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The Scarlet Gospels

Clive Barker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against...
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Night Shift: A Novel of Midnight, Texas

Charlaine Harris · Ace Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

SOON TO BE A NBC TV SERIES!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - "the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"* - comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day... At Midnight's...
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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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Executive Intent: A Novel

Dale Brown · William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Will the most powerful defense system in history be used to safeguard America - or to force universal domination? The U.S. has unleashed Thor's Hammer, a missile-launching satellite that can strike anywhere on the planet in seconds. But when President Joseph Gardner elects to employ...
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Indigo

Charlaine Harris · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford · Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential...
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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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Bred to Kill: A Thriller

Franck Thilliez · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Crichton fuses with 'True Detective' in a hammering hard-science thriller where the heart of darkness lies not in the soul, but in the genes. Thilliez engineers a winner." - Scott Sigler, New York Times-bestselling author of the Infected trilogyNew from Mark Polizzotti,...
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Designated Daughters

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel's bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn't passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems...
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Ghosts of War

Brad Taylor · Dutton
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

"The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria...
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The Children Act

Ian McEwan · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage...
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Unthinkable

Clyde Phillips · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

For homicide lieutenant Jane Candiotti stress is part of the job But now that she and her husband are expecting their first child Jane is under strict instructions to take it easy A tall order on an average day yet never more so than when a mass shooting at a local restaurant claims six victimsxincluding...
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Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth

Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. John Wilkes Booth, the mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor...
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Killer: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter thirty-five riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date. Killer is a mesmerizing L.A. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human...
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Knit Your Own Murder: A Needlecraft Mystery

Monica Ferris · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire has her hands tied between running her needlework shop and turning her sharp eye for deduction to solving crimes ... The Monday Bunch and other local knitters are participating in a fundraising auction to save a community...
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