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  Moe Prager: Book 4

  Soul Patch

  by Reed Farrel Coleman

  The Fourth Moe Prager Mystery set in New York City.
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  Charlie Parker: Book 6

  The Unquiet

  by John Connolly

  But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows. John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers. Now, in The Unquiet, private detective Charlie Parker returns to untangle a horrifying story of... (more)
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  Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel

  by Sean Chercover

  Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet . . . A simple bodyguard job for a Hollywood locations manager uncovers a rats' nest of sexual blackmail, murder, and high-level political... (more)
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  Aimee Leduc: Book 7

  Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis (Aimee Leduc Investigations, No. 7)

  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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  Inspector O Novels: Book 1

  A Corpse in the Koryo

  by James Church

  Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea , one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process. Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south . Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department’s turf and into a maelstrom of... (more)
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  What the Dead Know

  by Laura Lippman

  Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run... (more)
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  Lucas Davenport: Book 17

  Invisible Prey

  by John Sandford

  In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as Davenport looks more closely, he begins to wonder whether the items are actually so small and the victims so random-if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually,... (more)
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  Spellman Mysteries: Book 1

  The Spellman Files

  by Lisa Lutz

  Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.... (more)
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  House of Demons

  by Asa Nonami

  In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby , here is a new classic about the bride who's no longer sure what to think. All families have their own rituals, secrets, and credos, like a miniature religious cult; these quirks may elicit the mirth or mild alarm of guests, but the matter is rather more serious if you're marrying into a household. If its's a Japanese one with a... (more)
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  The Coldest Blood

  by Jim Kelly

  A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling his own screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he’ll be dead – and life can begin again.   Three decades later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is experiencing a cold, bitter Christmas on the Fens. Dryden’s wife, Laura, is emerging from years in a coma, unsure if she wants to go on living. Meanwhile, people are... (more)
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  Omar Yussef Mystery: Book 1

  The Collaborator of Bethlehem

  by Matt Beynon Rees

  "Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity." -David Baldacci, author of The Camel Club "A beautifully written story. I have walked the streets of Bethlehem with Omar Yussef, smelled the dust and the fear, tasted his food, shared his anger and his hope. His decency is a light in the gloom. I shall not forget him."... (more)
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  Anders Knutas: Book 2

  Unspoken

  A Mystery

  by Mari Jungstedt

  It is winter on Gotland, and fourteen-year-old Fanny is missing. She had no friends to speak of other than the horses she took care of at the local racing stable, and seems to have been an unhappy and isolated teenager, the daughter of an absent Jamaican musician and an instable Swedish mother. Is her disappearance somehow connected to the recent brutal murder of alcoholic photographer Henry Dahlström, who had won... (more)
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  Dublin Murder Squad: Book 1

  In the Woods

  by Tana French

  As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the... (more)
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  The Chicago Way

  by Michael T. Harvey

  From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles. Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an... (more)
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  Jonathan Quinn: Book 1

  The Cleaner

  by Brett Battles

  Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles’s electrifying debut novel, Quinn’s latest assignment will change everything, igniting a harrowing journey of violence, betrayal, and revenge. The job seemed simple enough:... (more)
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  Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer: Book 2

  Hurting Distance

  AKA The Truth-Teller's Lie

  by Sophie Hannah

  (aka: The Truth-Teller's Lie) Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins -- so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret -- the man she has fallen passionately in love with, unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without trace, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not... (more)
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  The Last Enemy

  by Grace Brophy

  Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother's death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes ... (more)
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  Jade del Cameron: Book 2

  Stalking Ivory

  by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda

  On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade and her friends Beverly and Avery Dunbury hope to capture on film the area's colossal elephants. Instead they discover the mutilated remains of four elephants and one man. The authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search of ivory and slaves. But Jade has her own suspicions, which are only heightened when she discovers a... (more)
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  Salamander Cotton

  by Richard Kunzmann

  A wealthy ex-farmer has been found beaten and burned to death at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Why does his estranged wife not seem particularly surprised by this cold-blooded murder, and insist that the killer will be found in the Northern Cape? That is where the victim's plantations were located - a desolate landscape of extreme poverty, and with a very dark mining past. Police-officer, Jacob Tshabalala... (more)
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  The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

  by Christopher Fowler

  It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t exist. Indeed, this case is littered with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives know about the... (more)