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Cave of Bones

Anne Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor...
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The Policeman's Daughter

Trudy Nan Boyce - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From author Trudy Nan Boyce, whose police procedural debut was hailed as "authentic" (NYTBR) and "exceptional" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) , returns with a stunning prequel to the Detective Salt series, the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide.At...
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To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs - "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) , faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling...
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Eggs on Ice

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club caf is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series.Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type....
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No Sunscreen for the Dead: A Novel

TIM DORSEY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The Sunshine State's most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey. Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next...
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Ahabs Return: or, The Last Voyage

Jeffrey Ford - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." - Jonathan CarrollA bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature - Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick - from...
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Death Notice: A Novel

Haohui Zhou - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder...
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Isabel Dalhousie

Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Isabel Dalhousie grapples with complex matters of the heart as she tries to juggle her responsibilities to friends, family, and the philosophical community. With two small boys to raise, a mountain or articles to edit for the Review of Applied Ethics and the ever-increasing demands...
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Overkill: An Alex Hawke Novel

TED BELL - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Putting it all on the line to rescue his kidnapped son pits counterspy Alex Hawke against Russian President Vladimir Putin in this action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell.On a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps high above St. Moritz, Alex Hawke and his young son,...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella,...
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Plum Tea Crazy

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion,...
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Cold, Cold Heart: A forensic mystery

A.J. Cross - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Professor Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit unearth some shocking findings when they re-examine a 10-year-old murder case.For the past ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for the murder of Della Harrington. Now an appeal judge has decreed the forensic...
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The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel

ALAN BRADLEY - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times) .Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective "with...
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Make Them Sorry

SAM HAWKEN - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In the third Camaro Espinoza thriller, a case of stalking in Miami turns out to be more complicated--and deadly--than it seems. Camaro Espinoza's life in Miami is simple: Piloting charter fishing trips, fighting at the gym, drinking heavily at the bar. But there are two minor annoyances...
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Buried in Books

KATE CARLISLE - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the latest in this New York Times bestselling series, matrimony and murder collide as San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright walks down the aisle...Brooklyn has it all covered. She's triple-checked her wedding to-do list, and everything is on track for the upcoming...
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series.It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime...
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The Perfect Mother: A Novel

Aimee Molloy - Harper
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE SUMMER - SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SCANDAL'S KERRY WASHINGTON An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing. A night...
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The Shadows We Hide

ALLEN ESKENS - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In the highly-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller The Life We Bury, Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family's past.Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated...
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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody...
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A Time of Love and Tartan

Alexander McCall Smith - Anchor
Format: Paperback

The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow....
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The Burglar

Thomas Perry - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, "who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks" (Stephen King) , comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar -- a young woman in her 20s -- who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else...
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Untitled Alex Mcknight

STEVE HAMILTON - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home...
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Homeward Hound: A Novel

RITA MAE BROWN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A mystery full of colorful characters (both two- and four-legged!) , gorgeous country landscapes, timeless traditions, and the breathtaking thrill of the fox hunt, from the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Like a Fox.Amidst the revelry of the Christmas Hunt, mystery...
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Dyeing Up Loose Ends

MAGGIE SEFTON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Murder hits very close to home for Kelly Flynn and the Lambspun Knitters in the next New York Times bestselling mystery. Four years have sped swiftly by, and Kelly Flynn and friends are all happily busy with children and careers. Baby Jack is now a rambunctious four-year-old pre schooler...
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The Other Lady Vanishes

AMANDA QUICK - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California where even the brightest razzle dazzle can't always hide the darkest secrets...New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick returns to the exclusive seaside...
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Island of the Mad: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

LAURIE R KING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's New York Times bestselling series - "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today" (Lee Child) . With Mrs. Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell...
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Queen Anne's Lace

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

China Bayles hunts for answers when a ghost begins to haunt her shop in the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert.It's August in Pecan Springs, and Ruby has decided that it's time to clean out the loft over Thyme and Seasons and the Crystal...
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Shadow Play: A British police procedural

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery.The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson?s car workshop. But there?s no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he?s never seen...
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The Rising Sea

CLIVE CUSSLER - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Everywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger...
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Bad, Bad Thing, A

Elena Forbes - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark and complex case when she's asked to investigate a miscarriage of justice.A highly effective police officer, albeit one who keeps her past carefully hidden, Eve West is suspended from duty after a police operation goes...
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Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series, now in paperback for the first time. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami,...
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DOUBLE BLIND

