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Another One Goes Tonight

Peter Lovesey · Soho Crime
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the sixteenth entry of Peter Lovesey s timeless police procedural series, Peter Diamond wrestles with his own moral compass, struggling to protect police prestige while debating what it means to do right by a serial killer. Two police officers are about to head home after a long night...
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Doing the Devil's Work: A Novel

Bill Loehfelm · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

A gripping third chapter for one of the most unforgettable and compelling heroines in crime fiction"You have a temper, Officer Coughlin, and a propensity for violence . . . You're a bit of a hazard. To others. To yourself."Maureen Coughlin is a bona fide New Orleans cop now,...
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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

Melina Marchetta · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"More than a crime story; it's jam-packed with family drama and heartbreak. Highly recommended for suspense and mystery fans." --Library JournalIn the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible.When Bish Ortley, a recently suspended...
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Old Bones: A Bill Slider British Police Procedural

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

DCI Bill Slider tackles the coldest of cold cases in this absorbing mystery. A young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden two decades before, and was never...
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Fear the darkness

Becky Masterman · Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

"Retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn knows how difficult it can be to overcome one's past. But she is nothing if not a fighter. Even when the return of a serial killer from her past threatened to derail her new marriage, she managed to hold on to the life she's been trying to build...
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Private L.A.

James Patterson · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 425
Format: Book

Private Jack Morgan investigates the disappearance of the biggest superstar couple in Hollywood.Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just...
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Minister Without Portfolio

Michael Winter · Pintail, 2014. ©2013
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

A novel confronting the deeply personal effects of war with the emotional resonance of The Shipping News and the power of Tim O'Brien Henry Hayward is a drowning man. In a quest to find meaning in an emotionally arid life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an army-affiliated contractor,...
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The Idol of Mombasa: Vera & Tolliver #2

Annamaria Alfieri · Felony & Mayhem
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback

The British don't belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar.Much of the tangle in this new mystery...
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Rooms: A Novel

Lauren Oliver · Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery,...
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Death of a Ghost

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M. C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling seriesDEATH OF A GHOSTWhen Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights...
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No Fortunate Son: A Pike Logan Thriller

Brad Taylor · Dutton Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter...
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The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery

Charles Todd · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background - and uncover his true loyalties - in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) .At the foot...
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The Home Place: A Novel

Carrie La Seur · William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana...
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Downward Facing Death

Michelle Kelly · Minotaur Books, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

After ten years away, Keeley Carpenter is excited to be back in Belfrey, the traditional English village hometown she fled as a shy teen, with a plan to reopen her father's neglected butcher shop as a yoga café, where she will sell delicious vegetarian food by day and teach yoga...
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Close to Home

Robert Dugoni · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy.While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect...
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