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Lending a Paw: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery

Laurie Cass - NAL
Format: Book

With the help of her rescue cat, Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based in the resort town of Chilson, Michigan. But shed better keep both hands on the wheel, because its going to be a bumpy rideEddie followed Minnie home one day, and now she cant seem to shake the furry...
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Nothing Stays Buried

P J Tracy - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The Monkeewrench crew returns to face the city of Minneapolis's worst nightmare - a rampant serial killer on the loose - in the electrifying new thriller. When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything...
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Snoop to Nuts

Elizabeth Lee - Berkley
Format: Print book

Murder gets nutty in the latest in Elizabeth Lee's delectable Nut House seriesLindy Blanchard's family pecan farm is known county-wide, but it's the goodies her grandmother sells at their store, the Nut House, that really bring in the crowds - until someone turns one of her tasty...
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Death Comes in through the Kitchen

Teresa Dovalpage - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Don't let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution.Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend,...
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Watch the Girls

Jennifer Wolfe - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed.Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense.SOMEONE IS WATCHINGWashed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably...
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The Last Days of Night: A Novel

Graham Moore - Random House
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America - from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The SherlockianSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION...
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The Ascendant: A Garrett Reilly Thriller

Drew Chapman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Like his intriguing protagonist Garrett Reilly, author Drew Chapman possesses startling skills and this first novel just blows the doors off. The Ascendant is a rollicking, globe-hopping, timely, and prescient page-turner - a twenty-first century thriller" (C.J. Box, New...
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Kill Switch: A Joe Ledger Novel

Jonathan Maberry - Griffin, 2016.
Format: Print book

What do you do when the power goes off?A terrorist group has acquired one hundred E-bombs. Each bomb's electromagnetic pulse is powerful enough to blow out all power and all technology from a major city. The terrorists plan to hit one hundred American cities in a campaign of destruction....
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Tell the Machine Goodnight: A Novel

Katie Williams - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Smart and inventive, an emotional page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness. Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful....
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Death by Devil's Breath

Kylie Logan - Berkley
Format: Print book

Cold-blooded murder can be hot as hell…In Las Vegas, the stakes are high—and so is the Scoville scale. Maxie Pierce and the Chili Showdown are in town for a very heated contest devoted to judging the legendary and notorious-for-being-self-combustible Devil’s Breath chili....
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The Sayers Swindle

Victoria Abbott - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Jordan Kelly is delighted to make money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her bosss complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan...
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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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Night of the White Buffalo (A Wind River Mystery Book 18)

Margaret Coel - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

With her gritty mysteries steeped in authentic Native American culture, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel is "widely considered the most accomplished heir to Tony Hillermans legacy," (Scripps Howard News Service) . In the latest Wind River novel, Arapaho attorney...
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The Force: A Novel

DON WINSLOW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerRecommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com"The Force is mesmerizing,...
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Warriors: An Alex Hawke Novel

Ted Bell - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Dashing counterspy Alex Hawke must rescue a kidnapped American scientist as the United States and China move dangerously close to all-out nuclear war in this adrenaline-fueled thriller in the New York Times bestselling series that combines the hallmarks of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming,...
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Based on a True Story

Delphine de Vigan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

The international hit that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of fiction--but based on a true story--about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge...
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Dear Mr. M: A Novel

Herman Koch - Hogarth
Format: Print book

Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance: a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway...
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Crooked Numbers

Tim O'Mara - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When one of Raymond Donne’s former students is found stabbed to death under the Williamsburg Bridge, Ray draws on his past as a cop to find the truth in Tim O'Mara’s second New York mystery.Raymond Donne’s former student Douglas Lee had everything going for him thanks...
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Little Deaths: A Novel

Emma Flint - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017"Gripping."---Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post"Mesmerizing."---Associated Press It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a...
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Mastering suspense structure & plot

Jane K Cleland - Writer's Digest Books
Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats

"Suspense is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for captivating readers--but it isn't just for thrillers. From mainstream fiction to memoir, suspense creates the emotional tension that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is your...
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The Map of True Places

Brunonia Barry - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“Masterfully woven…The Map of True Places is a gripping quest for truth that kept me reading at the edge of my seat to the very last page.”—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Brunonia Barry, author of the beloved New York Times and international bestseller The Lace...
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clair and Present Danger: An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery

