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Paula Daly - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the YearFrom breakout thriller writer Paula Daly, the story of a husband and wife and the devious best friend who comes between them.Natty and Sean have a rock-solid marriage - with two daughters, a successful business, and a beautiful...
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Booty Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery

Carolyn Haines - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Sarah Booth Delaneys fianc, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. Shes arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast. On the first day of their...
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Cane and Abe

Grippando, James
Format: electronic resource

A spellbinding novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, in which Miami’s top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance, which may have a chilling connection to the woman he can’t forget.

Unbelievable was the word...

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The Nearest Exit

Olen Steinhauer - Minotaur Books
Format: eBook

Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer's brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The Tourist The Tourist, Steinhauer's first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical series, was a runaway hit,...
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Close Quarters: A thriller set in Washington DC and Ukraine

Adrian Magson - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

The return of The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman Close protection specialist Marc Portman is used to finding himself in hostile situations. But none can be more unpredictable than troubled Ukraine, teetering on the brink of civil war. When a US State Department official...
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Grave Doubts: A DCI Andrew Fenwick Mystery

Elizabeth Corley - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Andrew Fenwick must stop a serial killer in Elizabeth Corley's Grave Doubts, a thrilling and unputdownable mystery filled with chilling clues, deadly twists, and taut psychological suspense. Viciously attacked by a serial rapist, intent on murder, Sergeant Louise Nightingale is recovering...
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The Kill: A Novel

Jane Casey - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Detective Maeve Kerrigan is away for a colleagues wedding, and shes enjoying an excuse to spend a beautiful fall weekend relaxing in the English countryside. Its a much-needed break from the grit and grime of her daily life on the London police force. But even at a wedding, the job is never...
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One False Move

Harlan Coben - Dell
Format: Paperback

It’s no secret that Harlan Coben’s name is synonymous with unrelenting suspense. In this compelling fifth novel in his acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, the unforgettable sports agent agrees to protect basketball star Brenda Slaughter while trying to unravel the tragic riddle...
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Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn

Jon Land - Forge, 2015.
Format: Print book

The next adventure of The Seven Sins' Michael "The Tyrant" Tiranno, Jon Land's Black Scorpion is a pulse pounding action-thriller as he takes on a worldwide human trafficking cabal.Five years have passed since Michael Tiranno saved the city of Las Vegas from a terrorist...
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The Ghost Fields

Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery. Norfolk is suffering from record summer heat when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a downed...
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Mystery

Peter Straub - Anchor Books
Format: eBook

MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn't. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing...
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The Hidden Child: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

The brilliant new psychological thriller from worldwide bestseller Camilla Läckberg—the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe’s past. Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions....
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Flying Shoes

Lisa Howorth - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover

Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities,...
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Skin of the Wolf

Sam Cabot - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Sam Cabot is the pseudonym of Carlos Dews and S.J. Rozan. In Sam Cabot's exhilarating new novel, a vicious murder in Sotheby's begins a series of inexplicable events surrounding an Iroquois ritual mask - and a secret that could unleash the most terrifying chaos and destruction the world...
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Death in Elysium: A new contemporary cosy murder mystery series

Judith Cutler - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Introducing unconventional rectorxs wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh settling down to an entirely new kind...
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The Cinderella Murder

Mary Higgins Clark - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a first-time collaboration, "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders.Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality...
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Murder at Beechwood

Alyssa Maxwell - Kensington
Format: Print book

For Newport, Rhode Island's high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races ... and murder. Having turned down the proposal of Derrick Andrews, Emma Cross has no imminent plans for matrimony - let alone motherhood. But when she discovers an infant left on her doorstep,...
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A String of Beads

Thomas Perry - Mysterious Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane McKinnon, ne Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York - or so she thinks.One morning as she comes...
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Damage (Abe Glitsky Book 3)

John Lescroart - Signet; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

When wild boy Ro Curtlee was convicted of rape and murder, the fallout against those responsible for putting him behind bars-including detective Abe Glitsky-was uncompromising. That's because the Curtlee family is among the Bay Area's most powerful billionaires. When a retrial...
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The Bookseller: A Novel

