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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley · Doubleday
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready - finally - to propose...
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Lady Rogue

THERESA ROMAIN · Zebra
Pages: 288
Format: Mass Market Paperback

HER SECRET SCANDAL As far as London's high society knows, Lady Isabel Morrow is above reproach. But the truth is rarely so simple. Though the young widow's passionate fling with dashing Bow Street Runner Callum Jenks ended amicably months ago, she now needs his expertise. It seems...
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Beside Myself

Ann Morgan · Bloomsbury, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and...
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Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily Mystery

TASHA ALEXANDER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen....
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Wanted and Wired

Vivien Jackson · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"Raw. Smart. Quick-witted. Mouthwatering. Just a few adjectives that describe this exquisite tale. Do not let this unforgettable story, or its incredible cast of characters, slip by you." -DARYNDA JONES, New York Times bestselling authorA rip-roarin' new snarky, sexy sci-fi...
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The Kennedy Debutante

Kerri Maher · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A captivating novel following the exploits of Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the forgotten and rebellious daughter of one of America's greatest political dynasties.London, 1938. The effervescent "It girl" of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kathleen...
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Shadow of the Lions: A Novel

Christopher Swann · Algonquin Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight,...
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The Silence of the Sea: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Petrona Award 2015!From the queen of Icelandic crime fiction comes a truly chilling story that will leave readers breathless right up to the memorable ending. This is possibly her best book yet. Bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir has produced...
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The Duration: A Novel

Dave Fromm · Tyrus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Fromm's haunting tale of adults testing the bonds of youthful friendships is full of hard-won wit and unexpected humor." --Jim Ruland, author of Forest of Fortune It's been 100 years since tragedy struck the rolling woods around Fleur-de-Lys, one of dozens of Gilded Age estates...
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Dreaming Spies: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Laurie R. King · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Recommended by Cathy in Bel Air NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Laurie R. King's novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are critically acclaimed and beloved by readers for the author's adept interplay of history and adventure. Now the intrepid duo is finally...
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High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread

Joyce Carol Oates · Grove
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals - a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway - in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the title...
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The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

Maddie Dawson · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family ... whether they want to or not.Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her, and now,...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · Other Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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Ghost Wanted

Carolyn Hart · Berkley; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Ghostly gumshoe Bailey Ruth Raeburn of Heaven's Department of Good Intentions is checking out a troubling disturbance in Adelaide, Oklahoma. But what seems at first like simple vandalism won't be an open-and-shut case ... Bailey Ruth's supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about...
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The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel

Paul Tremblay · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next...
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