Laura Bradford - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

The first book in the delicious new Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery series from national bestselling author Laura Bradford.With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude...
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The Awkward Age: A Novel

FRANCESCA SEGAL - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." - Nick Hornby "A spry and accomplished comedy of manners."...
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Panther's Prey: A Leo Maxwell Mystery

Lachlan Smith - The Mysterious Press
Format: Print book

In Panther's Prey, the latest novel from Shamus Award winner Lachlan Smith, tragedy once again strikes near the heart for lawyer-detective Leo Maxwell.After working to free his father from prison in Fox Is Framed, Leo has now left private practice and is working as a public...
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Moth Catcher, The: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane -- a lonely...
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Styx

Bavo Dhooge - Simon451
Format: Print book

From the #1, award-winning Flemish crime writer, an atmospheric, genre-busting crime novel about a cop who comes back from the dead to track down the same serial killer who shot him.A serial killer is on the loose in Ostend, Belgium. Nicknamed The Stuffer, the mysterious killer fills his victims...
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Death of a Pumpkin Carver

Lee Hollis - Kensington Pub Corp
Format: Print book

For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costume parties and holiday treats - until a killer crashes the party...This Halloween, Hayley can't imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor. Her kids may be happy...
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Too Bad to Die: A Novel

Francine Mathews - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. November, 1943. Weary of his deskbound status in the Royal Navy, intelligence officer Ian Fleming spends his spare...
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Troll

D B Thorne - Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

Years ago, Fortune gave up on his daughter, Sophie, after a troubled adolescence. Now she's gone missing, vanished without trace. And after weeks of investigation, the police have given up on her, too. Driven by guilt, and a determination to atone for his failures as a father, he takes...
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Everything I Don't Remember: A Novel

Jonas Hassen Khemiri - Atria Books
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE, SWEDEN'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY HONOR One of Sweden's most celebrated young writers and activists spins an exhilarating, innovative, and gripping murder mystery reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial.A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash....
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The Book of Fires: A Medieval mystery

P C Doherty - Cre'me de la Crime
Format: Print book

An intriguing medieval mystery featuring sleuthing monk Brother AthelstanFebruary, 1381. A ruthless killer known as the Ignifer - Fire Bringer - is rampaging through London, bringing agonising death and destruction in his wake. He appears to be targeting all those involved in the recent...
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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Otto Penzler - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback

The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled * The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories - from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain.. "Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing...
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Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

Henning Mankell - New Press, The; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas...
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PURRING AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE

LIZ MUGAVERO - Kensington Publishing Corporation

In the New England town of Frog's Ledge, the Holiday Light Festival is a Christmas tradition. Killing Santa is not. To bring joy back to the season, organic pet patisserie owner Kristan "Stan" Connor will have to find another Santa before it's too late . . . To the townspeople's...
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The Last Talk with Lola Faye

Thomas H. Cook - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give a sparsely attended reading - nothing out of the ordinary. Except among the yawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the "other woman" he has long blamed for his father's murder decades earlier.
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The Weight of an Infinite Sky: A Novel

Carrie La Seur - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet.The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation...
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The Iris Fan: A Novel of Feudal Japan

Laura Joh Rowland - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichir has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu...
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Robicheaux: A Novel

James Lee Burke - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

James Lee Burke's most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana.DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved...
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Under the Knife: A Novel

Kelly Parsons - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife, Jenny, dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finneys grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita, just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will...
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Murder for Christmas

Francis Duncan - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

"Kept guessing to the end, I am left wondering why it has taken so long to discover Francis Duncan... With some 20 crime novels to his credit, a relaunch seems long overdue" -- Daily MailA festive mystery for the holiday season: mulled wine, mince pies... and murderWhen Mordecai...
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Trauma: A Novel

Michael Palmer - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Dr. Carrie Bryant's four years as a neurosurgical resident at White Memorial Hospital have earned her the respect and admiration from peers and staff alike. When given the chance of performing her first unsupervised brain surgery, Carrie jumps at the opportunity.What should have been...
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Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel

Vivēka Śānabhāga - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"A great Indian novel." - The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin." - The New Yorker"Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master." - The Paris Review A young man's close-knit...
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The Fifth Heart

Dan Simmons - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first...
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AFTER ANNA

LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Riveting and disquieting, After Anna is a groundbreaking domestic thriller, as well as a novel of emotional justice and legal intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline keeps readers on their toes until the final shocking page.Nobody cuts deeper than family...Dr....
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The Counterfeit Heiress: A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Paris - the city of romance. where Lady Emily struggles to unmask a murderer amid a case of assumed identities and shadowy figures. After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying...
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Portobello: A Novel

Ruth Rendell - Scribner; Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction's reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled...
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Without Warning

JOEL C ROSENBERG - CENTER POINT PUB

As he prepares to deliver the State of the Union address, the President of the United States is convinced the Islamic State is on the run, about to be crushed by American forces once and for all. But New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins tells the President he's dead wrong.
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The Weight of Blood: A Novel

Laura McHugh - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart.INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD WINNER AND BARRY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE...
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Death in the Stars: A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A delightful traditional British cozy featuring private investigator and "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton, in the vein of MC Beaton. Frances Brody's ninth book in the Kate Shackleton cozy mystery series continues to capture the atmosphere and language...
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The Bangkok Asset: A novel

John Burdett - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

Sonchai Jitpleecheep - the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett's five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels - is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising...
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What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror

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

It's the story "They" don't want you to read. Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached." No, don't...
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Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow

Sidney Sheldon - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon's most popular and enduring heroine - Tracy Whitney of If Tomorrow Comes - returns in a sensational sequel full of passion, suspense, and breathtaking twists.Tracy Whitney never thought she wanted to settle down. With her suave and handsome...
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Glazed Murder: A Donut Shop Mystery

Jessica Beck - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she's dubbed "The Great Impersonator," Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement...
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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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Layover in Dubai

Dan Fesperman - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The newest thriller from the author of The Amateur Spy and The Prisoner of Guantánamo (“Worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett”—USA Today) is as dazzling as its setting.Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate...
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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.Before...
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City of Lies

VICTORIA THOMPSON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

An exciting new series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles - from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Every woman plays a part - but some are more dangerous than others ... Like most women, Elizabeth Miles assumes many roles; unlike most, hers...
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Pursuit in Provence

Phyllis Gobbell - Five Star
Format: Hardcover

"Pursuit in Provence is Jordan Mayfair's debut as an amateur sleuth finding her way through a labyrinth of art rock-and-roll -- and murder -- against the captivating backdrop of Provence.American architect Jordan Mayfair travels to Provence with visions of Roman ruins bathed in magical...
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When the Music's Over: An Inspector Banks Novel

Peter Robinson - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Inspector Alan Banks - hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly - must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.Two women. Two crimes.The...
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The Cairo Affair

Olen Steinhauer - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed.Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share...
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Green Hell

Ken Bruen - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen, called "the best-kept literary secret in Ireland" by the Independent, is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic, mixing high and low with hypnotic mastery. In the previous book in the series, Purgatory, ex-cop...
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The Children Act

Ian McEwan - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

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

Terrence McCauley - Polis Books
Format: Print book

OLD WAR. NEW ENEMIES. THE DEVIL HAS ARRIVED.The University has been a clandestine organization since the days of the OSS. The University and its agents have always lived in the shadows; using its vast intelligence resources to help defeat the Nazis, end the Cold War and strike back at terrorists...
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The Last Confession: A Crime Novel

Solomon Jones - Minotaur Books
Format: Book

Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960's South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it never stopped the nightmares. The screams in the sanctuary...
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The Enemy Inside: A Paul Madriani Novel

Steve Martini - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new novel in the New York Times bestselling series, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of double-dealing and murder that leads him to the very highest levels of American political powerWhen a friend, Alex Ives, is implicated in a deadly motor collision on a deserted...
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The Eagle Has Landed

Jack Higgins - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

As the Allied forces slowly begin turning the tide of war, Hitler vehemently orders the impossible - kidnap Winston Churchill, or kill him. A crack team of commandos led by a disgraced war hero must venture into the heart of England to carry out their mission, or die trying.Meanwhile,...
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The Listener: A Novel

Shira Nayman - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Bertram Reiner, a charismatic and brilliant man diagnosed with a severe case of Battle Fatigue is treated by Dr. Harrison, the distinguished and steadfast head of the hospital, finds the most challenging patient of his career. Their sessions leave Dr. Harrison slipping into a frightening,...
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Blood Pact

