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Scouting for the Reaper

Jacob M Appel · Black Lawrence Press
Format: Book

Fiction. Each of the characters in SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, and selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout. These stories explore the domestic...
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Envy

Sandra Brown · Warner Books
Pages: 549
Format: Paperback

Sandra Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, keeps readers turning pages with an explosive tale of a long-ago crime and the victim's plan for revenge...When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P.M.E., its blockbuster...
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Better late than never

Jenn Mckinlay · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the latest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Likely Story, a decades overdue book puts library director Lindsey Norris hot on the trail of a cold case... When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day - no fines for late...
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The Reckoning on Cane Hill: A Novel

Steve Mosby · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A terrifying and heartbreaking new novel of guilt and innocence, from CWA Dagger-­winner Steve Mosby. The hardest crimes to acknowledge are your own. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance to her claiming to be back from...
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The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich. Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate...
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Shelter in Place

Alexander Maksik · Europa Editions
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America's most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family,...
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Bloom and Doom

Beverly Allen · Berkley
Format: Paperback

As the co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Though helping to plan a wedding can be stressful, it’s nothing compared to the groom turning up dead. A designer of eye-catching bridal bouquets—many of them based on the Victorian...
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Of Merlot & Murder

Joni Folger · Midnight Ink
Format: Book

Foul play at the festival When her family's winery becomes one of the sponsors at the Lost Pines Food and Wine Festival, Elise Beckett's spirits soar at the chance to help with their booth. But as the festival gets underway, her cheerful mood turns sour when rival vintner Divia...
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The Empire of Night: A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

Robert Olen Butler · Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

In the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler captured the hearts of historical crime fiction fans with the artfulness of his World War I settings and his charismatic leading man,...
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A High-End Finish: A Fixer-Upper Mystery

Kate Carlisle · NAL
Format: Book

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman - contractor Shannon Hammer. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, she's about to discover that...
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Dave Eggers · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team...
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Night of the White Buffalo

Margaret Coel · Berkley; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With her gritty mysteries steeped in authentic Native American culture, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel is "widely considered the most accomplished heir to Tony Hillerman's legacy," (Scripps Howard News Service) . In the latest Wind River novel, Arapaho attorney...
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Foreign Bodies: A mystery set in Ancient Rome

David Wishart · Creme De La Crime
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor. June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus's help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his summer-house...
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