IRIS JOHANSEN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors are back with an electrifying new novel that will leave your heart racing.Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant...
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Murder on Union Square

VICTORIA THOMPSON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

When a murder hits close to home, Frank finds himself in an unusual position--the prime suspect in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series...Frank and Sarah Malloy are enjoying married life and looking to make their family official by adopting Catherine,...
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The Sword of Justice: A Bckstrm Novel

Leif G W Persson - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback

In the magnificent third installment of the internationally bestselling Bckstrom series, the irascible detective becomes entangled in an investigation with - incredibly - strange ties to Tsar Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, and Vladimir Putin. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.Murder...
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Hold Back the Dark

Kay Hooper - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

An SCU team investigates an inexplicable string of murders committed by men and women with no memory of their crimes in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series.Madness has taken ahold of Prosperity, North Carolina. Residents are killing one another, as if in a dream,...
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The Hush

JOHN HART - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestsellerThe only writer in history to win consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel, New York Times bestselling author John Hart returns to the world of his most beloved novel, The Last ChildBuilding on the world first seen in The Last Child ("A...
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Closer Than You Know: A Novel

Brad Parks - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard...
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Hunting Annabelle

Wendy Heard - MIRA
Format: Paperback

"Her scream echoes in my memory. I know what happened. Whether anyone believes me or not, I know."Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle - beautiful, confident,...
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All that Glitters (A Great Western Detective League Case)

Paul Colt - Five Star Publishing
Format: January 16

Cajun box man known as Duval blows a safe in San Francisco and makes off with sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones. Insurance Company of North America engages Colonel David Crooks Great Western Detective League. Veteran investigators Beau Longstreet and Briscoe Cane take...
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Hiding in Plain Sight

MARY ELLIS - Severn House Publishers
Format: Book

"When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she's in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mother, from whom Bella's inherited her freewheeling ways. An internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling...
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Bring Me Back: A Novel

B A PARIS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW TWISTY, GRIPPING READ FROM B. A. PARIS, THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING NOVELS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND THE BREAKDOWN"We're in a new Golden Age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Bring Me Back,...
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The Undertaker's Daughter

Sara Blædel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A new thrilling suspense novel from #1 international bestselling author Sara Blaedel, author of THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS"One of the best I've come across." -Michael Connelly"Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with. She's a remarkable crime writer who time and again delivers...
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Death of an Unsung Hero: A Lady Montfort Mystery

Tessa Arlen - ‎Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover‏

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Stay Hidden

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in this intricately-plotted new thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator...
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The Girl at the Border

Leslie Archer - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

One girl missing, one woman searching, both equally lost. Will a shared tragedy help them find their way home - even in the face of imminent danger?Renowned archaeologist Richard Mathis is half a world away on the island of Crete when he learns his daughter, Bella, has gone missing. Within...
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Broken Ground

VAL MCDERMID - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under...
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Pale as Death

Heather Graham - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

From the dark depths of Hollywood's pastThe crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning's new case is high-profile and difficult - there's no evidence to work with. And it's a disturbing echo of the infamous Black...
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Murder, She Wrote: Manuscript for Murder

Jessica Fletcher - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series...Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason...
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Shot in the Dark

CLEO COYLE - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark...
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Probable Claws: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. "As feline collaborators go, you couldnt ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." - The New York...
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The Echo Killing

Christi Daugherty - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer in Christi Daugherty's new novel The Echo Killing.A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks,...
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Hunt Them Down

Simon Gervais - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

The dark world he's been fighting against has caught up with him. Will his daughter pay the price?Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is no stranger to violence. Fresh off a six-month suspension, he's itching to hit a notorious Mexican drug cartel where it hurts, even if that means protecting...
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Bloody Sunday

BEN COES - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Ben Coes' Bloody Sunday is a propulsive read with enough plot hooks, twists, and action to fill five thrillers. Fans of Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Tom Clancy will tear through Bloody Sunday and close the book counting the days till Dewey's next adventure." -- Mark...
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TOUCAN KEEP A SECRET

DONNA ANDREWS - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Toucan keep a secret, if one of them is dead.Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal Church locking up after an event and checking on the toucan her friend Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. When she investigates the sound of hammering in the columbarium (the underground crypt where...
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Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Christopher Fowler - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. Hard to believe, but even positively ancient sleuths like Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit were young...
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Bad Cops: A British police procedural

