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The American Agent

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade) , investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When...
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The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

ANNE HILLERMAN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.Joe Leaphorn may have retired from...
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The Cutting Room: A Novel

Ashley Dyer - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, must stop a serial killer whose victims are the centerpiece of his macabre works of art.While Britain is obsessed with the newest hit true-crime television show, Fact, or Fable? detectives Ruth Lake...
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Spring Cleaning: A Novel

Antonio Manzini - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from the international bestselling author, Antonio Manzini picks up three days after his last novel, Out of Season, left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend - and closure for himself.Rocco is still reeling from the death...
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The Black Ascot

CHARLES TODD - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible - but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior...
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Dead Silence: A Foundlings Novel

Wendy Corsi Staub - William Morrow
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's riveting thriller, uncovering secrets in the past draws one woman into a killer's web. . .No Such Thing as Coincidence . . .Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this...
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Broken Bone China

LAURA CHILDS - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms...
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The Perfect Fraud: A Novel

Ellen LaCorte - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this propulsive debut thriller, two women with deep secrets are thrown together by an unexpected meeting that plunges both their lives into chaos. But it's a sick little girl whose fate hangs in the balance.Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire,...
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Cat Chase the Moon

SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Feline P. I. Joe Grey and his friends pounce on three investigations that may connect to one larger mystery - including one case that is very personal - in this hair-raising installment in Shirley Rousseau Murphy's beloved, award-winning series.Joe Grey and his partner, Dulcie, are frantic...
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Dying for Devil's Food

Jenn McKinlay - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

As the New York Times bestselling series continues, it's going to take every recipe the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew has to whip up a quick defense for Mel Cooper when her high school reunion goes from a cake walk to a car wreck...Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year...
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Careless Love: An Inspector Banks Novel

PETER ROBINSON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

His fans include Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Tess Gerritsen, Ian Rankin, and Louise Penney. He has won acclaim and numerous international prizes and awards, including the Edgar. Now, Peter Robinson, one of the world's greatest suspense writers, returns with a powerful mystery in which...
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The Shameless

Ace Atkins - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins.Twenty years ago, teenager Brandon Taylor walked into the Big Woods north of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, and never returned. For former...
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Reaper: Threat Zero: A Sniper Novel

Nicholas Irving - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The next book in the explosive new thriller series by former special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper. A convoy of cars carrying several family members of the President's cabinet to Camp David for "Family Day" is ambushed, killing...
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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other...
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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Introducing the first book in the new pulse-pounding Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose.FBI Special Agent Gideon Reynolds did not have a conventional upbringing. Raised in a cult in Northern California, his mother smuggled him out when he was thirteen,...
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First Tracks

Catherine O'Connell - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

When experienced ski patroller Greta Westerlind awakes in hospital having almost been killed in an avalanche, she is devastated to learn that her close friend, bond trader Warren McGovern, perished in the slide. With no memory of the incident, Greta is at a loss to explain why the two of them...
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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

Alys Clare - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

London, 1880. "I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife ... " When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her,...
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Murder on Trinity Place

Victoria Thompson - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The devil's in the details when a man is found murdered near Trinity Church in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series...The year of 1899 is drawing to a close. Frank and Sarah Malloy are getting ready to celebrate the New Year at Trinity Church when they...
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Mission Critical

Mark Greaney - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted...
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Killer in the Carriage House

Sheila Connolly - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the Victorian Village Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters....
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The Wounded Snake

Fay Sampson - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Friends Hilary Masters and Veronica Taylor are eager to embark upon their weekend-long masterclass in crime writing at the evocative, fourteenth-century Morland Abbey, hoping to gain inspiration for their own novels. The queen of crime fiction herself, Dinah Halsgrove, is the guest of honour,...
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The Marriage Lie

Kimberly Belle - Park Row
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Everyone has secrets ... Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris's happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field,...
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White Peak: A Thriller

Ronan Frost - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Ronan Frost's White Peak is a fast-paced action thriller full of death-defying adventure.Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he's gathering a team willing to go to the ends...
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The Good Detective

John McMahon - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Detective P.T. Marsh in a swift and bruising debut where Elmore Leonard's staccato prose meets Greg Iles' Southern settings.How can you solve a crime if you've killed the prime suspect?Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until...
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Their Little Secret

Mark Billingham - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something...
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Death of a New American: A Novel

Mariah Fredericks - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott...
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The Scent of Murder

Kylie Logan - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

First in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Scent of Murder is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains cadaver dogs. The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She's thirty-five years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland's...
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Unto Us a Son Is Given

DONNA LEON - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that...
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Early Riser: A Novel

Jasper Fforde - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The new standalone novel from bestselling author Jasper FfordeEvery Winter, the human population hibernates.During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.Well, not quite.Your name is Charlie Worthing...
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A Stranger on the Beach

