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  The Alibi

  by Sandra Brown

  Fresh from her bestselling triumphs Unspeakable and Fat Tuesday , the incomparable Sandra Brown delivers her latest #1 blockbuster of high-voltage suspense. The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney-if he wins the case. His... (more)
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  Ewert Grens: Book 2

  Box 21

  by Börge Hellström, Anders Roslund

  Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and with it the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the lives and dignity they once had. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims... (more)
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  Theft

  A Love Story

  by Peter Carey

  Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also the daughter-in-law of the late great... (more)
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  Winston Garano: Book 1

  At Risk

  by Patricia Cornwell

  For decades, Patricia Cornwell has demonstrated her extraordinary ability not only to entertain and enthrall but to surprise as well. Beginning in January 2006, The New York Times Magazine will serialize a brand-new Cornwell thriller, a book filled with all the chilling suspense, rich characters, and trademark forensics that have made her an international phenomenon. But what she does with those ingredients is a... (more)
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  The Third Eye

  by Lois Duncan

  When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn.
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  Unspeakable

  by Sandra Brown

  Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. And he is terrifyingly good at it. He graduated easily from juvenile delinquent to full-blown killer. Now he has carried out a daring escape from jail and is headed back to where it all began. Anna Corbett was widowed right before her son was born. Beset by debt and personal tragedy, she faces the toughest challenge of her life - holding on to the ranch that is her son's birthright -... (more)
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  Girl, Stolen

  by April Henry

  Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, the car is being stolen. Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, but once his dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes -- now there’s a reason to keep her. How will Cheyenne survive this... (more)
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  Nobody Move: A Novel

  by Denis Johnson

  From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move , which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a... (more)
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  Cork O'Connor: Book 9

  Heaven's Keep

  by William Kent Krueger

  William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of nine Cork O'Connor novels, including Thunder Bay, Red Knife , and the upcoming Heaven's Keep. All are available from Atria Books. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at www.williamkentkrueger.com.
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  Lost Girls

  by Andrew Pyper

  Attorney Bartholomew Crane doesn't belong in the small town of Murdoch. And the town of Murdoch doesn't want him there. Even Crane's client, a teacher accused of killing two girls, his own students, doesn't seem to care if Crane gets him off or not. But Bartholomew Crane has come to Murdoch to try his first murder case -- and he intends to win at all costs. That is, until the case takes an unexpected turn. For... (more)
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  City of Tiny Lights

  by Patrick Neate

  From award-winning novelist Patrick Neate, a literary mystery that introduces a new kind of British detective, Ugandan-Indian Tommy Akhtar, and a side of London that the mystery world has never seen. A contemporary murder mystery set in the heart of London, this is the story of Tommy Akhtar, hard-drinking veteran of the Mujahideen, devoted on, sometime private investigator and sometime idol to the thug-lites... (more)
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  Genesis Alpha

  by Rune Michaels

  Josh worships his older brother, Max. They look alike, they talk alike, and they both have the same interests, including their favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Genesis Alpha. But Josh and Max have an even deeper connection. Because Josh was born for a reason. It was Josh's stem cells, harvested when Josh was newly born, that saved his dying older brother's life. Now that same beloved older... (more)
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  True Crime: Lesser-Known Cases

  Beautiful Children

  by Charles Bock

  One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the... (more)
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  Sex on the Moon

  The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

  by Ben Mezrich

  Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea — a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA’s headquarters — past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallways — and... (more)
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  Portrait of a Killer

  Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed

  by Patricia Cornwell

  Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell utilizes the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. These include state-of-the-art DNA testing on various materials, computer enhancement of watermarks and expert examinations of hand-writing, paper, inks and other relics. She... (more)
• The Third Friday: A Novel of SuspenseGeorge J. Bellak

  

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  The Third Friday: A Novel of Suspense

  by George Bellak

  Twenty years ago, he was a flower child in the Haight. Now Cy Bannerman, whizkid Wall Street trader, has fallen (or been pushed?) from a New York balcony. Good-looking, intense, and charismatic, Cy was a fast-track option trader. Max Roberts, Cy's stricken young partner, vows to learn the truth of his death. Max's investigations soon uncover money-laundering schemes, insider trading, and messy romantic... (more)
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  Bobbie Faye: Book 2

  Girls Just Wanna Have Guns: A Bobbie Faye Novel (Bobbie Faye)

  by Toni McGee Causey

  Girls Just Wanna Have Guns was previously published in trade paperback under the title Bobbie Faye's (kinda, sorta, not exactly) Family Jewels. It had been a whole freaking month since Bobbie Faye Sumrall had blown up anything or been shot at, and that was almost a new record. Then her diva cousin Francesca waltzed up to where she manned the gun counter in Ce Ce's Cajun Outfitter and Feng Shui Emporium and... (more)
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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 3

  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

  by Stieg Larsson

  In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.
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  Real World

  by Natsuo Kirino

  A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque. In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. There’s Toshi, the dependable one; Terauchi, the great student; Yuzan, the sad... (more)
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  Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 10

  Bones to Ashes

  by Kathy Reichs

  Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's... (more)