Nick Oldham - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Two seemingly unconnected murders lead DCI Henry Christie to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this gritty police procedural.Two murders, apparently unconnected: one victim shot to death in his office, the other brutally stabbed in what appears to have been a road rage incident...
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Tom Clancy Oath of Office

MARC CAMERON - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The fall of the Iranian government presents unexpected danger to President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Tom Clancy series.President Jack Ryan preaches caution when the prospects for a Persian Spring excite the rest of the world. His is the lone...
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The Dark Angel

ELLY GRIFFITHS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway - "a captivating amateur sleuth" (Louise Penny) - and DCI Nelson investigate a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones. It's not every day that you're summoned to the Italian countryside...
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What Happened That Night: A Novel

Sandra Block - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same.One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse -- her memory of the attack has been ripped...
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Head Wounds

Dennis Palumbo - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime - those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi's...
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The Chairmans Toys

Graham Reed - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

"Jake, whose philosophy is life is often less about making good decisions than figuring out how to live with bad ones, takes the reader on a fast, furious, and often hilarious tour. Watching him zigzag through the twisting plot is pure pleasure." - Publishers WeeklyVancouver,...
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Deep War: The War with China and North Korea--The Nuclear Precipice

DAVID POYER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The war against China turns dire, as the United States struggles to survive in this gripping thriller featuring Navy commander Dan LensonAfter the United States suffers a devastating nuclear attack, and facing food shortages, power outages, cyber and AI assaults, and a wrecked economy,...
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The Road Beyond Ruin

Gemma Liviero - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For some people in post-World War II Germany, the battle is not over.August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war-ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding...
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Kingdom of the Blind

LOUISE PENNY - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery

MARTHA GRIMES - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes's New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are "utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels" (Washington Post) . In the latest series outing, The Knowledge,...
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The Clarity: A Novel

Keith Thomas - Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Black Mirror and True Detective, a visceral highconcept thriller about a psychologist who must protect the life of an eleven-year-old girl whose ability to remember past lives makes them both targets of a merciless killer.Dr. Matilda Deacon is a psychologist researching...
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The Woman in the Woods

JOHN CONNOLLY - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

"Fans will agree that this is Connolly's masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) *Includes a free soundtrack download* From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre"...
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Broken Places

Tracy Clark - Kensington
Format: Book

Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose.  (Edited 7/20)
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A Funeral in Mantova

David P Wagner - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

"The body rolled off the planks and slipped into the water with barely a splash, quickly embraced by the steady current flowing toward the city of Mantova. It comes to rest against rocks overlooked by the grim ramparts of Castello di San Giorgio as the river Mincio flows on towards...
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Murder in the Oval Library

C M GLEASON - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

April 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River, only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincoln - but a murderer is even closer . . . With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun - and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist...
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The Colors of All the Cattle: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

Lucas Davenport's first case as a U. S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory in this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential...
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The Glass Forest: A Novel

Cynthia Swanson - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s about a deeply troubled family and three women who will reveal its dark truths.In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin...
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A Steep Price

ROBERT DUGONI - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder ... Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this...
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The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Jessica Knoll - author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York Times bestseller and the bestselling debut novel of 2015 - comes a blisteringly paced thriller starring competitive sisters whose dark secrets and lies result in murder when they sign onto a reality TV show.When...
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The Otter of Death

Betty Webb - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

When California zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley sees an otter clutching a new smart phone while swimming in the local marsh, she rescues the expensive instrument. Inspecting it, Teddy discovers that it had taken a picture of a man in the act of being murdered. Since otters...
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Shattered at Sea

CHERYL HOLLON - Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A Mediterranean cruise gives glass shop owner Savannah Webb a chance to demonstrate her expertise - and fire up her skills when it comes to foul play . . . When Savannah signs on to perform glassblowing on a ship, part of the appeal is that she'll get a chance to reconnect with her boyfriend...
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Fear on Four Paws

Clea Simon - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

There's trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn't talking.When Pru Marlowe is called to a forest clearing to help with an illegally trapped bear, she finds a colleague passed out drunk, his pet ferret locked in his truck. When one of her old running buddies...
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Sins as Scarlet

NICOLAS OBREGON - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

"A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA." -- Anthony Horowitz, author of Magpie MurdersIn this follow-up to Nicols Obregon's critically acclaimed Blue Light Yokohama, Inspector Iwata returns -- in a murder case in his new home of Los Angeles.After a brutal murder...
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The Current: A Novel