Michele Campbell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of It's Always the Husband comes a novel about a love triangle that begins on a fateful night... There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought...
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The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery

Jean-Luc Bannalec - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." -- M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany "Very satisfying ... along the lines of Martin Walker's novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth's Aix-en-Provence mysteries." -- BOOKLIST on Murder on Brittany...
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The Stone Circle

Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past,...
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A Beautiful Corpse: A Mystery

Christi Daugherty - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.With its antebellum houses and ancient...
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A Justified Murder

Jude Deveraux - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux continues her breakout Medlar Mystery series with a twisted tale of guilt and revenge ... The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative...
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The Stories You Tell

Kristen Lepionka - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." -- BOOKLIST (starred review) on What You Want to SeeThe Stories You Tell is Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's...
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Wherever She Goes

Kelley Armstrong - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child. "Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid." That's what the officer tells single mother Aubrey Finch...
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Sunshine State

D.P. Lyle - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Serial killer's message to PI Jake Longly: Two of those seven murders I confessed to are not mine -- but I won't tell you which two. Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison are confronted with the most bizarre case yet. Serial killer Billy Wayne Baker now denies that two of his seven murders...
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Bones of the Earth: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Mystery

Eliot Pattison - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Bones of the Earth is Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison's much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series.After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can't shake the suspicion that...
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Chocolate Cream Pie Murder

JOANNE FLUKE - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Not even Lake Eden's nosiest residents suspected Hannah Swensen would go from idealistic newlywed to betrayed wife in a matter of weeks. But as a deadly mystery unfolds in town, the proof is in the pudding . . . When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special...
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Penne Dreadful

Catherine Bruns - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Tomato sauce isn't the only thing that runs red...Local chef Tessa Esposito is struggling to get back on her feet following her husband's fatal accident. And when the police knock on Tessa's door, things just get worse. They've discovered Dylan's death wasn't an accident after all, and they...
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Rag and Bone

Joe Clifford - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane Having spent ten months on the run after he was framed for the murder of an estate-clearing associate, handyman Jay Porter returns to his hometown of Ashton, New Hampshire. During his time as a fugitive, he searched for a hard drive -- evidence that would...
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Murder Knocks Twice: A Mystery

Susanna Calkins - Minotaur Books
Format: Paperback

The first mystery in Susanna Calkins' captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father -- and to prove to herself that she can hold...
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Blood for Blood

Victoria Selman - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.When...
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Off the Grid

Robert McCaw - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police Chief Detective Koa Kane to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it's the second gruesome homicide of the day,...
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Murder in Bel-Air

Cara Black - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Cara Black's riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aime Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, people's resistance movements, and neighborhood secrets...
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Time Is a Killer

MICHEL BUSSI - World Noir
Format: Paperback

From the author of "the wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying" After The Crash (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review) .A fatal accident in the past, broken lives, family secrets...Michel Bussi serves up a gripping thriller, set amid the beautiful scenery of Corsica.In...
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The Satapur Moonstone

SUJATA MASSEY - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic...
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Murder Once Removed

S. C. Perkins - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down...
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Man of the Year

Caroline Louise Walker - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Beware the Man of the Year. You may praise him, resent him, even want to be him: but beneath the elegant trappings that define him, danger looms. Caroline Louise Walker's stunning debut novel, for fans of Herman Koch's The Dinner and Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door,...
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This is How it Ends

Eva Dolan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Three hundred gone. Just six left.The building was once home to families, friends, children, couples, love, life. Now, almost every apartment is empty, the inhabitants forced out by the developers tearing down the old social housing to build luxury homes.Only a few of the inhabitants have...
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The Colorado Kid

Stephen King - Hard Case Crime
Format: Paperback

Stephen King's bestselling unsolved mystery, THE COLORADO KID -- inspiration for the TV series HAVEN -- returns to bookstores for the first time in 10 years in an all-new illustrated edition.A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old...
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The Victory Garden: A Novel

Rhys Bowen - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War.As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort....
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The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly bewitching. This atmospheric, intricate thriller, a pitch-perfect modern Gothic, chilled my blood and warmed my heart. As unforgettable as it is original." - A.J. Finn "Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting, in every sense. I loved this book! And you will too."...
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Killing with Confetti

Peter Lovesey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious...
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Flowers over the Inferno

Ilaria Tuti - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in Northern Italy - a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string...
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Stranger Things: Novel #1

BALLANTINE. - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Set before the events of Stranger Things, this prequel novel follows Eleven's mother and her time as a test subject in the MKUltra program.
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The Last Act: A Novel

Brad Parks - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry) , a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks....
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Bad Axe County: A Novel

John Galligan - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago - all as a winter...
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