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The Hummingbird

Kati Hiekkapelto · 363 pages

Anna Fekete, who fled the Yugoslavian wars as a child, has a past. Just beginning her career as a criminal investigator in northern Finnish coastal town, she is thrust into a high-profile, seemingly unsolvable case that has riveted the nation. It doesn't help that her middle-aged new partner, Esko, doesn't bother hiding his racist prejudices, and Anna becomes the target of a systematic campaign to

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Crime on the Fens

Joy Ellis · 284 pages

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Blackening Song

Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo · 384 pages

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Kingdom Come

Jane Jensen · 295 pages

"Amish country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has always been a place of quiet beauty--until a shocking murder shatters the peace, and leaves a troubled detective picking up the pieces... After her husband is murdered, Detective Elizabeth Harris turns in her NYPD badge and moves back home, hoping that a quiet life in remote Pennsylvania Dutch country will help her overcome the dark memories of

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Land of Shadows

Rachel Howzell Hall · 336 pages

A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.

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Sweet Little Lies

Caz Frear · 368 pages

In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. Your father is a liar. But is he a killer? Even liars tell the truth . . . sometimes. Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's ne

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The Spellman Files

Lisa Lutz · 368 pages

The first novel of a comic mystery series. Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to *Get Smart* reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private invest

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Cut Short

Leigh Russell · 352 pages

DI Geraldine Steel thought that life in the quiet town of Woolsmarsh would be dull and uneventful, but finds herself investigating the brutal murder of a young woman as the prime suspect is eliminated and the disturbed killer strikes again.

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Those We Left Behind

Stuart Neville · 355 pages

Returning to work after battling breast cancer, Belfast DCI Serena Flanagan re-opens a closed case after Ciaran Devine, the "schoolboy killer" who, at the age of twelve, confessed to killing his foster father, is released from prison.

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Amateur City

Katherine V. Forrest · 204 pages

Tough and demanding LAPD Detective Kate Delafield is the leader of the investigation into a high-rise office building murder. The case is intriguing but routine—until Kate interviews the only witness, Ellen O'Neil. When Ellen O'Neil took her new job over the objections of her lover, she wasn't expecting to become embroiled in murder. The curiosity that Kate Delafield rouses is equally unexpecte

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The Silent Dead

Tetsuya Honda · 292 pages

"When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally--his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime. At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division

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Bitter Fruits

Alice Clark-Platts

The murder of a first-year student at Durham University shocks the city. But the very last thing anyone expects is an instant confession ... As Detective Inspector Erica Martin investigates Joyce College, a cradle for the country's future elite, she finds a close-knit community of secrets, jealousy and obsession. The picture of the victim, Emily Brabents, that begins to emerge is that of a girl wa

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Mummy's Favourite

Sarah Flint · 328 pages

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Touch

Mark Sennen · 368 pages

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An Unfamiliar Murder

Jane Isaac · 335 pages

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A Grave Talent

Laurie R. King · 342 pages

This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A string of shocking murders has occurred, each victim an innocent child. For Detective Kate Martinelli

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One O'Clock Hustle

Joanne Pence · 230 pages

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My First Murder

Leena Lehtolainen · 242 pages

Maria Kallio has just been assigned her first murder investigation. To prove to herself and her squad that she has what it takes to be a detective, she'll have to solve the death of Tommi Peltonen. Found floating facedown at the water's edge of his Helsinki villa, Tommi had invited his choir group to spend a weekend at his retreat. But beneath the choir's seemingly tight-knit bonds seethed bitter

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Shallow Waters

Rebecca Bradley · 377 pages

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The Girls Next Door

Mel Sherratt

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The Safe Word

Karen Long

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Meet Me in Malmo

Torquil MacLeod · 298 pages

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On Laughton Moor

Lisa Hartley · 308 pages

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Cruel Justice

M.A. Comley · 320 pages

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