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Relic

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 468 pages

As taken from the author website (www.prestonchild.com): Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite o

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All That Remains

Patricia Cornwell · 416 pages

Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.

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Natural Causes

Michael Palmer · 427 pages

A horrifying and lethal medical crisis threatens the career of Dr. Sarah Baldwin, a young resident skilled in holistic medicine, and investigators soon discover that the deaths may have nothing to do with natural causes.

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Life Support

Tess Gerritsen · 408 pages

(from the back cover) ... another novel of searing medical suspense, as a dedicated woman doctor probes into the cause of a mystifying and lethal outbreak. Following a trail of death that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to her own home, Toby discovers the unthinkable: the epidemic didn't just happen -- someone let it loose....

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The Strain

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 504 pages

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.The StrainThey have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in d

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Likely To Die

Linda Fairstein · 448 pages

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The 5th Horseman

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 416 pages

It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hun

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson · 602 pages

> Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have t

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Isolation Ward

Joshua Spanogle · 516 pages

When three female residents of Baltimore's group home for the mentally impaired are admitted to St. Raphael's Hospital with an unknown virus Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, an investigator from the CDC discovers that something is terribly wrong. The man who had sexual contact with the women is found murdered and Nate fears that the disease he's chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man. Together wi

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Wired

Douglas E. Richards · 354 pages

"Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enig

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Before the Devil Breaks You

Libba Bray · 552 pages

NEW YORK CITY. 1927. LIGHTS ARE BRIGHT. JAZZ IS KING. PARTIES ARE WILD. **AND THE DEAD ARE COMING.** After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that nearly claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Is

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Flash and Bones

Kathy Reichs · 278 pages

"Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones --returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs's trademark blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" ( Entertainment Weekly ) and breathless suspense have made her books major bestsellers worl

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The Big Fear

Andrew Case · 262 pages

When evidence that might clear veteran cop Ralph Mulino "disappears", Civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell forms an uneasy partnership with Mulino to uncover misconduct and corruption in the New York police force.

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Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel · 313 pages

"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interv

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Map of Bones

James Rollins · 540 pages

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany

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The 6:20 Man

David Baldacci · 464 pages

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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle · 397 pages

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The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin · 408 pages

Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military prject sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of descruction captures th

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Library of the Dead

Glenn Cooper · 416 pages

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Blindsighted

Karin Slaughter · 393 pages

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another lo

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Inferno

Dan Brown · 624 pages

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s mo

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The Cradle Will Fall

Mary Higgins Clark · 314 pages

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Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

Naoki Urasawa · 426 pages

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension. Years lat

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