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Crazy Like a Fox: A Novel

RITA MAE BROWN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch...
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The Body in the Casket: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Katherine Hall Page - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House, a secluded...
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Death Notice: A Novel

Haohui Zhou - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

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

Tim Dorsey - William Morrow
Format: eBook

From Florida's king of mayhem - "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey - comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge...
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A Conspiracy in Belgravia

SHERRY THOMAS - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas's Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series. Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting...
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Cave of Bones

Anne Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor...
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Overkill: An Alex Hawke Novel

TED BELL - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

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

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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

ANNE PERRY - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques--lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. In the course of his tenure with the Thames...
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Isabel Dalhousie

Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Isabel Dalhousie grapples with complex matters of the heart as she tries to juggle her responsibilities to friends, family, and the philosophical community. With two small boys to raise, a mountain or articles to edit for the Review of Applied Ethics and the ever-increasing demands...
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The Policeman's Daughter

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

From author Trudy Nan Boyce, whose police procedural debut was hailed as "authentic" (NYTBR) and "exceptional" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) , returns with a stunning prequel to the Detective Salt series, the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide.At...
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Sleeping in the Ground: An Inspector Banks Novel

PETER ROBINSON - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with his twenty-fourth thrilling novel featuring the beloved Inspector Alan Banks, whom the Richmond Times Dispatch called ''one of the most intriguing characters in detective fiction.'' This gripping, powerful new novel features...
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

RHYS BOWEN - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When...
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Why Kill the Innocent

C S HARRIS - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

Kate Carlisle - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Murder is on the to-do list when construction contractor Shannon Hammer looks for a killer in the fifth Fixer-Upper Mystery....At the annual Victorian Home and Garden Tour, Lighthouse Cove, California's premier contractor, Shannon Hammer, realizes that the competition is about to turn deadly.......
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Plum Tea Crazy

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

CAROLYN HART - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Bailey Ruth Raeburn is back, racing against the Heavenly clock in an all-new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Times Two. Bailey Ruth finds herself comforting a distraught sister when she's sent to Adelaide, Oklahoma, on her latest mission. Susan...
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Karin Slaughter - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerThe stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author - a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense.Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind ... Twenty-eight...
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The Perfect Mother: A Novel

Aimee Molloy - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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

KATE CARLISLE - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

Hilary Bonner - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

This compelling novel of psychological suspense is the first in an intriguing new series featuring Bristol detective, DI David Vogel. The discovery of the partially-clothed body of a teenage girl in the heart of Bristol's red light district indicates a tragic yet familiar scenario....
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The Gatekeeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

CHARLES TODD - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York...
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The Rising Sea

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

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

ANNE PERRY - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

'Tis the season of giving - and with this wonderful book, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry shares a brand-new holiday mystery filled with bygone relationships and hidden secrets. As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved...
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Shadow Play: A British police procedural

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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

M. C. Beaton - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The Witches' Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series -- now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar...
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Dyeing Up Loose Ends

MAGGIE SEFTON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach his three young kittens about the world, he misses his cop work - secretly helping solve crimes alongside his human friends at Molena Point P. D. But when beautician Barbara Conley and one of her customers are found dead in the salon, Joe makes...
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The Other Lady Vanishes

AMANDA QUICK - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

LAURIE R KING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

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

Val McDermid - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . McDermid's prose is pure pleasure to read . . . The plot is tight, the story is thrilling, the ending is as satisfying as they come . . . A master operating at the height of her considerable powers. Prepare to be swept away." -- Mystery Scene on Splinter...
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Two Girls Down: A Novel

Louisa Luna - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Opening this book is like arming a bomb--the suspense is relentless and the payoff is spectacular. Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her."--Lee Child"Sensational." Wall Street Journal"A must-read for fans of strong female...
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Queen Anne's Lace

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

China Bayles hunts for answers when a ghost begins to haunt her shop in the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert.It's August in Pecan Springs, and Ruby has decided that it's time to clean out the loft over Thyme and Seasons and the Crystal...
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The Girl who Takes and Eye for an Eye

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate...
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DOUBLE BLIND

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

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

ADAM STERNBERGH - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls "propulsive and meaningful"For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and LostImagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives,...
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Closer Than You Know: A Novel

Brad Parks - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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

VICTORIA THOMPSON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

Jennifer Ashley - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered...
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The Sword of Justice: A Bckstrm Novel

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

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

Kay Hooper - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

Catriona McPherson - Midnight Ink
Format: Hardcover

A year ago, she was happily married, running her beauty salon, raising her son, living in her dream house. Now Ali McGovern's dreams are slipping away and all her old ghosts are rising. A job at Howell Hall, the private psychiatric facility nearby, seems too good to be true. Why have...
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The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

