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The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror

Joyce Carol Oates · Mysterious Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories.In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins...
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The Champagne Conspiracy: A Wine Country Mystery

Ellen Crosby · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Winter has come to the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the vineyard. But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn's uncle, turns up on their doorstep one afternoon, demanding help in solving the mystery...
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Die Like an Eagle: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow...
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Spark: A Novel

John Twelve Hawks · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

THE MOST DANGEROUS ASSASSIN IS THE ONE WHO BELIEVES HE IS ALREADY DEAD.A razor-sharp, high-tech, wildly imaginative new novel from internationally bestselling author John Twelve Hawks, Spark features a narrator unlike any in recent fiction—a man whose view of life and death is different...
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Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Donald Bain · Forge Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter,...
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Moth Catcher, The: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane -- a lonely...
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Watch Me Disappear: A Novel

JANELLE BROWN · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies - from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. "Tantalizing and twisty . . . a spider's...
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Vertigo 42: A Richard Jury Mystery

Martha Grimes · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In her latest Richard Jury mystery, Martha Grimes delivers the newest addition to the bestselling series The Washington Post calls "literate, lyrical, funny, funky, discursive, bizarre." The inimitable Scotland Yard Superintendent returns, now with a tip of the derby to Alfred...
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A Stranger in the House

SHARI LAPENA · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. A domestic thriller packed full of secrets, and a twisty story that never stops - from the bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorHe looks at her, concerned. "How do you feel?" She wants to say, Terrified. Instead, she says,...
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The Winters: A Novel

Lisa Gabriele · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"From the brilliant first line to the shattering conclusion, The Winters will draw you in and leave you breathless. . . . A must read." - Liv Constantine, author of The Last Mrs. ParrishA spellbindingly suspenseful new novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons, about secrets...
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Shoot First

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The irresistible Stone Barrington returns for another racy adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.Stone Barrington has faced intrigue before and come out clean on the other side, but this latest turn of events might be too scandalous even for him.
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Nutshell: A Novel

Ian Mcewan · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have...
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Last Days in Shanghai: A Novel

Casey Walker · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Luke Slade, a young Congressional aide, begins this trip to China like all other international travel he's endured with "Leo the Lyin'": buried under diplomatic runarounds and humiliated by the Congressman at every turn. But on their first night in Beijing, their trip...
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The Good Assassin: A Novel

Paul Vidich · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Paul Vidich's likable and reluctant spy, George Mueller, will keep readers guessing in this eerily real Cuba of 1958. The Good Assassin is a keen historical adventure from the best noir tradition." - Elizabeth Kostova, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The Good Assassin...
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