David Hagberg - Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Format: Hardcover

David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues with a deadly mission to find a long-lost treasure map in Blood Pact. A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern...
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Cursed in the Act

Raymond Buckland - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Paperback

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!Bram Stoker, business manager for London's Lyceum Theatre, always expects the supernatural to be lurking around the corner. But investigating the murder of a cast member might be enough to make even him lose his head ... 1881. When the star and owner of the Lyceum,...
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The Deliverance of Evil

Roberto Costantini - Quercus Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian crime thriller, The Deliverance of Evil is a masterful psychological thriller about an edgy policeman's personal evolution--or devolution--as seen through the lens of a devilish case that consumed him early in his career and continues...
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The Garden of Lamentations

Deborah Crombie - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing - and deadly - complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series.On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting...
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The Silence of Stones: A Crispin Guest medieval noir

Jeri Westerson - Severn House Publishers L, 2015.
Format: Print book

A medieval mystery featuring disgraced knight Crispin Guest London, 1388. When the mythical Stone of Destiny disappears from the throne of England during mass in Westminster Abbey, the populace takes it as a sign to side with King Richard II's rebellious barons. The last thing...
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Death Runs Adrift: The Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, 6

Karen MacInerney - Gray Whale Press
Format: Hardcover

With her own wedding fast approaching and her mother-in-law dating an unexpected beau, the last thing Natalie Barnes needs is to find a young man shot dead in a dinghy. A note she finds with the body suggests the dearly departed had a secret rendezvous planned with somebody on the island....
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Constant Fear

Daniel Palmer - Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

In Daniel Palmer's electrifying, brilliantly plotted new thriller, a private school campus becomes a battleground as a desperate father takes on a terrifying enemy ... .When Jake Dent's dreams of baseball glory fell apart in a drunk-driving incident, his marriage did too. In those...
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November Road: A Novel

LOU BERNEY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...
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Field of Graves

J T Ellison - Mira Books
Format: Print book

With FIELD OF GRAVES, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began ... All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer....
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Gutshot: Stories

Amelia Gray - FSG Originals
Format: Book

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Grays curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. A master...
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Sunday Silence: A Novel

Nicci French - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday.Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" - and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018.Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent...
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Cambodia Noir: A Novel

Nick Seeley - Scribner, 2016.
Format: Print book

A high-octane thriller with a heart-stopping conclusion about a mysterious American woman who disappears into the Cambodian underworld, and the photojournalist who tracks her through the clues left in her diary.Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The end of the line. Lawless, drug-soaked, forgotten - it's...
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Willnot

James Sallis - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive....
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Bred in the Bone: A Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod Novel

Christopher Brookmyre - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Bred in the Bone is the stunning third novel in Brookmyre's series featuring private investigator Jasmine Sharp and Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod. Set in the disturbing underworld of Glasgow - a place where countless old scores are still waiting to be settled, and where...
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Silence Once Begun: A Novel

Jesse Ball - Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The Curfew ldquoA spare masterwork of dystopian fictionrdquo mdashThe New York Times Book Review Jesse Ballrsquos Silence Once Begun is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction lost love and a journalistrsquos obsessionOver the course of several months eight...
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Death of a Bachelorette

LAURA LEVINE - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought working for a knock-off reality show in the tropics would be paradise. But when she and her kitty Prozac find themselves trapped between a dimwitted leading man, catty contestants, and a cold-blooded murderer, the splashy gig becomes one deadly nightmare...Jaine's...
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Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel

Laura Lippman - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning New York Times best-selling author of After Im Gone, The Most Dangerous Thing, Id Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know brings back private detective Tess Monaghan, introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues, in an absorbing mystery that plunges the new parent into...
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Someone Always Knows

Marcia Muller - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a...
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The Burning Gates: A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

In Cairo, private investigator Makana is called into the office of his new client, a powerful art dealer known as Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a famous painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled...
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The Fifth Element: A Novel

Jørgen Brekke - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun. Next to him is a corpse. But what events led him to this point? And how did he get here? A few weeks earlier, Felicia, his wife, disappeared....
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Cul-de-Sac:

