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At the Dying of the Year

Chris Nickson · Crème de la Crime
Format: Hardcover

As an atmosphere of fear and suspicion pervades the city Richard Nottingham and his team find themselves hunting a ruthless child-killer a monster who preys on abandoned street children those with no one to care about them no one to report them missing The Constable has his suspicions as to who the culprit...
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The Orphan Choir: A Novel

Sophie Hannah · St Martins Pr
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover

A MOTHER WITH AN EMPTY NEST IS BEING HAUNTED BY A GHOSTLY CHILDREN'S CHOIR. ARE THEY GIVING HER AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT ONLY SHE CAN HEAR, OR ARE THEIR MOTIVES MORE SINISTER?Louise Beeston is being haunted.Louise has no reason left to stay in the city. She can't see her son, Joseph,...
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Hello, Sunshine

Laura Dave · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover

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Revenge in a Cold River: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever as he spars with a quarry hell-bent on vengeance. When...
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The Last Whisper in the Dark: A Novel (Terrier Rand)

Tom Piccirilli · Bantam
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers WeeklyThriller Award–winner Piccirilli's dedication, which begins, "For everyone with a sin that can't be laid aside," sets the somber tone for this superior noir set on Long Island, the sequel to 2012's The Last Kind Words. Terrier "Terry" Rand,...
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Silence the Dead: Suspense in smalltown Illinois

Jack Fredrickson · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The new mayor of a small town in Illinois unearths a series of devastating secrets when he re-opens a 30-year-old murder investigation 17-year-old Betty Jo Dean was abducted and murdered thirty years ago. It took two days to find her body. She was found, fully dressed apart from her slacks,...
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Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel

Nevada Barr · Minotaur Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation -- an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter,...
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This House is Haunted

John Boyne · Other Press
Format: Paperback

Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred...
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Memories of a Marriage: A Novel

Louis Begley · Nan A. Talese; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt, an irresistibly entertaining novel about a man struggling to understand his friends seemingly charmed marriage, which may have been doomed from the start. In the unforgiving class system of the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter of one of Rhode...
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After I'm Gone: A Novel

Laura Lippman · HarperCollins
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left...
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The ghost runner

Parker Bilal · Bloomsbury
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

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Widow's Tears

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley
Format: Book

Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” (Publishers Weekly).  In Widow’s Tears, a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends… After losing her family...
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Death of a Policeman

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police...
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Shadow of the Lions: A Novel

Christopher Swann · Algonquin Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight,...
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The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away ... The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering...
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