Otto Penzler - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural,...
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Bryant & May - Wild Chamber

Christopher Fowler - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West...
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The Hush

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

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

Bill Crider - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back again in Bill Crider's thrilling Dead, to Begin With."Readers will cheer Rhodes along as he sorts through a tangle of old secrets and personal relationships en route to the satisfying solution." Publishers WeeklyIn Clearview, Texas, a wealthy...
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Probable Claws: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. "As feline collaborators go, you couldnt ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." - The New York...
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Death of an Unsung Hero: A Lady Montfort Mystery

Tessa Arlen - ‎Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover‏

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The English Wife

LAUREN WILLIG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor...
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Bring Me Back: A Novel

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

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

Jorn Lier Horst - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Together with her one year old daughter Maja, single mother Sofie Lund moves into the house she inherited from her grandfather. Sofie has such painful memories that she has had every trace of the old man removed, every trace but a locked safe that has been bolted to the basement floor....
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Shot in the Dark

CLEO COYLE - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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

ASHLEY WEAVER - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with the next installment in the Amory Ames mystery series. The Essence of Malice is filled with her trademark style, wit and clever plotting, sure to delight and charm traditional mystery fans."In this highly enjoyable and engrossing...
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

P D JAMES - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

No one gets inside the head of the murderer - or makes it a more thrilling read - than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley...
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Bloodstains with Bronte: A Crime with the Classics Mystery

Katherine Bolger Hyde - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Classic novels and crime solving intertwine in Katherine Bolger Hyde's charming series. Bloodstains with Bronte is the second in a series that will puzzle and please fans of mystery and masterpieces alike.Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers,...
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The Undertaker's Daughter

Sara Blædel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Susan Elia Macneal - Bantam
Format: Book

American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II. Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover...

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Curses, Boiled Again!

SHARI RANDALL - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Delightful! A fun whodunit full of New England coastal charm and characters who feel like friends. Warm humor, a delectable plot, and clever sleuthing will keep you turning the pages." -- Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva MysteriesWelcome to the seaside...
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Lost Luggage

Wendall Thomas - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents' Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees-and everywhere else-then sneaks...
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Glass Houses

Louise Penny - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent...
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Little Secrets

Anna Snoekstra - MIRA
Format: Paperback

What happens when ambition trumps the truth?A town reeling in the wake of tragedyAn arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside..An aspiring journalist desperate for a storyThe clock is ticking...
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MURDER IN THE MANUSCRIPT ROOM

CON LEHANE - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library mystery series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing."Not to be missed." -- Megan Abbott"A story...
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Head Wounds

Dennis Palumbo - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

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

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

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

Nick Oldham - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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

JONATHAN SKARITON - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel - dark, fast-paced, thrilling - set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city...
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The Echo Killing

Christi Daugherty - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

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

ELLY GRIFFITHS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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

Sandra Block - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same.One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse -- her memory of the attack has been ripped...
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The House of Unexpected Sisters: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover

"Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling...
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The Moscow Code: A Foreign Affairs Mystery

Nick Wilkshire - Dundurn
Format: Paperback

In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't long before he's thrust into a fresh case -- a technical...
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The Clarity: A Novel

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

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

Graham Reed - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

"Jake, whose philosophy is life is often less about making good decisions than figuring out how to live with bad ones, takes the reader on a fast, furious, and often hilarious tour. Watching him zigzag through the twisting plot is pure pleasure." - Publishers WeeklyVancouver,...
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The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery

MARTHA GRIMES - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

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

ERIK STOREY - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the author dubbed by Jeffery Deaver "a born storyteller" whose first novel Nothing Short of Dying was hailed as "exceptional," "a rollercoaster read," and "adrenaline-fueled" by publications on both sides of the Atlantic, this is Erik...
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A Funeral in Mantova

David P Wagner - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Print book

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

Tracy Clark - Kensington
Format: Book

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

JOHN CONNOLLY - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Ed Ifkovic - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

She was 1932 Broadway's newest sensation. Then she was murdered.Three years after the Crash that ushered in the Great Depression, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Edna Ferber finds herself a guest at Noel Coward's lavish birthday party. The British wit, enjoying the Christmas...
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Hidden Scars

Mark de Castrique - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

When Asheville, NC, private eyes Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson are asked by an eighty-year-old client to investigate the suspicious death of her brother, they warn her there is little chance of success. Paul Weaver died nearly seventy years earlier. The only documentation she has is the sole...
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Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery

CAY RADEMACHER - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers a beautifully atmospheric new story with a captivating main character in Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery.Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption-unit...
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Fear on Four Paws

