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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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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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A Dark So Deadly

Stuart MacBride - HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Sometimes the worst thing you can imagine is just the start... Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts,...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017BOOKLIST Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters...
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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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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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Every Day Above Ground: A Van Shaw Novel

GLEN ERIK HAMILTON - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in this emotionally powerful and gritty thriller from the award-winning author of Past Crimes and Hard Cold Winter. It sounds like a thief's dream to Van Shaw: A terminally ill ex-con tells him of an easy...
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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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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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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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Bone White: Mundys Landing, Book 3

Wendy Corsi Staub - HarperAudio
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The town of Mundys Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie. "We shall never tell." Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson Mundy travels to her ancestral hometown to trace her past. In Mundys Landing, she connects...
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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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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 Himalayan Codex: An R. J. MacCready Novel

BILL SCHUTT - WILLIAM MORROW
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of World War II, zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready is sent to the frozen mountain valleys of Tibet to find a creature of legend that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future - or the key to its extinction - in this explosive follow-up to Hell's...
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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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The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!: A Novel

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the sequel to internationally-bestselling Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, the League of Pensioners are up to their old tricks, this time swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish...
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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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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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In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany,...
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Gone Without a Trace

Mary Torjussen - Berkley
Format: Print book

A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made to him, every...
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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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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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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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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.When...
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A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11)

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

When a matchmaker begins to question her latest match, Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help. A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel and her husband, Jamie - but almost-four-year-old Charlie is none too keen on his newborn brother. In fact, he refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel...
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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 Secrets You Keep: A Novel

Kate White - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control.What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you adore,...
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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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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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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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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The Girl on the Bridge: A McCabe and Savage Thriller

James Hayman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed McCabe and Savage series comes an electrifying new thriller of taut and twisted suspense.On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times*A New York Times bestseller *#1 Indie Next Pick *NPR best book of 2017*Amazon best book of 2017*Washington Post best...
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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 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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Black Fall: A Jessica Blackwood Novel

Andrew Mayne - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Print book

In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated series that began with self-published eBook phenomenon Angel Killer, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Change Agent: A Novel

Daniel Suarez - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle...
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Persons Unknown: A Novel

Susie Steiner - Random House
Format: Print book

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a complicated detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which those she loves most become suspects. Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding...
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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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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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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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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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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments...
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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 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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The Ultimatum

Karen Robards - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Enthralling ... Readers won't want this adrenaline-rich story to end. " - BOOKLIST (starred review) Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will - Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends....
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The RagTime Traveler

Larry Karp - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott Joplin-at his upright piano in 1899. Chandler suddenly finds himself more than one hundred years earlier inside the famous...
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Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall: A Honeychurch Hall Mystery

Hannah Dennison - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

This nail-biting addition to Hannah Dennison's Honey Church Hall mystery series, Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall is not to be missed."An enjoyable, lighthearted read, just the thing to chase the blues away." -- M.C. BeatonWhen the only copy of Ravished, Iris...
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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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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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Saratoga Payback

Stephen Dobyns - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life...
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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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Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense

LAURIE R KING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

A community comes together when threatened by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, tautly plotted novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given...
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A Clash of Spheres

P F Chisholm - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

It's late August, 1592.Sir Robert Carey, cousin to Queen Elizabeth from the wrong side of Henry VIII's blanket, remains at his post on the Borders at Carlisle. He has at last been confirmed by his monarch as Deputy Warden, is still deeply in love with Lady Elizabeth Widdrington...
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Knife Creek

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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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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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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Old News

Ed Ifkovic - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner. With her mother, Julia, she spends the week visiting her mother's old childhood friend, Esther Newmann, who lives...
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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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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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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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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 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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Shiver Hitch

Linda Greenlaw - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle...
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Ultimatum: A Thriller

Anders De La Motte - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Paperback

A follow up to his "breakneck" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) MemoRandom, this gripping new thriller from the internationally bestselling author Anders de la Motte takes you deep inside the world of police intelligence: a world of secrecy, betrayal, and deadly competition,...
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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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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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Oath of Honor: A Thriller

Matthew Betley - Emily Bester Books/Atria Books
Format: Print book

A break-neck, edge-of-your-seat thriller that moves from a resurgent Russian threat in the Aleutian Islands to North Korean spy ships to secret Sudanese prisons as former Marines Logan West and John Quick, now members of an FBI special task force, uncover a global conspiracy that threatens...
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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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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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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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The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

Martin Walker - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book

Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff...
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The Red Hunter: A Novel

Lisa Unger - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger "brings her trademark of intense suspense, believable characters and sharp plotting" (Sun-Sentinel) to this heart-stopping new psychological thriller, and proves once again why she is regarded as "one of today's...
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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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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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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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The Shroud Conspiracy: A Novel

John Heubusch - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

In this intense and "absolutely brilliant thriller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor) , a forensic anthropologist sets out to prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake, but quickly discovers the opposite - and must race to stop the evil forces who want...
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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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The Spy Across the Table

BARRY LANCET - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting international thriller featuring Japanese antiques art dealer and PI Jim Brodie, a double-murder at the Kennedy Center forces Brodie into a dangerous game of espionage - putting him in the crosshairs of the Chinese, North Korean, and American governments.Jim Brodie is an antiques...
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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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Sulfur Springs: A Novel

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

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A Fever of the Blood: A Novel

Oscar De Muriel - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

This riveting new detective novel evokes a spellbinding concoction of crime, history, and horror -- perfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and P.D. James. New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local...
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Queen of the Flowers

Kerry Greenwood - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

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Cruel Is the Night

Karo Hämäläinen - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinens English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world.Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls go unanswered...
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A Game of Ghosts: A Charlie Parker Thriller

JOHN CONNOLLY - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

"An epic supernatural suspense that will forever reset your standards for summer thrillers. From secret realms and horrific homicides to hauntings and criminal empires, there isn't a single dull sentence found in the pages of A Game of Ghosts - and you'll love it." - Redbook:...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito - Other Press
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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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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Raisins and Almonds: A Phryne Fisher Mystery

Kerry Greenwood - Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Format: Hardcover

In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison, and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief but intensely erotic dalliance with the beautiful...
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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 Secrets of Gaslight Lane: The Gower Street Detective: Book 4

M R C Kasasian - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

The new novel in the atmospheric Gower Street Detective series introduces a chilling locked room mystery to Detective Sidney Grice and his precocious ward March Middleton. London, 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical structure...
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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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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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Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel

Susan Spann - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer...
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A Rising Man: A Novel

ABIR MUKHERJEE - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately...
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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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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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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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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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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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A Twist in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

When Kendra Donovan's plan to return to the 21st century fails, leaving her stranded in 1815, the Duke of Aldridge believes he knows the reason -- she must save his nephew, who has been accused of brutally murdering his ex-mistress. Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan's attempts to return to the twenty-first...
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The Service of the Dead: A Novel

Candace M Robb - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback

Expertly recreating the social and political upheavals of late medieval Europe, Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring northern marches of fourteenth century England. Political unrest permeates York at the cusp of the fifteenth century,...
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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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City of Masks: A Somershill Manor Mystery

S D SYKES - PEGASUS Books
Format: Print book

Young Lord Somershill flees England for the wonders of Venice, where he becomes involved in a bizarre murder investigation that plunges him into the depths of this secretive medieval city. It's 1358, and young Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is delayed in Venice as he awaits a pilgrim...
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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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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 in Saint-Germain

CARA BLACK - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aime Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals...
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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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