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Eggnog Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . .

EGGNOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER
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Dark Times in the City

Gene Kerrigan · Europa Editions
Format: Paperback

Danny Callaghan is having a quiet drink in a Dublin pub when two men with guns walk in. They're here to take care of a minor problem - petty criminal Walter Bennett. On impulse, Callaghan intervenes to save Walter's life. Soon, his own survival is in question. With a troubled past...
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Night and Day

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands--and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions,...

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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...
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Be Careful What You Wish For

Jeffrey Archer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?When Ross Buchanan...
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Night Heron

Adam Brookes · Redhook
Format: Hardcover

Set in China, and ripped from todays headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British...
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The Fifth Petal: A Novel

Brunonia Barry · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Beloved author Brunonia Barry returns to the world of THE LACE READER with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder.

When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted...
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A Catered Tea Party

Isis Crawford · Kensington Books
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

Quiet Longely, New York, is abuzz with excitement over the opening of a revamped art complex - and catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are helping put on an elaborate tea party for the opening night gala fundraiser. But when the billionaire behind the project drops dead, the Simmons...
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Pushing Up Daisies.

Beaton M.C. · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Agatha Raisin left behind her PR business in London, she fulfilled her dream of settling in the cozy British Cotswolds where she began a successful private detective agency. Unfortunately, the village she lives in is about to get a little less cozy. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land...

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By Gaslight: A Novel

Steven Price · Farrar
Pages: 731
Format: Print book

A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminal


By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life.

William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most...

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The Murder Book: A new 1920s mystery series

Jane A. Adams · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Introducing Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. ""Lincolnshire, England. June, 1928. "When three freshly-buried bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a rented cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone, a specialist...
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The Harlot's Tale: A Midwife Mystery

Sam Thomas · Minotaur Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

It is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to appease God's wrath--and end the heat-wave--the city's...
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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.

When...

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Behind Her Eyes: A Novel

Sarah Pinborough · Flatiron Books
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough's Behind Her Eyes?

Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally...

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The Valley

John Renehan · Dutton; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"You're going up the Valley."Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth....
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