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Death in the Tunnel: A British Library Crime Classic

Miles Burton · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single...
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Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 47North
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope...
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Pushkin Hills

Sergei Dovlatov · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 163
Format: Hardcover

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans...
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Fatal Pursuit: A novel

Martin Walker · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value - Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the beautiful Dordogne At the annual fête in St. Denis, Bruno's biggest worry is surviving as a last-minute replacement navigator...
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Mattie's Call

Stacy Campbell · Strebor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

When their mother goes missing from her nursing home, three estranged siblings must fulfill the requests left in her will before they can find closure - or receive their inheritance.Mattie Benson feels trapped in Grand Oak Acres Nursing Home. Abandoned by her adult children and missing...
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Pretty Ugly: A Novel

Kirker Butler · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

From a writer/producer of Family Guy, a satirical look at a dysfunctional southern family complete with an overbearing stage mom, a 9 year-old pageant queen, a cheating husband, his teenage girlfriend, a crazy grandmother, and Jesus.After eight-and-a-half years and three hundred twenty-three...
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A Maiden Weeping: A medieval mystery

Jeri Westerson · Severn House Publishers LTD
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

When Crispin Guest finds himself trapped in circumstances outside his control, he must rely on the wits of his young apprentice, Jack Tucker, to do the rescuing. Crispin awakens in a strange bed after a night of passion when he finds a woman dead, murdered. Drunk, Crispin scarcely remembers...
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The From-Aways: A Novel

CJ Hauser · William Morrow Paperbacks; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine and Richard Russo’s Empire Falls.Two women come to Maine in search of family, and find more love,...
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Before the War

Fay Weldon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

London, 1922. It's a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late. Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealthy and well-bred -- only daughter to the founder...
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Here Comes the Bribe: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery

Mary Daheim · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Judith McMonigle Flynn has her hands full with unexpected family ties and a dead body in the backyard in this delightfully zany mystery in Mary Daheim's popular Bed-and-Breakfast series.Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Millie, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem normal, well, except for that...
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Ex-Isle: A Novel

Peter Clines · Broadway Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The spectacular fifth adventure in the genre-busting Ex-Heroes seriesThe heroes are overjoyed when they discover another group of survivors, living on a man-made island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. But there's something very, very wrong with this isolated community and its mysterious...
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Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel

Taylor Brown · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction." - Robert Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of Gap CreekIn Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country...
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It Happened One Wedding

Julie James · Jove
Format: Paperback

~Shortlisted for the ALA's 2015 Reading List for Best Romance SHE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO SAY "I DO"After a humiliating end to her engagement, investment banker Sidney Sinclair is done with commitment-phobic men. But when her sister winds up engaged after a whirlwind courtship,...
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The Cuban Affair

NELSON DEMILLE · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

INCLUDES AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH NELSON DEMILLE AND SCOTT BRICK! From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character - US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick,...
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