Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a much anticipated new Christmas mystery from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while he rests. But with Flavia's blasted sisters and insufferable cousin underfoot, Buckshaw now seems both too empty - and not empty enough. Only too eager to run an errand for the vicar's wife, Flavia hops on her trusty bicycle, Gladys, to deliver a message to a reclusive wood-carver. Finding the front door ajar, Flavia enters and stumbles upon the poor man's body hanging upside down on the back of his bedroom door. The only living creature in the house is a feline that shows little interest in the disturbing scene. Curiosity may not kill this cat, but Flavia is energized at the prospect of a new investigation. It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits. But what awaits Flavia will shake her to the very core. Acclaim for Alan Bradley's beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Award, and Arthur Ellis Award "If ever there were a sleuth who's bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it's Flavia de Luce." - USA Today "[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate." - Daily Mail "Flavia de Luce is still the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth." - TheSeattle Times
Delacorte
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9780345539960
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Print book
The 23rd Midnight
By Patterson, James
An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past - with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
Little, Brown and Company
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9780316402781
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Hardcover
Kick the Bouquet
By Collins, Kate
With my family at odds, my flower shop losing customers, and my husband's future in jeopardy - do I, Abby Knight Salvare, have anything left to be thankful for?A CORNUCOPIA OF CALAMITIES . . .Thanksgiving is right around the corner and everything in Abby's life seems to be falling apart. The last thing she needs to worry about is where to eat. Does she go to her parents' house for dinner or break with tradition and go to her mother-in-law's house instead? Abby's mom is in a tizzy and Abby is desperately seeking a solution. But she has a bigger problem when hunky hubby Marco becomes a suspect in the murder of his landlord, realtor Arthur McMahon.After Abby overhears two of the wealthy realtor's children joking about his demise at the funeral home, she is sure that one of them did the deed.
Independently published
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9798366535403
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Paperback
Parting Shot
By Barclay, Linwood
From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes a new, standalone blockbuster thriller that spins off from the events of the explosive Promise Falls trilogy.If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain, he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious revenge plot, chasing someone set on delivering retribution. In Cal's experience, it's only ever a matter of time before threats turn into action. . . . A gripping thriller packed with scandal, from the master of the twist you never saw coming.
Doubleday Canada
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9780385690232
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Hardcover
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Treachery
By Freeman, Brian
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery UK-based Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian scientist and activist, the leader of an anti-Putin protest movement, who'd recently been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt.They failed.Now, three years later, everything has changed for Bourne. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bourne is a lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone. He's ready for a new mission when his handler brings him shocking news.The Estonian mission was a set-up. Their target had not been killed. She is still in hiding in Russia and the Russian state intelligence agency is desperately seeking her.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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9780525542650
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Hardcover
The Boy in the Headlights
By Bjork, Samuel
The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday ExpressMunch and Krger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team.Winter 19996 An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head.Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue, inviting Special Investigations Detectives Munch and Krger to play a deadly game - a game they cannot possibly win. Against the most dangerous and terrifying kind of serial killer.
Corgi
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9780552170925
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Paperback
Bad Things
By Bush, Nancy
Some mistakes you have to live with . . . One victim succumbs to an overdose. Another is brutally bludgeoned to death. Each, in turn, will pay. Because you never forget the friends you make in high school - or the enemies . . . And others . . . In the wake of her stepbrother Nick's death, Kerry Monaghan is visiting Edwards Bay. Kerry has just returned to the small town overlooking an arm of Puget Sound that she left before high school, though not before falling hard and fast for Cole Sheffield, now with the local PD. But Nick's death may be more than an accident. And soon there are others - all former teenage friends, linked by a dark obsession. You will die for . . . With Cole's help, Kerry sets out to learn the truth about what happened to Nick.
Zebra
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9781420142938
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Mass Market Paperback
Bones Never Lie
By Reichs, Kathy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe evidence is irrefutable In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself a genius at building suspense New York Daily News. In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine whos brilliant to the bone. Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden, says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed authors thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered. Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PDs Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why shes been asked to meet with a homicide cop whos a long way from his own jurisdiction.
Bantam
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9780345544032
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Print book
Fever in the Dark
By Hart, Ellen
On their one year wedding anniversary, Fiona and Annie return home from a trip together to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. The video is on the verge of going viral, and there's enormous media interest in Fiona and Annie, as their fame comes just on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. As some of the attention starts to turn vicious, Fiona pulls in an old friend, private investigator Jane Lawless, to help separate the harmless threats from the potentially harmful.As the media storm continues to grow, Fiona revels in the attention, but Annie is furious. Fiona has always known that Annie has secrets, but her newfound notoriety threatens to bring Annie's past straight to their door.