Clea Simon - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

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

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

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Golden Prey

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

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

Betty Webb - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

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

Cynthia Swanson - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

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

ROBERT DUGONI - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

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

Nic Joseph - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

A bone-chilling novel about a woman found holding a hunting knife, covered in blood that is not her own, who communicates with a single, ominous drawing, and the man who must get inside her head to solve a mystery without a crime.Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long...
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The Vanquished: A Bruno Johnson Novel

David Putnam - Oceanview Pub
Format: Print book

Former cop and ex-con Bruno Johnson and his wife Marie, living in their safe haven in Costa Rica with the children they illegally rescued from certain death, find a message from their outlaw motorcycle gang enemies -- written on the back of one of their beloved children. The motorcycle...
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Beach, Breeze, Bloodshed

JOHN KEYSE-WALKER - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

"Sun, Sand, Murder by John Keyse-Walker is a winner. It is written with the coral clarity of a Caribbean atoll, and evokes an edgy rhythm that suits the protagonist, Teddy Creque, and his wholly authentic domain, the Virgin Islands." -- Randy Wayne WhiteAfter barely surviving...
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Signal Loss

Garry Disher - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

In the seventh book in the Ned Kelly Award-winning Challis and Destry procedural series from the master of Australian noir, meth-related crime in Victoria has Inspector Hal Challis on his back foot, while Ellen Destry hunts for an elusive serial rapist. A pair of hit men working a job for a meth...
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Queen of the Flowers

Kerry Greenwood - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

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The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Jessica Knoll - author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York Times bestseller and the bestselling debut novel of 2015 - comes a blisteringly paced thriller starring competitive sisters whose dark secrets and lies result in murder when they sign onto a reality TV show.When...
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Ali Reynolds Mystery #13

Johann Sebastian Bach - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth book in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's popular series featuring Ali Reynolds, a former Los Angeles news anchor turned amateur sleuth.
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The Man Upon the Stair: A Mystery in Fin de Siecle Paris

GARY INBINDER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

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

SUSAN KLAUS - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Paperback

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

JAMES W HALL - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.After her journalist husband and infant son are brutally executed in a fire in their Florida home, photographer Harper McDaniel has nothing left to live for - except settling the score. When the local police fail to take the arson seriously, Harper takes the reins...
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Vindication

H. Terrell Griffin - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Premier adult community with everything you could possibly want, need, or dream of doing in your retirement years is just a golf cart ride away -- now the scene of a murder In this John Grisham style mystery, Matt Royal, the retired lawyer-turned-beach-bum is called back into the courtroom...
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The Dark Lake

Sarah Bailey - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Rosalind's secrets didn't die with her.The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability...
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Beau Death

PETER LOVESEY - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might have been the victim of a centuries-old...
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The Pisces: A Novel

MELISSA BRODER - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

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

Steven Havill - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

When the first Posadas County Mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff. Over time Bill became Sheriff, then retired, and Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie officer like? Terrible!It's 1986. Undersheriff...
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The Disappearing: A Novel

LORI ROY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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

Jean-Luc Bannalec - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, this Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec.The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Gurande Peninsula has been...
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Fox Hunter: A Charlie Fox Thriller (Charlie Fox Thrillers)

Zoe Sharp - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

In the latest novel in this energetic series, ex-special forces soldier Charlie Fox finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms.. Special forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte "Charlie" Fox can never forget the men who put a brutal...
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric...
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Murder on the Left Bank

Cara Black - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

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

Brian Freeman - Quercus
Format: Hardcover

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

Patricia Gussin - Oceanview Publishing

Torn between two cultures--allegiance to two families--a child in the middle Nicole Nelson and Ahmed Masud are a dynamic, highly successful Philadelphia couple. They are partners in a thriving plastic surgery practice, are very much in love, and they adore their young son, Alex. But cracks...
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You Can Run: A Novel

STEVE MOSBY - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning psychological thriller, the new novel from CWA Dagger winner Steve Mosby explores the blurred lines between truth and fiction. When a car crashes into a garage on an ordinary street, the attending officer is shocked to look inside the damaged building and discover a woman...
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Dark Rhapsody

- Oceanview Publishing

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

Lucy Ribchester - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

During the dangerous days of World War II, Honey Deschamps is spending her days transcribing decrypted messages at Bletchley Park, when she starts to receive bizarrely coded packages. When everyone is keeping secrets, who can you trust? Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey...
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Gumshoe for two : a novel by Rob Leininger

Robert Leininger - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

USA Today best-selling author

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

In the style of

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Lost Books and Old Bones: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

Paige Shelton - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

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

MITCH SILVER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Jo Furniss - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe?Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children -- until they see fires...
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