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A Rising Man

Abir Mukherjee · 386 pages

Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still h

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Cut Like Wound

Anita Nair · 358 pages

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The Palace Tiger

Barbara Cleverly · 288 pages

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A Curious Indian Cadaver

Shamini Flint · 320 pages

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Byomkesh Bakshi Stories

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 pages

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The Indian Bride

Karin Fossum · 304 pages

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the Norwegian town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal

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Borderlands

Brian McGilloway · 243 pages

The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the Borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation. The only clues are a gold ring placed on the girls finger and an old photograph, left where she died. While Devlin searches for the girls killer, her father has his own ideas about wh

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Sentenced to Die

J.A. Jance · 645 pages

Presents the first three mysteries featuring Seattle homicide detective Jonas Piedmont Beaumont.

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett · 410 pages

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A King of Infinite Space

Tyler Dilts · 289 pages

Long Beach, California, homicide detective Danny Beckett is pouring the weekend's first shot of vodka when the call comes in: Elizabeth Williams, a teacher at nearby Warren High School, has been brutally murdered in her classroom. When Danny arrives at the school, the blood-spattered crime scene turns even his veteran stomach. What could this young woman have done to make her the target of such a

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Death of a Dissident

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 239 pages

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Booked To Die

John Dunning · 432 pages

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The Red Thumb Mark

R. Austin Freeman · 208 pages

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The Neon Rain

James Lee Burke · 275 pages

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The Holy Thief

William Ryan · 348 pages

As Stalin's great terror begins, a killer strikes. Moscow, 1936. A young woman's mutilated body is found on an alter in a deconsecrated church. Korolev is asked to investigate. The victim is discovered to be an American citizen, and now one false move will mean exile to the Zone, the frozen camps of the far north.

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The Hanging

Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer · 298 pages

"One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen's own daughter is targeted, he mus

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The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Ted Riccardi · 303 pages

Preface by Dr. John Watson -- The case of the viceroy's assistant -- The case of Hodgson's ghost -- The case of the French savant -- An envoy to Lhasa -- The case of Anton Furer -- The giant rat of Sumatra -- A singular affair at Trincomalee -- Murder in the thieves' bazaar -- The mystery of Jaisalmer -- Afterword by Dr. John Watson.

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Where's My Son?

John C. Dalglish · 183 pages

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Mystery of the Ivory Charm

Carolyn Keene · 185 pages

Nancy Drew determines if an ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm when she investigates the involvement of a member of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show in a mysterious scheme.

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The Hope That Kills

Ed James · 364 pages

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais · 245 pages

When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.

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Flesh & Blood

John Harvey · 345 pages

Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder is pulled back into a 14-year-old unsolved mystery when a possible suspect is released from prison, and another girl is found dead.

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