Cynthia Swanson - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams.Nothing is as permanent as it appears . . .Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms...
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Cash Landing: A Novel

James Grippando - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Cane and Abe and Black Horizon blends Goodfellas and Elmore Leonard in this wild, suspenseful caper inspired by actual events, in which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences.Every...
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The Islanders

Pascal Garnier - Gallic Books; Tra edition
Format: Book

"Dark enough to sink the hook deep into fans of noir." - Publishers WeeklyJust before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral.While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance...
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Kill Me If You Can

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his stunning girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that...
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Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

Joyce Carol Oates - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

Andrew Rushs 28 mystery novels have had great critical and commercial success, yet he has a secret: under the pseudonym Jack of Spades he writes violent, lurid potboilers. When he is accused of plagiarism by a self-published author, his reputation and his secret start to unravel.
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Five Minutes Alone: A Thriller

Paul Cleave - Atria Books
Format: Print book

"Breaking Bad reworked by the Coen Brothers." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) In the latest thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an edge-of-your-seat, cat-and-mouse chase between old friends,...
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Bradstreet Gate: A Novel

Robin Kirman - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A tour de force about three friends affected by a campus murder, for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey EugenidesGeorgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered...
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The Bone Orchard: A Novel

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Bone Orchard is both a rich exploration of character and a satisfying mystery. --Bruce DeSilva, Associated PressExcellent . . . Thoughtful plotting and strong characters raise this above the crime novel pack. --Publishers weeklyIn the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left...
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A Fatal Chapter: A Booktown Mystery

Lorna Barrett - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett presents another page-turning chapter in her Booktown Mystery series. This time mystery bookshop owner Tricia Miles is about to find out murder is no walk in the park ... While out walking Sarge, her sister's bichon frise, Tricia is led by the agitated...
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The Invention of Fire: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed historical thriller A Burnable Book once again brings medieval London alive in all its color and detail in a riveting novel that imagines the beginnings of gun violence in the Western world. London, 1386: A mass murder has taken place within the city walls....
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The Gods of Gotham

Lyndsay Faye - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Audiobook

One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Mystery/Thrillers of the YearOne of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Best Crime Novels of the YearOne of Gillian Flynn's "Recommendations for the Season" on TodayEdgar(R) Award Nominee for Best NovelALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery1845:...
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The Lost Island: A Gideon Crew Novel

Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected...
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Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories

Elmore Leonard - William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens...
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Stages of Grey: A feline-filled academic mystery

Clea Simon - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Graduate student Dulcie Schwartz finds herself in the front row of a murder in the latest instalment of the Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery seriesDulcie never considered herself a player. But when her friends drag her to a new local theatre company that is updating Ovid with a disco version...
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Fortune's Deadly Descent

Audrey Braun - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

Memories of her dire past fade as Celia Hagen enjoys life in Switzerland as a best-selling author, surrounded by an extended family, her beloved Benicio, and their imaginative young son Benny. But when Benny disappears from a train during an unexpected stop in the French Provencal countryside,...
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A Touch of Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel The Complete Stories (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)

Charlaine Harris - Ace Books
Format: Hardcover

Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.View our feature on Charlaine Harris's A Touch of Dead.Every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written - in one special volume - from the New York Times bestselling author. New York Times bestselling author Charlaine...
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Tunnel Vision

Aric Davis - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

Some mysteries are better left unsolved. It’s been fifteen years since Mandy Reasoner was murdered—a crime for which her boyfriend, Duke, was convicted. But when best friends Betty and June discover that Mandy was June’s long-forgotten aunt, they decide to pursue the mystery....
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The Forgers

Bradford Morrow - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow, called "a mesmerizing storyteller who casts an irresistible spell" by Joyce Carol Oates and "one of America's major literary voices" by Publishers Weekly, comes The Forgers, a richly told literary thriller...
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The Firm: A Novel

John Grisham - Dell
Format: Paperback

When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what...
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Fear of Beauty

Susan Froetschel - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

The battered body of an Afghan boy is found at the base of a cliff outside a remote village in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Did he fall as most of the villagers think? Or is this the work of American soldiers, as others want to believe? Not far from the village, the US Army has set up a training...
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Pride v. Prejudice: A Claire Malloy Mystery