St Martin'S Press
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9781250088635
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
By Lagercrantz, David
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Lisbeth Salander is back with a vengeance. The series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo continues as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and to take revenge. Lisbeth Salander - obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others - seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her - not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry.
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
By Bradley, Alan
Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a much anticipated new Christmas mystery from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while he rests. But with Flavia's blasted sisters and insufferable cousin underfoot, Buckshaw now seems both too empty - and not empty enough. Only too eager to run an errand for the vicar's wife, Flavia hops on her trusty bicycle, Gladys, to deliver a message to a reclusive wood-carver. Finding the front door ajar, Flavia enters and stumbles upon the poor man's body hanging upside down on the back of his bedroom door. The only living creature in the house is a feline that shows little interest in the disturbing scene. Curiosity may not kill this cat, but Flavia is energized at the prospect of a new investigation. It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits. But what awaits Flavia will shake her to the very core. Acclaim for Alan Bradley's beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Award, and Arthur Ellis Award "If ever there were a sleuth who's bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it's Flavia de Luce." - USA Today "[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate." - Daily Mail "Flavia de Luce is still the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth." - The Seattle Times
The 23rd Midnight
By Patterson, James
An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past - with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
Kick the Bouquet
By Collins, Kate
With my family at odds, my flower shop losing customers, and my husband's future in jeopardy - do I, Abby Knight Salvare, have anything left to be thankful for?A CORNUCOPIA OF CALAMITIES . . .Thanksgiving is right around the corner and everything in Abby's life seems to be falling apart. The last thing she needs to worry about is where to eat. Does she go to her parents' house for dinner or break with tradition and go to her mother-in-law's house instead? Abby's mom is in a tizzy and Abby is desperately seeking a solution. But she has a bigger problem when hunky hubby Marco becomes a suspect in the murder of his landlord, realtor Arthur McMahon.After Abby overhears two of the wealthy realtor's children joking about his demise at the funeral home, she is sure that one of them did the deed.
Parting Shot
By Barclay, Linwood
From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes a new, standalone blockbuster thriller that spins off from the events of the explosive Promise Falls trilogy.If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain, he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious revenge plot, chasing someone set on delivering retribution. In Cal's experience, it's only ever a matter of time before threats turn into action. . . . A gripping thriller packed with scandal, from the master of the twist you never saw coming.
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Treachery
By Freeman, Brian
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery UK-based Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian scientist and activist, the leader of an anti-Putin protest movement, who'd recently been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt.They failed.Now, three years later, everything has changed for Bourne. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bourne is a lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone. He's ready for a new mission when his handler brings him shocking news.The Estonian mission was a set-up. Their target had not been killed. She is still in hiding in Russia and the Russian state intelligence agency is desperately seeking her.
The Boy in the Headlights
By Bjork, Samuel
The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday ExpressMunch and Krger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team.Winter 19996 An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head.Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue, inviting Special Investigations Detectives Munch and Krger to play a deadly game - a game they cannot possibly win. Against the most dangerous and terrifying kind of serial killer.
Bad Things
By Bush, Nancy
Some mistakes you have to live with . . . One victim succumbs to an overdose. Another is brutally bludgeoned to death. Each, in turn, will pay. Because you never forget the friends you make in high school - or the enemies . . . And others . . . In the wake of her stepbrother Nick's death, Kerry Monaghan is visiting Edwards Bay. Kerry has just returned to the small town overlooking an arm of Puget Sound that she left before high school, though not before falling hard and fast for Cole Sheffield, now with the local PD. But Nick's death may be more than an accident. And soon there are others - all former teenage friends, linked by a dark obsession. You will die for . . . With Cole's help, Kerry sets out to learn the truth about what happened to Nick.
Bones Never Lie
By Reichs, Kathy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe evidence is irrefutable In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself a genius at building suspense New York Daily News. In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine whos brilliant to the bone. Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden, says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed authors thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered. Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PDs Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why shes been asked to meet with a homicide cop whos a long way from his own jurisdiction.
Fever in the Dark
By Hart, Ellen
On their one year wedding anniversary, Fiona and Annie return home from a trip together to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. The video is on the verge of going viral, and there's enormous media interest in Fiona and Annie, as their fame comes just on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. As some of the attention starts to turn vicious, Fiona pulls in an old friend, private investigator Jane Lawless, to help separate the harmless threats from the potentially harmful.As the media storm continues to grow, Fiona revels in the attention, but Annie is furious. Fiona has always known that Annie has secrets, but her newfound notoriety threatens to bring Annie's past straight to their door.
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
By Lagercrantz, David
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Lisbeth Salander is back with a vengeance. The series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo continues as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and to take revenge. Lisbeth Salander - obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others - seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her - not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry.