was Anastasia: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's...
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