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Still Life

Louise Penny Β· 380 pages

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol

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A Dedicated Man

Peter Robinson Β· 315 pages

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Murder in the Rue Dumas

M.L. Longworth Β· 296 pages

When Dr. George Moutte is found murdered, Judge Antoine Verlaque is stumped. Certainly, the director of theology at the Universite d'Aix had his enemies. Moutte was just about to name the recipient of an elite fellowship as well his own successor--a hightly coveted position that includes a lavish apartment in the seventeenth-century mansion--when his lips were sealed permanently. Yet, Verlaque isn

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Holding

Graham Norton Β· 300 pages

"From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "sparkling and impish" (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama

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Death of a Gossip

M.C. Beaton Β· 192 pages

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The Cold Cold Ground

Adrian McKinty Β· 320 pages

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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith Β· 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

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Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell Β· 284 pages

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Not in the Flesh

Ruth Rendell Β· 303 pages

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a pre

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Blood from a Stone

Donna Leon Β· 337 pages

An unidentified African street vendor is executed in front of tourists in the middle of Venice. Guido Brunetti, the policeman who usually must solve the problem, is further challenged when other Italian agencies get involved. In parallel with the plot narrative, the characters reveal the societal conflicts and confusion in their attitudes toward legal and illegal immigration and how it is changi

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Pietr the Latvian

Georges Simenon Β· 161 pages

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A Cold Day in Paradise

Steve Hamilton Β· 320 pages

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In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball Β· 186 pages

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The Blessing Way

Tony Hillerman Β· 289 pages

Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Joe Leaphorn must stalk a supernatural killer known as the "Wolf-Witch" along a chilling trail of mysticism and murder.When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navaho Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mo

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A Long Shadow

Charles Todd Β· 341 pages

In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself the target of a mysterious person who is leaving oddly engraved cartridge casings around that seem to point to unfinished business involving the Great War.

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Entanglement

Zygmunt Miloszewski Β· 295 pages

The morning after a grueling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead. World-weary State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki feels that life has passed him by, but this case changes everything. His search for the killer unearths another murder that took place twenty years earlier-- and to facts that, for his own safety, he'd be better off not knowing.

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The Winter Queen

Boris Akunin Β· 256 pages

Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of irres

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The Killings at Badger's Drift

Caroline Graham Β· 264 pages

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly

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Open Season

Archer Mayor Β· 319 pages

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Help the Poor Struggler

Martha Grimes Β· 225 pages

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Snowblind

Ragnar Jonasson Β· 340 pages

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River of Darkness

Rennie Airth Β· 448 pages

Upon its original publication, River of Darkness awed readers who look for intelligent, well-plotted psychological mysteries. This "fine, frightening piece of work" (Kirkus Reviews) introduces inspector John Madden who, in the years following World War I, is sent to a small village to investigate a particularly gruesome attack. The local police dismiss the slaughter as a botched robbery, but Madde

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Too Late to Die

Bill Crider Β· 183 pages

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Hope's Peak

Tony Healey Β· 226 pages

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