Joan Hess - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police...
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Hollow Mountain

Thomas Mogford - Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Danger has followed the lawyer Spike Sanguinetti back to Gibraltar. The disturbing question of what happened to Spike's girlfriend, Zahra, is still unanswered. He hasn't heard from her since she vanished in Malta months ago, when suddenly his phone rings. It's Zahra, but she sounds...
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Compulsion: A Novel

Meyer Levin - Fig Tree Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd...
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Kittens Can Kill: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir

Clea Simon - Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The dead don't keep pets. So when animal behaviorist expert Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn't expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of prominent Beauville lawyer David Canaday. Heart attack? His three adult daughters angrily blame drug...
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The Man Who Fell from the Sky: A Wind River Mystery

Margaret Coel - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel returns to Wind River with Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley investigating a lethal link between legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy and a present-day murder ... When Robert Walking Bear's body is found in the Wind...
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An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War: An Irish Country Novel

Patrick Taylor - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Doctor O'Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in Irish Doctor in Peace and At War, the new novel in Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country seriesLong before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young...
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Dark Rooms: A Novel

Lili Anolik - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved,...
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Rain on the Dead

Jack Higgins - G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Times-bestselling master of suspense returns with a knife-edge story of terrorism, revenge, and a very old nemesis. In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist...
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Plague Land: A Novel

S. D. Sykes - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

In this chilling historical mystery, young girls go missing from a medieval English village and Lord Oswald de Lacy must find the killer before tragedy strikes again.Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back...
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Independence Day: A Dewey Andreas Novel

Ben Coes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Dewey Andreas is back...and the clock is ticking! Cloud, a high-level Russian hacker, perhaps the best in the world, has acquired a nuclear weapon. It's an older bomb from the USSR's Cold War arsenal with the power to devastate a major city. Fueled by a dark and personal vendetta,...
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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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Blood of the South: A medieval mystical mystery

Larry Fuller - Foundation Pr
Format: Hardcover

Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone...
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The Red Pole of Macau: An Ava Lee Novel

Ian Hamilton - St Martins Pr
Format: Paperback

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE AVA LEE SERIES In Ian Hamilton's The Red Pole of Macau, family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her half brother, Michael, and his business partner, Simon, from a disastrous multimillion-dollar real-estate deal...
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Atlantis Found (Dirk Pitt, No. 15)

Clive Cussler - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure. A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion. A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater...
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Kill Fee: Stevens and Windemere, Book 3

Owen Laukkanen - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction. The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and his occasional colleague FBI special...
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Unidentified Woman #15: A McKenzie Novel

David Housewright - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the Interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie's car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound...
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Shroud of Roses: A Cornwall and Redfern Mystery

Gloria Ferris - Dundurn Group
Format: Paperback

The Class of 2000 held one final party in the old gym before the high school was abandoned and boarded up. At midnight, the school emptied for the last time. Or so everyone believed. Fifteen years later, the building is scheduled for demolition. When a salvage team discovers a skeleton...
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Reykjavik Nights: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover

In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans a glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective.The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband ... And an unexplained...
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Snatched: A British black comedy

Bill James - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Bill James is on top form in this sharply satirical black comedy set behind the scenes at a museumGeorge Lepage, the new Director of the Hulliborn Regional Museum and Gallery, has great hopes that his tenure in the post will be short and profitable. He has visions of early retirement, and perhaps...
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One Step Too Far: A Novel

Tina Seskis - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The #1 international bestseller reminiscent of After I'm Gone, Sister, Before I Go to Sleep, and The Silent Wife - an intricately plotted, thoroughly addictive thriller that introduces a major new voice in suspense fiction - a mesmerizing and powerful novel that will keep you guessing...
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Wink of an Eye: A Mystery

Lynn Chandler Willis - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy...
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Brood

Chase Novak - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals...
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Death in the Dolomites: A Rick Montoya Italian Mystery

David P Wagner - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

**THIS IS NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE** "Rick Montoya takes a break from his translation business in Rome to join his college buddy Flavio in the Italian Alps. Heavy snow has brought enthusiastic skiers to the picturesque ski town of Campiglio, where the food tastes even better after a day on the slopes....
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Sense of Deception: A Psychic Eye Mystery

