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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · 548 pages

Meet Lisbeth Salander - the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide. "As vivid as bloodstains on snow . . . a perfect introduction to the unique strengths of Scandinavian crime fiction"LEE CHILD Lisbeth Salander gets under the skin of her targets like no-one else. Those who underestimate her live to regret it. If they're lucky . . . Mikael Blomkvist - disgraced journalist

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A Plague of Secrets

John Lescroart

Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return in a compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder.The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It s

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The Secret in Their Eyes

Eduardo Sacheri · 384 pages

Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge.

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Accused

Lisa Scottoline · 384 pages

It begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned

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Pleasantville

Attica Locke · 432 pages

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One Dog Night

David Rosenfelt · 387 pages

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter takes on a cold case when the suspected murderer turns out to be the man who saved his beloved dog.

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The Enemy Inside

Steve Martini · 374 pages

"Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies ar

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The Gates of Evangeline

Hester Young · 407 pages

"From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the nightma

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Bagmen

William Lashner · 385 pages

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyone's line, but with bag in hand Victor is suddenly hobnobbing with the city's elite, filling his bank account, and having sex with the politician's gorgeo

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The Night Crew

Brian Haig · 419 pages

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg/ Vance Larsson (Simon (NRT)) · 656 pages

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden ... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance ... and about Lisbeth S

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An Innocent Client

Scott Pratt · 375 pages

A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel. The suspect is a waitress at a strip club.Defense attorney Joe Dillard's too burnt out to defend anyone he knows in his heart is guilty.Then he meets the vulnerable Angel—the accused, incriminated by circumstantial evidence. Dillard's sure she's not capable of killing anyone. What Dillard doesn't count on are the others drawn into the storm of t

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Millennium: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo #1

Sylvain Runberg

"Facing prison time for libel, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to investigate an unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two soon discover a brutal trail of murder, deception and dark secrets" -- Page [4] of cover.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #2

Sylvain Runberg, Stieg Larsson · 68 pages

Hired to investigate an unresolved missing person’s case, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist headed to Hedeby Island in order to further explore the various twists and turns of the Vanger family history. Aided by the brilliant but deeply troubled hacktivist Lisbeth Salander, Blomkvist soon discovered a link between the disappearance and a brutal trail of murder, deception and dark secrets lea

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The Woods

Harlan Coben · 442 pages

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is

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The Genius

Jesse Kellerman · 374 pages

The sinister and provocative thriller from crime writing's freshest new voice.Ethan Muller is struggling to establish his reputation as a dealer in the cut-throat world of contemporary art when he stumbles onto a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: in a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant named Victor Cracke has disappeared, leaving behind an enormous trove of original artwork. Nobody can say an

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The Racketeer

John Grisham · 370 pages

When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. "... El cadáver del juez fue hallado en su cabaña a la orilla de un lago. La entrada no había sido forzada. Lo único que encontraron fuer

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Brush Back

Sara Paretsky · 459 pages

Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.

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Cadillac Jukebox

James Lee Burke · 395 pages

A Louisiana farmer is jailed for the murder, 30 years earlier of a black civil rights leader. The farmer claims he is innocent and asks Dave Robicheaux, the sheriff's deputy, to help him prove it. Not easy, as it suits a lot of people to have the case closed. By the author of Burning Angel.

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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · 501 pages

"A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door w

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