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Somebody Killed His Editor

Josh Lanyon · 278 pages

"Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. Sales are down and his new editor is allergic to geriatric gumshoes. On the advice of his agent, he reinvents his fortyish, frumpy, recently dumped self into the sleek, sexy image of a literary lion, and heads for a Northern California writers

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Mucho Mojo

Joe R. Lansdale · 308 pages

Intrigue, chilling suspense and hair-raising horror will freeze you to the bones as you read this novel. In the hellish July heat, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester. However, as they clear away the filth, they uncover a dirty secret. Beneath the rotting floorboards, Hap and Leonard unearth a small skeleton, wrapped in porno magazines. Thinking wh

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Foxe Hunt

Haley Walsh · 306 pages

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The Devil in Amber

Mark Gatiss · 256 pages

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Secrets

Jordan Castillo Price · 212 pages

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The Assignment

Evangeline Anderson · 190 pages

"Detective Nicholas Valenti, tall, dark and stoic, has been best friends with his partner, Sean O'Brian for six years. The two men have seen each other through divorce, disaster, and danger, and saved each other's asses more times than Valenti can count. Exactly when he started seeing his blond, intense partner in another light, Valenti isn't really sure. He only knows that he wants O'Brian in a w

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Third You Die

Scott Sherman · 344 pages

Former callboy Kevin Connor settles down with his hunky cop boyfriend and starts a new career producing his mother's TV talk show, but finds himself drawn back to his old life when Brent Havens, a gay porn star, is found dead in the Hudson River after appearing on his mother's show.

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A Marvellous Light

Freya Marske · 377 pages

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Bloodline

Jordan L. Hawk

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So Into You

S.E. Harmon · 326 pages

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A Drop of Corruption

Robert Jackson Bennett · 481 pages

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Shattered Glass

Dani Alexander · 360 pages

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What Really Happened in Peru

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan

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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 519 pages

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing

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A Destiny of Dragons

T.J. Klune · 400 pages

Once upon a time, the wizard’s apprentice, Sam of Wilds, got his happily ever after in the arms of his cornerstone, Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart. A year has passed, and while Sam’s been captured five or six more times since then, things are pretty great. His parents are happy, Gary and Tiggy still eat sass for breakfast, Randall is somehow alive despite being older than the gods, the King rules

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Looking For Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker · 219 pages

"Private investigator Spenser searches for the kidnappers of a lesbian writer who hired him as her bodyguard"--Best Books for Public Libraries, c1992, p. 401.

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Too Stupid to Live

Anne Tenino

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The Burglar on the Prowl

Lawrence Block · 320 pages

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The Blinding Light

Renae Kaye · 210 pages

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Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Tj Klune · 416 pages

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very

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Dine & Dash

Abigail Roux

It’s been pure frustration for Zane, as Ty has been on an undercover assignment for the past three days…and nights. When that text message comes in about being arrested, bail money, well, it has Zane jumping and running…right into Ty.

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St-st-stuffed

Anyta Sunday · 266 pages

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 448 pages

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