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1) Faithless
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Grant County series volume 5
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English
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“Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense,” raved the Washington Post. “A new synonym for terror,” crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched grasp of forensic science...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
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English
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Just as he's on the verge of cracking an unsolved case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers an old clue that could have saved lives — and the guilt begins to haunt him.
In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his...
In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his...
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
6) The Search
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A canine Search and Rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness in this riveting #1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts.
To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life—a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school and a challenging volunteer job performing Canine Search and Rescue. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare:...
To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life—a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school and a challenging volunteer job performing Canine Search and Rescue. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare:...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 13
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English
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When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Gabriel Allon is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems - and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth.
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
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English
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From the bestselling author of the China Bayles mysteries - a brand-new series about some spunky lady sleuths in Depression-era Alabama, The Darling Dahlias. Print run 40,000.
11) The lost witness
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Lena Gamble thrillers volume 2
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Minotaur Books
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English
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Punished by her superiors following the explosive end to her previous case, Detective Lena Gamble realizes that she has been set up for another fall when she is assigned the case of an unidentified victim whose body has been dismembered and tossed into adumpster.
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Biblioasis international translation volume 19
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Biblioasis
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English
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Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Award for French-Language Fiction.
13) Obsessed
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English
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When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code.
14) The 9th girl
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After six long years, Hoag brings back two of her most beloved characters: Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. "The 9th Girl" focuses on the ninth unidentified body to turn up in Minneapolis. Before the investigation is through, the case will take the two detectives deep into the life and death of a teenage girl who wanted nothing more than to be "normal." They will come perilously close to the bullies who tormented her, the twisted family dynamics that may...
15) The Red Dahlia
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder. Horribly mutilated, her death is an obvious mirror image of "The Black Dahlia". In "Above Suspicion", bestselling crime writer Lynda La Plante created Anna Travis and James Langton. Now, in "The Red Dahlia", they return and must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered.
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Guido Brunetti mysteries volume 30
Commissario Brunetti
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 30
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Commissario Brunetti
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 30
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
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English
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"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident,...
17) Shattered
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Nothing could tear #1 New York Times bestseller Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride--except the murder of his partner and best friend. NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. Working case after case, each can predict the other's next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. The investigation...
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
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"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella - in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's...
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory....
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