Victoria Laurie - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie's newest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby Cooper senses a convicted killer is innocent, but she'll need hard evidence to save the woman before it's too late ... A ticked-off judge has tossed Abby in the slammer for contempt of court,...
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The Masque of a Murderer: A Mystery

Susanna Calkins - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In Susanna Calkins's next richly drawn mystery set in 17th century England, Lucy Campion, formerly a ladies' maid in the local magistrate's household, has now found gainful employment as a printer's apprentice. On a freezing winter afternoon in 1667, she accompanies the magistrate's...
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Misery Bay: An Alex McKnight Novel

Steve Hamilton - Minotaur Books
Format: Book

The New York Times BestsellerOne of The Boston Globes Best Mysteries of 2011 ALEX MCKNIGHT IS BACK in the long-awaited return of one of crime fictions most critically acclaimed series.On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other...
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Deadline

John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct....
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One Was a Soldier

Julia Spencer-Fleming
Format: electronic resource

On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The...
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Death Ex Machina

Gary Corby - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

A theatrical murder sends classical Athens into uproarIt's the time of the Great Dionysia, the largest arts festival of the ancient world, held each year in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. But there's a problem: A ghost is haunting Athens's grand theater. Nicolaos and his clever...
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The Marathon Conspiracy

Gary Corby - Soho Crime; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The rollicking fourth book in the Nicolaos and Diotima mystery series set in Classical Athens.Nicolaos, Classical Athens’s favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever priestess Diotima, have taken time off to come home and get married. But hoping to get hitched without...
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The Storm Murders: A Thriller

John Farrow - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by BOOKLIST as "one of the best series in crime fiction," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the series continues.On the day after...
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By Any Means

Chris Culver - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Ash Rashid thought his days as a homicide detective were over. Now with the police force's community relations department, he gives speeches at elementary schools instead of tracking criminals. But when he discovers two dead bodies during his evening commute, Ash finds himself back...
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Swimming in the Dark

Paddy Richardson - Upstart Pr
Format: Paperback

A psychological thriller that moves between New Zealand and Soviet dominated East Germany In this river she is herself only. In this silken water, swimming through the deep, cold pockets and sun-warmed shallows, she is only skin.German immigrants Gerda and Ilse Klein live sedate lives of seclusion...
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The Perfect Witness: A Novel

Iris Johansen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

She had the perfect lifeShe had the perfect coverShe was the perfect witnessUntil they found herWhen Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift the ability to read peoples memories But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain the upper...
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Against All Enemies

Tom Clancy - G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The master of international intrigue and explosive action introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare . . . against a new kind of threat--get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore. A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore's entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former...
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And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily Mysteries, Book 1)

Tasha Alexander - HarperCollins e-books
Format: Paperback

From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murderAnd Only to DeceiveFor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount...
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Method 15/33

Shannon Kirk - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

2015 National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Best Suspense Novel Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old whos just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. KidnappedAloneTerrified. Now forget her Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy....
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Murder at Mullings - A 1930s country house murder mystery

Dorothy Cannell - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris seriesIn its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage...
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Fox Is Framed

Lachlan Smith - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

Lachlan Smith won great critical acclaim for his first novel in the Leo Maxwell series, Bear Is Broken, which won the Shamus Award for best first P.I. novel and was a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year. William Bernhardt called it "one of the best debuts I've read in years."...
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Olivay

Deborah Reed - Lake Union Publishing, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book

We don't believe that our lives can change in an instant - until they do.Olivay, widowed for a year and sleepwalking through life, meets Henry by chance. She takes him to her Los Angeles loft, thinking it will just be for the night. But the following morning, bombs detonate across the city,...
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The Long Shadow: A Novel

Liza Marklund - Atria/Emily Bestler Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

In this follow-up to Liza Marklund’s “stunningly great” (BookReporter.com) thriller Lifetime, newspaper reporter Annika Bengtzon is left to pick up the pieces after a shocking and complex murder case turns her world upside down and leaves her personal life in shambles....
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Trusting Viktor