Wesla Kerr - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book

This is the third and final Matty book of the Cul-de-Sac series. The first is Cul-de-Sac: Mop-up for Murder, the second Cul-de-Sac: Mop-up for Malice, and now Cul-de-Sac: The Final Mop-up. Matty (Matilde Maria Lopez Jones McGuire Nava) now lives in the cul-de-sac where she used to clean...
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Lucky Supreme: A Novel of Many Crimes

Jeff Johnson - Arcade Publishing
Format: Print book

Best Crime Novel of the Year--Joy Ride through the Tattoo Underworld of Portland's Old Town. The night world of Old Town, Portland, Oregon, has gone mad in the grip of gentrification, and at the center of it all is Lucky Supreme, a seedy tattoo parlor, whose proprietor is a street-bred...
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Marry, Kiss, Kill

Anne Flett-Giordano - Prospect Park Books
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced and funny Santa Barbara mystery, movie stars are in town for the film festival, powerful business interests are at stake, and detective Nola MacIntire and her partner, Tony, must untangle the complicated web behind three seemingly unrelated deaths in this idyllic beach...
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Blood Infernal: The Order of the Sanguines Series

James Rollins - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

In a masterpiece of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell bring to a thunderous conclusion their epic trilogy of novels set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very...
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Night of the Jaguar: A Novel

Joe Gannon - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Joe Gannons debut novel, Night of the Jaguar,a former Sandinista guerrilla comandante turned cop investigates a series of murders that appear to be political executions.Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober and losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking...
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The Accidental Apprentice: A Novel

Vikas Swarup - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In life you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.A business empire worth ten billion dollars. This is the tantalizing offer made by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of Indias richest men, to Sapna Sinha, a simple salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She can be the next...
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The twenty-seventh city

Jonathan Franzen - Picador/Farrar
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 25th anniversary editionView all editions and formats

St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy....
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Blackout: A Thriller

RAGNAR JONASSON - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer."Easily the best yet. Beautifully written and elegantly paced with a plot that only gradually becomes visible, as if the reader had been staring into the freezing...
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The Girl in the Moon

Terry Goodkind - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In his newest heart-pounding novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind introduces the world to his most unforgettable and deadly character yet. Angela Constantine is a girl born broken. When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability,...
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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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Too Lucky to Live: A Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead Mystery

Annie Hogsett - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

Lonely and broke, Cleveland divorce-survivor Allie Harper believes all her problems would be solved if she could find a nice, smart, hot guy and enough money to get her car fixed.The hot guy arrives first: he's in a crosswalk clutching a bag of groceries while a blonde in a Hummer is learning...
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Keep Calm: A Thriller

Mike Binder - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

"Starts with a bang and never slows down--a very superior high-stakes thriller." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee ChildWhen a bombing at 10 Downing Street wounds the Prime Minister and tests Great Britain's resolve, American ex-cop Adam Tatum must confront a conspiracy...
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Dark Saturday: A Frieda Klein Thriller

NICCI FRENCH - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Recommended for summer reading by TIME magazineLOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique."Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday,...
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The Guilty Dead: Monkeewrench #9

P J TRACY - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy is back with the most addictive installment in her award-winning mystery series.Dead men tell no tales ... but their pasts can't keep a secret.Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's...
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The Heretic's Creed: An Elizabethan mystery featuring Ursula Blanchard

Fiona Buckley - Creme De La Crime
Format: Print book

Ursula Blanchard must acquire a mysterious medieval manuscript in the latest enthralling historical adventure. February, 1577. Sir William Cecil has a dangerous new mission for Ursula Blanchard. He has asked her to visit Stonemoor House on the bleak Yorkshire moors, the home...
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Crime Song

David Swinson - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

The return of Frank Marr, the "refreshing" protagonist of one of the New York Times Best Crime Novels of 2016 Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police. Now barely eking out a living...
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The Drowning Girls

Paula Treick DeBoard - Mira Books
Format: Print book

Critically acclaimed author of The Mourning Hours and The Fragile World, Paula Treick DeBoard returns with a tale of dark secrets, shocking lies and a dangerous obsession that will change one neighborhood forever Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated...
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The Black Widow

Wendy Corsi Staub - Harper
Format: Print book

In a chilling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub, one woman looking for love online is entangled in a killer's terrifying scheme . . .In the moonlight, shovelfuls of earth fall on a wooden crate at the bottom of a deep pit. Soon the hole will be filled...
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The Paramour's Daughter: A Maggie MacGowen Mystery