Tim Johnston - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"The Current is a rare creature: a gripping thriller and page-turner but also a masterwork of mood and language - a meditation on memory and time. You'll want to go fast at the same time you'll be compelled to savor each and every word." - Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder...
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The Pisces: A Novel

MELISSA BRODER - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

An uproariously funny, gloriously strange, fiercely original tale of love, obsession, sex...and a merman Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles...
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Shark Fin Soup

SUSAN KLAUS - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Paperback

Christian Roberts, a handsome, young Floridian, has retired from horse racing and sets off with his wife, Allie, to cruise the Caribbean on his new sloop. Tragedy strikes, ending the dream vacation, and Christian becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Shattered and guilt ridden, Christian...
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Desolation Mountain: A Novel

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction" (BOOKLIST , starred review) as Cork O'Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic...
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The Disappearing: A Novel

LORI ROY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Two time Edgar Award winning-author Lori Roy returns with her latest suspense, a dark tale about a small present-day Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.When Lane Fielding fled north Florida after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she never thought she'd...
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The Big Empty

Stan Jones - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Police Chief Nathan Active investigates a plane crash out in Alaska's Big Empty - and what he finds there casts suspicion of murder on several locals in his small town of Chukchi. Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fianc, Dr. Todd Brenner, are on a flight over the Brooks Range...
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Crewel and Unusual: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery, Book 6

Molly MacRae - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is looking forward to the grand opening of the Blue Plum Vault, a co-op of small shops on Main Street. In the week before the grand opening, Kath and her needlework group, TGIF (Thank Goodness Its Fiber) , hear rumors of an unpleasant rivalry developing between...
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Ali Reynolds Mystery #13

Johann Sebastian Bach - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth book in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's popular series featuring Ali Reynolds, a former Los Angeles news anchor turned amateur sleuth.
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The Fleur de Sel Murders: A Brittany Mystery

Jean-Luc Bannalec - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, this Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec.The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Gurande Peninsula has been...
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The Man Upon the Stair: A Mystery in Fin de Siecle Paris

GARY INBINDER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Chief Inspector Achille Lefebvre returns from a much-needed vacation to find that there are assassins on his tail, and, as if that weren't enough, one of France's wealthiest men has gone missing without a trace ... In The Man Upon the Stair, Gary Inbinder's brilliant detective...
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Hushed in Death: An Inspector Lamb Mystery

Stephen Kelly - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

In the third volume of the Inspector Lamb mystery series, a murder at a hospital for veterans in rural England leaves Lamb with a village full of suspects, each with a motive and secrets of their own. In the spring of 1942, with the war in Europe raging, a gruesome murder shocks the rural...
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Murder on the Left Bank

Cara Black - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment...
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The Weight of Silence

Gregg Olsen - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Rain.Homicide detective Nicole Foster has finally balanced an unsteady life and is anxious for a second chance. There's no better place to start over than...
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Dark Rhapsody

- Oceanview Publishing

Perfect for fans of Sandra Brown and Iris Johannsen. In 1945, an Austrian girl discovers a priceless Nazi treasure near a remote alpine lake and sets in motion a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O'Shea is preparing...
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The Sun Dog

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication.The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy....
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She Lies in Wait: A Novel

Gytha Lodge - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series. On a scorching July night...
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Gumshoe for two : a novel by Rob Leininger

Robert Leininger - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

USA Today best-selling author

"Smart, sexy, and un-put-downable." -- John Lescroart

In the style of

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Lost Books and Old Bones: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

Paige Shelton - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A delightful new mystery featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols, set in Edinburgh, Scotland.Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at The Cracked Spine in the heart of town. She's recently befriended...
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The Bookworm: A Novel

MITCH SILVER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A stunning and surprising new thriller, Mitch Silver's latest novel takes readers from a secret operation during World War II -- with appearances by Noel Coward and Winston Churchill -- to present day London and Moscow, where Lara Klimt, "the Bookworm," must employ all her skills...
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Body & Soul: A Frank Elder Mystery

John Harvey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

When his estranged daughter Katherine suddenly appears on his doorstep, Elder knows that something is badly wrong.The breakdown of her relationship with a controversial artist has sent her into a self-destructive tailspin which culminates in murder. And as Elder struggles to protect Katherine...
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Alter Ego

Brian Freeman - Quercus
Format: Hardcover

When a freak auto accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a "ghost," with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk-...
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