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  The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

  by Corinne May Botz

  This fascinating and macabre volume offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence.... (more)
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  Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

  by Cara Black

  Praise for the Aimée Leduc series:   “One of the best heroines in crime fiction.”—Lee Child   “The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone.”— Los Angeles Times   “One of the best new writers in the field today.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “Haunting.”— The New York Times Book Review   Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an... (more)
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  Mark of the Lion: A Jade Del Cameron Mystery (Jade del Cameron Mysteries)

  by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda

  In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision. Still suffering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa determined to fulfill a man's dying wish...never expecting to become involved in murder. Rich with romance, mystery, and adventure, Mark of the Lion ... (more)
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  Dreaming Pachinko

  by Isaac Adamson

  Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suffer a seizure in the Lucky Benten pachinko hall. When she is later found dead beneath the expressway, Chaka becomes embroiled in an apparent blackmail plot involving a... (more)
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  Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery (Murray Whelan Thrillers)

  by Shane Maloney

  " Murder is a contact sport . . . Murray Whelan, the wisecracking ace of reluctant detectives, is back on the mean streets of Melbourne, and this time the occasion is the international competition to host the Summer Olympics: Let the crimes begin! When the Lords of Five Rings-the International Olympics Committee-come to town to choose a site for the Summer Games, everyone knows the money will start to fly and... (more)
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  Stiff

  by Shane Maloney

  Murray Whelan thinks the everyday life of a political advisor is complicated enough: but now there are intimations of intrigue among the party powerful and his ex-wife is mounting a custody battle over his beloved son. So when you throw in a Turk snap-frozen in a local meat plant, drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a killer car and blood-sucking parasites, things are suddenly spinning wildly out... (more)
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  The Brush Off

  by Shane Maloney

  Summer in the city. Murray Whelan is in the undergrowth of the Botanic Gardens having a romantic encounter with the delicious Salina Fleet. Meanwhile, across the park, the body of a disgruntled artist is being fished out of the public art gallery's ornamental moat. Whelan, political spin doctor and artless lover, must ensure there is no fallout for his boss, and in the process stumbles upon a scam to swindle the... (more)
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  Something Fishy

  by Shane Maloney

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  The Black Path

  by Asa Larsson

  A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide memorably in Åsa Larsson’s masterpiece of suspense—a tale of menace, hope, longing, and darkness beyond imagining. The dead woman was found on a frozen lake, her body riddled with evidence of torture. Instantly, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she needs help. Because the dead woman—found in workout clothes... (more)
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  A Grave in Gaza (An Omar Yussef Mystery)

  by Matt Rees

  Praise for the Omar Yussef series: " The Collaborator of Bethlehem is readable and literate, and offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life today."- The Washington Post "Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity."-David Baldacci, author of The Collectors "Omar's probe of a West Bank ruled by political intrigue, religious hatred, and... (more)
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  The Trojan Dog: A Mystery (Sandra Mahoney Mysteries)

  by Dorothy Johnston

  I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks This is the anonymous message that changes Sandra Mahoney's life After taking time off to raise her young son, Sandra Mahoney is nervously re-entering the working week. When a powerful Australian bureaucrat-and friend of her dead mother-offers her a position, she leaps at the chance. Then, days later, this woman is... (more)
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  Sacrifice

  by S. J. Bolton

  In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it’s the first time he’s been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog... (more)
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  The Prophet Murders

  by Mehmet Murat Somer

  "Hysterically funny."- Time Out Istanbul "As refreshing as cookies and cold lemonade on a summer day. I wish there was a Turkish Almodovar to film all these novels one day."-Perihan Magden, author of 2 Girls The first in a new Turkish detective series. A killer is on the loose in Istanbul and killing transvestites. Our protagonist-fellow transvestite, nightclub owner, and glamour-puss extraordinaire-turns... (more)
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  Finding Nouf: A Novel

  by Zoe Ferraris

  Zoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a desert guide, to lead a search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by... (more)
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  The big ask : a Murray Whelan mystery

  by Shane Maloney

  Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election is looming, and his days as advisor to Angelo Agnelli, minister for transport, may be numbered. His son, on loan to his ex-wife, is missing and may be in danger. His ex-fling, Heather, is prowling for his inner prince. And on an icy Melbourne winter morning, he has a rendezvous with a renegade driver in the corrupt truckers union. After that meeting, and a... (more)