Wendy Hornsby - Perseverance Press
Format: Paperback

Did you ever fantasize that an unknown relative has died and left you a fortune? Be careful what you wish for. When a stranger insists she's kin to filmmaker Maggie MacGowen, Maggie assumes the woman is what the LAPD calls a "5150," a mentally disturbed person. But after the stranger...
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Scorched Eggs

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni - co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Caf - are equally good at serving up breakfast and serving up justice. This time they turn up the heat on a deadly firebug ... As Suzanne is getting her hair colored...
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Bred to Kill: A Thriller

Franck Thilliez - Viking
Format: Hardcover

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

Janey Mack - Kensington Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

"The most engaging new detective in a long time." --Hy Conrad, author of Toured to DeathShe's working undercover--and she's in way over her head. Scrappy Traffic Enforcement agent Maisie McGrane has finally landed her dream job as a Chicago police officer. There's just...
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The Child

FIONA BARTON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

One of the most highly anticipated thrillers of the year - as seen in People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, USA Today, Bustle, Good Housekeeping.com, HelloGiggles, The Boston Globe, PureWow, The Dallas Morning News, and more! "The Child...
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Getting Mama Out of Hell

Laurie Moore - Five Star
Format: Hardcover

When British visitors Elle Winthrop and her daughter Elizabeth die near DFW Airport, they learnthere's life after death, and that Elle's mother is living in eternal damnation. In order to redeema Get Out of Hell Free card, they must return to Fort Worth and convince five people...
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Resistant

Michael Palmer - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

They fight without conscience or remorse. Their only job is to kill. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced. And they are one millionth our size.When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan....
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The Perfect Girl: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us..."Literary suspense at its finest." - Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby"A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso...
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Hour of the Red God: A Detective Mollel Novel

Richard Crompton - Sarah Crichton Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the Black God, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of anger, vengeance, and death. Nairobi, 2007. In Africas sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over an impoverished, restless majority. Corruption, exploitation, and ethnic...
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The Whisperers: A Thriller

John Connolly - ‎Atria Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"Oh, little one, he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. What have they done to you? What have they done to us all? "

In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller,...

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The Girl from Venice

Martin Cruz Smith - ‎Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared "that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction,"...
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Drone Strike: A Dreamland Thriller

Dale Brown - Harper; Reissue edition
Format: Book

On the President's orders . . . one man is tasked with averting nuclear warWhen the U.S. develops intelligence showing that Iran is in the final stages of assembling a nuclear bomb, the President orders Breanna Stockard and the Whiplash team to destroy it before the renegade nation...
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Final Girls: A Novel

Riley Sager - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"The first great thriller of 2017 is here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you'll like this." - Stephen King Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends...
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The Man from Beijing

Henning Mankell - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling, award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer....
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Not That I Could Tell

Jessica Strawser - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell, the next page-turner from Jessica Strawser. When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered...
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Tower Down: A Kirk McGarvey Novel

DAVID HAGBERG - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg continues his successful Kirk McGarvey series in Tower Down, a searing thriller about terrorist attacks on NYC's pencil towers.A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, "the Eagle," topples a New York City pencil tower...
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The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

Malcolm Mackay - Mulholland Books
Format: Paperback

IT'S EASY TO KILL A MAN. IT'S HARD TO KILL A MAN WELL.A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another...
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Sorrow Road

Julia Keller - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

In 1944, three young men from a small town in West Virginia are among the American forces participating in D-Day, changing the fortunes of the war with one bold stroke. How is that moment aboard a Navy ship as it barrels toward the Normandy shore related to the death of an old man in an Appalachian...
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Inspector Specter

E.J. Copperman - Berkley

Just when she thought she'd seen everything ... Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving...
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The Tournament

Matthew Reilly - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

"A complete success ... action fans and PBS types can share their enthusiasm" (BOOKLIST , starred review) when a young Queen Elizabeth I is thrust into a gripping game of deception and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire in this edge-of-your-seat historical thriller...
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Under the Harrow: A Novel

Flynn Berry - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"A thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...[with] a striking, original voice all Berry's own." - The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First NovelNamed one of the "10 Best Mystery Books and Thrillers...
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Damaged.

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

"Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up all night, with plots that twist and turn." -Harlan CobenOne boy. One lawyer. One chance for justice.Ten-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. Shy, dyslexic, and small for his age, he tries to hide his first-grade...
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Death with All the Trimmings: A Key West Food Critic Mystery

Lucy Burdette - NAL
Format: Book

The only snow in Key West this Christmas is Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, who is not getting time off for the holidayor time off from murder. It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, good will toward men, dont seem to extend to the restaurant biz. Hayley...
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The Butcher Bird: A Somershill Manor Mystery

S D Sykes - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

In the sequel to the critically acclaimed Plague Land, we return to Somershill Manor, where an ominous legend takes hold of hearts and minds as children begin to disappear.Oswald de Lacy is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. However, there is still the same...
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Claws for Concern

MIRANDA JAMES - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are embroiled in a new mystery when a cold case suddenly heats up in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.Charlie Harris has been enjoying some peace and quiet with his new grandson when a mysterious man with...
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Unbecoming: A Novel

Rebecca Scherm - Viking
Format: Hardcover

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL"Startlingly inventive." - The New York Times Book Review"A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next." - Kate Atkinson On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores...
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Murder, She Wrote: Hook, Line, and Murder

Jessica Fletcher - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

The USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote mystery series continues as Jessica Fletcher takes a relaxing getaway that turns into a reel deadly situation...Jessica enters a fly-fishing competition at a nearby lake. Joining her is the sheriff's wife, Maureen Metzger, who surprises...
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Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Lisa Gardner - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover

In #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Detective D. D. Warren must face a new fear as a serial killer terrorizes Boston.My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing...
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Murder at the Puppy Fest (A Melanie Travis Mystery Book 20)

Laurien Berenson - Kensington Cozies
Format: Hardcover

A mystery from the Agatha Award finalist: "[An] appealing picture of the dog-show world ... Cozy fans who love dogs are in for a treat." - Publishers Weekly Busy mom and pedigree Standard Poodle owner, Melanie Travis doesnt mind helping out at Puppy Fest, an annual fundraiser...
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The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories

Michael Sims - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Paperback

Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered...
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The Defense

Steve Cavanagh - Flatiron Books
Format: Book

Former con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old...
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The Big Finish: A Thorn Novel

James W. Hall - Minotaur Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Audiobook

A year ago Thorns son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives,...
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A Twisted Vengeance: A Kate Clifford Novel

CANDACE ROBB - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

As the fourteenth century comes to a close, York seethes on the brink of civil war -- and young widow Kate Clifford, struggling to keep her businesses afloat, realizes that her mother is harboring a dangerous secret ... 1399. York is preparing for civil war, teeming with knights and their...
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Last Days of the Condor: A Novel

James Grady - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away.So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter:...
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Eternal Frankenstein

Ross E Lockhart - Word Horde
Format: Print book

Two hundred years ago, a young woman staying in a chalet in Switzerland, after an evening of ghost stories shared with friends and lovers, had a frightening dream. That dream became the seed that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a tale of galvanism,...
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The Sussex Downs Murder: A British Library Crime Classic

John Bude - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!'Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered...
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The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas: A Mystery

Chris Ewan - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Chris Ewan's The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas is the next caper in a series that’s being called “impressive… comic…fresh” (Publishers Weekly--starred review). Charlie Howard isn’t only a part-time crime writer and part-time thief; he’s...
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The Infidel Stain

M.J. Carter - Putnam, 2016.
Format: Print book

Blake and Avery return in the stunning sequel to M. J. Carter's lauded fiction debut, The Strangler Vine. London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time...
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Rusty Puppy

Joe R Lansdale - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town.
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Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

SARAH GRAVES - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Life just got a little sweeter in the island fishing village of Eastport, Maine. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend Ellie are opening a waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose, where their tasty treats pair perfectly with the salty ocean breeze. But while Jake has moved...
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The Ripper's Shadow: A Victorian Mystery

Laura Joh Rowland - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

The year is 1888 and Jack the Ripper begins his reign of terror.Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local...
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Eggs in a Casket

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The ladies of the Cackleberry Club are always ready to serve—whether they’re cooking up breakfast or sniffing out a bad egg. While Petra handles the breakfast rush at the Cackleberry Club, the café’s other two owners, Suzanne and Toni, head to Memorial Cemetery...
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Cross and Burn

Val McDermid - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there Shes the best weve gotNew York Times Book ReviewInternationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermids work speaks for itself her books have sold millions of copies worldwide won numerous accolades and attracted...
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Liars All: A Brodie Farrell Mystery

Jo Bannister - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A young couple is mugged and brutally attacked, leaving one of the victims in the ground and the other in a wheelchair. Wracked with guilt, the mother of the man accused of their attacks enlists Brodie's friend Daniel to help track down the jewelry her son stole from the victims. Although...
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The Last Ballad: A Novel

WILEY CASH - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle...
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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Laurie R. King - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

In a stunning follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger present a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie...
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A Taste Fur Murder

Dixie Lyle - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Introducing an animal-loving Gal Friday with a telepathic cat, a shapeshifting dog, and a ghost of a chance of solving supernatural crime…Meet Deirdre "Foxtrot" Lancaster. Trusted employee of eccentric zillionairess Zelda Zoransky, Foxtrot manages a mansion, a private zoo,...
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A Dark Mind

T. R. Ragan - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killers clutches only years ago. But while most...
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Hypothermia: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason - Minotaur Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“Indridason fills the void that remains after you've read Stieg Larsson's novels.”- USA Today on HypothermiaInspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past.  But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance...
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Ruin Falls: A Novel

Jenny Milchman - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

In a suspenseful follow-up to her critically acclaimed Cover of Snow, Jenny Milchman ratchets up the tension with this edge-of-your-seat story of a mother determined to find her missing children. Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving...
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Before It's Too Late

SARA DRISCOLL - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful K-9 crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her trusted search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, must race against the clock before a diabolical killer strikes again . . .Somewhere in the Washington, D.C., area, a woman lies helpless in a box. Beneath the earth. Barely...
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Weaponized

Nicholas Mennuti - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

A GLOBE-SPANNING, WRONG MAN THRILLER CO-WRITTEN BY THE SCREENWRITER OF THE #1 FILM SAFE HOUSE.Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed against himself and his former boss, billionaire government contractor Christopher Chandler, Kyle's hiding...
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Betrayed

Robert K. Tanenbaum - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to the darkest realities of a terrorist conspirator, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum draws District Attorney Butch Karp deep into a combustible courtroom game of politics, power, lies, and murder.Awaiting trial in the Tombs,...
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Naked Cruelty: A Carmine Delmonico Novel

Colleen McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Carmine Delmonico returns in another riveting page-turner by international bestselling author Colleen McCullough. America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being silently terrorized by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds...
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Cats Can't Shoot

Clea Simon - Poisoned Pen Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

 When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious. Animal brutality is the one thing that this tough animal psychic won’t stand for, and in her role as a behaviorist she’s determined to care for the traumatized pet. But when Pru finds...
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The Good Son: A Novel

YOU-JEONG JEONG - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller...The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowThe Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller...
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Wild Justice

Priscilla Royal - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It is Spring 1282. England is at war again with Wales. As Baron Hugh of Wynethorpe, a veteran of fighting in Outremer, prepares to join his King's army, he begs his sister, Prioress Eleanor, a favor. On her journey home to Tyndal Prior in Norfolk, she is to carry a gift of rents from the Wynethorpe...
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Hitting the Books

Jenn McKinlay - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

It's murder by the book in the latest hit Library Lover's mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the Stacks.When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation...
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Invisible City

Julia Dahl - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage.Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother,...
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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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Her Beautiful Monster: The Ravi PI Series

Adi Tantimedh - Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Format: Hardcover

Enjoy another "exhilarating roller-coaster ride of unusual cases" (Publishers Weekly) in this second book of the Ravi PI series, featuring detective Ravi Chandra Singh and his team at the gleefully amoral, unfailingly dangerous secret agency Golden Sentinels.When Ravi's...
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That Night: A Novel

Chevy Stevens - St. Martin's Press; Paperback edition
Format: Hardcover

As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister she couldn't relate to, a strained relationship with her parents, and classmates who seemed hell-bent on making her life miserable. Things weren't easy, but Toni...
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Silent Child

Sarah A Denzil - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son's red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned. His body was never...
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Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith,...
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