Lee Mims - MIDNIGHT INK
Format: Print book

Betting her life savings on a risky offshore natural gas enterprise, brilliant geologist Cleo Cooper has high hopes for a big payday. But a violent attack onboard the drillship darkens Cleo’s optimism. Days later, a man washes up on the coast near the drill sight, but is it the man who assaulted...
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Sight Unseen

Iris Johansen - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

She was safe in a world of darkness.Now danger threatens in the cold light of day ... Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engine, a Norelco electric razor...
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Hit and Run:: A cozy mystery set in the mountains of North Carolina

Sandra Balzo - Severn House
Format: Print book

AnnaLise's philandering father's attempt to 'do right' by his many heirs goes deadly wrongJournalist AnnaLise Griggs' return to her hometown in North Carolina's western mountains has led to some unexpected surprises - most notably the discovery that legendary womanizer Dickens Hart...
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The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone: The Secret Ingredient of Unforgettable Food Is Suffering

Will Storr - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Killian Lone comes from a long line of gifted cooks, stretching back to the seventeenth century, and yearns to become a famous chef himself. When he starts an apprenticeship under Max Mann, the most famous chef in London, he looks set to continue the family tradition. But the reality of kitchen...
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Murder in Time: An Ellie Quicke British murder mystery

Veronica Heley - Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Ellie Quicke has her work cut out when past wrongdoings put the future of a child she's grown to love at stakeEllie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived...
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No Fortunate Son: A Pike Logan Thriller

Brad Taylor - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter...
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Neighing with Fire: A Mystery

Kathryn O'Sullivan - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

PACIFIC BOOK AWARDS FINALISTFire Chief Colleen McCabe is enjoying a quiet summer and her budding romance with Sheriff Bill Dorman. However, her peaceful start to the tourist season is shattered when a tropical storm blows through Corolla and unearths a body buried under a vacation home...
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The Home Place: A Novel

Carrie La Seur - William Morrow; Advance Reader's Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family's life in rural Montana...
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Taking Pity

David Mark - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times hails David Mark's police thrillers as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." In Taking Pity, Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returns for another darkly enthralling installment of this internationally acclaimed series.It's been...
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The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit

Graham Joyce - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author Graham Joyce returns with a sexy, suspenseful,and slightly supernatural novel set 1976 England during the hottest summer in living memory, in a seaside resort where the past still haunts the present. David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down...
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Death Comes to London

Catherine Lloyd - Kensington
Format: Print book

A season in London promises a welcome change of pace for two friends from the village of Kurland St. Mary--until murder makes a debut. . .With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London....
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Darned if You Do: A Needlecraft Mystery

Monica Ferris - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover

The USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries have shown that when it comes to murder, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, doesn't mess around. But when a local hoarder is murdered, she'll need all her wits to dig a new friend out of a heap of trouble...
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Fatal Trauma

Richard L. Mabry M.D. - Abingdon Press
Format: Paperback

The gunman had nothing to lose, and therefore, the lives of everyone in the emergency room were at risk. Dr. Mark Baker and nurse Kelly Atkinson were on duty during the standoff, but despite their efforts, at the end of the evening, three men were dead - one police officer and two members...
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Ghost Image: A Sophie Medina Mystery

Ellen Crosby - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Multiple Exposure, an "assured tale of love, loss, and secret agendas" (Publishers Weekly) , comes the second novel in the thrilling Sophie Medina series, following a photojournalist as she races to find an international treasure before a murderer finds her.When...
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Flame Out: A Novel

M. P. Cooley - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

June Lyons, the former FBI-agent-turned-small-town-cop introduced in the acclaimed Ice Shear must solve two connected cases whose roots stretch back decades in time - and dangerously touch the lives of those closest to her.As a police officer in the rust belt town of Hopewell Falls, New York,...
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The Body Snatchers Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

Marcia Muller - Forge
Format: Hardcover

The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's...
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Midnight in Europe: A Novel

Alan Furst - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called "the most talented espionage novelist of our generation,"...
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The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar)

Harlan Coben - Island Books
Format: Hardcover

In this sixth novel in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series, Harlan Coben delivers a riveting powerhouse thriller—a twisting mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and murder.Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client,...
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