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Death by His Grace

Kwei Quartey · Soho Crime
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover

Atmospherically set in Accra, Ghana, Chief Inspector Darko Dawson investigates the brutal murder of a high-society bride. In order to expose the truth, Darko must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana - and wrestle with his old demons the investigation stirs up in the fifth...
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Done to Death: The new mystery featuring lesbian sleuths Lil and Ada

Charles Atkins · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Book

TV presenting proves dangerous, when Ada and her partner Lil become involved in a new antiques show and get sucked into a morass of lies, secrets and murder . . .Barry Stromstein has a serious problem. If he can’t come up with a concept for a new TV antiques show asap, his terrifying...
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The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency: A Hettie Bagshot Mystery

Mandy Morton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover

Prepare to be besotted with Mandy Morton's The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency, the first book in a new series that turns the traditional British cozy on its head and features feline crime-solvers.Hettie Bagshot has bitten off more than any cat could chew. As soon as she launches her No. 2 Feline...
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Smokin' Seventeen

Janet Evanovich · Bantam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Where theres smoke theres fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what...
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Breaking Wild

Diane Les Becquets · Berkley Books
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

In captivating prose, Diane Les Becquets tells the story of one woman missing in the Colorado wilderness and another bent on discovering the missing woman's whereabouts, in an unforgettably moving and thrilling literary debut. It is the last weekend of the season for Amy Raye Latour to get away....
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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful...
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The Boy at the Keyhole: A Novel

Stephen Giles · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping...
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All the Secret Places: A Gin Sullivan Mystery

ANNA CARLISLE · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Gin Sullivan is back in her small hometown of Trumbull, Pennsylvania on an extended leave from her job at the Chicago medical examiner's office and rekindling an old flame with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Gin is readjusting to life at home when Jake receives harrowing news early one morning....
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Before I Let You In: A Novel

Jenny Blackhurst · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"An astounding and original thriller with a complex relationship between three women at its heart and an explosive conclusion." - B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors The next gripping psychological thriller by the author of How I Lost You, Jenny...
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Promises to Keep

Maegan Beaumont · Midnight Ink
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

When your past comes back to kill you . . . For years Michael O'Shea has been forced to act as a personal assassin for Livingston Shaw, the cold-blooded puppet master who controls the remote bioweapon implanted in Michael's back. Shaw offers to release him if he can recover a kidnapped...
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Tear Me Apart

J. T. Ellison · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison's Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them.One moment will change their lives forever ... Competitive skier...
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Death in a Mood Indigo

Francine Mathews · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The third Merry Folger Nantucket mysteryWord travels fast in Nantucket when two children and their dog discover a skeleton in the dunes of the cold Sconset beach. Could the dead woman be the latest victim of the serial killer who has been terrorizing mainland Massachusetts? The FBI seems...
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Kill 'Em with Cayenne: A Spice Shop Mystery

Gail Oust · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Kill 'Em with Cayenne, a brand new finger-lickin' good mystery from Gail Oust, featuring small-town Georgia spice shop owner Piper Prescott, a smart and spunky amateur sleuth.Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's...
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Written in Red: A dog mystery set in Oxford

Annie Dalton · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The murder of a college professor has its roots in the Cold War: the new Oxford Dogwalkers mystery from award-winning YA writer Annie Dalton.Shortly before Christmas, Professor James Lowell is found brutally attacked in his rooms at Walsingham College, where Anna Hopkins works as an administrator....
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The Other Side of Everything: A Novel

Lauren Doyle Owens · Touchstone
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in this suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a crime.Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed....
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